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Roland Maio, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2018, and two recent CCNY graduates are recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The three awards to City College are the most among the nine fellowships to City University of New York schools. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. In addition to Maio, CCNY’s other NSF fellows and their research thrusts and new schools are: Stanley Ko, marine geology and

Getting enough sleep can be a struggle. But according to The National Center For Health Research, the gap between getting just enough sleep and getting too little may affect your health, your mood, your weight, and your ability to concentrate. Find out why organizations like the National Football League are prioritizing sleep and you should too – on April 25 at the CUNY School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical School at The City College of New York. This informative session is free and open to the Harlem community. The evening’s topic, "Sleep Health and the Importance of Getting A Good Night's Sleep

City College of New York historian Hidetaka Hirota’s seminal maiden book, “ Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy,” is winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Best First Book Award. The national prize recognizes the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. “Expelling the Poor” was judged to be the best book on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America. Other considerations were its substantial primary research, its

Brooklynite Yasmine El Gheur, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and the first of her family to complete college, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2018 Valedictorian. Zhiying Zhu, born in China and raised by a single parent after emigrating to the United States, will be the Salutatorian at CCNY’s 172nd Commencement Exercises on June 1. Following are brief bios of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian: Yasmine El Gheur A first generation American from Park Slope, Brooklyn, El Gheur is graduating from the Division of Humanities and the Arts with a BA in art history and a 3.94 GPA. She

Prize winning poet and author Nicole Cooley will be the featured guest poet for the 46th annual City College Poetry Festival on Friday, May 4th. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. Cooley is a poet and non-fiction writer and the author of eight books including Breach, a collection of poems focusing on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; Girl after Girl after Girl, and her newest collection Of Marriage. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Narrative and Drunken Boat. She is a professor of English and

For the last few days, Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to explain to Congress how fake news on Facebook might have influenced the Presidential election. It hasn’t gone well. Unraveling how fake news happens is probably best undertaken by experts like Hernan Makse, Professor of Physics at the City College of New York’s Division of Science. Makse, who is well versed in the theoretical understanding of complexity, has published a new study investigating the influence of fake and traditional, fact-based, news outlets on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. In summary, the study shows

For the third year in a row a team from The City College of New York has won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Chem-E-Car competition! The team participated in the competition held at Princeton University on April 7, 2018. “Zincotron”, a Grove School of Engineering student-designed shoe-box sized car, finished ahead of a crowded field of 20 competitors and was within 16cm of the target of 18.4m carrying its load of 400ml of water. The second-place car from Cooper Union was close behind, at 18cm. In this competition, teams spend the semester designing

Claire Lynch and Etienne Forbes, cohorts in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are headed to Europe this fall on Fulbright awards. The two graduating seniors join a select group of 2018-2019 winners nationally in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A political science and Jewish studies double major in the Colin Powell School and Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, Lynch is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant. She’ll spend Sept. 2018 to June 2019, as a teacher in the Spanish capital’s bilingual education system. “Subjects

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is a partner in a $100 million National Science Foundation-funded wireless revolution designed to push mobile technology to the limits. In addition to faster downloads, it could pave the way for surgeons operating remotely on patients, cars that rarely crash, and events that can be vividly experienced from thousands of miles away. Over the next five years, NSF will fund a set of wireless networks for researchers to test new ways of boosting Internet speeds to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality

For three days in April of 2017 the jazz quartet The Manhattan Transfer recorded some of their vocal parts for their album, The Junction, at the Sonic Arts Center of The City College of New York with SAC director Paul Kozel engineering. Kozel also recorded percussionist Luisito Quintero for the album. Winy Taveras provided technical assistance for the recording sessions. The Junction was released almost a year later on March 30, 2018 and quickly rocketed to #1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart by April 5, 2018! “Janis Siegel (a member of the Transfer) and I have been looking for opportunities to work