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Internationally renowned jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mike Holober is The City College of New York’s inaugural Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. Holober’s appointment is for one year. The selection committee cited Holober for “a long record of quality productivity as a jazz performer, composer, and arranger. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by leading jazz orchestras in North America and Europe.” The

Acclaimed Mexican writer Mónica Lavín co-presents The City College of New York’s fifth Cátedra Vargas Llosa, Oct. 24 -27, an international academic project honoring Spanish-language literary giant and Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Lavín and Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor in City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, lead a one-credit seminar for both graduate and undergraduate students entitled “ Mario Vargas Llosa’s “La fiesta del Chivo” : History, Reality and Literature.” The discourse focuses on Vargas Llosa’s historical novel “ La fiesta del Chivo” (2000)

City College of New York poet and filmmaker, Michelle Yasmine Valladares is the Americas Poetry Festival of New York’s Poet of the Year. The award is for her “lifelong literary achievements and for her poetry that reflects the rich multicultural spirit of The Americas.” Valladares, who is director of City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, was among 60 poets from around the world that participated in the Americas Poetry Festival in New York. The multilingual event featured readings in five languages. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, Valladares is the author of “ Nortada, The North

Coffee is bad for you. No, it’s good for you. You need 30 minutes of daily activity – or is it 10? Come hear the latest on how to stay healthy on Wednesday Oct 18 at the first Mini-Medical School hosted by the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York. The latest health information will be shared and refreshments will be served at the event, which is free and open to the public from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at CCNY’s North Academic Center (Room 1/201). Click here to RSVP. The idea for the Mini-Medical School started with medical student Hazeezat Shittu. As part of an Independent Study

“ Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, Second Edition,” a follow up to the comprehensive study of the city’s Latino population published in 1996, is one of the new books by City College of New York faculty. It is co-edited by Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership professors Sherrie Baver, Gabriel Haslip-Viera (Emeritus), and Angelo Falcón, co-founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy. This new edition captures the most significant continuities, discontinuities, and changes of the last two decades in the local Latino community as a whole and among the various

With a student population representing 89.6% of the world’s 193 sovereign states, The City College of New York continues to rank among the most diverse academic institutions in America. The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education 2018 College Rankings place City College at joint #8 for environment with three other schools. The rankings’ environment score encompasses several measures to gauge a school’s inclusiveness. They range from the percentage of first-time college graduates and Pell Grant recipients to the diversity of a school’s students and staff and the percentage of international

Introducing Themira lohmanus, a fly like no other, and the most recently discovered species in the popular Manhattan urban oasis of Central Park! The immature insects subsist on duck droppings, and have a strong CCNY connection: Themira lohmanus is named after City College of New York entomologist, and Professor of Biology, David Lohman. But wait! It’s not the only species that gets its moniker from the well-traveled entomologist, who’s often to be found in tropical forests of Southeast Asia studying the ecology and evolution of insects. There’s also Chimaeragathis lohmani, a wasp found in

“ The Long Wet Grass,” the film adaptation of City College of New York librarian Seamus Scanlon’s award-winning play of the same title, premieres Oct. 1 at Irish Screen America in Manhattan. It features an original music score by Academy Award winner Marketa Irglova. “I woke up one night and thought Marketa Irglova would be best person to write the music because she wrote “Falling Slowly” [Academy Award winner] from the film “Once,” said Scanlon, a native of Galway, Ireland. “As a librarian at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, I used my skills to

Two architecture students, from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, are studying in Barcelona, Spain this fall. Renowned for its unique and historical architecture, these students are taking in all Barcelona has to offer on Castagna Architectural Scholarships. Since its inception in 2016, the scholarship has provided support to nine architecture students who have achieved academic excellence and demonstrated financial need. Architecture students, in both the bachelor and master’s programs, receive a full year’s tuition and a study abroad and

Melissa Olivar and Angel Herrera, both summer graduates from the High School for Media and Communications in Washington Heights with immigrant roots, are the latest President’s Community Scholars at The City College of New York. They are the eighth cohort of community scholars since the awards – formally dubbed The City College of New York President’s Community Scholarship program -- began in 2010. It was introduced by City College to strengthen the links between the institution and the surrounding community. Awards are based strictly on academic merit and Scholars are required to perform