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Thanks to a $1 million gift from attorney and distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, The City College of New York is establishing a new endowed professorship in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. The gift will be administered by The City College Fund. “I have always cherished my four years at City College,” said Katz. “Academically, socially and politically, City College was a beacon of learning and growth for me and so many of my generation. It is time to give back, to give others the opportunity I had for a free or affordable quality education at CCNY. I am grateful I can do so.” A

City College of New York M.F.A. in film graduate, Yvonne Ng, is the winner of this year’s Student Academy Awards ® competition for her short film, “Cloud Kumo.” Ng won the silver medal in the Alternative Category at the 2016 awards ceremony at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. She is the fourth Student Academy Award winner for the M.F.A. program in 10 years. As a winner, Ng’s short film is eligible to compete for the 2016 Oscars ® for either the Documentary Short Subject, Animated Short Film or Live Action Short Film categories. Out of 1,749 film entries globally, she was

Nearly 50 years after his passing, Langston Hughes is still recognized as one of America's greatest writers. He’s revered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and an innovator of jazz poetry. The City College Center for the Arts is celebrating Hughes’ enduring legacy in the Harlem community and beyond with a dramatic reading and signing of “Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond,” the most recent book of Hughes’ correspondence. Edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson, this indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist

Professor Beverly Falk, director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education, showcases "Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom," a short documentary about what high quality early learning looks like in early childhood education. Falk documents Yvonne Smith’s pre-kindergarten class at Central Park East 1 Elementary School. Smith narrates the documentary, which shows how young children develop skills, knowledge and understandings about the world through active experiences, support for their social and emotional development and attention to their

Six City College of New York students intern at some of New York City’s finest arts and cultural institutions for 24 weeks throughout the academic year as part of CUNY Cultural Service Corps, a new paid internship program. The launch of this program promotes diversity within the city of New York’s cultural sector and will introduce each student to different departments within their internship sites: curatorial, development, education, special events and more. Students also participate in cultural enrichment workshops. The students are: · Bushra Begum, English, Lincoln Center; · Jasmin Calle

City College of New York Chemistry Professor Mahesh Lakshman is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the world’s leading community of scientists in that field. His induction is part of the society’s long legacy of advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. Since his arrival at CCNY in 2000, Lakshman has continuously received notable accolades, including research grants from National Institutes of Health ( NCI, NIGMS, NIAID) and several NSF awards. In addition, he has made significant contributions to research infrastructure development with external funding. With over $3.5

City College remains one of the most ethnically diverse institutions The City College of New York is among the top 100 Best Regional Universities in the North and a Top Public School in the North, according to U.S. News & World Report 2017 rankings. City College also continues to be one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse institutions, ranked #2 among regional universities in the north. U.S. News factored in the proportion of minority students based on the 2015-2016 academic year student body to establish the diversity index, excluding international students. With 1.0 as the highest mark

A test screening of the documentary “500 Years,” about the 2013 genocide trial of a former Guatemalan president and its aftermath, marks the start of Latino Heritage Month at The City College of New York. The film premieres in CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) auditorium on September 14 at 6 p.m. Directed by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis, “500 Years” chronicles the trial of President Efrain Rios Montt for the killing of 1,700 Mayans - the first trial ever in the Americas for the genocide of indigenous people. A talk with the

From a RoofPod garden atop the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building at The City College of New York comes a bumper harvest for the community to partake in. The garden is an extension of the Spitzer School’s student-designed, award-winning “ Solar Roofpod.” Its crop yield includes tomatoes, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumber, broccoli, eggplant, cauliflower, jalapenos and other vegetables planted by CCNY Green and students from the City College-based High School for Math, Science and Engineering (HSMSE). Members of the community can sample the delicious produce at events at the

City College of New York transportation expert Candace Brakewood is listed in Mass Transit magazine’s 2016 Top 40 Under 40 national honors. The accolade recognizes individuals for their contributions and for showing a capacity for innovation, demonstrated leadership and a commitment to making an impact in transit. The only magazine exclusively dedicated to public transportation, Mass Transit cited Brakewood for being on the cutting edge of what’s happening in the public transit industry as an academic. “She is an industry and academic leader in innovative fare payment technologies and their