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Patricia A. Broderick, the CUNY School of Medicine professor also renowned as an inventor and researcher, is the recipient of the International Association of Top Professionals’ Lifetime Achievement Award. She will receive the Sapphire Diamond Crystal Tower at IAOTP’s annual gala at the end of the year. The award recognizes what IAOTP terms “incredibly talented” members for their professional and academic achievements, leadership abilities and contributions to their respective communities. Broderick has been honored for more than three decades of accomplishments as a professor, scientist

Researchers at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future. It is based on manganese dioxide (MnO2), an abundant, safe and non-toxic material. In a paper in the journal “ Nature Communications,” the scientists report that the uniqueness of the battery is that it is able to achieve both high cycle life and high areal capacity. Achieving high areal capacity is critical for packing a lot of battery electrodes together

Nicole Dennis-Benn, whose hugely successful debut novel " Here Comes the Sun" earned several best book of the year awards in 2016, is the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series speaker at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 8. Her talk, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the North Academic Center Ballroom, is free and open to the public. Click here to register. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Dennis-Benn continues the tradition of distinguished writers and artists gracing the Achebe Legacy Series. It was launched by City College’s Black Studies Program in 2014 to honor the late Nigerian writer

Film historian and theorist Michael B. Gillespie’s launch of “ Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film” (Duke University Press) tops the list of new publications by City College of New York faculty. An associate professor of film in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, in both the media and communication arts department and black studies program, Gillespie presents his book March 1 in a talk with author and film scholar Paula J. Masood, 6:30 p.m. in City College’s Shepard Hall room 250. Click here to RSVP. Following are some new and forthcoming books from CCNY: “ Account

Back from the institution’s inaugural study abroad program to India, City College of New York education majors are wasting no time applying their new Asian experience in the classroom. “They are saying the transformative experience there has made them better teachers,” said Aminata Diop, a Phd candidate who was one of 13 students on the trip. “They’ve started implementing some of the things they saw in India in their classrooms because the practices were so good.” As part of the intensive two-week program, students immersed themselves in the culture and also got to visit several classrooms one

The City College of New York and New York University co-host discussions during Social Justice Week, Feb. 20-24, to commemorate The World Day of Social Justice in conjunction with the Mexican Coalition and the Central American University of Nicaragua. “Act Out Social Justice” will present five days of activities aimed at engaging the larger community - in particular the Latino community – in developing realistic ways to achieve social justice at this time in our nation’s history. The week-long series of events includes an interfaith dialogue, youth activities and a resource fair to begin an on

City College of New York senior Troy Blackwell spent the last months of the Obama administration in Washington, DC, as a White House intern. On Wednesday, Feb. 22, the Ad/PR and political science double major encourages his City College peers to consider public service careers in a public conversation with them. Entitled “The Value of Public Service,” the event is from 12: 45 to 2 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 290. It is co-sponsored by the CCNY chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America, the department of media and communications arts and the Colin Powell School for Civic and

In a modern rendition of a Shakespeare classic, City College of New York poet and author Pamela Laskin presents “ Ronit & Jamil,” a Palestinian/Israeli “Romeo and Juliet” in verse for teenagers. The book appears from HarperCollins on Feb. 21 with a dramatic reading at the City College Center for the Arts Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Critics hail Laskin’s work as “beautiful and lyrical,” delivering a fresh and captivating retelling of Romeo and Juliet that transports the star-crossed lovers to the modern day Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “This is a book about

Vivek J. Tiwary, the best-selling New York Times author and Tony Award-winning Broadway producer, delivers the 2017 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture at the City College of New York on Tuesday, March 7. His talk, 5:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall - Room 95, is entitled “From Broadway to the Beatles: Achieving the Impossible with Historical Mentors.” It is free and open to the public. Click here for more information and here to RSVP. A New York native, Tiwary’s graphic novel, “ The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story,” based on the untold life story of Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein

Ru Freeman, the Sri Lankan-born novelist, journalist and activist, whose work has been translated into numerous languages, is the latest high profile visiting professor in The City College of New York’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. The noted author of “ On Sal Mal Lane,” a New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, is teaching a course entitled “Turning the Personal into Fiction.” “We are lucky to have Freeman on board to inspire our MFA students this semester,” said Emily Raboteau, CCNY professor of English. “She's a fierce, award-winning writer and literary activist whose creative work engages