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Chayanne Marcano, an anthropology major in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is spending this summer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. after her latest honor. The junior is the recipient of a research internship at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. Marcano will work on a project examining the roles of community-based museums and gentrification in Washington, D.C. The Bronx native believes there is a power in community-based museums that can provide nontraditional audiences with the space to shape their own histories

More than 40 years ago, Coretta Scott King became the first female commencement speaker in the history of The City College of New York when she addressed CCNY’s Class of 1971. Her charge to the graduates came eight years after her slain husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered the commencement address to the Class of 1963. City College’s tradition of notable commencement speakers continues on June 3, 2016, when Michelle Obama, the first African-American First Lady of the United States, speaks at the school’s 170th commencement exercises in Harlem. The occasion is likely to be more

The latest in a long line of physics defying, prize-winning concrete canoes out of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering placed second overall in the Metropolitan Conference competition at Cook’s Pond in Denville, N.J. There were eight other participants including student teams from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutgers, New York University, Stony Brook and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Christened “The Concrete Jungle,” the City College canoe outscored entries from all the other institutions, with the exception of NYU, in three categories. These were: the final

Two City College of New York students, Victoria Juste and Timothy McGhee, have been awarded two-year Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowships by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MMUF program is designed to encourage the most talented students from groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate education to enter PhD programs and to pursue careers in research and college teaching. Juste, a junior with a double major in biology and black studies, served as a Leonard Davis Fellow and a Colin Powell Community Engagement Fellow. As a fellow, she created a chapter of Peer Health Exchange, which

The culminating event for an innovative graduate program in educational theatre welcomes scores of young community members to The City College of New York on Saturday, May 7, for the Harlem Children’s Theatre Festival. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at City College’s Aaron Davis Hall, young audiences can watch performances adapted by students in the CCNY School of Education’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre. The event is free and open to families from Harlem and surrounding communities. Performances and show times are: 10:15 a.m. “Good Night Balloon,” inspired by the children’s picture book

“Iodonator – C8,” the latest chemical powered vehicle designed by City College of New York engineering students, took first place at the Mid-Atlantic regional competition to qualify for the AIChE’s national finals in San Francisco this November. “This is the first time City College has placed first in an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) regional or national competition,” said Dilan Mataraarachchi, a chemical engineering and captain of the CCNY Chem-E- Car team. CCNY competed against 27 other universities and colleges at the Mid-Atlantic competition, with Iodonator outperforming

Poet Kwame Dawes is the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series speaker at The City College of New York on Wednesday, April 20. His talk, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 107 in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is free and open to the public. Click here to register. An expert on African Diasporic literature, Dawes is the award-winning author of 16 books of poetry and numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. His most recent books, “ Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems” and “ Hold me to an Island: Caribbean Place – An Anthology of Writing,” were published in 2013. In

Andoni Mourdoukoutas, biomedical engineering senior in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, and two recent CCNY graduates have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $34,000 and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for graduate study that leads to a research-based master's or doctoral degree in science or engineering. From

History Professor Beth Baron will explain how the Muslim Brotherhood arose in reaction to, and modeled after, Christian missionary inroads in the Middle East in the sixth installment of The City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, April 21. The talk, “ Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood,” takes place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium, and is free and open to the public. “Foreign missionaries, who included a sizeable

Sophomore Emily Costa and freshman Jaclyn Williams, the latter from the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, are this year’s Jeannette K. Watson Fellows at CCNY. Created in 1999, the Watson Fellowship program provides summer internships, professional development opportunities and mentoring for outstanding undergraduate students from select New York City colleges and universities. It is supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. As Watson Fellows, Costa and Williams will each receive a $5,500 stipend for their first summer internships, $6,500 for the second summer and $7