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Associate Professor Tatyana Kleyn, who directs the School of Education’s Programs in Bilingual Education and TESOL, will premiere her documentary film, “Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries],” at the City College of New York on Thursday, March 24 at 6 p.m. In the last five years one million Mexicans living in the US have returned to their country of origin. The film explores the lives of US born or raised children and youth who make up this statistic and are (back) in Mexico. The short documentary illustrates the realities, challenges and opportunities they face living, studying, and

Lisa S. Coico, Ph.D., president of The City College of New York, is the recipient of the 2016 Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus Award from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to biomedical research and education. It will be presented in May. Announcing the award, Gary Koretzky, dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School, said the selection committee acknowledges Coico as “an outstanding scientist and administrator.” “We would like to honor your years of outstanding research, teaching and administration with this award,” he added

A smart walker for seniors and an educational tool to help develop STEM skills are some of the creative venture ideas in The City College of New York’s 2016 Zahn Innovation Center Entrepreneurship competition. Twenty-eight City College student teams are in the competition that offers $149,000 in prize money. The competition begins with a “Lean Startup” boot camp on the weekend of Jan. 30 – 31. It will run through the spring semester and culminate in a Demo Day Expo on May 9, at which the teams will show off their venture ideas and pitch to judges. The final pitch for second place and grand

American film schools graduate about 50,000 students a year – for an industry that may offer as few as 2,000 studio jobs a year. But aspiring filmmakers wishing to get a foothold in a new career need not despair, says Andrea Weiss, professor of film and co-director of the MFA Program in Film at the City College of New York. “Focusing on independent filmmaking, the MFA Program in Film at CCNY can help students to find their passion and their voice as filmmakers, and impart the skills and craft to realize their vision,” she says. Weiss explains that the indie approach, combined with the program

Three City College of New York students -- freshman Gabrielle Cintron from Townsend Harris High School, freshman Kimberly Harris from Midwood High School and senior Raluca Soltoianu from Forest Hills High School -- are among the 101 New Era Scholars for the 2015-16 academic year. They spoke at a luncheon honoring their achievements on Dec. 10. The New Era Scholarship Project, a project of the City College Fund, was founded by Larry Gralla ’51 and Yvette Gralla’52. It awards scholarships to students from 11 specially selected New York City high schools whose GPAs are in the 85th to 100th

After three months of arduous preparation, PS 161 presents its community performance of The Lion King Jr. on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. The performance is the culmination of the semester-long Fundamentals in Teaching Theater class that CCNY Educational Theatre Program Director Jennifer Katona teaches as a cornerstone of the M.S. Ed. degree curriculum. Thirty-eight PS 161 students who belong to the school’s Drama Club participate in the production, which is also guided by 18 CCNY educational theatre graduate student directors. The road to the final curtain began in September, when the students

Three more City College of New York students earned Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for the spring 2016 semester, bringing to 10 the number of CCNY recipients this year. Hannah McIntyre, Saffia Rahimtoola and Katiuska Roumenov are the latest CCNY Gilman Scholars. The Scholarship is awarded to high achieving undergraduates who receive Federal Pell Grant funding and wish to study or intern abroad. McIntyre, an international relations junior, will study Arabic at the University of Amman, Jordan. Rahimtoola, a design junior, will study liberal arts and studio arts in Florence, Italy

A team of faculty and administrators from the City College of New York is one of 14 from U.S. higher education institutions chosen by the National Science Foundation-funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation to join the Pathways to Innovation Program. The Pathways program helps institutions to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering education. The program is run by Epicenter, which is funded by the NSF and directed by Stanford University and the VentureWell. Professor of Electrical Engineering Joseph Barba of the Grove School of

The City College of New York’s Art Department bestows its Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Awards to CUNY students in the fields of studio art, art history and art education. Students receive tuition support, and are recognized for their outstanding achievement in research and projects as part of their coursework. This year’s winners are: Studio Art, Graduate First Place: Sarah Cameron Sunde (DIAP MFA, 2016)Second Place: Zoe Berger (DIAP MFA, 2016)3rd Place, Michael Capobianco (Art MFA, 2017) Studio Art, Undergraduate First Place: Cynthia Yin (Macaulay Honors College Art BA, Digital Design

Interdisciplinary Studies Associate Professor Kathlene McDonald talks about her work in the field of medical humanities in the third installment of the City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, Mar. 31. The talk, “From Chaos to Advocacy: End-of-Life Care, Narrative, and Social Change,” rescheduled from its original date of Nov. 19, 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. “Medical humanities draws on the