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The 8th International Conference on Historical Links between Spain and the Americas will take place from May 3-5 with climate change as this year’s theme. The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (City College Downtown) is a sponsor. The event is open to the public. This year, the conference welcomes non-geographically restricted proposals and panels on STEM disciplines focused on climate change. The call for papers embraces different disciplines and areas of study, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to the connections

The Physician Assistant Program at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York (CUNY MED) is one of the Top 50 PA programs in the nation, according to U.S. News’ 2023-2024 Best Health Schools Rankings released today. CUNY MED’s program is tied with 15 other schools, including Boston University, Hofstra University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Pittsburgh. The rankings were compiled from 211 physician assistant programs accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, and are based on in-depth

The City College of New York will mark the first year of its “Doing Remarkable Things Together” campaign at its 2023 Presidential Humanitarian Awards Celebration on Tuesday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall. The Celebration will honor H. Carl McCall, chairman emeritus of the State University of New York, a former New York state comptroller and state senator, and the Democratic Party’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee; and renowned photographer and physicist Stephen F. Somerstein ’66. McCall will be recognized for his trailblazing career and lifelong commitment to New York state

The City College of New York undergraduate researcher, Charanjot Singh, a senior majoring in physics, was named Top Presenter in his session at the American Physical Society Conference in Las Vegas in March. It was his first presentation at a professional conference. His presentation was titled “Strain engineering effects on the optical properties of bilayer MoS₂.” Singh studies the properties of atomically thin-layer materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a compound composed of molybdenum and sulfur, because of its unique reflective and luminescent properties. Specifically, he is

Poet Gloria Mindock is the guest poet at the 51st annual City College Poetry Festival at CCNY’s Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall, 135th and Convent Ave. in Manhattan, on May 12. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Pamela L. Laskin, director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center which produces the festival. “Its assumption is that there are many poets, and they all have terrific stories to tell. This would make

Counterpoint, a duo exhibition of works by Japanese artist Natsuki Takauji and Korean artist Haksul Lee, is on display at The City College of New York’s Morris R. Cohen Library Archives Gallery from April 20-May 18. The exhibition, curated by Francine Rodgers, features over 30 works by the artists created over the past 10 years. The exhibition presents the complexity of the creative journey of Takauji and Lee, who have worked for many years as colleagues. This exhibition uses the disorderly juxtaposition of different bodies of work to express the highly individual complexity of creative

Catherine Hernandez, an anthropology major in the William E. Macaulay Honors College, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2023 Valedictorian. The daughter of a 1993 CCNY alumnus, Hernandez is graduating summa cum laude with a 3.98 GPA. She’ll receive a BA degree in anthropology with a minor in art history and Jewish studies. Kimberly Pereyra Monero from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the Salutatorian. A political science major and community change studies minor, she’s graduating with a BA degree and 3.90 GPA. About Catherine Hernandez Hernandez proudly

Four CCNY faculty members were awarded Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Fellowships by the Graduate Center, CUNY. Associate Professor of sociology Norma Fuentes-Mayorga and Associate Professor of history Justin Williams are being awarded BRES Research Faculty Fellowships. English Professor Kathlene McDonald and Associate Professor of Anthropology Susanna Rosenbaum are being awarded BRES Curriculum Development Faculty Fellowships. The fellowship is designed to enhance Black, race and ethnic studies scholarship and teaching throughout CUNY schools, and is part of a $3 million Mellon

Ayesha Khan, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2023, has been named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 62 exceptional students from 60 U.S. colleges and universities selected as 2023 Scholars by the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The highly competitive Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the nation. Selection is based on a combination of career and graduate study interests, community service and academic achievement. “We have confidence that these 62 new Trumans will meet their

Associate Professor of English Robert Higney, Glenford Patterson, lecturer of economics and business, and Zihao Zhang, assistant professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, are among the 49 faculty members named as 2023 CUNY Career Success Fellows from 21 schools in the City University of New York system. As the most powerful influencers of students, faculty are given Career Success Fellowships to implement effective methods of helping students understand the relationship between classroom learning and careers that can be adapted to every field and to serve as career