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Grove School engineers win Hackathon, chapter receives awards and 16 full-time employment offers are made to chapter members A prize-winning app developed in 24 hours by three City College of New York engineering students took first place in a "Hackathon" competition held at the National Society of Black Engineers' (NSBE) 40th annual national convention, March 26 - 30 in Nashville, Tenn. The award was one of the 11 accolades garnered by the 52 City College students participating in the event. In addition, City College students attending the event, which drew more than 10,000 participants from

Dr. William F. Tate , an expert on health and education disparities, will speak at The City College of New York 5 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Faculty Dining Room. His topic will be "Education and Health Disparities: Taking Seriously the Geospatial Nature of Regional Conditions." His appearance is part of the City College School of Education's Doyle and Alba Bortner Distinguished Speaker Series in Urban Education. The talk is free and open to the public. Dr. Tate is the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He also

WHO: Andrew J. Bacevich WHAT: Breach of Trust: The U.S. Military and American Society WHEN: 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 28 WHERE: Room 250, Shepard Hall, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York Since 2002, the United States has been engaged in near-continuous warfare, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. How effective have these interventions been? How have they affected American society and the military itself? Andrew J. Bacevich, author of “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and their Country” and a professor of international relations at Boston University

Kar Yee Au , a junior in The City College of New York's media and communication arts (MCA) department, is one of 17 exceptional students named New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) Scholars for 2014. The recipients of the highly competitive award were selected on the basis of academic excellence, need and a demonstrated commitment to the field of communications. Ms. Au holds a 3.54 GPA and is pursuing a dual major in advertising and public relations and Jewish Studies . She is currently interning at the Manhattan PR firm, Child's Play Communications , and is also the founder of karyeeSays

Jonathan Aguirre, member of 2013 cohort, receives fellowship to pursue PhD at Princeton University Last summer, Jonathan Aguirre was one of 10 students selected to participate in the first cohort of the CCNY-Stanford Summer Research Program for students considering graduate school in the humanities. The Bronx resident, who received his MA in Spanish from City College in February, described it as an “amazing opportunity” that enabled him to conduct research with top scholars who became his mentors. This fall, he will attend Princeton University on a fellowship to pursue a PhD in Spanish and

Competition sponsored by masonry contractors, bricklayers union challenges third-year architecture students to design meditation space for church The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York today announced the winners of $8,000 in prizes in a competition intended to help students learn how to design with brick. Dean George Ranalli and Professor Christian Volkmann, coordinator of the third-year undergraduate studio, presented the awards at a ceremony in the school’s Sciame Auditorium. The winning teams and the prizes they received are: First Place: Roman

2013 Grads Michele Boisrond, Paul Merisier, Richard D. Sam, Professor Roger Dorsinville to speak at Chapter’s inaugural conference, April 14 – 16 The catastrophic 2010 earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Haitians and displaced 1.3 million more impacted persons of Haitian descent throughout the diaspora, and The City College of New York was no exception. Michele Boisrond, Paul Merisier and Richard D. Sam, 2013 graduates of City College's Grove School of Engineering , are applying their knowledge to help students in their homeland prepare for and respond to future disasters

Nearly 100 architects, landscape architects and community development professionals from several states attended a two-day Public Interest Design Institute held March 24 – 25 at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. The J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, Design Corps and the SEED Network (Social, Economic, Environmental Design) organized the event, one of the largest of its kind to date. “This was an opportunity for practitioners and students to learn how to proactively engage communities and hear about innovative design and funding practices that can support their work

Visiting volunteers working at a hospital in rural Peru will soon have an environmentally friendly residence to stay at thanks, in part to the efforts of two graduate students in City College’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture . The Yantaló Volunteer House , which is affiliated with the Yantaló Peru Foundation, is expected to open later this year. Third-year graduate architecture students Michele Flournoy and Tiffany Kimmel, designed the roofing system for the structure as an independent study project during the fall 2013 semester with Professor Christian Volkmann serving as

One undergraduate, two graduate students from CCNY Media & Communication Arts Department are recipients Three students from The City College of New York Media And Communication Arts (MCA) Department – an undergraduate advertising/public relations major and two students in the new Masters in Branding + Integrated Communications program – are LAGRANT Foundation 2014 scholarship recipients. The scholarships support students from ethnically diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in advertising, marketing and public relations. The LAGRANT scholarship award recipients from City College are: Khaled