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The 11th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York opens on June 13 with the New York premiere of “The Extorsion” Martino Zaidelis at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 21 with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by a special presentation of “Frybread Face and Me” by Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo filmmaker, Billy Luther. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, TAFFNY presents eight feature films and more than 25

City College of New York Professor Maria Tzortziou is the recipient of a $15 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to lead a new mission that will study the changing Coastal Arctic and impacts on vulnerable ecosystems and communities. Tzortziou’s project, “Arctic Coastlines–Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems (FORTE),” is one of six new NASA-funded airborne missions that will use novel, high-resolution observations from aircraft to complement what scientists can see from orbit, measure from the ground, and simulate in computer models. The other

The City College of New York’s LGBTQ+ Student Center in collaboration with the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council and the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month with a series of events. Below is a list of events: CCNY and CUNY march in the Queens Pride Parade on Sunday, June 2 at 11 a.m.; CCNY and CUNY celebrate the 7th Annual CUNY Pridefest at Queens College on Friday June 7 at 12 p.m. The CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center will be tabling for a "Build-a-Benny" activity; CCNY and CUNY march in Brooklyn Pride on Saturday, June 8 at 6:30 p.m.; Brooklyn-based CUNY colleges are hosting a Queer Prom on

Assistant Professor Ifeoma Ebo of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is selected to be a member of the 2024 Cohort for the Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: CLIMATE ACTION. The honor comes from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the ACSA Research & Scholarship Committee, in partnership with The OpEd Project and the University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication. Ebo is one of 12 architecture faculty members chosen for her research reflecting climate

Home of a unique NASA center to develop batteries for deep space missions, The City College of New York is the beneficiary of a $5 million cooperative agreement from the agency awarded to Hunter College for advanced research on storing energy for use in space. Robert J. Messinger, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is PI of The City College subcontract. CCNY will receive $1.5M of NASA funding over five years. Messinger is also the PI and founding director of the NASA-CCNY Center for Advanced Batteries for Space (CABS), a separate $5

Three City College of New York undergraduates are headed to Asia and South America on Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. Seniors Deborah Cobourne and Marlyn Santos-De La Rosa, and sophomore Amber Raine McCandless are recipients of the competitive national scholarships that provide support for overseas travel and research. Cobourne, who is a psychology major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, will spend the 2024-2025 academic year in South Korea studying sociology. The Brooklyn resident’s other honors at CCNY include the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship from

Eight student-led City College of New York and CUNY startup ventures won $80,000 in prizes during the Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubator Competition. The Zahn Center’s 2024 Demo Week provided 14 finalists the opportunity to pitch to panels of expert judges and compete for prizes to continue the development of their startups. Demo Week was the culmination of a semester-long extra-curricular incubator program, serving more than 55 CCNY and CUNY undergraduate and graduate students as well as community colleagues. The event also marked the 10th anniversary of the

Journalist, essayist, critic and memoirist Vivian Gornick ’57 is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 171 st Commencement ceremony on May 31. She will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. Gornick has achieved renown and has garnered many accolades for her work since she graduated from CCNY. A prominent feminist, she has written 11 books, including 1987’s Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, which was selected in 2019 as The New York Times’ Best #1 Memoir of the Past 50 Years. The book was widely acclaimed for its emotional honesty and vivid portrayal of

Dr. Sriram Ganeshan, assistant professor of physics in The City College of New York’s Division of Science is a recipient of the Feliks Gross Award for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors in the City University of New York (CUNY). Each awardee will present their research in a talk alongside other awardees, as part of the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series, when the award will also be officially conferred. This will take place during the upcoming academic year 2024-25. The award is accompanied by a small stipend that will be transferred to CCNY to be distributed to Ganeshan

Lucero Saavedra Huerta, a City College of New York student in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, is a recipient of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award. The Women’s Forum of New York created the award in 1987 to recognize and support women over the age of 35 who have overcome extreme adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grant helps Huerta pay for her classes, expenses and course books, which helped relieve her stress and focus on classes. She’s an early childhood education major and will graduate in the fall of 2024. She