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The City College of New York is a participant in a $12 million Google initiative to stimulate the cybersecurity ecosystem and establish New York City as the global leader in cybersecurity. CUNY, Columbia University, Cornell, and New York University are the other institutions involved in the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program. Three faculty from The City College’s Grove School of Engineering -- Rosario Gennaro, Nelly Fazio (both computer science) and Samah Saeed (electrical engineering) are among the beneficiaries of the $12 million grant that will go towards cutting-edge research

Dee Dee Mozeleski, vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Relations, executive director of the Foundation for City College and senior advisor to the president, is a 2023 Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Leaders in Advertising, Marketing & PR. The editorial feature recognizes top leaders in advertising, marketing and public relations in the New York metro area. In 2021, Mozeleski was named a CASE District II Professional of the Year and a Crain’s New York Business’ Notable in Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Mozeleski has spent more than 30 years

The City University of New York announced that the CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York has been granted full accreditation. Dean Carmen Renée Green, MD received the news and proudly shared this achievement with the entire CUNY Med community saying, “I would like to congratulate everyone involved in the accreditation process, as this is truly a team effort. I thank every individual who provided guidance to our team during each stage of the accreditation process and express my gratitude to the dedicated faculty, staff, students, clinical partners, donors, and

More than 175 years after he founded The City College of New York and went on to forge U.S.-Japan relations, the lure of Townsend Harris continues in the Far East. On Sunday, July 16, 2023, Mayor Shoichiro Matsuki leads a civic delegation from the city of Shimoda to CCNY to pay homage to Townsend. The annual Japanese visits began in 1986. Interrupted by the COVID pandemic, this is their first visit since 2019. “This year marks 167 years since Harris arrived in Shimoda on August 21, 1856 to open the first American consulate,” said CCNY archivist Sydney Van Nort. “As first consul general there

The documentary film “The Five Demands” premieres in New York on Thursday, July 13 at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem followed by a one-week run at the Firehouse Cinema in Chinatown, beginning Friday, July 14. The CCNY professor and The Documentary Forum Founder Andrea Weiss and The CCNY alumni Greta Schiller co-directed and co-produced the film about the 1969 shutdown, takeover, and occupation of The City College of New York by a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students. During the 1969 furor, classes were canceled, students arrested, and the college president resigned. Through

It’s a dilemma that many a regular bettor probably faces often -- deciding when to place a sports bet. In a study entitled “ A statistical theory of optimal decision-making in sports betting,” Jacek Dmochowski, Associate Professor in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, provides the answer. His original finding appears in the journal PLOS One. “The central finding of the work is that the objective in sports betting is to estimate the median outcome. Importantly, this is not the same as the average outcome,” said Dmochowski, whose expertise includes machine learning

A new study of a brain region called the rostro-medial prefrontal could potentially advance diagnosis and therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Entitled “ Rejection Distress Suppresses Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Borderline Personality Disorder,” the research appears in the journal “Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.” Researchers from The City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute led by CCNY psychologist Eric A. Fertuck discovered that the rostro-medial prefrontal specifically becomes more active when

Professor Jerome Haferd, of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, has designed a new installation for Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York. The interactive work entitled “Sankofa” will be up until October 2023 and reopen in spring 2024. “Sankofa” is the first of several installations and multi-year, multi-structure vision plan design by Haferd and funded by the Mellon Foundation as a part of the Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative at Marcus Garvey Park led by Harlem Grown, a nonprofit dedicated to educating youth on living healthy and sustainably. Haferd is the lead

Ruth Pion Vizcaino, a social researcher, anthropologist and activist focusing on racial justice and gender equality in her homeland, is the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s (CUNY DSI) inaugural Threatened Scholars Fellow. She will spend the fall semester at The City College of New York-based CUNY DSI, benefitting from a safe space to continue working in favor of promoting cultural inclusiveness in the Dominican Republic. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Threatened Scholars Fellowship Program was launched at CCNY this year. Two other Fellows in the 2023-2024 cohort will be announced later

The 10th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York (TAFFNY) opens on June 15 with the New York premiere of “As Bestas” (The Beast) by Oscar-nominated director Rodrigo Sorogoyen at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 22 with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by the N.Y. premiere of “Fancy Dance” by Seneca/Cayuga filmmaker, Erica Tremblay. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (City College Downtown), TAFFNY