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Celebrated author and scholar Mikhal Dekel is The City College of New York’s 2021-2022 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. A professor of English and director of City College’s Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, Dekel was cited by the selection committee for “making internationally celebrated and varied contributions in her areas of specialization” since joining the CCNY faculty in 2005. Her first two books, “ The Universal

As parts of the world begin to open up from the Covid-19 pandemic, City College of New York duo Aisha Fuenzalida Butt and Cassiady Perard can look forward to traveling overseas this fall as Fulbright Scholars. The two join a select group of 2021-2022 winners nationally in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Fuenzalida, who is graduating on June 4 with a BA in anthropology and as the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership’s valedictorian, is headed to Spain’s Canary Islands in September on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award that runs through June 2022. Perard, an

Alondra Nelson, an acclaimed researcher and author, who explores questions of science, technology, and social inequality, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 168th Commencement on June 4. She will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. City College will also honor Edward Blank, ’57, one of its distinguished alumni and a telemarketing trailblazer, with the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. Following are brief bios of the honorees at what will be CCNY’s second consecutive virtual salute because of the Covid-19 pandemic: Edward Blank: Upon graduating

Graduating senior Tzippora Chwat of the Macaulay Honors Program, and the Class of 2020’s Miguel Chavez and Mathiu Perez are The City College of New York recipients of Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York (CUNY). They are among eight 2021 CUNY winners of the scholarships that recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, each will receive $8,000 over four years to defray the tuition costs of their graduate studies or medical training. Following are bios of City College’s three Salk Scholars: Tzippora

Matthew C. Reilly, a pioneering anthropological archaeologist in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is a recipient of the 2021 Feliks Gross Award for outstanding Assistant Professors from the City University of New York. The honor is one of two presented to outstanding assistant professors CUNY-wide by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The other accolade is the Henry Wasser Award. The Academy selects recipients for the two awards from a large group of highly qualified, academically impressive, assistant professors from all 25

The City College of New York is pleased to announce the creation of The Elyse L. Nass Endowed Scholarship Fund. The annual fund will support CCNY students enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program and/or the Department of Theater and Speech. It will allow the departments to offer generous aid in the form of scholarships, stipends, and other means of support for students pursuing careers in writing, especially in the field of playwrighting. “The MFA Program in Creative Writing is deeply grateful for this new scholarship from the Elyse L. Nass Scholarship Fund,” said

Already accepted to several top graduate schools including Stanford and Columbia, Michael Vera of The City College of New York’s Class of 2021 is the winner of a highly competitive GEM Fellowship that offers funding for a master's program in structural engineering at New York University. GEM fellowships fund master's and PhDs in engineering for underrepresented students of exceptional quality who intend to work in industry. Each year, GEM identifies and recruits more than 1,000 undergraduate students, graduate students, and working professionals for admission to advanced degree programs at the

In a first of its kind review in the United States, social scientists led by The City College of New York’s Deidre M. Anglin suggest that the legacy of systemic racism in the U.S. shapes racial inequities in social determinants of psychosis at neighborhood and individual levels. Anglin and her co-authors examine U.S.-based evidence that connects characteristics of the social environment with outcomes across the psychosis continuum, from psychotic experiences to schizophrenia. Their study, entitled “ From Womb to Neighborhood: A Racial Analysis of Social Determinants of Psychosis in the U.S.,”

The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important for scalability, which amplifies a breakthrough by City College of New York researchers led by physicist Vinod Menon. They’ve demonstrated for the first time the use of "Rydberg states" in solid state materials (previously shown in cold atom gases) to enhance nonlinear optical interactions to unprecedented levels in solid state systems. This feat is a first step towards realizing chip-scale scalable

The City College of New York maintains its lofty position among the top 1.8% out of 19,788 universities worldwide according to the 2021-22 edition of the “Global 2000 List” by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). “This is an outstanding achievement to be celebrated,” said Dr. Nadim Mahassen, president of the CWUR, which publishes the largest academic rankings of global universities. City College is #350 among the 19,788 degree-granting institutions of higher education analyzed by CWUR, #108 in the United States and #123 regionally (USA and Canada). Harvard University, Massachusetts