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Gregory H. Williams, CCNY’s former president, and award-winning NBC 4 “Today in New York” meteorologist Chris Cimino are the 2018 John H. Finley Award recipients. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. In addition, the alumni association will honor six City College alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They’ll receive the Townsend Harris Medal at CCNY’s 138th annual alumni dinner in CCNY’s Great Hall on Thursday, Nov. 8. The 11th president of City College (2001-2009), Williams is

As he continues research that could make the rail transit system more energy efficient, City College of New York electrical engineer Ahmed Mohamed is the recipient of $320,000 in funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to advance his pioneering work. It is over two years. The funding brings to more than half a million dollars the support Mohamed, an assistant professor in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, has received for the project since last year. He was awarded $210,000 by ConEd in 2017. Mohamed’s quest is to develop technology that can capture the

Hilton Als, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic with “The New Yorker,” adds another honor to his name when he receives the Langston Hughes Medal at The City College of New York on Thursday, Nov. 15. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora at CCNY's annual Langston Hughes Festival, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. It recognizes honorees for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes. Past award

The CCNY men's cross country team became the third team in CUNYAC Conference history to complete a three-peat at the men's cross country championships, capturing their fourth CUNYAC crown by a 42-point margin over the field. "He knew the pressure was on him to come out and perform," CCNY Head Coach Demetrius Murray commented about Padilla's performance. "To take the challenge, go out there and do what he needed to do, he ran really well. That's a testament to the program itself." The Beavers were led by junior Merlin Padilla Jr., who claimed the individual title, completing the 8k course in 28

A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The City College of New York. The K-core appears able to forecast which species is likely to face extinction first, by global shocks such as climate change, and when an ecosystem could collapse due to external forces. Led by Flaviano Morone and Hernán A. Makse, the physicists from CCNY’s Division of Science used state of the art network theory to predict the tipping point of an ecosystem under severe external shocks like a global increase of temperature. They

Carmen Boullosa, the internationally acclaimed Mexican writer, concludes The City College of New York’s sixth Cátedra Vargas Llosa, Friday, Oct. 26, with a lecture on Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2003 novel “ El paraíso en la otra esquina” (The Way to Paradise). It starts 7 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes of New York. Boullosa and Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor in City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, led the 2018 Cátedra that focused on El paraíso. The novel revolves around two non-fictional characters, the Peruvian Flora Tristán (1803-1844) -- a binational writer and

Navigating a busy airport or bus terminal can be a challenging proposition for anyone, let alone the visually impaired or disabled. Enter ASSIST, an app for indoor navigation in development by a City College of New York-led consortium. The ASSIST app is part of the SAT-Hub project, which has received a boost from a $750,000 three-year grant from the Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program at the National Science Foundation. This brings to $850,000 the NSF’s support for the app’s development. Last year, the foundation awarded City College a $100,000 Smart & Connected Community (SCC) planning

The City College of New York has once again been selected as one of the 399 most environmentally responsible colleges for 2018 according to The Princeton Review Guide to 399 Green Colleges. The Princeton Review chose the schools for this ninth annual edition of its "green guide" based on data from the company's 2017-18 survey of hundreds of four-year colleges concerning the schools' commitments to the environment and sustainability. The City College of New York is an established leader in sustainability, with an expert faculty conducting groundbreaking research and providing innovative

Tyehimba Jess, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, and Hasanthika Sirisena, winner of the 2016 Juniper Prize for Fiction, are this month’s Kowald Reading Series guests at The City College of New York. Sirisena, a 2006 alumna of City College’s MFA program in creative writing in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, reads from her work 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Rifkind Center, NAC room 6/316. In addition to the Juniper Prize, Sirisena received the 2008 Rona Jaffee Award, a top honor presented to emerging women writers of exceptional talent. Jess will read in CCNY’s Shepard

Researchers from the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York are making strides in HIV prevention with the launch of their bus shelter ad campaign “ PEPTALK” in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. The campaign focuses on increasing awareness and access to Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), a medication that prevents HIV infection if taken within 72-hours of exposure to the virus and consistently for 28 days. The campaign is part of a two-year NIH-funded research study, which was awarded to Dr. Victoria Frye, principal investigator and associate medical professor at the CUNY School of