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Prize winning poet and author Nicole Cooley will be the featured guest poet for the 46th annual City College Poetry Festival on Friday, May 4th. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. Cooley is a poet and non-fiction writer and the author of eight books including Breach, a collection of poems focusing on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; Girl after Girl after Girl, and her newest collection Of Marriage. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Narrative and Drunken Boat. She is a professor of English and

For the last few days, Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to explain to Congress how fake news on Facebook might have influenced the Presidential election. It hasn’t gone well. Unraveling how fake news happens is probably best undertaken by experts like Hernan Makse, Professor of Physics at the City College of New York’s Division of Science. Makse, who is well versed in the theoretical understanding of complexity, has published a new study investigating the influence of fake and traditional, fact-based, news outlets on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. In summary, the study shows

For the third year in a row a team from The City College of New York has won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Chem-E-Car competition! The team participated in the competition held at Princeton University on April 7, 2018. “Zincotron”, a Grove School of Engineering student-designed shoe-box sized car, finished ahead of a crowded field of 20 competitors and was within 16cm of the target of 18.4m carrying its load of 400ml of water. The second-place car from Cooper Union was close behind, at 18cm. In this competition, teams spend the semester designing

Claire Lynch and Etienne Forbes, cohorts in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are headed to Europe this fall on Fulbright awards. The two graduating seniors join a select group of 2018-2019 winners nationally in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A political science and Jewish studies double major in the Colin Powell School and Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, Lynch is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant. She’ll spend Sept. 2018 to June 2019, as a teacher in the Spanish capital’s bilingual education system. “Subjects

For three days in April of 2017 the jazz quartet The Manhattan Transfer recorded some of their vocal parts for their album, The Junction, at the Sonic Arts Center of The City College of New York with SAC director Paul Kozel engineering. Kozel also recorded percussionist Luisito Quintero for the album. Winy Taveras provided technical assistance for the recording sessions. The Junction was released almost a year later on March 30, 2018 and quickly rocketed to #1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart by April 5, 2018! “Janis Siegel (a member of the Transfer) and I have been looking for opportunities to work

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is offering a new Master’s Program in Data Science and Engineering to address the growing demand for data science and data engineering skills in government and industry. The new program, administered by the Computer Science Department, prepares students to analyze, process, visualize and apply machine learning and computational statistics to problems in engineering, science, and many other disciplines. A key feature of the program is the required capstone master’s project or thesis. Within the program, students will apply the data

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is a partner in a $100 million National Science Foundation-funded wireless revolution designed to push mobile technology to the limits. In addition to faster downloads, it could pave the way for surgeons operating remotely on patients, cars that rarely crash, and events that can be vividly experienced from thousands of miles away. Over the next five years, NSF will fund a set of wireless networks for researchers to test new ways of boosting Internet speeds to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality

Amelia J. Smyth, a sophomore in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is a 2018 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship winner. Created in 1999, the program provides outstanding undergraduates from 12 New York City colleges with three years of personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. It is supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. “In this milestone year, our 50th Anniversary as a foundation, we are excited that our campus and global partnerships are stronger than ever”, said Chris Kasabach, executive director of

On April 11, more than 60 female high school students from the NYC metro area will attend Discover Engineering, an event hosted by the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York. Attendees will be immersed in the world of engineering and the exciting possibilities it offers as a career. During the event, which is offered in partnership with Young Women In Bio (YWIB), attendees will be engaged in lively discussions and activities demonstrating the many ways engineers are helping to meet the great challenges of our times. The young women will spend time with Grove School and

Representing Norway in an unprecedented 10 simulated UN committees, The City College of New York’s 12-member delegation earned an Honorable Mention at the 2018 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference in Manhattan. More than 5,000 university students from some 215 schools around the world participated in the competition, discussing current global issues in a real world context. The accolade from the National Collegiate College Association continued the winning streak over the years by NMUN teams mentored by City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Faculty