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Averaging an award every season since its premier, “ Nueva York,” CUNY TV’s Spanish-language cultural series created by City College film Professor Jerry Carlson, won two New York Emmy Awards at the 61st Annual Awards Ceremony at the Marriot Marquis. This brings to 14 the number of Emmys garnered by the show, now in its 14th season. The series’ senior producer, Carlson and his team, mostly graduates of CCNY’s MFA Film Program, received four nominations this year. The two winners were an Emmy in the environmental affairs category and for coverage of politics/government. The Emmys are presented

The Harlem Children’s Theatre Festival adapts three new plays from myths and fairytales on Saturday, May 5 at The City College of New York’s Aaron Davis Hall. The School of Education’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre presents the annual festival, which takes place from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. This annual festival is jam-packed with artsy activities, live performances and sing-alongs, and arts and crafts stations. The event is a fun and free for kids of all ages (3 and up) and brings the community and all members of the family together to share in the joy of live theatre and the arts. The

David Lohman, associate professor of biology at The City College of New York and a leading entomologist with two insects named after him, is once again a Fulbright Scholar. His selection as a 2018-2019 Fulbright ASEAN Research Scholar will take him back to Southeast Asia to continue his study of butterfly evolution and the role of islands in species formation. The six-month award will allow Lohman to travel to Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines to conduct collaborative research on insect evolution and biogeography. He’ll work with collaborators in each country to develop their capacity to

President Vince Boudreau, The City College Fund & The 21st Century Foundation invite you to The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics on Monday, April 30 at 1:30p.m. in Shepard Hall, Room 350. Guest speaker Dr. Viral V. Acharya’s talk is entitled “Global Spillovers: Managing Capital Flows and Forex Reserves.” The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics was established by Dr. Edward I. Altman, ‘63. Professor Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Acharya is a deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of

CCNY x CEO Action raise awareness of unconscious bias in workplace and on college campuses The City College of New York joins the growing coalition pledging to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and on college campuses. More than 400 CEOs and university presidents have come together for CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, with City College being one of the first New York City colleges invited to be a signatory. President Vince Boudreau is committing himself to advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace and at the college raising awareness of unconscious bias among

Native American relations with the government, Jane Austen’s work from a queer theoretical approach and a study of philosopher Edmund Husserl are among the research topics by the sixth cohort of City College of New York summer interns to Stanford. Five students from the Division of Humanities and the Arts are the latest participants in the eight-week CCNY-Stanford Summer Research Program that runs from mid-June to mid-August at Stanford University. Established in 2013, it is designed for students considering graduate school, and specifically doctoral research, in the humanities and arts

Dorthe M. Eisele, assistant professor in The City College of New York’s Division of Science and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the winner of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award. According to NSF, their Faculty Early Career Development Program is a foundation-wide activity that “offers NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.” NSF CAREER awards provide five

Of the handful of all-jazz radio stations still around, Newark-based WBGO88.3 FM is hailed in the industry as the pre-eminent home of the genre. And for the rest of the month, WBGO showcases The City College of New York Graduate Jazz Ensemble as part of its Jazz Appreciation Month. Under the direction of renowned saxophonist and band leader Steve Wilson, the ensemble was invited to make its debut on the famed station operated by Newark Public Radio. Antonio Ciacca (piano), Steve Lacey (guitar), Moto Kobayashi (bassist and the only undergraduate member), Fred Griggs (drums) and Jamile Staevie

Hurtling around Earth, at 17,500 mph some 248 miles in space, is a small swarm of City College of New York-bred fruit flies and their parasitic wasps. The insects, from biologist Shubha Govind’s lab, are part of an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) whose outcome could be beneficial to astronauts on exploration missions. Three years ago, Govind was the recipient of a $500,000 NASA grant for the project entitled “Does spaceflight alter the virulence of a natural parasite of Drosophila?” Drosophila is a genus of small flies attracted to ripening fruit. They are often called

CCNY Libraries presents The Concert for Ravi Shankar on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m at The City College of New York. The concert, to be held in Shepard Hall, Room 95, celebrates the life and work of iconic sitarist Ravi Shankar. Shankar (1920-2012) taught at City College in the fall of 1967, and most recently, CCNY Music Librarian Michael Crowley and the Ravi Shankar Foundation with the support of the Grammy Foundation and East Meets West Music completed the digitization of Shankar’s CCNY lecture recording. During the concert, Crowley will briefly showcase highlights from these rare