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The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohorts of Moynihan Leaders-in-Residence and Postdoctoral Fellows. Leaders-in-Residence are distinguished practitioners and thinkers whose careers are notable for their contributions to public service and/or to public scholarship. They spend dedicated periods of time at the Moynihan Center, giving lectures, mentoring students, and otherwise broadening and deepening the network of people and ideas that interface with the Moynihan Center

Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York. She was previously named interim dean in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic when teaching had to pivot quickly to online learning. During that time, Miller secured federal funds to support staff and update technology. The Division of Humanities and the Arts teaches more students across the entire College than any other division. Its more than 430 full-time and part-time faculty also serve over 2,000 undergraduate majors, 600 minors, and 350 graduate

Dave A. Chokshi, M.D., the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has been appointed the inaugural Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. This endowed professorship, first announced in April 2022, was established with a gift from Seymour (Sy) Sternberg ’65, ’10 (hon.) and Laurie Sternberg in honor of the late General Colin Powell. As the Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership, Chokshi will play a central role in the development of leadership studies at the Colin

Kay Bell, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of English and academic advisor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, is the 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate. During her tenure, she will promote the history of poetry in the Bronx and ignite a passion for poetry and creative expression throughout the borough through various community engagements. Bell is an alumna of City College and received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 2015 and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2019. “I am confident that working closely with the Bronx community as

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