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Renowned restoration architect Carl Stein FAIA’s work includes the protection and preservation of The City College of New York campus and its historic architecture. For this, he will receive the President’s Leadership Award at the Presidential Awards Gala on May 2 in The Great Hall. The gala celebrates City College’s 170 th anniversary. Stein, who studied architecture at The Cooper Union and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, taught at City College’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture for five years. He completed a two-decade restoration of the upper part of the Shepard

For generations, Washington, D.C., has attracted an endless stream of civic-minded citizens keen on public service careers. Eight City College of New York undergraduates are the latest to feel the lure of D.C. where they are gaining new insights, networking and connecting with CCNY alumni there. Thanks to a semester-long program in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership supported by the MCJ Amelior Foundation, students like Corrin Chow are in the nation’s capital learning how the legislative branch works. The political science and international studies double major is

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering students Isamar Garrido Rodriguez and Patrick Tuttle are 2017 Society of Chemical Industry Scholars. The SCI Program provides each chemical engineering major with industry experience through a 10-week summer internship and a work stipend. “Being introduced to the SCI Program provided me with the opportunity to apply to companies I would not have direct access to. Like most degrees, internships are a mandatory requirement for most jobs nowadays; gaining industry experience, especially at a Fortune 500 company, is invaluable for future

For the second year running, The City College of New York is the recipient of four of the eight Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York this year. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, Marisol Cortés, Anika Nabila, Christopher Reid and Violeta Contreras Ramirez will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be appropriated over three or four years of medical studies. Cortés, who is Mexican-born, is graduating with a BS in biochemistry. The Mount Vernon resident will attend the Johns

A green project by an interdisciplinary team of City College of New York students is the winner of The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s fifth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. Tasked with designing an innovative green infrastructure project that effectively manages stormwater runoff while benefitting the campus community and environment, the five-member City College team devised the “Castor Project.” The project got its name from the scientific term for the beaver (Castor canadesis), CCNY’s mascot. Taking a cue from the beaver’s role as a natural water manager, the team

The Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at The City College of New York presents the seventh annual Harlem Children’s Festival, Saturday, May 6 at Aaron Davis Hall. Activities include dramatic performances and a raffle. The festival is free and open to the public. “Our goal is for our candidates to present their artistic work to an audience of captivated and inquisitive young people and their families. There is no better community to share their work with than the Harlem community,” said Jennifer Katona, program director, Educational Theatre Program. Following is the schedule of events: 10

Research led by electrical engineering professor Ahmed Mohamed at The City College of New York could lead to a more energy efficient rail transit system as his group explores how to capture regenerative braking energy. Mohamed is the recipient of a $200,000 year-long grant from ConEd for the project whose other outcomes could be: Financial savings on energy by the New York City Transit system; and A reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in line with New York State requirements. His research group in City College’s Grove School of Engineering, comprising PhD, graduate and

In a talk rescheduled from February, Marco Castaldi, associate professor of chemical engineering at The City College of New York, presents Sustainable Waste Management: Impacts of Our Trash on Society. Castaldi’s presentation is part of the “ Conversations in Engaged Scholarship” series. The forum features City College faculty members sharing research and creative scholarship that impact public policy, reform, and the civic, social, political or environmental landscape. Castaldi’s presentation will discuss the consequences of the amount of waste or garbage that the United States generates per

Biology major Emmanuel Dwomoh’s Distinguished Award for first place in the material/computer science category highlighted The City College of New York’s continued dominance at the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program conference in upstate Bolton Landing. Mentored by Eduardo Nicolau and Jonathan Levitt, Dwomoh’s presentation was entitled: “Synthesis and characterization of Polycaprolactone (pcl) membranes as scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration." The senior was one of three City College student winners at the 25th annual CSTEP Conference at The Sagamore Resort on Lake George. They

Major Latin American Literature and Arts Journal Now a Publication of CCNY On April 19, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, the preeminent US publication of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean writing in English and English translation, will launch at the City College of New York, marking the journal’s publication by Routledge in association with CCNY through its Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures. Edited by Daniel Shapiro, CCNY Distinguished Lecturer Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures, and guest edited by renowned scholar and translator