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Sixty City College of New York students are recipients of Alumni Association scholarships for their outstanding academic achievement. Scholarships range from $1000-$5000 and can cover up to one year of the awardee’s tuition. The students will receive their scholarships at the 136 th Annual Alumni Dinner where co-anchors Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5 are recipients of The 69 th John H. Finley Award, which recognizes exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York and the nation, while enhancing the quality of life of its people. In addition, seven CCNY alumni

As the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at The City College of New York promise a quicker and remarkably accurate method of predicting election trends with Twitter. Hern´an A. Makse, Alexandre Bovet and Flaviano Morone have developed analytic tools combining statistical physics of complex networks, percolation theory, natural language processing and machine learning classification to infer the opinion of Twitter users regarding the Presidential candidates this year. “Forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is the long-standing

Lynn Appelbaum, professor and director of The City College of New York’s Advertising/PR Program, is the winner of The Hispanic Public Relations Association’s inaugural BRAVO! PR Educator of the Year Award. The HPRA National Bravo! awards are the most prestigious awards in Hispanic communications recognizing the industry's finest campaigns and personalities. Appelbaum was honored along with Dewey Square Group Principal Maria Cardona (Pioneer of the Year) and television personality and style influencer Kika Rocha (HPRA-NY Journalist of the Year) at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan.

Over the centuries, generations of Indians have emigrated to parts of the globe as distant as Fiji, Trindidad and Guyana. Yet the big theme in Indian Diaspora literature over the years has been their original home, according to Susham Bedi, the Indian-born novelist, actress and academic.“Indians are rebuilding their Indian homes everywhere they go,” said Bedi. “Their tradition, value systems, social customs, rituals and even taboos get implanted with them. Indians have kept their culture even after more than hundreds of years of immigration.” Reflecting on her own experience, Bedi noted that

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering students head to the AlChE national finals competition in San Francisco to present the "Iodonator-C8,” a chemical powered vehicle that for the first time in CCNY history won first place in the Mid-Atlantic regional competition. There will be 41 teams competing at the nationals, and engineering students from top colleges and universities in the U.S., Korea, China, Canada and Turkey compete for the top prize. “We’ve been in nationals consistently over the past three years, but no one has placed first in the regionals and nationals. We

Carlos Franz is one of the foremost Spanish-language writers in the world. He is the 2016 winner of the Biennial Mario Vargas Llosa Award for his latest book, “ Si te vieras con mis ojos,” which is deemed the best novel published in 2014-2016. The Chilean national brings his formidable literary knowledge to The City College of New York as this year’s instructor in the Cátedra Vargas Llosa, the only such resource in the United States. Launched in 2014, the Cátedra is an international academic project honoring Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The English translation of this year’s

MEDIA ADVISORY U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz tours CCNY biofuels project WHAT: Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration, is visiting The City College of New York’s ARPA-E project on biofuels. Housed in the CUNY Energy Institute at CCNY, the project has developed a highly efficient zinc- manganese rechargeable battery. It is funded by the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). WHERE: City College’s Steinman Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. WHEN: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 13, 2016 CONTACT: Jay Mwamba, CCNY Public Relations, 212

Co-founders of Veripad, a startup launched at the Zahn Innovation Center by three City College of New York graduates, relocated to Nairobi, Kenya as part of the prestigious Merck KGaA Accelerator Program. The three-month program in Africa offers extensive funding, mentorship and technical support for budding entrepreneurs in healthcare. “Winning the Zahn Social Impact Prize gave us a sense of validation that our product was viable and that our dream of reducing mortalities from counterfeit medication was within reach,” said Y-Lan Nguyen, co-founder and CAO of Veripad. Bishoy Ghobryal (CEO) and

Dear Members of the City College Community, On Friday, I accepted the resignation of Dr. Lisa Coico as President of the City College of New York, effective immediately. I named Interim Provost Mary Erina Driscoll as Administrator in Charge, pending the appointment of an Interim President at the October 26 meeting of the City University of New York Board of Trustees. We will also soon launch a national search for a new President. The City College of New York is a remarkable institution with a rich history and a very promising future. I can assure you that the Board of Trustees and I are focused

STEM education at The City College of New York is set for a quantum leap with the receipt of a $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year award to the only senior STEM campus in the CUNY system is for a project dubbed the CCNY Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM or “CiPASS.” Its main goals are to improve CCNY graduation and retention rates and increase the number of students receiving STEM degrees, particularly those from underrepresented groups. The five key elements of CiPASS are: A summer STEM Bridge Program to improve the readiness and academic self