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Genesis Flores, a junior in the Advertising/Public Relations Program in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, is the 2020 Art Stevens PRSA-NY/ CCNY Scholar for Excellence in Public Relations. This marks the 13th year that Art Stevens has funded this scholarship to support rising talent. Stevens, managing partner of The Stevens Group and a CCNY alumnus, created the scholarship in 2008 to support talented students majoring in communications. His commitment to both PRSA-NY and the City College Communications Alumni Group inspired him to name the scholarship for

Lesley Lokko, dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of York, published an essay in “ e-flux Architecture” entitled “ The Age of Wildfire” dealing with the issue of educational space. Lokko began writing when she left South Africa in 2019 and concluded in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to joining City College, Lokko was based in South Africa for five years as the director of the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. She grew the school’s graduate program from 11 students to over 100 during her tenure. In the piece

Luz Maria Cespedes and Ana Maria Oliynyk are The City College of New York’s 2020 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship recipients. They are among 15 promising undergraduates from New York City colleges and universities selected for the highly competitive awards. Created in 1999 and supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the program provides fellows with three years of personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. Fellows are provided with annual funding of $6,000, $7,500 and $8,500, in addition to a $2,000 Discovery Fund to develop their personal, professional

The medical school Class of 2020 was always destined to be a part of history. But not exactly in the way it turned out. The students were slated to be the inaugural class of the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York (CSOM) when they joined the Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program directly from area high schools in 2013. The program is an entry point of an accelerated undergraduate biomedical curriculum that would seamlessly transition them through their medical school training culminating in a Bachelor of Science and an accredited medical degree in seven years. But this

“ Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey,” the latest book by City College of New York English Professor Mikhal Dekel, is a finalist for the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in the non-fiction category. The winner will be announced in early May. According to the Jerusalem Post, the Sami Rohr Prize is the largest book prize in the Jewish literary world. “Tehran Children” (W. W. Norton & Company; October 1, 2019), is the outcome of Dekel’s decade-long research into the little documented escape of Polish Jews from Nazi extermination as refugees in the East and then to Israel via

The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York (CSOM) has moved up the date for graduating its fourth year medical students to Friday, April 10 in response to the growing need for medical professionals to respond to coronavirus outbreak. The School’s 44 students are its first class to graduate since it opened its doors as a medical school in 2016 and are now permitted to start their residency programs early or volunteer at New York City area hospitals to support their response to the crisis. The original date for graduation was May 21. “The college has joined our sister

City College of New York freshman Reilly Boehm has officially been crowned the 2019-20 NCAA scoring champion. Her average of 26.8 points per game, the best ever for a Division III rookie, was the highest in the NCAA across all three divisions. Read Full Article

Hao Su, the City College of New York mechanical engineer developing a lightweight and adaptive exoskeleton, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. It will provide more than $552,000 in funding over five years for his proposal entitled: “Versatile Wearable Robots for Rehabilitation of Children with Gait Disabilities.” “The goal of this research and education integrated CAREER plan is to understand human-robot bidirectional adaptation by studying modeling, sensing, and control of assistive robots to enhance mobility and health of children with gait impairments,”

Benjamin Reichman, a junior in the Macaulay Honors College program, is The City College of New York’s fifth Barry M. Goldwater Scholar in as many years. He joins a list of talented students in science, engineering and mathematics recognized nationally by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The federally funded scholarship is America’s premiere award for undergraduates majoring in math, science and engineering. Its goal is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students

Gonzalo Torres, medical professor and chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Sciences at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York, receives two grants from the National Institute of Health to establish centers that support and mentor diversity junior faculty members doing neuroscience and drug addiction research. “These grants will support faculty in neuroscience who will become stronger researchers and mentors,” said Torres, the principal investigator on both projects. “It’s my hope that we will be able to recruit a significant number of talented