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The City College of New York’s School of Education and the CUNY School of Medicine at CCNY are recipients of a $50,000 grant from the West Harlem Development Corporation for The Growing Our Own Doctor’s Project. In its second year, the project aims to support and improve the educational and health outcomes of Harlem’s children. Terri N. Watson, assistant professor in the Department of Leadership and Special Education, and Erica Friedman, deputy dean and medical professor at the medical school, obtained the grant. The aim of The G.O.O.D. Project is two-fold. One objective is to increase the

Teenage freshman Ana Naumovska, a Jewish Studies major with no previous film experience, carries The City College of New York banner in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with her short “ So Help Me God.” The nearly six-minute experimental piece was accepted by the Tribeca Film Institute in its “Our City, My Story” category. It premieres on April 29. Click here to RSVP for the free screening. “It has a lot of symbolism and emphasizes the importance of unity,” said Naumovska, adding that the film was inspired by true family events. Born in Macedonia, Naumovska arrived in the United States in

Natalia Rodriguez’ poetry is taking her places. The City College of New York graduating senior showcases her verse at a literary exhibition at the New Women Space in Brooklyn April 14, straight from her top two finish in the invitation-only Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. An English major with a concentration in creative writing, Rodriguez joins several emerging writers and artists in the literary exhibition. The event is entitled, “A writing gallery: showcasing a variety of multi-genre experimental and interactive prose and poetry across mediums

Developing search algorithms for robotic swarms is the challenge for members of The City College of New York’s Robotics Club in the second annual NASA Swarmathon, April 18-20. The 14 students will compete remotely in the virtual competition against 19 other teams from minority serving universities and community colleges. The actual competition will be at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. “Swarm robotics is a field where multiple robots are trying to solve one task; they work together to communicate with each other and try and solve that task in the most efficient way possible

Ellianna Schwab, a graduating senior in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF has also awarded the coveted fellowship to Joseph Derosa, a 2015 CCNY alumnus from the Macaulay Honors College. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $34,000 and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for graduate study that leads to a

City College of New York alumna Monica Skarulis ’81 presents “Biology, Bounty and the Built Environment: How to Reset the Obesity Epidemic,” as part of the Conversations in Engaged Scholarship series. The presentation takes place on Thursday, April 6, 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the City College Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium. “We’re facing a global public health crisis,” said Skarulis, director of the Qatar National Obesity Center and deputy director of the Qatar Metabolic Institute. “The solution is not going to come from one source or strategy; now that only one

“The Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” City College of New York’s annual poetry festival, celebrates its 45th year May 12 with more than 150 participants from up to 50 schools and award-winning author and poet Jacqueline Woodson the guest of honor. The all-day, all-verse event, 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m., is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration and will be held in the Marian Anderson Theater located in City College’s Aaron Davis Hall. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Pamela L. Laskin, a lecturer in the CCNY’s English

City College of New York’s Chem-E- Car team is once again the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic champion. “Sulfurious,” CCNY’s latest entrant, beat out vehicles from 23 other schools to scoop first place in the regional Chem-E- Car competition at Rowan University for the second year running. The Grove School of Engineering student-designed car finished ahead of a field including two entries each from Carnegie Mellon and NYU; Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Next stop for Sulfurious is the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting, Oct. 29 – Nov. 3

Shereese Trumpet, B Arch major at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, is one of 20 distinguished minority architects and designers featured in the “Say It Loud’ exhibition, which celebrates the creative work of distinguished black members of the National Organization of Minority Architects, New York Coalition of Black Architects. Trumpet interviewed at nycobaNOMA and was asked questions about diversity in architecture; they recorded her answers and added it to the exhibition, which highlights black, Hispanic and Asian professionals across the

Nine of the best and brightest alumni of The City College of New York’s MFA creative writing program – all recently published authors -- return to their alma mater April 3 to discuss their postgraduate success. “Life After the MFA: My Path to Publication,” a panel discussion moderated by English professor and award-winning novelist Emily Raboteau, starts 7 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 95. It is free and open to the public. Participants include New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely, a 2011 CCNY alumnus; and Lisa Ko ’12, whose novel “ The Leavers” won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for