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Poet Kimiko Hahn, award-winning author of nine books of verse, presents two readings in The City College of New York’s Rifkind Center, NAC room 6/316, on Nov. 14. “Craft Talk,” 2 – 3 p.m. and “Reading,” 5 – 6 p.m., to conclude this semester’s Kowald Legacy Series. Both are free and open to the public. The readings are supported by the Kenneth Kowald Fund for Advancing American Literature and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities in City College's Division of Humanities and the Arts. Hahn’s critically acclaimed work includes the books “ The Artist's Daughter: Poems,” “ The Narrow Road to the

For her unique insights into student and teacher behavior, City College of New York philosophy professor Jennifer Morton is the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s inaugural Israel Scheffler Prize in Philosophy of Education. APA cited five of Morton’s connected set of papers on topics in the philosophy of education for presenting her its new award established in memory of the late Israel Scheffler, an influential philosopher of education globally. Morton’s insightful papers that caught APA’s attention are: “The Non-Cognitive Challenge to a Liberal Egalitarian Education;”

Most high school students spend their summer hanging out at the mall or chilling at the shore. But each year a handful of students from NYC high schools spend their break peering through fancy microscopes at The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at The City College of New York. Why do these kids bypass the beach to be part of the Photonics Internship program? “They’re passionate about science and eager to learn about optics and physics,” says Robert Alfano, a scientific innovator whose work unites the divergent fields of medicine, biology

Six students from The City College of New York were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Phoenix, Arizona. The undergraduates from the Division of Science, the CUNY Medical School at CCNY, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Grove School of Engineering excelled in both poster and oral presentations. The students, their majors, topics and presentation categories, are: Geneva Hidalgo, psychology, social/behavioral sciences and public health (oral); Mariya Mayer, music, cancer biology (poster); Courtney Ogando, biomedical

Team CCNY, comprising undergraduates from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the 2017 AIChE Chem-E-Car finals’ Spirit of Competition Award winner for the third year running. In addition, “Sulfurious,” the CCNY entry, placed 11th out of 41 domestic and international qualifiers in the competition in Minneapolis. Sulfurious won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic competition last spring to advance to the AIChE finals. The objective of the Chem-E-Car competition is for students to build a car, the size of a shoebox, which runs and stops at a

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: City College of New York (CCNY), considered a top ten military friendly school, will acknowledge the men and women of the college community who have served WHO: Christopher Gorman, Director of Veteran Affairs Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Interim President, CCNY Student, Faculty and Staff Veterans WHERE: The City College of New York NAC Plaza (outdoors) Convent Avenue and 138th Street WHEN: 10 am, Friday, November 10, 2017 Program 10:00 am – Greeting 10:05 am – Posting of the Colors 10:10 am – National Anthem performed by the CCNY Gospel Choir 10:15 am – Speech 10:20 am – Closing

There’s no question that generations of university students want to change the world, starting with where they are. But how? Four undergraduates from The City College of New York are among 229 students from 10 countries named 2017 University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. The program empowers students to become agents of change at their schools. Fellows work to ensure that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. Selected from City College (the

The Harlem community spoke and the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York listened. Community members were asked if they’d like free health information sessions on topics of their choosing and the answer was a resounding YES! Thus the Mini-Medical school was born. 60 people showed up to the first Mini-Medical School event on Oct 18 th to talk about diet, physical activity and health. The presentations were engaging as was the Q & A. Afterward, many attendees said they’d be back for more. In fact, they promised to bring a friend or family member the next time. Which is why an

They call Patricia Broderick the “dynamite stick” because nothing stops her. She is the first person to marry the brain with sensors and has invented, patented and trademarked a revolutionary technology, THE BRODERICK PROBE® that some medical doctors say will change the face of science and medicine. Broderick is so dynamic that CUTV News Radio has asked her to talk about her work on air twice – on Monday Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. EDT and again Monday Nov 13 at 1 p.m. EDT. Broderick is a Medical Professor in Molecular Cellular and Biomedical science at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of

Eyewitness News co-anchors Bill Ritter and Sade Baderinwa are this year’s John H. Finley Award recipients. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. In addition, the association has honored seven City College alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They received the Townsend Harris Medal at CCNY’s 137th annual alumni dinner in Manhattan. The seven are: Bernard S. Cohen, Esq. ’56B, the renowned lawyer who successfully argued the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia before the