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Poet Kwame Dawes is the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series speaker at The City College of New York on Wednesday, April 20. His talk, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in room 107 in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is free and open to the public. Click here to register. An expert on African Diasporic literature, Dawes is the award-winning author of 16 books of poetry and numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. His most recent books, “ Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems” and “ Hold me to an Island: Caribbean Place – An Anthology of Writing,” were published in 2013. In

Andoni Mourdoukoutas, biomedical engineering senior in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, and two recent CCNY graduates have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. 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 research-based master's or doctoral degree in science or engineering. From

History Professor Beth Baron will explain how the Muslim Brotherhood arose in reaction to, and modeled after, Christian missionary inroads in the Middle East in the sixth installment of The City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, April 21. The talk, “ Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood,” takes place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium, and is free and open to the public. “Foreign missionaries, who included a sizeable

Sophomore Emily Costa and freshman Jaclyn Williams, the latter from the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, are this year’s Jeannette K. Watson Fellows at CCNY. Created in 1999, the Watson Fellowship program provides summer internships, professional development opportunities and mentoring for outstanding undergraduate students from select New York City colleges and universities. It is supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. As Watson Fellows, Costa and Williams will each receive a $5,500 stipend for their first summer internships, $6,500 for the second summer and $7

Two members of the Macaulay Honors College program at The City College of New York have been named 2016 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. Paulina R. Librizzi and Ellianna Schwab, both juniors, join a list of talented students in science, engineering and mathematics recognized nationally by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Librizzi, a Staten Island resident and chemical engineering major, plans to pursue a PhD in materials science. Her career goal is to conduct research in nanotechnology and materials science and to teach at the university level. Schwab resides

Maintaining its tradition of excellence at the annual international event, The City College of New York won the Distinguished Delegation Award at the 2016 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference in Manhattan. City College’s 16-member undergraduate team received the award from the National Collegiate College Association for its outstanding work representing Ghana during deliberations in assigned committees. The NMUN is the largest and most prestigious conference of its kind. It attracts close to 5,000 delegates from six continents. This is the second straight year that CCNY, whose team

When the credits roll for Domenica Cameron-Scorsese’s debut feature, “ Almost Paris,” at its Tribeca Film Festival premier April 24, among the names on the screen will be Jasmin Klinger’s, a City College of New York BFA music major. The junior from Israel scored the music for the film by Martin Scorsese’s actress-director daughter. Klinger composed, recorded and mixed the score at City College’s Sonic Arts Center (SAC). Klinger is also credited for another song in the 90-minute comedy/drama whose cast includes Wally Marzano-Lesnevich, Michael Sorvino and Adrian Martinez. Klinger talks about

One of Chemistry Professor Maria Tamargo’s missions is to ensure that the City College of New York is recognized as being in the forefront of materials science research. The other is to increase minority participation in the field. A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation won by Tamargo and her colleagues will help to achieve both of those goals. The five-year grant from the NSF’s Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology will go toward creating the new CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems. Known by the acronym

First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address during the 170 th Commencement Ceremony at The City College of New York on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. on the South Campus Great Lawn on the CCNY campus in historic Harlem, where more than 3,000 students make up the Class of 2016. The City College of New York is the first public higher education institution in New York City and has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. Established as a free institution dedicated to overcoming barriers to advancement, CCNY continues its mission of access to excellence and

The City College of New York student chapter of Engineers without Borders’ (EWB-USA CCNY) latest initiative is a water access project to benefit a rural community in Siuna, Nicaragua. Currently, 46 percent of the Tadazna community or approximately 370 people, lack access to drinking water. The project adopted by the chapter entails the construction of six groundwater wells in the locality. Each well is intended to support approximately one to five families. The design of the wells will allow for clean and safe water for daily use and consumption, decreasing the risk of contamination and