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Three City College of New York students -- freshman Gabrielle Cintron from Townsend Harris High School, freshman Kimberly Harris from Midwood High School and senior Raluca Soltoianu from Forest Hills High School -- are among the 101 New Era Scholars for the 2015-16 academic year. They spoke at a luncheon honoring their achievements on Dec. 10. The New Era Scholarship Project, a project of the City College Fund, was founded by Larry Gralla ’51 and Yvette Gralla’52. It awards scholarships to students from 11 specially selected New York City high schools whose GPAs are in the 85th to 100th

After three months of arduous preparation, PS 161 presents its community performance of The Lion King Jr. on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. The performance is the culmination of the semester-long Fundamentals in Teaching Theater class that CCNY Educational Theatre Program Director Jennifer Katona teaches as a cornerstone of the M.S. Ed. degree curriculum. Thirty-eight PS 161 students who belong to the school’s Drama Club participate in the production, which is also guided by 18 CCNY educational theatre graduate student directors. The road to the final curtain began in September, when the students

Three more City College of New York students earned Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for the spring 2016 semester, bringing to 10 the number of CCNY recipients this year. Hannah McIntyre, Saffia Rahimtoola and Katiuska Roumenov are the latest CCNY Gilman Scholars. The Scholarship is awarded to high achieving undergraduates who receive Federal Pell Grant funding and wish to study or intern abroad. McIntyre, an international relations junior, will study Arabic at the University of Amman, Jordan. Rahimtoola, a design junior, will study liberal arts and studio arts in Florence, Italy

A team of faculty and administrators from the City College of New York is one of 14 from U.S. higher education institutions chosen by the National Science Foundation-funded National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation to join the Pathways to Innovation Program. The Pathways program helps institutions to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering education. The program is run by Epicenter, which is funded by the NSF and directed by Stanford University and the VentureWell. Professor of Electrical Engineering Joseph Barba of the Grove School of

The City College of New York’s Art Department bestows its Therese Ralston McCabe Connor Awards to CUNY students in the fields of studio art, art history and art education. Students receive tuition support, and are recognized for their outstanding achievement in research and projects as part of their coursework. This year’s winners are: Studio Art, Graduate First Place: Sarah Cameron Sunde (DIAP MFA, 2016)Second Place: Zoe Berger (DIAP MFA, 2016)3rd Place, Michael Capobianco (Art MFA, 2017) Studio Art, Undergraduate First Place: Cynthia Yin (Macaulay Honors College Art BA, Digital Design

Interdisciplinary Studies Associate Professor Kathlene McDonald talks about her work in the field of medical humanities in the third installment of the City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, Mar. 31. The talk, “From Chaos to Advocacy: End-of-Life Care, Narrative, and Social Change,” rescheduled from its original date of Nov. 19, 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. “Medical humanities draws on the

Understanding nanoscale heat flow is critical in the design of integrated electronic devices and in the development of materials for thermal insulation and thermoelectric energy recovery. While several techniques are currently available to observe heat transport over macroscopic distances, there is a need for new methods capable of revealing the dynamics of heat flow with nanometer resolution. A team led by Physics Professors Carlos Meriles of CCNY and Elisa Riedo of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Nanoscience Initiative report on a versatile platform for nanoscale thermal

Two NOAA-CREST graduate students have been cited for their research. Equisha Glenn, who recently won the NOAA STAR fellowship, published her article, “ Detection of recent regional sea surface temperature warming in the Caribbean and surrounding region,” in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. The article was also featured as a “ Research Spotlight” in Earth and Space Science News. Glenn, who earned her B.E. in Earth Systems Science and Environmental Engineering from CCNY, started her career with NOAA-CREST as an undergraduate. She has since obtained

For its first partnership with a higher education institution, the Roundabout Theatre Company chose the City College of New York’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre to create a new course for pre-service teachers and teaching artists. The course, “Fundamentals of Teaching Technical Theatre,” is currently being taken by 18 graduate students. This partnership offers the graduate students opportunities to take classes in the first half of the semester at Roundabout’s Education Studio, where they learn about the various technical aspects of theatre. In the second half, they move to P.S. 161

The 15th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Seattle is over with The City College of New York a big winner. Eight students from the Division of Science received awards in the poster presentation category. The winning students and their topics are: Rachel Hernandez, social and behavioral science; Melissa S. Evelyn, engineering, physics, and math; Christina Torres, developmental biology; Zhiying Zhu, oral presentation engineering, physics and math; Electra Nassis, cancer biology; Hazeezat Shittu, social and behavioral science; Shirley Mo, social and behavioral science