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Jacqueline Woodson, an award-winning author of more than 30 books for children and young adults, is this year’s recipient of The City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal. She receives the award on Nov. 20 at City College’s 36th Langston Hughes Festival. The award ceremony, in the Marian Anderson Theatre at Aaron Davis Hall on the college campus, starts at 6 p.m. “Like Langston Hughes, Woodson is a prolific writer in many genres including fiction, poetry, plays and opera,” said Retha Powers, director of the Langston Hughes Festival. “She also shares with Hughes a wide readership among

The City College of New York’s Undergraduate Student Government invites children up to the age of 12 from the community to its “Harlemween” party on Friday, October 30, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the North Academic Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to children of City College faculty and staff. “There will be a haunted house, candy, games, contests and prizes, and parents and guardians are welcome to attend,” said Carolina Martinez, a political science and international studies double major. “It is an opportunity to enjoy Halloween in a fun, friendly and inspiring environment.”

In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt University and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication. Quantum entanglement is a phrase more likely to be heard on popular sci-fi television shows such as “Fringe” and “Doctor Who.” Described by Albert Einstein as “spooky action at a distance,” when two quantum things are entangled, if one is ‘touched’ the other will ‘feel it,’ even if separated by a great

November is CUNY Month! To celebrate, the City College of New York invites the community to visit the campus and to enjoy a number of special events throughout the month. Some of the highlights are: Undergraduate tours and information sessions; The 135 th Annual Alumni Dinner, honoring award-winning actress and director Phylicia Rashad, and six CCNY alumni, on Nov. 5; The annual Relay for Life, which raises awareness and funds for the fight against cancer, on Nov. 7 and 8; “ Freedom Rides: Barometer of the Civil Rights Movement,” a talk by Distinguished Professor of History Judith Stein

In honor of her “significant contribution to the advancement of public relations education through college or university teaching,” Lynn Appelbaum, director of the advertising and public relations specialization and professor in the City College of New York’s Department of Media & Communication Arts, receives the Public Relations Society of America’s Outstanding Educator Award. A public relations professional and educator for more than 30 years, Appelbaum joined the CCNY faculty in 1993. She is a founding faculty member of CCNY’s master’s degree program in branding and integrated

The City College of New York is a top producer of physics graduates in the nation, according to the American Institute of Physics. City College’s physics department is on a list of programs recognized by the AIP for conferring the largest number of undergraduate physics degrees between 2012 and 2014. Northern Arizona University, Miami University, University of Massachusetts and University of Texas are some of the institutions that make the list. It was compiled from data collected by the AIP in its annual AIP Enrollments and Degrees survey. Dr. Alexios Polychronakos, chair of CCNY’s physics

Award-winning actress and director Phylicia Rashad is this year’s John H. Finley Award recipient. 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. A graduate of Howard University, Rashad receives the award on Nov. 5 at a ceremony at the New York Hilton.In addition, six City College alumni will receive the Townsend Harris Medal for outstanding post-graduate achievements at the association's 135th Annual Dinner at the Hilton.The six are: Dr. Lester Gerhardt ’62, a major contributor at Bell Aerospace to

Burnout and depression overlap considerably, according to the latest study on the subject led by psychology Professor Irvin S. Schonfeld of The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and his colleague, Renzo Bianchi, of the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The findings are based on a survey taken by 1,386 public school teachers, from pre-K to 12th grade across the United States, including New York, during the 2013-14 academic year. Based on their responses to a burnout measure, the teachers were

In the latest advance to boost the speed of the Internet, a research team including, the City College of New York, University of Southern California, University of Glasgow, and Corning Incorporated, demonstrates a way to increase the data speeds of optical fibers – considered the Internet’s backbone. "Optical fibers can be sped up by ‘twisting’ data; multiple data streams are transmitted and received as different twists of light," says Giovanni Milione, a City College doctoral student at the time. “Thought impossible using standard optical fibers which untwist the data, corrupting it, we

Scientists working at The City College of New York and the new CUNY Advanced Science Research Center are being hailed for developing measurements in two-dimensional materials that hold great promise for nanotechnology applications. This research is considered “an important technological and scientific advancement,” according to the journal, “Nature Materials.” “Researchers seek to understand two-dimensional (2D) materials because of their potential applications in photonics, nanoelectronics, nanomechanics, and thermoelectrics” says study leader Dr. Elisa Riedo, professor of physics at the City