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Culture events, discussions on issues facing Latino communities and a poetry festival highlight The City College of New York’s Latino Heritage Month activities, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, this year. The celebration begins with a kickoff breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the North Academic Center’s Hoffman Atrium. The event, free and open to City College students, faculty and staff, will include food and music from different Latin nations.The other heritage events include:Tipico Night 5: A showcase of different genres of Latino music, featuring a live band and DJ. From 8

Manuel Francisco Cifuentes entered his senior year at The Calhoun High School in September. He recently completed the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Architecture Summer Career Lab ( http://ssa1.ccny.cuny.edu/programs/career-lab.html). A joint program of the Spitzer School and the City College Continuing and Professional Studies Program, the Lab admits a select number of high school juniors and seniors 16 years or older at the start of the program, providing them with the practical experience required making an informed and meaningful career choice. Cifuentes applied to the

The Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the City College of New York continues to grow, providing access and leadership training to 150 students from 17 City University of New York campuses. The program's director, Professor Rishi S. Raj, has set an ambitious goal of doubling the current enrollment to 300 by 2016. "We will be adding the community colleges this year, and that should really help to boost our numbers," he said. Raj added that an additional attraction for potential recruits is the financial aid available to them. So far, $1.352 million in scholarships and allowances have

Four undergraduates in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering have been awarded 2015 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The awards total $30,000, which is the largest amount awarded to City College students in a single year by the program.The program’s mission is to attract qualified students to the field of transportation and research, and to advance transportation workforce development.The CCNY recipients, all seniors majoring in civil engineering, their awards and research projects are: Sallem Ahmed, a $10,000

Dr. George John, professor of chemistry at The City College of New York, has received a 2015-2016 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. He will spend four months in India teaching and conducting research on a project titled “Introducing Materials Science to Managers through Biomimicry” at the LM Thapar School of Management, in Dera Bassi.John is developing a course on biomimetic materials for business managers and leaders. It is aimed at helping them develop the tools to understand and appreciate the technical complexities in sustainable materials development

Dr. Marit Dewhurst, director of art education at The City College of New York, is a proponent of using art as a tool for social change. That is the subject of her talk in City College’s first “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” seminar of the new academic year on Thursday, Sept. 3. The seminar, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium, is free and open to the public.An assistant professor in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, Dewhurst will expound on the ideas she raises in her latest book, “

For the second year in row, The City College of New York has been ranked #1 in research expenditures among master’s universities by the Washington Monthly’s 2015 College Guide. The amount that City College spent on research rose from $55.11 million in 2014 to $57.92 million in 2015, an increase of more than five percent. Those outlays helped CCNY to become a co-leader nationally in producing the most 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholars, and contributed toward CCNY undergraduate and graduate students’ receipt of numerous awards, fellowships and scholarships. Overall, CCNY ranked #34 among

The new school year is a special one for aspiring and current students of The City College of New York's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.Starting in 2016, Sophie Davis students will be among the first graduates of the new CUNY School of Medicine, which is pending approval from the New York State Board of Regents.One aspiring physician is high school student Damola Ajibola, who spent the summer taking college-level courses through the CUNY Early College Initiative. Ajibola, who is entering his senior year at City College Academy of the Arts, has wanted to be a perinatologist for as

Acclaimed poet Thomas Sayers Ellis and short story writer Chinelo Okparanta have joined The City College of New York’s MFA program in creative writing as visiting faculty for the fall 2015 semester. Ellis, whose collection “ The Maverick Room” (Graywolf Press, 2005) won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, will teach a course titled, “Race Fearlessness Poetics: Risk as the Decisive Moment in Every Room.” Hailed as a literary activist, Ellis is credited for launching The Dark Tower, a black poetry movement that is considered to be an extension of the Harlem Renaissance.The Nigerian-born

The new school year is a special one for aspiring and current students of The City College of New York's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Starting in 2016, Sophie Davis students will be among the first graduates of the new CUNY School of Medicine at City College, which officially came into existence on June 10. One aspiring student is Damola Ajibola, who spent the summer taking college-level courses through the CUNY Early College Initiative. Ajibola, who is entering his senior year at City College Academy of the Arts, has wanted to be a perinatologist for as long as he can remember