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Amaury Rodriguez, a graduate student in the School of Education at The City College of New York, has co-edited a special issue of The Black Scholar journal on the complexities of Black cultural politics in the Dominican Republic. The issue analyzes Dominican racial relations as well as provides an historical analysis of the racial legacies of the first American occupation of the Island. There are also articles on the empirical analysis of Dominicans’ contemporary racial language and identification and translations. The Dominican-born Rodriguez, who is majoring in bilingual childhood education

Jennifer Katona, lecturer and director of The City College of New York's graduate program in educational theatre, has been named recipient of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's Lin Wright Special Recognition Award. She will receive the honor at AATE's 2015 national conference in Milwaukee, Wis., August 5-9. The award recognizes individuals that have furthered theatre and drama for young people by establishing special programs, developing experimental work, making a distinctive educational contribution, or providing meritorious service. Katona launched and developed the

Forty high school students from across the city will participate in the 2015 HIRES summer internship program June 29 – August 14 at The City College of New York. The program’s goal is to provide its young participants with research experience in STEM fields. The acronym for High School Initiative in Remote Sensing of the Earth Systems Science and Engineering, HIRES was launched last year and is run by the CUNY CREST Institute at City College. It offers students an opportunity to work closely with scientists in the field and in labs, collecting and analyzing data, and making presentations at

Dr. Stephen Jablonsky , a faculty member in the CCNY music department since 1964, and Regina Pierce, an administrative assistant in the Grove School of Engineering , will be honored at the Alumni Association of The City College of New York's 163rd annual meeting, June 11. A 1962 City College alumnus, Jablonsky will receive the Faculty Service Award for his more than half century service to CCNY. A highlight of that was his 12-year tenure as chairman of the music department. Pierce will receive the Administrative Service Award. She has worked at CCNY since 1979, including more than two and a

Extensive research by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (DSI) at the City College of New York has long asserted that first Black African presence in North America occurred on the colony of La Española. To share its research data with the public, the CUNY DSI has opened the exhibit "Sixteenth-Century La Espanola: Glimpses of the first Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas.” It runs through September 10, 2015 in the DSI archives and library in NAC room 2/202 at City College. “This is a groundbreaking exhibit that features manuscripts about one of the earliest ancestral groups of Dominicans

WHAT: John O’Keefe , 2014 Nobel Laureate and CCNY Class of 1963; Ursula Burns, Xerox Corporation chair and CEO; and Michael Pope, ’44BEE, a pioneering engineer, will be the keynote speakers at The City College of New York’s 169th Commencement Exercises . In addition, City College will confer honorary degrees on the three speakers. WHERE: CCNY’s new South Campus Great Lawn, 135th Street at Convent Avenue, Manhattan. WHEN: 9 a.m., Friday, May 29. Commencement week at CCNY begins Wednesday, May 27, with the Division of Humanities and the Arts graduation ceremony 9:30 a.m. at the South Campus

The alma mater of 10 Nobel Laureates and numerous other distinguished alumni, The City College of New York bids farewell to the Class of 2015 at its 169th Commencement Exercises Friday, May 29, at 9 a.m. on CCNY’s new South Campus Great Lawn. The Class of 2015 comprises approximately 3,504 students. Of these 2,514 are receiving undergraduate degrees and 990 graduate degrees. The standouts include: Mexican-born Violeta Contreras Ramirez, 23, this year’s Valedictorian. The Westchester resident completed a combined BS/MS program in biology and a BS in psychology with a 3.99 GPA. Egyptian native

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has made the top ten in the number of bachelor’s degrees granted to Hispanics, according to the most recent rankings issued by Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine. The publication’s “ Top 100” issue found that 37 percent of the Spitzer School’s bachelor’s degrees were granted to Hispanics. The magazine also included CCNY in its Top 100 for bachelor’s degrees granted to Hispanics (51st) and for Hispanic graduate student enrollment (64th). The rankings are based on information from the U.S. Department of Education. About The City

City College of New York senior Ivana Lazaroska has a particular interest in the comparative study of religious ideology in southeastern Europe and Turkey from the late 19th century to the present. Thanks to the CCNY-Stanford Summer Research Program , the history/political science double major is about to take her research to another level. From June 22, Lazaroska and nine other City College students will spend eight weeks at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., as the third cohort of the program established in 2013. She and the other CCNY students will conduct research in their

In his first return to his alma mater since receiving a Nobel Prize last fall, John O’Keefe presents the inaugural Professor Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Thursday, May 28 at The City College of New York. His talk, 4 p.m. in NAC room 0/201, will be entitled “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: How we got here and where we are going.” It is free and open to the public but a reservation is required. Click here. O’Keefe’s lecture will explain the latest cutting-edge research on the hippocampus, a small but crucial part of the brain that plays an important role