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Three City College of New York theatre majors will spend this summer in an intensive eight-week program at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA), supported by the City College Fund and the Division of Humanities and the Arts. “This is a huge deal,” said Professor Rob Barron, chair of the CCNY Department of Theatre and Speech. “LAMDA is an extraordinary training program. It’s an opportunity that 95 percent of our students couldn’t afford to do on their own.” Students chosen for the program are: Alessandro Barbarotto, ’14, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., a native of Italy who transferred to

Sophie Davis Professor John Martin and colleagues use genetically altered mice to demonstrate role of corticospinal tract Extraordinarily complex networks of circuits that transmit signals from the brain to the spinal cord control voluntary movements. Researchers have been challenged to identify the controlling circuits, but they lacked the tools needed to dissect, at the neural level, the way the brain produces voluntary movements. Recently, Dr. John Martin, medical professor in City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, postdoctoral fellow Dr. Najet Serradi and other

Steve Wilson is acclaimed as one of the finest saxophonists in the business. Now he is back at The City College of New York helping enhance the music department's jazz curriculum. Simultaneously, his illustrious career continues full clip with one CD wrapped up and live recording of another scheduled May 19 at the Village Vanguard. "This is a great opportunity to be involved with the music program at City College and I'm here for the long haul," said the award-winning alto and soprano saxophonist, who gave private lessons at CCNY in the late 90s. Hired last fall as professor of jazz studies

Note: This updates an earlier version of this news release posted May 2. Fulbright awards have been raining down on The City College of New York this spring as four professors, an undergraduate and a recent alumna have received grants from the program. Dr. Daniel DiSalvo, assistant professor of political science in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Dr. Andrea Weiss, professor of film and video, and Jessie Chaffee, a 2011 graduate of the MFA program in creative writing, are the latest awardees. Professor DiSalvo will teach a short-course on U.S. history and politics at

Headed to National Championship June 19 – 21 in Pittsburgh The Grove School of Engineering’s Concrete Canoe Club took first place in the Metropolitan Conference concrete canoe competition, with their canoe “Goethals,” and will go on to compete for the national championship June 19 – 21 in Pittsburgh, PA. The finals of the regional event, consisting of five races, were held April 27 on Cook’s Pond in Denville, N.J. The concrete canoe competition “challenges students to apply their academic training to real life problems and it teaches students how to be leaders, to communicate and get things

Sixteen City College start-up enterprises are competing for $50,000 in prizes at the Zahn Innovation Center’s Final Pitch Night. The event runs 3:30 – 8 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in the Faculty Dining Room, Third Floor, North Academic Center on The City College of New York campus. Five teams of semi finalists are vying for the $20,000 Zahn Prize. It is given to a for-profit business team that best develops and implements their entrepreneurial ideas and also demonstrates understanding of how to incorporate lean startup principles as they develop their business idea. Twelve teams were chosen as semi

World-class pianist Kenny Werner will be the guest artist for the 14th annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 6 -7 in Aaron Davis Hall Theatre B at The City College of New York. The festival brings together on one stage performing ensembles from City College and other CUNY institutions – including Hunter College and Queens College. The event runs 12 noon – 10 p.m. both days and admission is free. Mr. Werner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, with the City College large jazz ensemble. From 8:30 – 10 p.m., he will host an open jam session for students from all of the participating schools. On

Arielle Elmaleh-Sachs from The City College of New York's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education will be the Class of 2014 Valedictorian at CCNY's 168th Commencement Exercises, May 30 on the college campus. Simone Gordon, recently named a Fulbright U.S. Student Award winner, will be the Salutatorian. Ms. Elmaleh-Sachs is graduating summa cum laude with a BS in biomedical science and a 3.96 GPA. She will enter NYU School of Medicine in December 2014. A Manhattan resident, she has also been a Colin Powell fellow and Mack Lipkin Broader Horizons fellow. Ms. Gordon, a Jamaican immigrant and

First ‘Jazz and Community Leadership Award,’ to be given June 9, cites ‘outstanding service to Harlem community and support for jazz’ The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) will present its first "Jazz and Community Leadership Award" to The City College of New York and CCNY President Lisa S. Coico June 9 at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in Manhattan. The award recognizes President Coico and City College's "unique outstanding service to Harlem and its communities, as well as for the support for jazz and musicians, both of which have been expanded and strengthened under President Coico

National Geographic’s Genographic Project finds 130 distinct maternal lineages among participants in study led by City College of New York The 200 college students who provided DNA samples in February for the New York City Student Ancestry Project, led by The City College of New York, today learned the results of an analysis of their genetic profile at an event held at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The students, from eight institutions in the New York metropolitan area, had their samples analyzed by National Geographic’s Genographic Project. Key project findings include: The