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Class of ’63 graduate talks to his alma mater on major honor The City College of New York's latest Nobel Laureate is Harlem-born and grew up in the South Bronx. John O'Keefe, the son of Irish immigrant parents and a 1963 City College graduate, won the Nobel Prize for medicine last week. He is the tenth City College alumni to receive the prestigious award. A neuroscientist, who earned a psychology degree from CCNY, Dr. O'Keefe was honored for his discovery of the cells "that constitute a positioning system in the brain." It has been dubbed an "inner GPS" in the brain and could it could play a

$1.8 million grant from the Jerome Levy Foundation will provide seed funding for the S Jay Levy Fellowships for Career Achievement The City College of New York has received a $1,850,000 grant by a bequest of S Jay Levy through the Jerome Levy Foundation to establish the S Jay Levy Fellowship for Career Achievement. The grant will be used to help establish and sustain corporate partnerships for City College student internships. "With the issue of workforce development at the forefront of the national conversation, this grant will provide crucial foundational funding to help us establish

Neuroscientist is CCNY’s 10th Nobel Laureate Dr. John O'Keefe, a 1963 alumnus of The City College of New York, was today awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is CCNY's tenth Nobel laureate. The award, by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, is for Professor O'Keefe's co-discovery of cells "that constitute a positioning system in the brain." The Guardian newspaper dubbed it an "inner GPS" in the brain. The New York native is Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in Neural Circuits and Behaviour at University College London (UCL) in England. He will share

In a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit on American soil, Antoni Gaudi's famous " La Sagrada Familia" goes on display September 29 through May 8, 2015 at The City College of New York's Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. It is entitled "Sagrada Família - Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece: Geometry, Construction and Site" and is sponsored by Santander Bank. The exhibit in the Spitzer School's Atrium Gallery includes photographs, architectural models and casts used in construction. It also showcases the 3D computer imaging software used to analyze and draw precise tridimensional geometry. The

nterconnected natural networks, such as the ones formed by neurons in the brain, are known to be more stable and resilient to failure than networks created by humans, such as the Internet. Now, a group of international researchers led by City College of New York physicist Hernan Makse has uncovered why. Their findings could potentially lead to improved power grids and financial, biological and communication networks in the future. Many organisms and biological systems in nature often interact with each other, exchanging information in a very efficient way. However, networks built by humans are

Mystery writer to receive Langston Hughes Medal Best-selling mystery writer Walter Mosley will receive the 2014 Langston Hughes Medal at The City College of New York's Langston Hughes Festival, Friday, November 21. City College President Lisa S. Coico will bestow the award upon Mr. Mosley at 6:30 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theatre, located in Aaron Davis Hall on the CCNY campus. The Medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the

Ghanaian artist Nicole Amarteifio will be the inaugural speaker in the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series debuting Tuesday, September 30, at The City College of New York. Presented by CCNY’s Black Studies Program , the series honors the late Nigerian writer, academic and critic whose first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Ms. Amarteifio, creator of the YouTube series “ An African City ,” will speak 6 – 8 p.m. in the North Academic Center (NAC) ballroom on the City College campus. Her talk is free and open to the public. Three other speakers, all

High-achieving students from Upper Manhattan and Bronx receive stipends covering tuition Nine high-achieving students from upper Manhattan and the Bronx are the latest recipients of City College of New York President's Community scholarships to study free at CCNY. The freshmen, mostly from immigrant families, are the fifth cohort of Community Scholars since the program began in 2010. CCNY President Lisa S. Coico introduced the scholarships shortly after her tenure began to strengthen the links between the institution and the surrounding community. To date, 44 students have received

The quest for the ultimate memory device for computing may have just taken an encouraging step forward. Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemist Stephen O’Brien have discovered new complex oxides that exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric properties. Combining both properties is very exciting scientifically for the coupling that can occur between them and for the devices that might ultimately be designed, in logic circuits or spintronics. Combining these two properties in a single material, however, has proved difficult until now. Using an innovative inorganic synthesis

Summit to address community disaster planning Is Harlem prepared to respond to a large-scale emergency? The City College of New York's WHCR 90.3FM Emergency Broadcast Team (WEBT), in partnership with Harlem Hospital Center, hosts the Second Annual Harlem Ready! Summit Wednesday, September 24, at the Harlem Hospital Center Herbert G. Cave Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. "We are excited to partner with Harlem Hospital and other organizations to educate people on community disaster planning," said Angela Harden, general manager of WHCR 90.3FM on the City College campus."We are committed