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Inaugural season for City College CWE cultural project draws 600 participants for four days of screenings, panels and events Close to 600 people attended the inaugural Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY). The four-day festival, June 2 – 5, presented feature-length and short films from 10 countries in the Western Hemisphere plus panels and other events. The event was a cultural project of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE). “No doubt that the festival was a huge success,” said Juan Carlos Mercado, TAFFNY founder

Nearly half needing to see a dentist don’t go due to financial, transportation or support network issues, study led by Sophie Davis professor finds Nearly nine out of 10 older adults may need urgent dental care, however, just over half will see a dentist in a timely manner, a study of residents in naturally occurring retirement communities in New York City finds. Affordability, transportation and organizational issues were the biggest barriers to treatment, said lead author Theresa Montini , an assistant medical professor at The City College of New York’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical

Spitzer School professor and co-author see design as tool to manage demographic, economic and climatic changes Wiley has released the second edition of “Urban Design for an Urban Century,” co-authored by Lance Jay Brown, ACSA Distinguished Professor Of Architecture in City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. The book, co-written with David Dixon FAIA, offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design and an analysis of the forces that shaped it from the dawn of city building to today. It also examines contemporary theory, core principles and strategies for moving forward. The second

City College of New York President Lisa S. Coico will receive the first "Jazz and Community Leadership Award" from the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) at a benefit concert Monday, June 9, at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in Manhattan. The event starts 7:30 p.m. and includes performances by three-time Grammy Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater and NJMH Artistic Director-at-Large Jonathan Batiste . President Coico and The City College will be the first recipients of NJMH's "Jazz and Community Leadership Award." "The Museum proudly acknowledges the extraordinary leadership exemplified

June 5 symposium explores how social messages impact understanding of ourselves and others On Thursday, June 5, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York will cap a year of events celebrating the 75th anniversary of its Psychology Department . “The Social World and the Meaning of the Message: A 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Psychology Department of the Colin Powell School,” a half-day symposium, examines the evolution of social messaging and the role it plays in social justice, politics and our understanding of ourselves. What: "The Social

Joins network of academicians from 15 countries on six continents supported by a platform of interactive multimedia resources Rajan Menon , who holds the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership , has been appointed a Global Ethics Fellow by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs . One of six fellows named this year, he joins the Council’s Global Ethics Network, which includes scholars from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ghana, India, Israel, Japan, Poland

Her new book, ‘Next Generation Infrastructure,’ advocates system-level thinking and holistic approach to replacing aging public works America’s aging infrastructure systems not only need replacement, they need to be reinvented, argues City College of New York Professor of Architecture Hillary Brown in “ Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works.” Washington-based Island Press released the book earlier this month. To make smarter decisions about revamping outdated infrastructure, architects, engineers, urban planner and public officials need to think at the

Bengali is spoken by more than a quarter billion people mainly in Bangladesh and the West Bengal region of India. At The City College of New York, not only is it the fourth most popular native language among students – behind English, Spanish and Chinese – but; undergraduates can now take a year of Bengali to fulfill their language requirement. “We have a large Bengali-speaking population whose needs were not being met,” said Dr. Carlos Riobó, chair of the City College Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. “Offering courses in Bengali speaks to how City College is responding to the

The first four City College of New York President's Community Scholars will graduate May 30 as members of CCNY's Class of 2014. City College President Lisa S. Coico established the scholarship program, which provides full tuition for high-achieving students from upper Manhattan, in 2010. The four graduating students are: Laura Arias, a psychology major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership; Daoud Nsangou, a computer science major in the Grove School of Engineering; Mohammed Sabha, mathematics major; Jatnna Taveras, also a psychology major in the Colin Powell School. Ms

$50,000 Kaylie Prize to GesTone for muscle tone assessment technology GesTone, a technology using biosensors and smart detecting software to quantify and assess muscle tone, won the $50,000 Kaylie Prize for Hardware. It was the largest award of $115,000 in prize money distributed to 11 teams competing in three City College of New York entrepreneurship competitions this month that were run by the Zahn Innovation Center. Muscle tone data is necessary for treating and measuring progress of patients undergoing physical therapy after a stroke. GesTone’s biofeedback data will enable therapists to