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Aracelis Girmay and Elana Bell are featured guest poets Award-winning poets Aracelis Girmay and Elana Bell will be the featured guest poets for the 42nd annual City College Poetry Festival , presented by the City College Poetry Outreach Center . The all-day, all-verse event runs 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 9, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, 135th Street and Convent Avenue on the CCNY campus. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City

UN investigator Juan E. Mendez, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, headline panels March 27, April 2 The City College of New York Human Rights Forum will host two leaders in the global fight to stem crimes against humanity: Juan E. Mendez, March 27, and Luis Moreno Ocampo, April 2. Setting the stage for the talks will be a screening on March 27 of the documentary “Watchers of the Sky.” Mr. Mendez, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other inhuman punishment will appear with Amrit Singh, senior legal officer for the National Security and

Serves on Guam-based science team measuring chemicals transported by deep convective clouds near Equator that affect global climate changeDr. Z. Johnny Luo, associate professor in Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science and NOAA-CREST Institute at The City College of New York, served as a science team member for a recent National Center for Atmospheric Research / National Science Foundations airborne mission to study how the convective clouds the western Pacific Ocean shape climate and air chemistry worldwide. The mission was based on Guam. The western tropical Pacific has the warmest

Rebecca Panko identifies plant species that can survive on leachate, could reduce amount of runoff discharged into sewer system Composting converts organic household waste into a source of nutrients that can enrich garden soil. However, the runoff it produces can be detrimental to the quality of surrounding bodies of water. City College of New York biology major Rebecca Panko has been investigating whether this runoff, or leachate, could be used in a more sustainable way. For more than a year, she has been conducting research at the Lower East Side Ecology Center under the guidance of Director

Theaster Gates, an artist and innovator in the field of social practice, will present the 10th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture at The City College of New York, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, in the Great Hall, Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus. Mr. Gates’ topic will be “Place Over Time: New Symbols for Durational Encounters with the City.” The event is free and open to the public. Mr. Gates is internationally known for his work on the South Side of Chicago, including Dorchester Projects, Black Cinema House and the upcoming Stony Island Arts Bank and Dorchester Artists Housing Collaborative. Whether in

$30,000 in prizes offered for viable solutions to social and environmental challenges The Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York invites CCNY students, faculty and staff to enter the Zahn Social Innovation Challenge, a competition awarding $30,000 in prizes to winning proposals in the social entrepreneurship arena. April 4 is the deadline to enter. The Zahn Center and the Zahn Social Innovation Challenge are both administered by the City College Fund. The competition is intended to encourage members of the City College community to propose their ideas for sustainable social

Honors to Elliot Jurist in 2014 and Paul Wachtel in 2013 mark first time professors from same institution win twice in a row For the second time in as many years, a City College of New York psychology professor has received the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 39 Scholarship and Research Award. This year's recipient is Professor Elliot L. Jurist . His colleague, Dr. Paul Wachtel, won in 2013. This is the first time that professors from the same institution have been given the award in consecutive years. The Scholarship and Research Award recognizes APA members who have made

Discoverer of link between genes and hypertension to present annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics Yale University biochemist Richard P. Lifton , who discovered the link between genetics and high blood pressure, will deliver the annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York. His talk on "Genome Approaches to Understand Hypertension and other Common Diseases" will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Lifton is chair of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of

Aspiring writers often endure months – if not years – of receiving rejection letters from editors before a publisher finally says “yes.” However, several recent graduates of The City College of New York’s MFA program in creative writing have achieved some success by getting their first – and sometimes second novels –published lately. Among them: Brendan Kiely, MFA ’11, whose debut novel, “The Gospel of Winter” (Margaret K. McElderry Books), about a teenage boy from a fractured family who turns to a new crew of friends for support after a local priest betrays his trust, was released in January

Native of Warsaw earns degree in directing from Polish National Film School 46 years after homeland exiled him in wave of anti-Semitism Poland’s leading film school has awarded a PhD to Andrzej Krakowski , a professor of film and video at The City College of New York. Earning the degree, granted in January and the first PhD in directing for a faculty member at a U.S. film school, reflects not only his persistence, but changed attitudes in his homeland, as well. In 1968, Poland exiled him and most of the other Jews still living in Poland after the Holocaust. At the time, he was studying