News

Dr. Vincent Boudreau is the first permanent dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. The CUNY Board of Trustees approved his appointment at its January 27 meeting. Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, a professor of psychology, had been serving as interim dean since the school’s inauguration in April 2013. "Vince Boudreau has a strong history of leadership and administrative experience that began almost immediately after he arrived at City College as a faculty member more than 20 years ago,” said City College President Lisa S. Coico. “His long connection

Exhibit featuring artwork from ‘Harlem Globetrotters,’ ‘The Jackson 5ive” and ‘Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids’ opens February 5 at the Schomburg Center Over the past 15 years, Pamela Thomas, a member of The City College of New York Class of 1996, and business partner Loreen Williamson have assembled one of the most extensive collections of 1970s black animation art in the United States. They have made it accessible to the public through their virtual Museum of UnCut Funk , and, now, a traveling exhibit, “Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution,” which opens February 5 at the Schomburg Center

The City College of New York observes Black History Month with a rich array of activities that includes social events, film screenings, performances, lectures and more. Among the highlighted activities are: The New York premiere of the documentary “Hate Crimes in the Heartland,” which examines two major racially motivated crimes 90 years apart in Tulsa, Okla., on February 4. A performance by the acclaimed Batoto Yetu dance troupe, February 8 at Aaron Davis Hall. The Fifth Annual “Is Hip Hop History” conference, February 27 – 28 at the Center for Worker Education at 25 Broadway. A list of Black

“Hate Crimes in the Heartland” aims to foster dialogue on race relations in the United States “Hate Crimes in the Heartland,” a new documentary that explores the 250,000 hate crimes committed in the United States each year, will have its New York premiere 6 p.m. Thursday, February 6, in Aaron Davis Hall on The City College of New York campus. Presented by the City College Center for the Arts, a reception and a talk with national and local civil rights leaders will follow the screening. The film, directed by Rachel Lyon, looks at hate crimes through the lens of two incidents that occurred in

A book edited by Retha Powers, acting assistant director of City College's publishing certificate program, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award . “ Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations : 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World” (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), is vying for the NAACP’s “Outstanding Literary Work” prize in the non-fiction category. The 720-page volume is in contention with four other books, including “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” co-written by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone

Digital reproductions of 45 illustrations, many showing ornamentation details, on display February 3 through May 9 “Building the Modern Gothic: George Post at City College,” an exhibit of digital reproductions of 45 original drawings by Mr. Post for his design of The City College of New York campus, will be on display February 3 through May 9 in the Atrium Gallery of City College’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture . An opening reception will be held 6 – 8 p.m. Monday, February 3. In 1897, Mr. Post won a competition to design City College’s new uptown campus, located at West

Approximately 40 City College of New York students will gather Monday, January 20, to give back to the community for CityServ's Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service. This year, CityServ has collaborated with FoodBank NYC to create a "Winter Wonderland." CityServ is a campus based service-learning opportunity made available to City College students through the Office of Student Life. The goal of CityServ is to link students to the Harlem and Washington Heights community through community service and volunteerism. CityServ's annual Martin Luther King Day of Service is one of its most

Levich Institute simulation of discontinuous shear thickening could lead to improved processing of materials in suspension A new model by a team of researchers with The City College of New York’s Benjamin Levich Institute may shed new understanding on the phenomenon known as discontinuous shear thickening (DST), in which the resistance to stirring takes a sudden jump. Easily observed in a ‘kitchen experiment’ by mixing together equal amounts of cornstarch and water, DST occurs because concentrated suspensions of hard particles in a liquid respond differently than normal fluids to shear forces

Letter drafted by Robert R. Livingston was part of ‘last-ditch effort’ by Continental Congress to reconcile with Great Britain When City College of New York graduate history student Emilie Gruchow came upon an old, hand-written manuscript in a box at the Morris-Jumel Mansion , where she works as an archivist, she knew what it was because she had read the printed version in class. What she – and the rest of the world – did not know for certain was the author’s identity. The mystery was solved by one of Ms. Gruchow’s former classmates, Michael Hattem, now a PhD student and teaching fellow at

Postdoc Zeynep Dereli-Korkut and senior Tanjin Panna selected for ELabNYC bio and health technology mentoring program Two standouts in The City College Grove School of Engineering's biomedical engineering department have been accepted into the Bio & Health Tech Entrepreneurship Lab NYC (ELabNYC), a competitive six-month training and mentoring program run by the New York City Economic Development Corp. Zeynep Dereli-Korkut, a postdoctoral researcher, and Tanjin Panna, a graduating senior, are among 21 participants in the current ELabNYC cohort. Participants receive two months of weekly coaching