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The City College of New York is proud to announce the 2022 Hollander Design Fellowship winner for students of the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Cassandra Castano won the three-year Hollander Design Fellowship. Ximena Diaz Velasco and Sonia Uthuph each won a one-time award of $4,000. All three students are in their first years, as per the eligibility requirements, as the fellowship is meant to support students for the duration of their studies. Hollander Design Landscape Architects was founded by Edmund Hollander, FASLA

Distinguished Professor Andrea Alù, Professor of biology Robert Anderson; and Alexander Khanikaev, Professor in the Grove School of Engineering represent The City College of New York on the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list. The highly awaited annual list identifies elite researchers worldwide who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. This recognition draws from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation

Social historian Margo Groenewoud, an expert in the 20th century Dutch Caribbean at the University of Curaçao, is the 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar in Residence at The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (DSI). Her Fulbright residency includes CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Groenewoud earned a PhD degree in the humanities from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, which was founded in 1575 and is one of Europe's leading international research universities. A senior lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural

Viral immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett, Ph,D. of Harvard University delivers the 2022 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture on "Coronavirus Vaccine Development: Where Do We Go From Here?" at The City College of New York on Monday, Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. The Lecture, which will be followed by a question and answer session, is free and open to the public. Click here for more information and to reserve a spot. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were designed and developed rapidly. Today, three years since the onset of the pandemic, researchers have been met with many

City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture alumnus Pedro J. Cruz Cruz, M Arch ’22, won an award at the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennial in Portugal. The Triennial is a non-profit organization whose mission is to investigate, stimulate and promote thought and practice in architecture. This year’s theme, Terra, looks into communities throughout the world to embrace our common home, planet Earth, and runs through Dec. 5. Now an adjunct lecturer at the Spitzer School, Cruz won the highly competitive Millennium bcp Universities Competition Award for his project “El

This year’s Forbes list of 50 women over 50 recognized for their impact includes Dr. Carmen Green, dean of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) at The City College of New York. She is cited by the publication for her medical leadership over the past 30 years. “Green is a leading researcher on inequities in pain care and, throughout her career, has been a vocal advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine,” said Forbes. “In 2006, she was selected for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship and helped draft the National Pain Care Policy Act, which went into the

City College of New York MFA Film graduates Yolanda Pividal ‘06, Nemo Allen ‘21 and Araque (Juan) Blanco ‘21 have all had their films selected to appear in the DOC NYC 2022 Festival from Nov. 9-27. DOC NYC is an organization that celebrates and supports the flourishing cultural movement of documentary storytelling. The festival helps to introduce new talent and highlight the year’s top films. Pividal’s film, “A Witch Story,” appears as part of the Fight the Power-themed films. Pividal was co-executive producer, director, co-producer, co-cinematographer and editor on the film. The 70-minute

Division of labor between left and right brain hemispheres is a feature of vertebrate brains. The evolutionary advantage of dividing processing tasks is the ability to process different types of information at once, and to perform parallel tasks, like those involved in driving a car. Speech and melody are both processed in the left and right auditory cortex of the brain, respectively. However, it has been unclear how these brain areas carry out different functions. Human studies have demonstrated that the left superior temporal gyrus mediates language processing and responds mainly to the

The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is proud to announce that Husan Ahmed, Bachelor of Architecture candidate, is the recipient of the Center for Architecture’s 2022 Common Bond Scholarship. The Center for Architecture is the storefront for the American Institute of Architects, New York chapter (AIA New York). Ahmed was feted at the Center for Architecture Gala: Common Bond at Chelsea Piers, where he was one of three scholarship winners presented with a cash prize of $3500 and a chance to mingle with professionals in his chosen industry. “Husan is

The City College of New York and The Foundation for City College are pleased to announce a major gift to establish The Ella Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship. Recipients of this award, endowed by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, can major in two subjects, as long as one of them is jazz studies with a vocal concentration, and must maintain a grade point average of 3.0. “City College has a great music program and it provides access to students from diverse backgrounds,” said Randal Rosman, the Foundation’s vice president of programs. While scouting for potential beneficiaries, he was