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Renowned playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage is the recipient of The City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal. The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, she’ll receive the Langston Medal at CCNY's 44th annual Langston Hughes Festival on Feb. 9, 2023. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora. It recognizes honorees for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes. Past award winners include: •

For the fifth straight year, The City College of New York ranks among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company features CCNY in its online resource, “ The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2023 Edition,” published this week. The guide is accessible here for free. The Princeton Review chose the schools in the guide based on its survey of administrators at 713 colleges during the 2021-22 academic year and surveys of students attending the colleges. The company editors analyzed more than 25 survey data

Ewelina A. Randall, a senior in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of an internationally contested undergraduate award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The honor is presented to top junior or senior undergraduate students globally in recognition of outstanding research in the area of spectroscopy. Randall, a Polish-born mechanical engineering major residing in Brooklyn, was nominated for the award by her research advisor Dr. Daniel Heller at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “This is for my work in the construction of hyperspectral

The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture celebrates the opening of the Sorkin Reading Room, dedicated to its namesake, Michael Sorkin, the late Distinguished Professor of Architecture, 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Spitzer School Atrium at West 135th and Convent Ave., Manhattan. An author, activist, architecture critic, urbanist and the head of Michael Sorkin Studios, Sorkin joined the Spitzer School as a Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design in 2000, and built a competitive program with top academics

Iberian Cultural Studies Associate Professor Isabel Estrada found the uncatalogued book in the Cohen Library prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The digital edition was edited and annotated collaboratively by Estrada; NEH Digital Humanities Fellow Stefano Morello and students in the Spring 2022 course “Activism and the College Experience” at CCNY. The course sought to examine political activism on the CCNY campus in the context of the transnational conflict between totalitarianism and democracy that preceded WWII, while introducing students to digital humanities tools and methodologies. Educators

The City College of New York and Carver Federal Savings Bank ("Carver"), a certified Minority Depository Institution ("MDI"), celebrated the launch of the Bank's first campus ATM with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 18, 2022. The Carver ATM is located on the first floor of the North Academic Center and has been serving CCNY's students, staff, and faculty since July 2022. CCNY President Vincent Boudreau and Michael T. Pugh, president and Chief Executive Officer of Carver Federal Savings Bank, said a few words at the event, followed by a Student Rush Event for CCNY students with games

The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has been given an extraordinary gift: the collection of books and archives belonging to Professor Marshall Berman (1940-2013) that he used to prepare to teach his courses at City College, principally at the Spitzer School. The collection will be housed in the CCNY Architecture Library in Spitzer School of Architecture building. Berman, a distinguished professor of political science in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center, CUNY, taught political theory and urban studies. A

“ Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes,” a new documentary about legendary jazz bassist and City College of New York Distinguished Professor Emeritus Ron Carter premieres on PBS at 9 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 21. Carter taught in City College’s Jazz Studies program from 1982-2002, and is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz music. He has recorded over 2200 albums, and was recognized by Guinness World Records as the most recorded jazz bassist in history. Directed by seven-time Emmy award-winner Peter Schnall, of Partisan Pictures, the movie is a portrait of a musical

Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is the 2022 John H. Finley Award recipient. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. Click here for details and registration information. In addition, the association is honoring seven CCNY alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They’ll receive the Townsend Harris Medal at the 142nd Annual Alumni Gala, at 6 p.m. on Nov. 3 in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, at CCNY. This year’s gala will be a hybrid

A cohort of City College of New York students is set to help make cancer treatment for Mandarin-speaking Chinese New Yorkers more accessible. This follows an approximately $200,000 fall 2022 pilot grant from the CCNY-MSKCC Partnership for Cancer Research, Education, and Community Outreach for a two-year pilot program led by CCNY faculty Carlos Riobó of the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and Adriana Espinosa of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The interdisciplinary project – which also includes participants from CCNY’s Division of Science and Memorial Sloan