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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

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