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Dr. Edwin M. Lamboy, a scholar of the Spanish language and its use in the United States and globally, is the new Dean of The City College of New York’s School of Education (SOE). He assumes the role permanently during the SOE’s centennial after serving as interim Dean since February 2020. “Dean Lamboy was chosen as interim Dean based on the exceptionally strong support of his colleagues in the School of Education,” said City College Provost Tony Liss, who announced Lamboy’s latest appointment. “During the 15 months I’ve had the pleasure of working with him in his Interim capacity, I grew to

“ Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges,” the recent publication co-authored by June Williamson, chair in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is the 2021 winner of the Great Places Award for books. Presented by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), in partnership with Project for Public Spaces, the Great Places Awards uniquely recognize work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice, and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that capture the public

The Foundation for City College at the City College of New York is pleased to announce the appointment of CCNY alumnus Joseph Fleischer to its Board. Throughout his 45+ year career, Fleischer managed the design of facilities across the United States and the world, including the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, The Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, among many others. In 2013, Fleischer retired from Ennead Architects, LLP and serves as Emeritus Partner of the firm. He

Award-winning writer and City College of New York Professor of literature and creative writing Lyn Sandín Di Iorio, is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Fiction. Fellowships are intended to support an artist's vision or voice at all levels of their artistic development and Di Iorio was selected by a jury of her peers. Her application included work excerpted from her current in-progress project, “Hurricanes and Other Stories,” a short story collection about Puerto Rican islanders dealing with the fallout of a long financial crisis and back-to-back natural

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York is pleased to announce a partnership with Santander Bank, N.A., through its Santander Universities program (“Santander”), to create the Santander Finance Boot Camp and the Santander Fellows program. The three-year, $300,000 initiative, fully supported by Santander, is designed to prepare Colin Powell School students for careers in banking and finance by providing them with the tools they need to apply for analyst and internship experiences in their junior years. The initiative will also contribute to the

Claire Balani, a master’s in Language and Literacy major at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a 2021–22 Career Development Grant from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The grant will enable Balani, a Jersey City, New Jersey, resident, to continue her work in refugee youth and adult education. That is her research focus towards fostering refugee integration through language learning. “Thanks to this grant from AAUW, I’m able to continue my journey toward helping others and making a real impact in my career,” said Balani. “Now I’ll be able to complete my

The City College of New York, alma mater of Colin L. Powell, the first African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maintains its tradition as a military friendly school. CCNY is among the top schools nationally to earn this designation in the 2021-2022 survey by Military Friendly®. The recognition is in the “large public” school category. Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. Over 1,200 schools participated in the 2021-2022 survey with around 750 schools earning the

Caroline Schwab, a junior and Macaulay Honors student majoring in environmental engineering at The City College of New York, is the winner of an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship for study and an internship with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Supported by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the scholarship program provides successful undergraduate applicants with awards that include academic assistance (up to $9,500 per year) for two years of full-time study and a 10-week, full-time paid ($700/week) internship at a NOAA facility during the summer. Among its

Alessandra Carriero, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of more than $1.1 million from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) -- one of 28 grants awarded for top class research after a rigorous year-long global selection process. The funding will support her study on the role of bone cellular and sub-cellular porosity in calcium homeostasis. Carriero heads the City College arm of a three-year international grant awarded from the HFSP, which promotes new intercontinental collaborations in risky

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at the City College of New York, is one of 35 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) members elected ASLA Fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors ASLA—the nation's largest professional association of landscape architects—bestows on members. It is based on their work, leadership/management, knowledge, and service. Seavitt Nordenson and the other new Fellows will be