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City College visiting poet Nicole Sealey has been awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy in Rome, which seeks to support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. Sealey, the 2018-2019 Doris Lippman Visiting Poet at CCNY, will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to eleven months at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. The Rome Prizes were awarded to thirty American and six Italian artists and scholars on April 9 at Cooper Union in New York. Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the PEN Open

As part of The City College of New York’s “Year of Film” observance, producer and director Stanley Nelson, a 1976 alumnus, returned to his alma mater to offer a sneak preview of his latest documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool.” After the screening, Nelson was interviewed by Michael B. Gillespie, associate professor in City College’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, and a film historian and theorist. He also took questions from students and other audience members. A 2019 Sundance Film Festival favorite, “Miles Davis” will have its theatrical release this summer and a national

John Lewis , U.S. Representative (D-GA 5th), and a veteran Civil Rights leader, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 173rd Commencement Exercises on May 31. He will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. City College will also honor Edward S. Plotkin, ’53, one of its distinguished alumni, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on the South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. A renowned civil engineer, Plotkin will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Science. Hailed as “one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,”

Three months after her election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Gilda A. Barabino, dean of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, has another major honor: inclusion in Crain’s inaugural Notable Women in Tech list. The list is part of a year-long series from the publication Crain’s New York Business to recognize and celebrate women in the workplace, across industries. Selection was based on professional achievement, civic and philanthropic work, and involvement in organizations (inside or outside their firm) where they mentor other women and/or promote

The 21st annual CUNY Jazz Festival, a gathering of bands and ensembles university-wide, takes place May 9-10 in Aaron Davis Hall Theatre B at The City College of New York. Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, whose artistic voice is hailed by “Jazz Times” “as sophisticated and disciplined as post-modern jazz gets,” will be the guest artist. The festival is free and open to the public. “Rich Perry is among the most influential and expressive modern voices on tenor saxophone; he is an artist of true historical significance, and I am thrilled to have him as our guest artist at the festival,” said Mike

Going back more than two decades now, student engineers from The City College of New York have proven adept at helping debunk the common belief that concrete always sinks in water. CCNY’s third place overall finish at the 2019 Concrete Canoe Metropolitan regional competition at Cook's Pond in Denville, New Jersey, is another testimony. Debuting “Ringgold,” the latest concrete canoe to roll off the Grove School of Engineering assembly line, the CCNY team competed against 10 institutions. New York University took first place. At 304 pounds, “Ringgold” came in 30 pounds lighter than its 2018

Two juniors in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering are co-winners of this year’s American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC) scholarship for excellence. Darren Lin and Reaz Rahman will receive $7,500 each for their studies. ACEC presents the awards annually to outstanding engineering students statewide to promote the profession to the next generation and help New York retain promising young talent. Since the program’s inception in 2002, the council has awarded $830,500 collectively to 301 high-achieving engineering students attending New York State

Mathiu Perez Rodriguez, a junior majoring in biochemistry in the Honors Program at The City College of New York, has been awarded a 2019 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The federally funded scholarship is America’s premiere award for undergraduates majoring in math, science and engineering. Its goal is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields. Perez Rodriguez is City College’s fourth Goldwater recipient in four years. As a Goldwater Scholar, he

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) are working together on a unique project to make the future Internet more secure and resilient. A joint team from the two schools is working on a $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project entitled: “ JUNO2: Resilient Edge Cloud Designed Networks” to define the future of the Internet. “The grant focuses on addressing research challenges associated with enabling trustworthy networks supporting the Internet of Things (IoT), which encompasses everything connected to the

Why some cancers reappear years after chemotherapy or surgery remains a medical mystery that researchers like The City College of New York’s David S. Rumschitzki are trying to unravel. In a boost to his work, the chemical engineering professor in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant for his proposal “Theory & experiment for breast cancer dormancy & recurrence.” The Fulbright will support Rumschitzki’s work at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. “Two human cancers that are known to recur are skin