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Albert Connolly, a Spanish language major in the Macaulay Honors Program at The City College of New York, is the winner of a 2019-2020 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award to Colombia. The competitive national award is administered by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A senior, Connolly returns to the South American country this fall after spending fall 2018 studying Spanish literature at Universidad Central, Bogotá, in the capital city. The Brooklyn native, who graduates this June with a BA degree, plans a career as an ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher

New Yorkers can brace for rising temperatures, increasing precipitation and rapidly rising sea levels in the years to come. That’s the finding by City College of New York experts in a study presented to the Mayor’s Office of Recovery & Resiliency for planning and investment purposes. CCNY’s contribution to the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) 2019 report is based on nearly four years of research. Jorge E. Gonzalez, NOAA CREST Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Naresh Devineni, associate professor, civil engineering; and James Booth, assistant professor, Earth & Atmospheric

As part of The City College of New York’s “ Year of Film” celebration, four female filmmakers with CCNY links will screen their work at the “Women at the Helm: Celebrating Faculty and Students’ Heritage” on Wed., April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Steinman Lecture Hall. Films by Ayoka Chenzira, Julie Dash, Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss will all be shown. The event is free and open to the public. Deirdre Fishel, associate professor and program director of the BFA Film and Video Program, will moderate a post-screening Q&A with some of the filmmakers. CCNY’s film program is housed in the Division of

Loretta Violante of The City College of New York’s Macaulay Honors Program was already headed to Seoul in the fall to study printmaking and sculpture on a Therese Ralston Connor Award from CCNY’s art department. Now she’s won a Critical Language Scholarship from the federal government that will see her spend summer learning Korean in the port city of Busan. The two awards mean that the studio art major will spend almost six months this year on the Korean peninsula earning credits while learning new skills and a new language. The scholarships cover all her expenses, including travel and

Charles J. Vörösmarty, professor of civil engineering in The City College of New York and one of the world’s foremost hydrologists, is the recipient of the Hungarian Order of Merit. Visiting Hungarian President János Áder presented the Commander’s Cross (civilian class), to Vörösmarty at their country’s Consulate General in Manhattan. It is Hungary’s second highest honor and the citation read in part: “for promoting the international academic cooperation and the international reputation of Hungary, and in recognition of his research to resolve global sustainable water management issues.”

Dr. Robert H. Waterston, professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington Medical School, is this year’s Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics speaker at The City College of New York on April 2. Waterston will present his talk “How to Make a Worm the Inside Story” at 5 p.m. in the Great Hall. Reception to follow. Dr. Waterston and his close colleague, Dr. John Sulston, mapped and sequenced the genome of the nematode worm, C. elegans, the first animal genome to be analyzed. Building on their success with the worm, they became leaders of and major

Hand it to technological giant Google. It knows that talent doesn't just come from Ivy League schools. When Career and Professional Development Institute staff members at The City College of New York attended a special Google information session last summer for CUNY career services professionals, they never anticipated Google's University Programs Specialist, Brendan Collins’ immediate response. Shortly after the event, he would visit City College three times within a five-month period making an immediate presence on the CCNY campus. Since the initial meeting, Google has been hard at work in

Matthew Reilly, assistant professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies and International Studies in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York, is a recipient of a grant from the National Geographic Society. The grant will support a month of archaeological research to explore sites associated with the 19th century settlement of formerly enslaved and free Afro-Barbadians and African Americans in coastal Liberia. Reilly received $26,658 in funding for his collaborative project entitled "The Archaeology of the Back-to-Africa Movement in Liberia: From

City College of New York chemistry professor John R. Lombardi is the New York Society for Applied Spectroscopy 2019 Gold Medal winner. This award was established in 1952 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of applied spectroscopy. He will receive the medal at a special award ceremony in Princeton, New Jersey, in November. The event will coincide with the society’s Eastern Analytical Symposium. Lombardi’s research in Raman spectroscopy spans more than four decades. Although normal Raman spectroscopy is inherently a weak effect, it can be considerably strengthened by the

The City College of New York faculty and students recently applied their academic expertise internationally, traveling to and conducting research in Hungary and Senegal. City College and CUNY students joined Hungarian students last summer in Kőszeg, Hungary, a small, historic northwest Hungary municipality, to undertake a month-long trans-disciplinary research and planning project, spearheaded by Professor Hillary Brown, director of the Sustainability in the Urban Environment master’s program at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The teamincluded undergrad, graduate level and