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Many parents are concerned their children’s school doesn’t have an emphasis on science. Or that the way science is taught is too boring to engage their kids. One way to get kids interested in science is to show them experiments that make them ask “how did you do that”? This Sunday, May 20, from 12-5pm, kids from the Harlem community (and their parents) can get psyched about science at the STEM Expo Plaza party at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York at 259 Convent Avenue and 140 th Street. CCNY engineering and computer science student clubs will showcase some of the

Gerald Eskenazi, '59, the acclaimed sportswriter who had a distinguished 47-year career at The New York Times and has authored 16 books, is among the honorees at The City College of New York’s Alumni Varsity Association’s 52nd Annual Hall of Fame Reunion Dinner on May 24. Eskenazi, who generated more than 8,000 bylines at the Times, will receive the Mark Asa Abbott Award at The National Arts Club in Manhattan for service to the AVA. Victor Calise, commissioner, New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, will receive the AVA’s New York Sports Legend. AVA Hall of Fame inductees

Anan Kazi and Kevin Gonzalez, two members of The City College of New York’s Class of 2018, are recipients of Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, Kazi, from Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, and Gonzalez will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be allocated over three or four years of medical studies. Following are brief bios of the two Scholars: Anan Kazi Born in Houston, Texas, of Bangladeshi immigrant parents, Kazi is graduating from

Engineering students are used to solving tough problems. But building a canoe made of concrete that’s capable of winning a race – that’s quite an accomplishment! On May 7, a team of Grove School of Engineering students made The City College of New York proud by finishing first in the Men’s Sprint, second in the Women’s Sprint, and by taking third place overall in the 2018 Concrete Canoe Metropolitan Conference Competition. The team also won first place for their report paper. Here’s a list of how CCNY ranked in each of the competition categories: Design Paper - 1st Place Oral Presentation -

NSF-Sponsored Hispanic Student Achievement Conference, May 23 through May 25 The HSI:URBANO Conference, an exploration of the issues affecting Hispanic and underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), will take place from May 23, 2018, through May 25. The conference, funded by the National Science Foundation and focused on Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), will be held in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Advanced Science Research Center on the campus of the City College of New York. Registration is currently underway and is accessible at the HSI

Commencement honors for Seymour Moskowitz ’54ME & Harold Scheraga ’41 Anita F. Hill, the noted law professor, author and voice for gender and civil rights, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 172nd Commencement Exercises, June 1. Hill will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. City College will also honor two of its distinguished alumni at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on the South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. Seymour L. Moskowitz, ’54ME, co-founder and retired president of CoVant Management Inc., which acquires and manages companies

An unprecedented five students from The City College of New York’s Branding and Integrated Communications (BIC) master’s degree program have received highly competitive The LAGRANT Foundation (TLF) scholarships, awarded to students who share the foundation’s mission of increasing ethnic diversity in the advertising, marketing, and public relations industries. The five graduate students are: Jennifer Cuffari, LaToya Heron, Amera Lulu, Kelvin Morales, and Rebecca Rivera. In a stellar showing, the CCNY cohort is among just 40 graduate students nationwide to receive a TLF scholarship. This year’s

The City College of New York is pleased to announce a major gift from the Moxie Foundation that will strengthen the College’s capacity to prepare students for creative problem solving in the 21 st century. The $2.73 Million gift will launch the Moxie Initiative, designed to support outside of the box thinking, experiential learning, and academic innovation throughout every discipline at the College. The gift’s vision is that every student in every major will realize her or his capability to create significant, positive change in the world. “One of my fondest ambitions for CCNY is for our work

Pixar is known the world over for its crowd pleasing animated films like Coco, Finding Nemo, and Toy Story. While the company’s movies are beloved, they’re also studied by students and teachers who carefully dissect the company’s innovative animation techniques and character development methods. Many of those students and teachers dream of someday walking the company’s legendary halls – or even working there. For two faculty members and one student from the Electronic Design and Multimedia department at The City College of New York, that dream will come true this summer when they get a chance

Graduating senior Emmanuel Dwomoh is The City College of New York’s fourth Fulbright award recipient this spring. The biology honors student leaves CCNY on June 1 with a year-long research grant to study the high prevalence of esophageal cancer in Uganda. A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ghana, Dwomoh’s winning Fulbright proposal takes him back to Mbarara in southwest Uganda where he spent summer 2017 working on a malaria project. Mbarara is also the epicenter for esophageal cancer in that nation. “East Africa forms the African esophageal cancer hot spot where esophageal squamous cell