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CCNY Libraries presents The Concert for Ravi Shankar on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m at The City College of New York. The concert, to be held in Shepard Hall, Room 95, celebrates the life and work of iconic sitarist Ravi Shankar. Shankar (1920-2012) taught at City College in the fall of 1967, and most recently, CCNY Music Librarian Michael Crowley and the Ravi Shankar Foundation with the support of the Grammy Foundation and East Meets West Music completed the digitization of Shankar’s CCNY lecture recording. During the concert, Crowley will briefly showcase highlights from these rare

This Saturday, April 21st, a new generation of innovators will visit the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York. Fifty girls aged 14-17 from NYC high schools will take part in a Black Girls CODE Product Design Workshop with Reaktor and learn how they could become builders and engineers of technological innovation and their own futures. During the one-day workshop the girls will learn how product designers make communication tools to inform people, to help people complete tasks or systems, and to guide them to the things they need. The girls will be led through hands-on

Looking for a school where your educational investment is likely to reward you with a healthy return and ensure opportunities for social mobility? Then include The City College of New York among your options, according to Forbes. It lists CCNY among America's Best Value Colleges for 2018. Only 300 schools nationally made the Forbes list. Forbes scored them against their peers. It ranked them in six areas: alumni earnings, net price, net debt, school quality, timely graduation, and population of Pell Grant recipients. City College, with a student population over more than 15,000 (just over 13

Starting Wednesday, April 18 through May 29, 2018, the City College Archives at The City College of New York will exhibit more than 120 historic postcards collected by Dalton Whiteside, a CCNY architecture student, Certified CCNY Architectural/Historical Tour Guide and Archives Research Assistant at City College. Additional postcards from The City College Archives collection of CCNY’s buildings and grounds will be on view. Postcards of neighboring institutional buildings acquired by City College such as the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart will be included in

Award supports 30 stellar immigrants and children of immigrants Kenyan-born Joel Sati, a 2016 City College of New York alumnus, is one of 30 recipients of 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The program provides $90,000 each to outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants for graduate studies in the United States. Sati and his cohort were selected from a pool of 1,766 applicants for their potential to make significant contributions to U.S. society, culture, or their academic fields. The Fellows are all the children of immigrants, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival

Roland Maio, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2018, and two recent CCNY graduates are recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The three awards to City College are the most among the nine fellowships to City University of New York schools. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. In addition to Maio, CCNY’s other NSF fellows and their research thrusts and new schools are: Stanley Ko, marine geology and

Getting enough sleep can be a struggle. But according to The National Center For Health Research, the gap between getting just enough sleep and getting too little may affect your health, your mood, your weight, and your ability to concentrate. Find out why organizations like the National Football League are prioritizing sleep and you should too – on April 25 at the CUNY School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical School at The City College of New York. This informative session is free and open to the Harlem community. The evening’s topic, "Sleep Health and the Importance of Getting A Good Night's Sleep

City College of New York historian Hidetaka Hirota’s seminal maiden book, “ Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy,” is winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Best First Book Award. The national prize recognizes the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. “Expelling the Poor” was judged to be the best book on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America. Other considerations were its substantial primary research, its

Brooklynite Yasmine El Gheur, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and the first of her family to complete college, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2018 Valedictorian. Zhiying Zhu, born in China and raised by a single parent after emigrating to the United States, will be the Salutatorian at CCNY’s 172nd Commencement Exercises on June 1. Following are brief bios of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian: Yasmine El Gheur A first generation American from Park Slope, Brooklyn, El Gheur is graduating from the Division of Humanities and the Arts with a BA in art history and a 3.94 GPA. She

Prize winning poet and author Nicole Cooley will be the featured guest poet for the 46th annual City College Poetry Festival on Friday, May 4th. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. Cooley is a poet and non-fiction writer and the author of eight books including Breach, a collection of poems focusing on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; Girl after Girl after Girl, and her newest collection Of Marriage. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Narrative and Drunken Boat. She is a professor of English and