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How the brain feels about the world around it is the subject of a new paper published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), co-authored by Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Edward A. Vessel of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The study, “ The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling: Affectless machine vision models explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect,” sought insight into the link between perceptual processes and affective (emotional) responses. To predict human affective responses to a

Gerstner Philanthropies increased its commitment to supporting the Helping Hands Student Emergency Fund at The City College of New York with a two-year grant of $600,000. Helping Hands provides one-time cash grants to college students facing one-time unforeseen emergencies to allow them to continue their studies. Gerstner Philanthropies previously gave $166,667 to start CCNY’s Helping Hands in 2023, and donated an additional $100,000 in 2024. This increased funding is a response to potential challenges faced by students in the post-COVID-19 era and a demonstration of the organization’s

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York presents the spring 2025 Sciame Lecture Series, Still Making Space for Gender, featuring trailblazing women and LGBTQIA+ design practitioners, scholars and activists in discussion about the built environment. All lectures are in-person, free, and held at 5:30 pm at the Spitzer School of Architecture in Room 107, the Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10031. In the series of lectures, a wide range of topics from aesthetics to health and wellbeing, and from partying to revolution, are

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York has published “ PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing,” which addresses issues of immigration and housing justice in New York City by focusing on the polyglot Jackson Heights section of Queens. Written by Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Laura Sara Wainer, recent graduates Valeska Abarca and Lorraine Colbert, and fifth-year student Juan Jimenez Giraldo, Pathways to Home is a collection of student projects, research, international case studies, and reflections. It the

Four faculty members and one alumna of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York have received Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York. Each $10,000 award was granted for a self-generated year-long project in design practice and research that sought to answer the question of where design can go next. In the 2024 cycle, 25 proposals were selected out of 120 applications by a panel of 10 designers and educators. The CCNY grant recipients are: Assistant Professor and

The first-ever Mini-Conference on Undergraduate Research at CUNY’s central office attracted more than 150 attendees from across the University, a significant proportion of them from The City College of New York. Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Isabel M. Estrada, who directs CCNY’s Fellowships Program, led off by discussing an application for an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant that would create the CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program. To be known as CUNY STARS, this program “would integrate community college students into growth-oriented multi-institutional pathways

Artist and City College of New York professor Carl Fudge presented his exhibit Techno-Abstraction at Galerie Richard in Paris. This exhibition was the third time Fudge, the director of the MFA program in studio arts, showed his work in the City of Light. Invited by gallery owners Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Fudge was eager to see how he, a renowned New York artist, would be received in Europe. Richard “has quite an international program,” he said. “He has a few American artists, a few Japanese artists, a few from Belgium and Germany, and a few from Paris, so it's a broad range.” Fudge

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his paper “ Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024. The paper proposes a novel robustness evaluation approach that is suited for short, medium and long-span bridges. A significant advantage of this approach is its ability to account for, and estimate, structural robustness corresponding to

Lecturer of Teaching Spanish Language & Latin American/Latinx Literature and Cultures Rosalia Reyes Simon, MA, Spanish ‘17 of The City College of New York’s Division of Humanities & the Arts was awarded citations from the New York State Assembly, and the Latin American Cultural Heritage organization, for her contributions and commitment to education and the dissemination of Latinx and Latin American cultures. Reyes Simon received the citations at a ceremony held at the Washington Heights-based Directorate of Dominican Culture Abroad, an official Dominican agency that promotes the country’s

Student Life, in the Division of Student Affairs at The City College of New York, kicks off Black History Month 2025 with a Spring Activity Fair on Feb. 6 from 12-2 p.m. in the Great Hall. On Feb. 13 from 6-8 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall, CCNY’s Black Studies Department and The Rifkind Center presents the 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, and this year’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient is Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar. A list of Black History Month events follows: Langston Hughes Festival Student Symposium on Feb. 13 from 12 -2 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall