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May 28, 2019—Five City College undergraduates from ����Ӱҵ's Division of Humanities and the Arts are California-bound next month, thanks to a unique opportunity awarded annually by the Stanford University/����Ӱҵ Summer Research Program in the Humanities. Established in 2013 on Stanford's campus, the individual research and mentoring program is designed for ����Ӱҵ students considering graduate school, and specifically doctoral research, in the humanities and arts. Students receive a $3,000 stipend, on-campus room and board and $600 to cover travel expenses.

This summer, the following ����Ӱҵ undergraduates will spend from June 24 through August 16 on Stanford's Palo Alto campus: History majors Haider Altaf, Susan Evans and Kendrick Zapata (pictured); Philosophy major Sean Apparicio; and English major Jonah Quest.

In the fall, three Stanford humanities graduate students will come to teach at ����Ӱҵ.

Six architecture students are WX Scholars

Sept. 28—Six architecture students, from The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College, are recipients of WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate scholarships. The goal is to encourage and support bright and talented young women pursuing careers in real estate and related professions in the New York metropolitan area.

Bachelor of Architecture students Cindy Santamaria, Justyna Drozdz, Peiying Jiang, Vionna Wai, Wei Ying Zhang and Master of Architecture student Kathleen Bender have all received scholarships. They have received this honor for their high academic and design achievement, and their potential for success in business.

As graduates of the Class of 2017, the group of WX Scholars have access to the WX Mentoring Program, which matches them with WX mentors in respective facets in the real estate industry and each will benefit from the mentors’ professional experience. Throughout the year they will continue to interact with their mentors and attend activities that offer networking opportunities as they enter the workforce.

student Robynne Heymans ’18 also received a WX Summer Internship Grant for the previous summer. The grant supported her summer position with the National Park Service as a landscape architecture intern at Gateway National Recreation Area.

BIC Alumnus is named 4A's 100 People Who Make Advertising Great

������.1—, a graduate of City College’s master’s program in Branding and Integrated Communications, is named . This honor is part of 4A’s 100th anniversary initiative, which recognizes a diverse and distinguished group across all levels and disciplines.

“Throughout my career, I’ve made it a priority to give back to the next generation of advertising’s rising stars, from students to interns to young professionals. I know how valuable it was for me to receive support and guidance from industry mentors and teachers,” said Villanueva who teaches copywriting to juniors and seniors as an adjunct in ����Ӱҵ’s Ad/PR program.

Villanueva has worked on H&M's largest recruitment campaign, crafted social content for American Express and wrote a spy trailer for a Nissan activation at the Dubai Auto Show. Since starting account management at Y&R, Villanueva has transitioned to the creative side as a copywriter at TBWA, Chiat, and Day and DigitasLBi. He is also a mentor with MAIP, an internship program that connects minority students to top agencies.

Architecture students feature map art in exhibit

Apr. 4—Robynne Heymans, Jacqueline LeBoutillier and Sarah Toth, all second-year students, are exhibiting their work entitled The Forgotten Borough in at Shoestring Studio in Crown Heights, Brooklyn until April 16. The of maps charts imagined space and fragmented, distorted real geography.

Natalia Orlova receives Horst Schulz Biochemistry Prize

Feb. 21—Natalia Orlova, Ph.D. student and biochemistry major, is the recipient of the 9^th Horst Schulz Biochemistry Prize for her research paper published in Nucleic Acids Research entitled “The replication initiator of the cholera pathogen’s second chromosome shows structural similarity to plasmid initiators.” Orlova also works with Professor David Jeruzalmi. The competition awarded current or recent graduates of the Biochemistry Ph.D. Program who published a first-authored peer-reviewed research article in 2016.

Journalism students create "This is Us" blog

����.1—, conceived by Ad/PR major , shares the voices and experiences of ����Ӱҵ students who are often left out of the media conversation.  Kalstek collected essays from journalism students—which talk about race, culture, class, immigration status, religion and in one case homelessness—to add to the website. She photographed each student and supplemented the essays with short videos.

School of Education graduate student receives $15K fellowship

Oct. 20—Kelli Hesseltine, graduate student at the School of Education’s TESOL Program, receives a $15,000 fellowship from the Columbia School Linguistic Society, Inc. for one year of original research on a linguistic problem. She is also an English teacher at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering at ����Ӱҵ.

Architecture students win first place in brick design competition

Oct. 4—Cheuk Kei Hui and Vionna Wai, majors, took top prize in the annual competition for their project “,” which they worked on with Professor . As first prizewinners, Hui and Wai receive $5000 for their brick design. Both students will graduate in spring of 2017 with their B. Arch. degree from the .

Art majors win Connor Awards

Sept. 13—Jean Carla Rodea, M.F.A. in DIAP, and Jehan Mostafa, B.F.A. in EDM, are recipients of the Connor Award, a tuition-based scholarship for art majors. Rodea won first place for graduate art studio, and Mostafa took second place in the undergraduate art studio. Both of their works will remain on display through June 2017 in the Art Department office, Compton Goethals Hall, room 109.

Nate Fleischer’s summer hits

Aug. 22 -- Sonic Arts sophomore Nate Fleischer scored a national EAS Sports commercial featuring Arizona Cardinals receiver . In addition, Fleischer co-wrote and co-produced the song “Closer” by the Modern Inventors that premiered on . It featured drummer and producer .

Three Grove students win top NOAA Undergraduate Fellowships

July 21 -- Environmental engineering majors Robert Abitbol, Maria Cogliando and Valentina Rappa have won nationally competitive two-year NOAA Undergraduate Scholarship Program Fellowship awards.

A sophomore, Abitbol’s research project is validating NOAA's blended ice concentration product. Cogliando is a junior whose major focuses on water resources at City College. Rappa, a sophomore, has studied carbon fluxes and concentration in the wetland-estuary interface in the Chesapeake Bay.

Six Gilman summer scholars

July 13 – Six undergraduates are studying overseas this summer on . Katherine Burgos, Marvin Campbell, Danielle Davis,
Mohamed Mohamed, Johanelli Ramos and Elena Soktoeva were selected by the International Institute of Education from a competitive process in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.

The program’s mission is to prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

Troy Blackwell’s $7K scholarship bounty

July 7 -- Troy Blackwell, Jr., a junior majoring in public relations, is the recipient of a $5,000 Art Stevens/PRSA-NY. The award is given out by the Public Relations Society of America New York chapter.

 The Long Island resident also earned a $2,000 scholarship from the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, bringing his total awards for his academic success to $7,000 this calendar year. The latter prize earned him a place in Macy's rising star competition where he was crowned Prince of the Parade, receiving additional scholarship money.

Six students of Architecture receive scholarships

July 5 -- Three graduate students and one undergraduate from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture have won substantial scholarships for the coming academic year from . M.Arch '16 students Valeria Rybyakova and Lyubov Tsinis received $7,500 scholarships, and M.Arch '16 student Mitalee Chawda received a $5,000 scholarship. Danica Vildoso B.Arch '16 (top) is also the recipient of a $5,000 scholarship.

Another organization, , gave $1,000 Microdesk Scholarships for Design Excellence to William Sloman M.Arch '17 (bottom) and Wei Zhang B.Arch '17. 

Architecture grad student wins award

May 17--Liz Christian, a graduate student at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is the winner of the Architects League of Northern New Jersey’s 2016 Scholastic Achievement Award. Christian will receive her award, and $3,000, at the League’s event on June 16.

In addition to her studies, Christian also works at the architectural firm of SLCE Architects, LLP.

CCAPP team excels at CSTEP Conference

April 19 -- Three undergraduates from the City College Academy for Professional Preparation returned   victorious from the 24th Annual CSTEP Statewide Students Conference at The Sagamor Resort in Bolton Landing, N.Y. A fourth student placed second. The students, from the Division of Science, and their categories are:

​ Marisol Cortes, first place, medicine, health and wellness;
Trinisia Fortune, first place, oral presentation, nature science;
Candice Forrester, first place, engineering/math and science, physics group;
Shavanie Prashad, second place, oral presentation, natural science.

Three more BICsters win prestigious scholarship

April 19 -- Dalisbeth Galvez, Melissa Julien and Priscilla Parra (all Class of 2017) are the latest to receive scholarships for students who share the foundation's mission of increasing ethnic diversity in the advertising, marketing and public relations industries.

BIC graduates Fred Garcia ’15, Amber Jackson, ‘15 and Donna Dei-Baning ’16 were also LAGRANT Scholars, making the latest scholarship announcement a three-peat for the three-year-old program.

Basketball star Tiara Brown makes All-Met

April 6 -- Forward Tiara Brown, a senior, was named to the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association All-Met Team. In the past season, Brown ranked in the NCAA Division III’s top 10 in four different categories, including rebounds and field goal percentage. In her two years at ����Ӱҵ, Brown amassed 655 points, 512 rebounds and 108 assists.

����Ӱҵ student wins Critical Language Scholarship

April 4, 2016 -- Alina Shen of the City College of New York is CUNY’s 26^th .

A junior in both the and the Macaulay Honors College, Shen will spend 10 weeks in Tainan, Taiwan, learning the Chinese dialect of Mandarin.

Shen grew up in a Chinese-speaking household in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Since her student days at Hunter College High School, she volunteered with community organizations in Manhattan’s Chinatown, most notably the Chinatown Literacy Project. Those experiences compelled her to want to improve her skills in the language of her family.

“To seek cultural understanding and to have conversations about civic engagement with people in the city who do not speak English fluently, you need to speak their languages,” she said.

CLS, a program of the U.S. State Department, funds American graduate and undergraduate students to spend a summer learning a critical language in a foreign country.

The champ is back

Former City College of New York standout student-athlete Paul Dedewo continues to burn up the track as he did when he wore the Beaver uniform. Dedewo set personal records for both the 400-meter and the 200-meter dashes when he competed at the USA Track and Field National Club Championships at Icahn Stadium on July 11. He finished with a time of 45.41 -- the 56th best time in the world and the 14th best in the U.S. He finished with a time of 20.68.
 

Great Grad discusses life before, during and after ����Ӱҵ

Lin Li '15 is in the Queens Gazette's "Local-Express" section. Li, who received her MS in biology on May 29, talks about her life in America, her research and some of her favorite Queens haunts.

2015 Valedictorian profiled twice

Violeta Contreras Ramirez scored a rare doubleheader by being the subject of two feature articles: one in and another in .

"Black Sheep" Win Ad/PR Client Pitch

The "Black Sheep" student team won the Ad/PR Workshop Client Pitch in the media and communication arts department. Three teams, each comprising nine seniors, participated in the pitch, December 18, whose client was the at City College. The theme was to spark the "inner entrepreneur" in ����Ӱҵ students.

The "Black Sheep" pitch included the slogan "����Ӱҵ. Born Entrepreneurs" aimed at convincing students that they are born entrepreneurs.

That impressed the four judges, including Lindsay Siegel, executive director of the Zahn Center. "What we appreciated the most was your insight," Ms. Siegel told the "Black Sheep" members. "You had great incisive ideas, a great tagline and communicated a powerful message."

"Black Sheep" comprised Fiona Clarkson-Farrell, Kimberly Collado, Felix Dalgo, Yvens Decessa, Johan Forero, Alison Gregory, Karina Hernandez, Vitoria Lorenzetti and Mercedes Mendez.

Hyeondo Luke Hwang Undergraduate Paper Makes Journal Cover

In a remarkable feat for an undergraduate researcher, Hyeondo Luke Hwang’s paper on better utilizing green chemistry to produce common items made the  October 2014 cover of the “Journal of Chemical Education.” The paper, “Sweet and Sustainable: Teaching the Biorefinery Concept through Biobased Gelator Synthesis,” was based on Mr. Hwang’s research in the lab of City College chemistry Professor George John in 2013.  

The paper introduces chemical reactions that undergraduate students can perform to learn about biorefining.  That is the process of "refining" multiple products from biomass as a feedstock or raw material.  

“We start from materials derived from nature, use environmentally benign synthetic routes and assemble the chemical products to form a material, which in our case is a soft gel,” said Mr. Hwang. “In Professor John's lab, we essentially did small-scale biorefining. This is important because things have to first work on the laboratory scale in order to move towards the industrial scale.”

A 2013 ����Ӱҵ alumnus, Mr. Hwang is now a PhD candidate in physical chemistry at the University of Chicago.

����Ӱҵ Students Win Poster Awards at 14th ABRCMS

Senior Andrea L. Cardenas-Arevalo and Frederick Jacques, a fourth-year student in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, won poster awards at the 14th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students () in San Antonio, Tx. The event, November 12–15, attracted approximately 3,300 participants from more than 350 U.S. colleges and universities.

Ms. Cardenas-Arevalo’s poster presentation, “Molecular interactions of an E. coli division protein ZapC with the ClpXP protease,” was the best in microbiology.  Her mentor is Dr. Anuradha Janakiraman, assistant professor in the City College biology department.

Mr. Jacques won in the molecular and computational biology category for his poster “Rapid Determination of Core Needle Biopsy Adequacy Using Optical Spectroscopy.” His mentor is Dr. Jeremy C. Durack of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Twenty-four ����Ӱҵ students attended the conference.

"Grover" Takes 11th Place in Chem-e-Car Finals

"Grover," a car designed by chemical engineering students in the Grove School of Engineering, placed 11th in the 2014 AIChE Chem-e-Car finals in Atlanta November 16. There were 35 vehicles in the competition at Georgia Tech from the United States, Canada, Poland, Qatar and Malaysia.
 
Like its competitors, "Grover" uses environmentally friendly materials to drive and control it.  It is powered by a zinc and magnesium battery developed at the CUNY Energy Institute at ����Ӱҵ while a bleach and food dye solution allows the car to start and stop.
 

Scholar-Athletes Named CUNYAC All-Stars

Four City College of New York scholar-athletes have been named 2014 CUNYAC/US Army cross country All-Stars. Sophomore Bianca Johnson (right, early childhood biology) and freshmen Samuel Gotts (history), Thomas Sullivan (mechanical engineering) and Joseph Benson (electrical engineering) earned the honors after the CUNYAC championships in Van Cortlandt Park.

In addition, Mr. Benson, an electrical engineering major, was voted the Men's Cross Country Sportsmanship Award recipient by CUNAC coaches. That is a rare feat for a freshman in the conference.

Jazz Student John Ludlow Makes Big Band

Music major John Ludlow, who is pursuing a BFA in jazz instrumental performance, was selected as a member of the 2015 . Now in its seventh year, the ensemble has established itself as the premier collegiate all-star big band on the East coast.

Ad Club of New York Honors Khaled Hassan

Khaled Hassan, an advertising and public relations major in the medi