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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

Starting Wednesday, April 18 through May 29, 2018, the City College Archives at ����Ӱҵ will exhibit more than 120 historic postcards collected by Dalton Whiteside, a ����Ӱҵ architecture student, Certified ����Ӱҵ Architectural/Historical Tour Guide and Archives Research Assistant at City College. Additional postcards from The City College Archives collection of ����Ӱҵ’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

Roland Maio, a member of ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 2018, and two recent ����Ӱҵ 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, ����Ӱҵ’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 ����Ӱҵ. 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 ����Ӱҵ’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 ����Ӱҵ’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

For the last few days, Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to explain to Congress how fake news on Facebook might have influenced the Presidential election. It hasn’t gone well. Unraveling how fake news happens is probably best undertaken by experts like Hernan Makse, Professor of Physics at the City College of New York’s Division of Science. Makse, who is well versed in the theoretical understanding of complexity, has published a new study investigating the influence of fake and traditional, fact-based, news outlets on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. In summary, the study shows

Claire Lynch and Etienne Forbes, cohorts in ����Ӱҵ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are headed to Europe this fall on Fulbright awards. The two graduating seniors join a select group of 2018-2019 winners nationally in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A political science and Jewish studies double major in the Colin Powell School and Macaulay Honors College at ����Ӱҵ, Lynch is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant. She’ll spend Sept. 2018 to June 2019, as a teacher in the Spanish capital’s bilingual education system. “Subjects

For the third year in a row a team from ����Ӱҵ has won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Chem-E-Car competition! The team participated in the competition held at Princeton University on April 7, 2018. “Zincotron”, a Grove School of Engineering student-designed shoe-box sized car, finished ahead of a crowded field of 20 competitors and was within 16cm of the target of 18.4m carrying its load of 400ml of water. The second-place car from Cooper Union was close behind, at 18cm. In this competition, teams spend the semester designing