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Biology major Emmanuel Dwomoh’s Distinguished Award for first place in the material/computer science category highlighted ����Ӱҵ’s continued dominance at the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program conference in upstate Bolton Landing. Mentored by Eduardo Nicolau and Jonathan Levitt, Dwomoh’s presentation was entitled: “Synthesis and characterization of Polycaprolactone (pcl) membranes as scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration." The senior was one of three City College student winners at the 25th annual CSTEP Conference at The Sagamore Resort on Lake George. They

Major Latin American Literature and Arts Journal Now a Publication of ����Ӱҵ On April 19, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, the preeminent US publication of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean writing in English and English translation, will launch at the City College of New York, marking the journal’s publication by Routledge in association with ����Ӱҵ through its Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures. Edited by Daniel Shapiro, ����Ӱҵ Distinguished Lecturer Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures, and guest edited by renowned scholar and translator

����Ӱҵ Junior Claire Lynch is Selected for Prestigious Public Service Scholarship At a surprise meeting outside his office, President Vincent Boudreau had the pleasure of telling City College junior Claire Lynch that she is the recipient of a 2017 Truman Scholarship for Public Service. “Congratulations, Claire, you are a Truman Scholar. This is a huge deal.” Boudreau told Lynch, who is a double major in political science and Jewish Studies, “This is life-changing. We’ve had Truman Scholars here at City College and we speak to them five, ten, fifteen years down the line, and they tell us it

����Ӱҵ’s School of Education and the CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ are recipients of a $50,000 grant from the West Harlem Development Corporation for The Growing Our Own Doctor’s Project. In its second year, the project aims to support and improve the educational and health outcomes of Harlem’s children. Terri N. Watson, assistant professor in the Department of Leadership and Special Education, and Erica Friedman, deputy dean and medical professor at the medical school, obtained the grant. The aim of The G.O.O.D. Project is two-fold. One objective is to increase the

Teenage freshman Ana Naumovska, a Jewish Studies major with no previous film experience, carries ����Ӱҵ banner in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with her short “ So Help Me God.” The nearly six-minute experimental piece was accepted by the Tribeca Film Institute in its “Our City, My Story” category. It premieres on April 29. Click here to RSVP for the free screening. “It has a lot of symbolism and emphasizes the importance of unity,” said Naumovska, adding that the film was inspired by true family events. Born in Macedonia, Naumovska arrived in the United States in

Natalia Rodriguez’ poetry is taking her places. ����Ӱҵ graduating senior showcases her verse at a literary exhibition at the New Women Space in Brooklyn April 14, straight from her top two finish in the invitation-only Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College. An English major with a concentration in creative writing, Rodriguez joins several emerging writers and artists in the literary exhibition. The event is entitled, “A writing gallery: showcasing a variety of multi-genre experimental and interactive prose and poetry across mediums

Developing search algorithms for robotic swarms is the challenge for members of ����Ӱҵ’s Robotics Club in the second annual NASA Swarmathon, April 18-20. The 14 students will compete remotely in the virtual competition against 19 other teams from minority serving universities and community colleges. The actual competition will be at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida. “Swarm robotics is a field where multiple robots are trying to solve one task; they work together to communicate with each other and try and solve that task in the most efficient way possible

Ellianna Schwab, a graduating senior in the Macaulay Honors College at ����Ӱҵ, is the recipient of a 2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF has also awarded the coveted fellowship to Joseph Derosa, a 2015 ����Ӱҵ alumnus from the Macaulay Honors College. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $34,000 and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for graduate study that leads to a

City College of New York alumna Monica Skarulis ’81 presents “Biology, Bounty and the Built Environment: How to Reset the Obesity Epidemic,” as part of the Conversations in Engaged Scholarship series. The presentation takes place on Thursday, April 6, 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the City College Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium. “We’re facing a global public health crisis,” said Skarulis, director of the Qatar National Obesity Center and deputy director of the Qatar Metabolic Institute. “The solution is not going to come from one source or strategy; now that only one

“The Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” City College of New York’s annual poetry festival, celebrates its 45th year May 12 with more than 150 participants from up to 50 schools and award-winning author and poet Jacqueline Woodson the guest of honor. The all-day, all-verse event, 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m., is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration and will be held in the Marian Anderson Theater located in City College’s Aaron Davis Hall. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Pamela L. Laskin, a lecturer in the ����Ӱҵ’s English