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����Ӱҵ’s Undergraduate Student Government welcomes the Harlem community to the annual Harlemween party where children and teenagers trick-or-treat throughout the North Academic Center Ballroom for a night of scares. “Harlemween represents a way to celebrate the children of the community and a safe Halloween where we’re going to play games, have music and candy. And it’s just a great way to give back and help the community because USG is always trying to help create a safe environment where we can have people feel comfortable and welcome at all times,” said Maria Santana

Ntozake Shange, the famed playwright and poet, is this year’s Langston Hughes Medal winner. The dramatist of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” joins a list of literary luminaries, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Walter Mosley, who have received the honor from ����Ӱҵ. In a hugely prolific career, Shange has written 15 plays, 19 poetry collections, six novels, five children’s books, three collections of essays, and a memoir called “Lost in Language & Sound.” Her theatre piece “For Colored Girls Who Have

Sixty City College of New York students are recipients of Alumni Association scholarships for their outstanding academic achievement. Scholarships range from $1000-$5000 and can cover up to one year of the awardee’s tuition. The students will receive their scholarships at the 136 th Annual Alumni Dinner where co-anchors Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5 are recipients of The 69 th John H. Finley Award, which recognizes exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York and the nation, while enhancing the quality of life of its people. In addition, seven ����Ӱҵ alumni

As the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at ����Ӱҵ promise a quicker and remarkably accurate method of predicting election trends with Twitter. Hern´an A. Makse, Alexandre Bovet and Flaviano Morone have developed analytic tools combining statistical physics of complex networks, percolation theory, natural language processing and machine learning classification to infer the opinion of Twitter users regarding the Presidential candidates this year. “Forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is the long-standing

Lynn Appelbaum, professor and director of ����Ӱҵ’s Advertising/PR Program, is the winner of The Hispanic Public Relations Association’s inaugural BRAVO! PR Educator of the Year Award. The HPRA National Bravo! awards are the most prestigious awards in Hispanic communications recognizing the industry's finest campaigns and personalities. Appelbaum was honored along with Dewey Square Group Principal Maria Cardona (Pioneer of the Year) and television personality and style influencer Kika Rocha (HPRA-NY Journalist of the Year) at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan.

Over the centuries, generations of Indians have emigrated to parts of the globe as distant as Fiji, Trindidad and Guyana. Yet the big theme in Indian Diaspora literature over the years has been their original home, according to Susham Bedi, the Indian-born novelist, actress and academic.“Indians are rebuilding their Indian homes everywhere they go,” said Bedi. “Their tradition, value systems, social customs, rituals and even taboos get implanted with them. Indians have kept their culture even after more than hundreds of years of immigration.” Reflecting on her own experience, Bedi noted that

����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering students head to the AlChE national finals competition in San Francisco to present the "Iodonator-C8,” a chemical powered vehicle that for the first time in ����Ӱҵ history won first place in the Mid-Atlantic regional competition. There will be 41 teams competing at the nationals, and engineering students from top colleges and universities in the U.S., Korea, China, Canada and Turkey compete for the top prize. “We’ve been in nationals consistently over the past three years, but no one has placed first in the regionals and nationals. We

Carlos Franz is one of the foremost Spanish-language writers in the world. He is the 2016 winner of the Biennial Mario Vargas Llosa Award for his latest book, “ Si te vieras con mis ojos,” which is deemed the best novel published in 2014-2016. The Chilean national brings his formidable literary knowledge to ����Ӱҵ as this year’s instructor in the Cátedra Vargas Llosa, the only such resource in the United States. Launched in 2014, the Cátedra is an international academic project honoring Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The English translation of this year’s

MEDIA ADVISORY U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz tours ����Ӱҵ biofuels project WHAT: Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration, is visiting ����Ӱҵ’s ARPA-E project on biofuels. Housed in the CUNY Energy Institute at ����Ӱҵ, the project has developed a highly efficient zinc- manganese rechargeable battery. It is funded by the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). WHERE: City College’s Steinman Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. WHEN: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 13, 2016 CONTACT: Jay Mwamba, ����Ӱҵ Public Relations, 212

Co-founders of Veripad, a startup launched at the Zahn Innovation Center by three City College of New York graduates, relocated to Nairobi, Kenya as part of the prestigious Merck KGaA Accelerator Program. The three-month program in Africa offers extensive funding, mentorship and technical support for budding entrepreneurs in healthcare. “Winning the Zahn Social Impact Prize gave us a sense of validation that our product was viable and that our dream of reducing mortalities from counterfeit medication was within reach,” said Y-Lan Nguyen, co-founder and CAO of Veripad. Bishoy Ghobryal (CEO) and