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Five distinguished supporters of ����Ӱҵ are recipients of 2016 ����Ӱҵ Presidential Awards. The honors were presented by Dr. Lisa S. Coico, president of City College, at her annual Presidential Awards Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. Recognized for their support to ����Ӱҵ were: Susan McGuirk and Matthew C. Blank, “for visionary philanthropic leadership to educate the media leaders of tomorrow"; George Lois, “America's Master Communicator and advertising legend for his donation of his archives to ����Ӱҵ and continued support of our students"; Howard Morgan '65

Five City College of New York undergraduates -- Maria Chaname, Christian Kadima, Angel Morquecho, Valeria Serrano and Emily Zheng -- will participate in a five-week program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in June and July. The students will study medical interpreting and be mentored as they work on individual, specialized projects involving translational cancer health disparities throughout New York City. This summer learning lab is sponsored by the ����Ӱҵ-MSKCC Partnership program, and is a result of a collaboration formed by Biology Professor Karen Hubbard, the MSKCC collaborative

Orubba Almansouri’s stirring salutatory speech at ����Ӱҵ’s 170th Commencement Exercises wowed fellow graduates and guests including First Lady Michelle Obama. Now it’s earned her invitation to the White House for next week’s United State of Women Summit. Almansouri joins President Obama, Mrs. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a host of other speakers from all walks of life at the summit, June 14 – 15 in the nation’s capital. “After delivering her keynote speech, Mrs. Obama embraced me on her way out, telling me how

The box office hit “ El ruiseñor y la noche: Chavela Vargas canta a Lorca,” directed by Rubén Rojo, makes its New York premiere at The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) on June 9. Screen time is 6:30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes New York. The documentary, whose title in English means “The Nightingale and The Night: Chavela Vargas Sings Lorca,” features Mexican singer Chavela Vargas and the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The story follows Vargas’ wish in the last year of her life to pay tribute to Garcia Lorca. A question and answer session with director Rojo follows the screening

Dr. E. Maudette Brownlee, chair of the SEEK department, and Sue (Roberta Turner) office manager in the physics department, are this years’ ����Ӱҵ service award honorees at the Alumni Association of ����Ӱҵ’s 164th annual meeting, June 9. Brownlee, in her 20th year as chair of SEEK, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will receive the Faculty Service Award. She is also director of the City College’s Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program. Turner will receive the Administrative Service Award. She has worked at ����Ӱҵ since 1988 and is hailed by physics faculty as the “soul” of

Rousing, colorful, stirring and inspiring sum up ����Ӱҵ’s memorable 170th Commencement Exercises. More than 8,000 people, including First Lady Michelle Obama and a large media turnout converged on the South Campus Great Lawn to salute the Class of 2016. Obama, making her last commencement appearance as First Lady, received a rock-star welcome. She was then wowed by the speakers, including Yemeni-born Salutatorian Orubba Almansouri, who passionately narrated her fight to pursue her education, countering the tradition for females in her culture. Obama, in turn, thrilled the

Associate Professor of Economics and Business Matthew Nagler joins a select group of academics from institutions around the country as a member of the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. Informally known as the “nudge team,” the SBST was created by executive order in 2015 to apply findings from the social and behavioral sciences to improve federal policies and programs, particularly by leveraging unobtrusive incentives, or “nudges.” A behavioral economist, Nagler is a proponent of “nudges,” a term coined in a 2008 book by University of Chicago academics Richard Thaler and Cass

Fifty years later, City College of New York’s pioneering Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program continues to be a pathway to success for many students that would otherwise have found a college education daunting. The acronym for “Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge,” SEEK began as a pre-baccalaureate program at City College in 1965. In 1966, the New York State Assembly passed legislation creating SEEK and the program was expanded to other CUNY senior colleges. Since then, SEEK has provided counseling, academic and financial support to students who qualify based on specific income and

The Class of 2016 at ����Ӱҵ’s 170th Commencement Exercises comprises 3,955 students whose success stories are a continuation of a ����Ӱҵ legacy. This year, that tradition brings First Lady Michelle Obama to historic Harlem to salute the institution and its latest graduates. Among the numerous standouts in the graduating class are: Rokeya Begum, a SEEK student graduating with a BA in history. Accepted to 14 law schools in New York and New Jersey, she has decided to attend CUNY Law this fall; Tyler Joseph, who is receiving his second undergraduate degree, a BS in mathematics

IN2NYC, a program piloted by the Zahn Innovation Center at ����Ӱҵ to bring foreign entrepreneurs to New York City, is officially underway. New York Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, City College President Lisa S. Coico and Maria Torres-Springer, president of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, participated in the launch at ����Ӱҵ today. They highlighted the economic influence IN2NYC will have on the city and NYCEDC’s partnership with the Zahn Center. NYCEDC is sponsoring the program through the City College Fund and the Zahn Center. The ceremony also kicked off the