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A five-member team from ����Ӱҵ’s BIC Program topped an international field to win the Gold Pencil in the One Club’s Young Ones Competition at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. Megan Fullagar, Benjamin Kent, Marta Mugica, Liana Pantzari and Karina Ramos Salce earned top honors in the Empathy to Equality video category for their entry "Effigies to Equality." The BIC submission highlights the total absence of female statues among the numerous effigies in Central Park, which includes a rescue dog and King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. "Effigies to Equality" faced

In potentially transformative research for both the recycling and concrete industries, a City College of New York civil engineering team is developing a glass powder to replace cement in the production of concrete. The material conceptualized by Dr. Julio Davalos and doctoral student Marija Krstic, was tested for sidewalk construction in South Jamaica, Queens, by the New York City Department of Design and Construction on May 5. It was the first such demonstration in the United States, according to Davalos, chair of civil engineering in City College’s Grove School of Engineering. Davalos’

Antonios “Andoni” Mourdoukoutas, a recent NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient from the Macaulay Honors College, is ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 2016 Valedictorian. Orubba Almansouri, a Yemeni immigrant and SEEK student, will be the Salutatorian at ����Ӱҵ’s 170th Commencement Exercises on June 3. First Lady Michelle Obama will be the speaker at the ceremony on ����Ӱҵ’s South Campus Great Lawn. Following are brief bios of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian: Andoni MourdoukoutasA Long Island resident, Andoni is graduating with a BE in biomedical engineering and a 3.90 GPA. The NSF

To curb the advance of invasive raccoons on the island nation, City College of New York doctoral student Jamie Kass will work with Japanese scientists to model and track their spread. Kass is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant to conduct research on this management issue through the East Asia Pacific Studies Institutes. He will be based at Yokohama National University this summer in the research lab of Dr. Fumito Koike, an expert in invasive species and ecological modeling. A member of City College biology professor Robert Anderson’s biogeography lab, Kass studies how

Renowned trumpet virtuoso Marvin Stamm, who has performed with legends such as Bill Evans, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Benny Goodman, and George Benson, is the guest artist at the 16th CUNY Jazz Festival at ����Ӱҵ, May 5-6. Stamm will play as guest soloist with the City College Large Ensemble on May 5 at 7:30 p.m. and host an open jam session 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. He will perform at the closing gala concert at 7:30 p.m. on May 6 with his band, The Marvin Stamm Quartet. Along with Stamm, the all-star quartet features Bill Mays on piano, Rufus Reid on

Award-winning poet and author Marilyn Nelson is the guest poet at the 44th annual City College Poetry Festival, Friday, May 13. Up to 150 students from 50 schools are expected to recite their poems at this year’s event, dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word.” The all-day, all-verse event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theater of 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 department and director of the ����Ӱҵ Poetry Outreach

Chayanne Marcano, an anthropology major in ����Ӱҵ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is spending this summer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. after her latest honor. The junior is the recipient of a research internship at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. Marcano will work on a project examining the roles of community-based museums and gentrification in Washington, D.C. The Bronx native believes there is a power in community-based museums that can provide nontraditional audiences with the space to shape their own histories

More than 40 years ago, Coretta Scott King became the first female commencement speaker in the history of ����Ӱҵ when she addressed ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 1971. Her charge to the graduates came eight years after her slain husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered the commencement address to the Class of 1963. City College’s tradition of notable commencement speakers continues on June 3, 2016, when Michelle Obama, the first African-American First Lady of the United States, speaks at the school’s 170th commencement exercises in Harlem. The occasion is likely to be more

The latest in a long line of physics defying, prize-winning concrete canoes out of ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering placed second overall in the Metropolitan Conference competition at Cook’s Pond in Denville, N.J. There were eight other participants including student teams from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutgers, New York University, Stony Brook and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Christened “The Concrete Jungle,” the City College canoe outscored entries from all the other institutions, with the exception of NYU, in three categories. These were: the final

Two City College of New York students, Victoria Juste and Timothy McGhee, have been awarded two-year Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowships by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MMUF program is designed to encourage the most talented students from groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate education to enter PhD programs and to pursue careers in research and college teaching. Juste, a junior with a double major in biology and black studies, served as a Leonard Davis Fellow and a Colin Powell Community Engagement Fellow. As a fellow, she created a chapter of Peer Health Exchange, which