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First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address during the 170 th Commencement Ceremony at ����Ӱҵ on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. on the South Campus Great Lawn on the ����Ӱҵ campus in historic Harlem, where more than 3,000 students make up the Class of 2016. ����Ӱҵ is the first public higher education institution in New York City and has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. Established as a free institution dedicated to overcoming barriers to advancement, ����Ӱҵ continues its mission of access to excellence and

����Ӱҵ student chapter of Engineers without Borders’ (EWB-USA ����Ӱҵ) latest initiative is a water access project to benefit a rural community in Siuna, Nicaragua. Currently, 46 percent of the Tadazna community or approximately 370 people, lack access to drinking water. The project adopted by the chapter entails the construction of six groundwater wells in the locality. Each well is intended to support approximately one to five families. The design of the wells will allow for clean and safe water for daily use and consumption, decreasing the risk of contamination and

On Friday, March 11, students and faculty from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and City College’s BIC Program, and communications professionals attended a unique "co-conference” sponsored by both schools entitled "Journalism in the Age of Branded Content...and Vice Versa." This sold-out event featured top experts and executives from PRWeek, Contently, IBM, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Later, five cross-disciplinary teams composed of students from both schools broke out into work sessions to develop “speed" campaigns anchored in a branded content solution for one of these

Professor Hillary Brown of ����Ӱҵ’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has invested her long-term interest in sustainability in a proposal to the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Industry to spur economic development in a rural seaside town. Her project, “Sea, Sun, Soil and Salt: A Circular Economy for Anse-Rouge, Haiti,” is an ambitious blueprint for an eco-industrial park in an area still coping with the influx of people who abandoned Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake. The immediate region is plagued by numerous challenges: extreme poverty, absence

Dr. Andrew S. Grove, a distinguished member of ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 1960 whose $26 million gift to the institution in 2005 is the largest in ����Ӱҵ’s history, died in Los Altos, Calif., on Monday. He was 79.“Dr. Grove was an outstanding and loyal son of ����Ӱҵ who changed the world through his innovation and leadership at Intel Corp,” said City College President Lisa S. Coico. “He gave generously, too, and our Grove School of Engineering named in his honor stands as a world class testament to this great pioneer.” Dr. Gilda Barabino, Dean and Berg Professor at the Grove School

Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, a renowned neurogeneticist from Baylor College of Medicine, presents this year’s Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at ����Ӱҵ on Thursday, April 7. Her talk, “The Story of Rett Syndrome and the Insight it Provides into Neuropsychiatric Disorders” begins at 5 p.m. in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Widely respected globally, Zoghbi has made many seminal discoveries in neurological disease research. Her interests range from neuro-development to neurodegeneration. She is the founding director of the Jan and Dan Duncan

City College of New York Associate Professor Tatyana Kleyn, who directs the School of Education’s Programs in Bilingual Education and TESOL, directed and co-produced the documentary film, “Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries], ” which premieres at Aaron Davis Hall on Thursday, March 24 at 6 p.m. This film, Kleyn’s second after “ Living Undocumented,” shares the stories of the families who were undocumented in the U.S., and focuses on the children and youth. Her interest in this topic stemmed from media reports on the rising numbers of people being deported to Mexico and other nations

The Mayor's Office of Sustainability (MOS) is partnering with the CUNY Building Performance Lab, an initiative of ����Ӱҵ-based CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, to re-launch the NYC Benchmarking Help Center. The first of its kind in the nation, the Help Center ran in 2011-2013 through a partnership with CUNY BPL, MOS, Department of Buildings, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and the Institute for Market Transformation. It supported property owners in complying with Local Law 84 of 2009 (LL84), a legislative mandate requiring all buildings

The third annual Sternberg Family Lecture at ����Ӱҵ on Wednesday, March 30, presents a discussion by three experts entitled “A disrupted Foundation: Employment, School Retention, and Social Ties among Disconnected Latino Youth." Hosted by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the lecture starts at 4:30 p.m. in City College’s Great Hall. The speakers are: Dr. Ramona Hernandez, director, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at ����Ӱҵ, and professor of sociology at ����Ӱҵ and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Hernandez is the author of pioneering

Reducing a barrier that generally hinders the easy generation of new molecules, a team led by City College of New York chemist Mahesh K. Lakshman has devised a method to cleave generally inert bonds to allow the formation of new ones. The study is the cover story in the journal ACS Catalysis published by the American Chemical Society. “Saturated carbon-hydrogen bonds in organic compounds are considered relatively inert and generally difficult to break in order to make other bonds, leading to new molecules,” explained Lakshman, professor of chemistry in City College’s Division of Science