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With the majority of its students identifying themselves as Latinx/a/o, ����Ӱҵ would welcome mutually beneficial links with institutions in Latin America, ����Ӱҵ President Vincent Boudreau told a visiting delegation of New York City-based consul generals from the region. “Thirty-nine percent of our population come from somewhere south of the United States,” Boudreau told the 20 diplomats, representing 12 nations. “That means that we would like to build exchange relationships with universities in your countries. We would like for our students to experience the cultures that

����Ӱҵ is pleased to welcome Lucas Koehler as its first Chief Financial Officer and Senior Finance Director for the Foundation for City College, Inc. Koehler joins the Foundation from the New York City Department of Education Division of Early Education where he served as the Senior Executive Director of Finance and Operations. While there, he used his data and analytics skills to develop the data and technology infrastructure for the Pre-K for All Initiative. In addition, he oversaw all financial functions of the early care and education system of New York City

Daniel A. Keedy, assistant professor in ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Science, is among 24 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy named recipients of Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2022 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each award is $100,000. “These exceptional teacher-scholars are chosen not just for their research and educational programs but for their potential to become academic leaders at their institutions and beyond,” said RCSA President & CEO Daniel Linzer. “The class of 2022 joins an innovative and impactful community,” said RCSA Senior

Jeff Morris, director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, is the 2022 recipient of the Weissenberg Award from the European Society of Rheology (ESR). He’s the first non-European to win the award and joins an elite group of rheologists who have been recognized in previous years. The Society cited Morris, a professor of chemical engineering for: “ground-breaking work on the particle pressure and the underlying mechanism of suspension flow and discontinuous shear thickening, for novel work on the

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship ( MMUF) Program is celebrating the “monumental milestone” of producing more than 1,000 PhDs, with a pat on the back for ����Ӱҵ for its input. “Our data shows that in November the MMUF Program reached the monumental milestone of producing over 1,000 PhDs during the program’s 33-year history,” Armando Bengochea, the Mellon Foundation’s senior program officer for Higher Learning and director of the MMUF, said to Isabel Estrada, director of the City College Fellowships Program. “We want to acknowledge The

Mikhal Dekel, the noted City College of New York academic and award-winning author, is now a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at ����Ӱҵ. Her appointment, by the City University of New York Board of Trustees, cites her “internationally renowned career, scholarship and teaching of the highest caliber.” The Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts at City College and current chair of the English Department, Dekel is an internationally recognized scholar of comparative literature (with a focus on 20th century English and Hebrew), Jewish studies and cultural history. She’s also

A new endowed scholarship, the Robindra Nath Khaund Scholarship, has been created to support the cost of a student’s education at City College of New York. The award is available to immigrant students, or students who are the children of immigrants. The $4,000 annual award will commence spring semester of 2023. The naming is subject to approval by the CUNY Board of Trustees. The scholarship was established for Dr. Robindra Nath Khaund, who passed away in 2015, by his sons, Razib Khaund and Sandy Khaund, and Dr. Khaund’s daughter-in-law, Cherise Khaund. ����Ӱҵ President Vincent Boudreau lauded

A workshop to empower Black students, an architecture lecture series themed “Radical Black Space,” and discussions with sociologist Eve L. Ewing, and cultural critic/author/comedian Cyrus McQueen, highlight ����Ӱҵ’s virtual observance of Black History Month this February. Following are the events: Feb. 3, 12:30 p.m. “Trill or Not Trill Workshop” Department of Student Life & Leadership Development A workshop by the leadership institute Trill or Not Trill for Black students as they face challenges from on-campus discrimination to stigmas about graduation rates. Its aim is

Trailblazing physicist Myriam P. Sarachik’s remarkable legacy at ����Ӱҵ, where she spent more than 50 years teaching and conducting groundbreaking research before her death at age 88 last October, is set to continue, thanks to a $1.5 million pledge before her passing. The pledge establishes the Myriam Sarachik Professorship Fund for a visiting physics professor in ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Science. The naming is subject to approval by the CUNY Board of Trustees. The endowed visiting professorship shall remain in perpetuity, in accordance with Sarachik’s wishes. Additional estate

A new study from ����Ӱҵ’s CUNY Dominican Studies Institute and the CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ indicates U.S.-born Dominicans and Dominican immigrants in the U.S. are highly likely to comply with public health recommendations related to the pandemic.