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The Classical Theatre of Harlem and the City College Center for the Arts present “A Christmas Carol in Harlem,” a reimagining of the Charles Dickens’ classic in present day Harlem. The performance—Tuesday, Nov. 27-Dec. 8–takes place in ����Ӱҵ’s Aaron Davis Hall. The play is adapted by Shawn René Graham, directed by Steve H. Broadnax III and choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and it will include original music and classic holiday carols influenced by gospel, hip-hop, pop and R&B. “We are on the precipice of the 100 th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance,” said Ty Jones

For decades, City College of New York student researchers have trekked down Hamilton Heights to the famed Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on 135th St. and Malcolm X Blvd. in search of knowledge. Now it’s about to get better for students of global black history. A new collaboration between City College and the Schomburg, a research division of The New York Public Library, will help undergraduates hone their research skills and enrich their access to this treasure trove of more than 11 million items. Conceptualized by ����Ӱҵ’s English Department and its MFA in Creative Writing

Associate Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson was honored at the ASLA New York Chapter President’s Dinner in New York City on November 8 as one of three women groundbreakers who have transformed the landscape architecture profession. Presenting the President’s Award for Service and Leadership, New York Chapter President Elizabeth Jordan noted Seavitt Nordenson’s distinctive teaching methodology, with a focus on her ability to challenge her students to grapple creatively with the most pressing environmental issues of our time, reflecting her own work, research, and activism in the public

Grove School of Engineering seniors Abraham “Avi” Rubel and Xinbin Xu are the recipients of scholarships from international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti. The awards were established by the Manhattan-based company in memory of former executives and City College of New York alumni Lee Petrella ’80, and Daniel A. Cuoco ’67. Rubel is the winner of the 2018 Lee Petrella Memorial Scholarship and Summer Internship. The award provides a $5,000 scholarship and a paid internship to a civil engineering major. Rubel, who’s specializing in structures, interned with Thornton Tomasetti’s Structural

Marlene Camacho-Rivera, assistant professor, CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ, focuses her research on improving chronic disease self-management in the areas of asthma and cancer within urban minority communities. As a Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship recipient, Camacho-Rivera will continue her research in those areas receiving recognition for her contributions to underrepresented ethnic and racial minorities in medicine. Given by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the fellowship recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member who has demonstrated

Music major Will Fisher of ����Ӱҵ has played guitar since he was eight-years-old. With dreams of working in the music industry, Fisher chose to enroll in ����Ӱҵ’s Sonic Arts Center Music and Audio Technology Program to develop his producing and composing skills. As the recipient of the Evelyn Buckstein Scholarship, Fisher will continue to pursue his passion graduating with the Class of 2019. The Buckstein Scholarship was endowed in 2007 by ����Ӱҵ alumna Evelyn Buckstein, BMI Foundation board member and retired BMI assistant vice president and counsel. The program annually

Fiorella Garrido-Lecca spent part of the summer in her native Peru researching gender-based violence and how women resist it. At UCLA, her fellow City College of New York sociology major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Abraham Arriaga, explored the phenomenon of pet ownership by a subgroup of the homeless population. The two juniors are members of the latest cohort of Mellon Mays Fellows at City College. Six ����Ӱҵ students have been awarded 2018 fellowships in the national program that paves the way to doctoral careers for students from traditionally underrepresented

The CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) will host its tenth Mini-Medical School on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to discuss how to stay healthy during the flu season. This session, entitled “"Public Health Impact of Influenza: Why You Need To Get an Annual Flu Vaccine" and presented by Dr. Jane R. Zucker, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Immunization at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will explore the importance of getting an annual flu shot and other ways to prevent getting the flu. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m.-7:00

����Ӱҵ’s Division of Humanities and the Arts presents MLK50: Let Freedom Ring. The event, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7:30 – 9 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theatre of ����Ӱҵ’s Aaron Davis Hall, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in April 1968. Inspired by King’s teachings on dignity, freedom and equality, the commemoration includes remarks by City College President Vince Boudreau and a performance of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” by ����Ӱҵ’s Faculty Jazz Ensemble featuring professors Suzanne Pittson and Mike Holober. In addition, jazz

Pamela Laskin, a lecturer in the English Department at ����Ӱҵ, is one of two winners of Leapfrog Fiction's International Contest for 2018 for her book, Why No Bhine (Why No Goodbye), a young adult novel in verse. The story is told from the point of view of a fourteen-year-old boy who has been left behind in Myanmar when his mother and three of his siblings escaped to Malaysia. The boy, Jubair, writes angry letters to his mother, which she will never get to see. Meanwhile, his mother manages to smuggle letters to him, but he never reads them; he is too enraged over what he