2015

Studen t Su cce ss + R e se a rch Schol a r ships Report

T HE
from the
President

a n d C r e at i vi t y + A ca de m ic I nit i at ive s

CITY
The City College
of New York

+ Di ve r sit y + Grow t h

EFFECT + CCNY S p ir i t + Ca m pu s a nd Com munit y

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From its earliest days, City College has been dedicated to engagement
with the world. Our founder, Townsend Harris, was a businessman,
philanthropist and diplomat. The institution he envisioned was not
an ivory tower, but a place where education could be a vital force for
progress, for the betterment of society and individuals alike.

This notion still guides the work of our City community.

As they gain knowledge, students apply their skills to tackle a
diverse array of issues, such as energy efficiency, international
diplomacy and community planning. They learn from a
faculty of leading academics whose research illuminates our
understanding of the world and offers solutions to some of
today’s most challenging problems.
City College provides the resources to make this possible. We continue
to expand our world-class facilities in an environment that fosters
creativity and encourages visionary thinking. Our public and private
partnerships support advanced faculty research and promote student
achievement. Above all, we offer opportunities for the exchange and
implementation of ideas that empower and transform.

The effects of this synergy are evident in a year filled with outstanding
accomplishments. From engineering to medicine, to architecture
and the arts, City scholars across disciplines are making significant,
lasting contributions. I am grateful to City alumni, friends and
advocates whose steadfast support enables our ongoing success.

Lisa S. Coico, Ph.D.

President, The City College of New York
 C ity College, National Leader
City College’s academic excellence, diversity and affordability put
it at the forefront of institutions nationwide. Five of our master’s
programs were featured in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best
Graduate Schools 2016” rankings. The publication also rated
CCNY as the number one Regional University in the North for
racial and ethnic diversity. Princeton Review named City College
one of the nation’s “Best Value” colleges and universities and City
once again made the Forbes list of “America’s Top Colleges.”

Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education listed The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
as one of the top ten institutions granting bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics. City College also
appeared in the magazine’s Top 100 for bachelor’s degrees granted to Hispanics and for Hispanic
graduate student enrollment.
City tied for the honor of producing the most U.S. Fulbright Scholars
for 2014–2015. The Fulbright Scholar Program awards grants to faculty,
researchers and administrators.

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We reached a major milestone this year with
the establishment of the CUNY School of
Medicine at City College in partnership with
Bronx-based St. Barnabas Hospital, part of the
SBH Health System. The new medical school
expands on the work of the Sophie Davis
School of Biomedical Education to recruit
underrepresented minorities into medicine
and increase medical care in historically
underserved communities. Operating on the
City College campus in Harlem with a clinical
campus at St. Barnabas Hospital, it is the only
medical school in the CUNY system and will
welcome the first class of students in fall 2016.

Nobel Laureate and alumnus John O’Keefe (’63) returned

to campus to present the inaugural Professor Sharon
Cosloy-Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist
Lecture on “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: How
we got here and where we are going.” Professor O’Keefe
became City’s 10th Nobel Laureate when he received the
2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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 Chinese author and Nobel Prize Laureate
Mo Yan visited City College to accept an
honorary degree and present the Samuel Rudin
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture. His
talk, in Mandarin, made history as the first
Rudin Lecture given in a foreign language.
Mo Yan’s writing has been translated into
more than 20 languages and earned him the
2012 Nobel Prize for Literature.

In October, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of

Dr. Jonas Salk, a 1934 City graduate who developed the first
successful polio vaccine in 1955. The “Jonas Salk Centenary
Symposium: Polio, Vaccines & Infectious Disease—Science,
History & Social Significance” featured a panel of medical experts
discussing the development and legacy of the vaccine.

Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit gave this year’s Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism.
“Atlases against Empire: A Woman Measures the City” dealt with her long project to combine
nuanced personal observation and rigorous historical analysis of the ecology of space.
The Spitzer School of Architecture hosted an extraordinary exhibit of the work of Catalan
architect Antoni Gaudí. “Sagrada Família—Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece: Geometry,
Construction and Site” included photographs, architectural models and casts used in
construction of La Sagrada Familia, the Gaudí-designed cathedral located in Barcelona,
Spain. The free public exhibit was sponsored by Santander Bank.

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Each summer, City College awards
theatre scholarships for study at the
London Academy of Music and Dramatic
Arts (LAMDA). This year, the City
College Center for the Arts (CCCA)
invited LAMDA to participate in its
Summer Theatre 2015 series. For its
first full-length performance in the U.S.,
LAMDA staged a modernized production
of the comedy “She Stoops to Conquer”
by Oliver Goldsmith.

The Division of Interdisciplinary

Studies at the Center for Worker
Education presented the second
annual The Americas Film
Festival of New York (TAFFNY)
in June. The festival offered films,
workshops, debates and lectures
representing the rich diversity
of the Americas. Support for
TAFFNY came from City College’s
Division of Humanities and the
Arts and the Colin Powell School
for Civic and Global Leadership,
along with the Borough of
Manhattan Community College
(BMCC), Instituto Cervantes
and the National Museum of the
American Indian (NMAI).
The Jerome Levy Foundation awarded
a grant of $1.8 million to City College
to establish the S Jay Levy Fellowship
for Career Achievement. The grant
helps establish and sustain corporate
partnerships for student internships.
Participants will receive stipends and
complete a comprehensive professional
development curriculum in advance
of their internships.

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ommencement 2015
The brand-new South Campus Great Lawn debuted as the setting for
City College’s 169th Commencement Exercises on May 29. Honorary
degrees were awarded to 2014 Nobel Laureate John O’Keefe (’63);
Ursula Burns, Xerox Corporation chair and CEO; and pioneering
engineer Michael Pope (’44BEE). All three served as keynote speakers.

Graduating at the top of the class of more than 3,500 was

Valedictorian Violeta Contreras Ramirez, a Mexican-born
Honors student with a double major in biology and psychology.
Da Wi Shin, a Korean immigrant and biomedical engineering
major in the Macaulay Honors College, was Salutatorian.
Both intend to pursue careers in medicine.

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 Amazing
Experiences

Located adjacent to the City College

Center for Discovery and Innovation,
the expansive South Campus Great
Lawn features a sloping lawn, stone
terracing, winding paths, shady
benches and plantings.

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Photo courtesy of Don Gutierrez
 T op Honors for City Scholars
City College of New York historian Lale Can won a National Endowment for
the Humanities Summer Stipend to finish her book, “Spiritual Citizens:
Central Asians and the Politics of Pilgrimage in the Ottoman Empire,
1869–1914.” The work explores imperial citizenship and extraterritorial rights.

Junior biomedical engineering major Antonios Mourdoukoutas received a

Barry Goldwater Scholarship for 2015. His career goal is to conduct research in
neural engineering and teach at the university level. Established by Congress,
the Goldwater Program supports students who intend to pursue research
careers as scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Despite growing up with no formal schooling, Sabina Pringle graduated from

City College last fall with an honors degree in English and a raft of awards.
In August, she traveled to Colombia as the recipient of a 2015–2016 Fulbright
U.S. Student Award, which supports her yearlong English Teaching Assistantship
at a Colombian university.

“Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora” (Grove
Press, 2014) by Associate Professor of English Emily Raboteau was named
a 2014 American Book Award winner. The memoir chronicles her personal
journey around the globe in search of the Black Promised Land.

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation named Distinguished Professor

Michael Sorkin a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of architecture,
planning and design. Professor Sorkin directs the Graduate Program in
Urban Design at the Spitzer School of Architecture.
Eight CCNY undergraduates accepted Benjamin A. Gilman International
Scholarships for overseas study. The federally funded Gilman program prepares
U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy
and interdependent world. Scholarships went to Troy Blackwell, Jr. (Spain),
Khristian Brooks (South Korea), Dalvin Delia (Italy), Sara Herde (India),
Brianna Madrigal (Japan), Stephanie Petit-Homme (France), Stefanos Ugbit
(Jordan), and Diana Vega (Brazil).

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 The LAGRANT Foundation awarded
scholarships to two students from CCNY’s
media and communication arts department.
Undergraduate Kai Simmonds and graduate
student Donna Dei-Baning were the only
recipients from New York State to receive the
scholarships, which support students from
ethnically diverse backgrounds pursuing
careers in advertising, marketing and
public relations.

Dilenny Cisnero,
Christopher Colon,
Chayanne Marcano,
Bilha Njuguna and
Vanessa Velez received
two-year Mellon Mays
Undergraduate Fellowships from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation. The awards will
support their research on topics as varied
as post-colonial literacy in East Africa and
gentrification in Brooklyn and East Harlem.
The program encourages students from groups
traditionally underrepresented in graduate
education to enter doctoral programs and
pursue careers in research and college teaching.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Graduate

Research Fellowships to six recent City graduates to support
study leading to a research-based advanced degree in science
or engineering. Recipients include Danielle G. Rivera, who is
pursuing her master of science in biology at City College, as
well as Adam Ahmed Atia, Sankha Ghatak, Jannatun Nayem,
John Sebastian Ruano-Salguero and Adrianna Trusiak.

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 C ity Students Exemplify Excellence

Ingenuity and enterprise merged at the Zahn Innovation Center Entrepreneurship Pitch final
in April. Competition sponsors, including the Moxie Foundation, City College alumnus Harvey
Kaylie (’60) and Standard Chartered Bank, awarded a total of $144,000 in prize money. “Vivoz
Biolabs” won the Kaylie Prize for its innovative Z-chip, which determines the most effective drug
for cancer patients by analyzing tumor samples. The Zahn Prize went to “Build On The Go” for
a mobile app that visually tracks and manages every task on any construction project. The Social
Innovation Prize was awarded to “Hast” for a mobile app that helps families achieve healthier
lifestyles. In the competition’s newest category, the Standard Chartered Women Entrepreneurs’
Prize, “Cubbies” won for its reusable bamboo cloth diaper.

City College students placed first in five fields at the 23rd Annual Collegiate Science and
Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) statewide conference. The winning students were Michelle
Almeida (genetics), Andrea Cardenas (microbiology), Avaje Jackson (biology), Stephanie Pena
(environmental science), and Abdul Rashid Abdulai (cell and molecular biology).
Sophomore psychology major Elaine Johnson was named to the
2017 Class of Jeannette K. Watson Fellows. The fellowship provides
outstanding undergraduate students from select New York City
colleges with paid internships for three successive summers,
including one overseas placement. Her first summer internship
took place at the nonprofit America Needs You.

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 Doctoral students Jared Bass, Jose Cobo, Silas
Hartley and Alicia Sponholz were selected for Graduate
Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)
Fellowships for excellence, administered by the U.S.
Department of Education (DoE). Distinguished Professor
of Chemistry Ruth Stark directs CCNY’s GAANN
program under a grant from the DoE, with matching funds
from CUNY. The program supports students supervised
by faculty mentors in the linked interdisciplinary areas
of molecular biophysics and biomaterials.
For a third consecutive year, the CCNY-Stanford Summer Research Program sent
City College students to Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., for eight weeks.
The 10 students conducted research with Stanford faculty mentors and participated
in weekly seminars. The program is designed for students considering graduate school,
specifically doctoral research in the humanities and arts.

An 18-member team of student

diplomats representing Uruguay
won the Distinguished Delegation
Award at the 25th National
Model United Nations (NMUN)
Conference in Manhattan. The
City undergraduates were singled
out for their outstanding work
during deliberations in assigned
committees. NMUN/NYC is
the largest and most prestigious
conference of its kind, attracting
close to 5,000 delegates from
six continents.

Four City College of New York scholar-athletes were named 2014 CUNY Athletic
Conference (CUNYAC)/US Army cross country All-Stars. Sophomore Bianca Johnson
and freshmen Samuel Gotts and Thomas Sullivan earned the honors after the CUNYAC
championships. A fourth All-Star, freshman Joseph Benson, also received the Men’s Cross
Country Sportsmanship Award.

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 Electrical engineering majors Erzhena Badmatsyrenova, Gayashan Fernando
and Anna McGilloway from the Zahn Innovation Center took first place in
The Resolution Project’s Social Venture Challenge (SVC). Their winning
entry, “Smart Bridge Sockets,” is a portable home energy management system
for home appliances. Held at the United Nations, the SVC is an international
competition designed to inspire university students to propose solutions to
pressing social issues.

“Grover,” the brainchild of a team

of City students, placed 11th at
the 2014 Chem-e-Car finals in
Atlanta. The American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
event is an annual competition
to design and construct a car
powered by a chemical energy.
A zinc and magnesium battery
developed at the CUNY Energy
Institute at CCNY powered
“Grover.” Kavindra Singh, a
senior in the Grove School of
Engineering, captained the
16-member team of chemical
engineering students.
Class of 2015 psychology graduate Eric Lee was commissioned as a second lieutenant
through the CUNY ROTC program at City College. As a ROTC student, his days
consisted of a commute of nearly two hours each way from his home in Queens, early
morning physical training, a full course load, and weekly leadership labs. He will
continue on in the Army Reserve and is pursuing a career in law enforcement.

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GROUND Facult y

BREAK R e se a rch

I NG
Groundbreaking Faculty Research
The City College Center for Discovery and Innovation opened in fall 2014, providing researchers, scientists,
students and faculty with a customized facility designed to support advanced research and learning in the key fields
of nanotechnology, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience and environmental sciences. The futuristic new
research center occupies 200,000 square feet and serves as a gateway to the south campus of City College.

A study of mouse opossums in Venezuela by a trio of City biologists led to a cover story in the Swedish journal
“Ecography.” Associate Professor Robert P. Anderson and graduate students Eliecer E. Gutiérrez and Robert A.
Boria conducted geographic information systems (GIS)-based ecological niche modeling analyses indicating that
competition between two species can lead to the geographic isolation of one of them. Their study was supported
in part by the National Science Foundation.

Debra Auguste, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering, led a team
of researchers to identify a molecule in triple negative breast cancer cell lines and tissues that could lead to the
development of new treatments for one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. The research is funded
by a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health grant that includes researchers from Harvard Medical School,
Emory University School of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.
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 Neuroscience startup Thync enlisted biomedical
engineering Professor Marom Bikson to test a
revolutionary mood-changing device in a trial study
involving approximately 100 City College students
and staff. Results showed that a low-intensity,
painless electrical stimulation to the head through
electrodes connected to a smartphone could
produce a calming effect.

The work of Ana Carnaval, assistant professor of biology, has contributed to the development
of a new biodiversity metric known as “phylogeographic endemism.” The metric quantifies
the degree to which the genetic variation within species is restricted in geographical space.

A $2.17 million National Institutes of Health grant funds a study on “local sleep”
by Maria Felice Ghilardi, associate medical professor in the Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education. She is investigating whether sleep in humans occurs locally,
in regions of the cerebral cortex, during normal waking hours. The five-year project
is the third component of an $8 million study also involving the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor of architecture history Marta Gutman’s book, “A City for Children: Women,
Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950” (University of Chicago
Press, September 2014) examines how women in California created spaces that improved
the lives of children against a backdrop of urbanization.

The Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI), housed
at City College, inaugurated Dominican Landmarks, an online public interactive initiative and
educational tool. The project pinpoints and highlights Dominican landmarks worldwide and
encourages contributions by website visitors. The site was developed and executed primarily
by students led by DSI Director and sociology Professor Ramona Hernández.

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 Professor Mary Lutz of the Center for Worker Education is
conducting a feasibility study to expand neighborhood-college
collaboration on priority needs for New York City’s 59
Community Districts. In her Community Needs Assessment
course, students gather reflections of community members
through interviews and focus groups. This information,
together with quantitative survey, census data and reviews
of literature, produces a report the community can use for
planning purposes.

A study analyzing the brainwaves of 16 TV viewers allowed

researchers to accurately predict the preferences of large
TV audiences with up to 90 percent accuracy. The resulting
paper, “Audience Preferences Are Predicted by Temporal
Reliability of Neural Processing,” was published in “Nature
Communications.” The paper’s senior author, Lucas Parra,
Herbert Kayser Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
is exploring whether the study’s findings can be used to
diagnose neurological disorders such as attention deficit
disorder or mild cognitive decline.

Psychology Professor Irvin Schonfeld worked on a study of more than 5,500 teachers that
revealed 90 percent of the subjects identified as burned out met diagnostic criteria for
depression. The suggestion of a strong connection between burnout and depression offers
new insights for the treatment and management of both. A paper on the study appeared
in the “International Journal of Stress Management.”

Terri N. Watson, assistant professor in the School of Education, co-authored

“Reframing Parent Involvement: What Should Urban School Leaders
Do Differently?” The article, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of
“Leadership and Policy in Schools,” presents a case study on how staff in a
comprehensive urban high school identify and consider the impediments
to parent involvement.
“Bones of Contention,” a new documentary by Professor Andrea Weiss, focuses on the erasure and
denial of LGBT history in post-Franco Spain and aims to give voice to those who were denied
expression. Dr. Weiss, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, co-directs City’s MFA Film Program.
Research for the film was supported by a 2014 Fulbright Scholar grant to Spain.

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elebrating City Alumni
The Alumni Association of The City College of New York held its
134th Annual Dinner in November, highlighting the exceptional
accomplishments of City alumni and friends.

Former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and the Friars

Club received the 67th John H. Finley Award. The Finley Award is given
in recognition of exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York.

Ms. Fields, who is currently president and CEO of the National Black
Leadership Commission on AIDS, was lauded for her pioneering
career and distinguished public service. Famous for its celebrity roasts,
the Friars Club is also renowned for its charity work in support of the
underprivileged, disabled, veterans and senior citizens.

In addition, the following

alumni were honored with
Townsend Harris Medals for
their outstanding post-graduate
achievements.
• Laura Barbanel (’62)
• Phil Coltoff (’62)
• Joel Engel (’57EE)
• Irwin Kahn, Esq. (’55)
• Stanley Nelson (’76)
• Stanley Plesent (’48)
• Stanley Wolpert (’53)

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ALUMN I
At the association’s annual meeting in June, Stephen
Jablonsky, a 1962 City College alumnus, received
the Faculty Service Award. Dr. Jablonsky has taught
in the music department since 1964. Regina Pierce,
an administrative assistant in the Grove School of
Engineering, received the Administrative Service
Award; she has worked at CCNY since 1979.

During the program, service awards were

presented to five alumni:
• Renotti M. Alexander (’96)
CWE Alumni Group
• Salvatore Arena, Jr. (’76)
Communications Alumni Group
• Yvette Burke-Forehand (’05)
Black Alumni Group
• Joyce R. Coppin (’58)
Education Alumni Group
• Frieda Tatem (’54, ’62E)

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 PART Ex pa nding R e source s

NER B uilding Pa rt ne r ships

SHIPS
A distinguished gathering of nearly 300 attended the 12th annual Presidential Awards Dinner in June. Receiving
awards for their contributions to the arts, technology, education and media were Arthur Gelb (’58), president
of Four Sigma Corporation; John Johnson (’61, ’63), retired Emmy Award-winning television news anchor,
artist and author; Dave Levin, co-founder of charter schools network KIPP; and Martin T. Sosnoff (’52),
chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Atalanta Sosnoff Capital, LLC. The gala raised $1.7 million
for the President’s Fund for Excellence, supporting special projects and programs throughout the college.
Standard Chartered Bank partnered with the Zahn Innovation
Center to establish a program dedicated to supporting early-stage
women entrepreneurs. The Standard Chartered Technology
Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs launched with $575,000 in
funding over two years. The incubator will promote emerging
faculty, staff and student entrepreneurs whose businesses benefit the
larger economy. A new facility, the Women Entrepreneurs Resource
Center, offers dedicated workspace, mentorship, coursework, and
access to an extensive support network for new entrepreneurs.

A seven-year agreement between City College and Santander Bank

increases access to continuing education programs, enhances
international outreach initiatives and supports cultural offerings.
The exhibit, “Sagrada Família—Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece:
Geometry, Construction and Site,” was a product of the joint
venture. It is the longest-term agreement Santander Bank has
signed with any academic institution to date.

Nineteen high school students from around the country and

Mexico traveled to City College for a summer AdCamp,
established by the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
Nancy Tag, associate professor in CCNY’s advertising/public
relations program, coordinated the intensive weeklong experience.
Students attended lectures and work sessions, went on fieldtrips,
prepared campaigns and presentations, conducted market research,
and developed a communications strategy, including a 15-second
TV commercial.

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 ARTS
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The Arts in Action
Grammy Award winner Arturo O’Farrill; actress, dancer and choreographer
Carmen de Lavallade; director and screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood; and
singer-songwriter Alexa Ray Joel were the honorees at the City College Center for
the Arts Inaugural Awards Benefit. “Celebrating the Arts and Artists” featured
performances by O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Batoto Yetu, the
Sho-Off Dance Company, and Darilyn Castillo, a City College theatre major.

Best-selling mystery writer Walter Mosley received the 2014 Langston Hughes
Medal at the Langston Hughes Festival. Mosley, who earned a master’s degree
in creative writing from CCNY, is the author of more than 40 acclaimed books,

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ACTION

including the Easy Rawlins detective series. The Hughes Medal is awarded to highly distinguished
writers from throughout the African American diaspora for works that help to celebrate the memory and
tradition of Langston Hughes. The medal presentation capped a daylong celebration of the poet’s legacy.

Pulitzer-Prize winning poet author Tracy K. Smith was the featured guest poet at the 43rd annual City
College of New York Poetry Festival. The all-verse extravaganza is New York’s longest-running poetry
celebration. Knopf Publishers funds the festival and provides prizes for the citywide high school poetry
competition. More than 150 student poets from approximately 50 schools recited their work.

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ity in the Community
Community disaster planning was the topic of the day at the Second
Annual Harlem Ready! Summit. Hosted by City College’s WHCR
90.3FM Emergency Broadcast Team (WEBT) in partnership with
Harlem Hospital Center, the summit featured a keynote address by
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer and panel discussions on
emergency preparedness and readiness. City College, WHCR 90.3FM,
Harlem Hospital Center, and Harlem Community Development
Corporation served as participating sponsors.

The School of Education’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre

presented the first annual Harlem Children’s Theatre Festival in May.
The free event offered a variety of social and educational events for
children, including sing-a-longs, storytelling, performances and a raffle.
Formerly known as Family Arts Day, the festival is open to families
with young children from Harlem and surrounding communities.

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 City College hosted day three of the four-day Women of the
World (WOW) Festival, celebrating women and girls from all
walks of life and all parts of the world. As part of the festival,
I participated in a Girls Town Hall, highlighting girls and women in STEM
fields, and female leadership. The event, centered at the historic Apollo Theater,
resulted from an unprecedented collaboration between the Apollo and
London’s Southbank Centre, where the WOW Festival originated.

City is
Community

Forty New York City high school

students participated in the 2015
High School Initiative in Remote
Sensing of the Earth Systems Science
and Engineering (HIRES) summer
internship program run by the
CUNY CREST Institute at City
College. Students enroll in a college
course, work closely with scientists,
collect and analyze data, and make
presentations at the CUNY Summer
STEM Symposium. HIRES is part
of the Science Research Mentoring
Consortium, funded by the
Pinkerton Foundation.

The City Effect is far reaching, from our beautiful hilltop campus in
Harlem where more than 90 languages and 100 countries are represented
by our students, faculty, and staff to our surrounding communities and the
global society. I am committed to ensuring that we continue to be a quality
resource for the best minds, an incubator for research, innovation and
creativity, and a place where lives are forever transformed.

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