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Alumni House to house offices and conference spaces for Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership T��ɫ��Ƶ is pleased to announce that Alumni House, a limestone townhouse it owns in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights Historic District, will become part of the recently established Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Renovations to the building, located at the corner of Convent Avenue and W. 141st Street, are scheduled to begin early in 2014. “Alumni House has been vacant since it was damaged by fire in the late 1970s, but has the potential to be a gorgeous

T��ɫ��Ƶ announced today that ten fourth-year students in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education BS/MD program have been chosen to receive the Sophie and Leonard Davis Scholarship, which awards $30,000 toward medical studies. They are the 34th cohort of scholars in the program, which was begun in 2000. "Through the generosity of Sophie and Leonard Davis, we are honoring their spirit and commitment to education by recognizing ten outstanding young men and women," said Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, provost of City College and dean of the Sophie Davis School, in announcing

December 10 lecture by Dean Eric Weitz kicks off series of events examining human rights issues through multiple lenses T��ɫ��Ƶ today announced the launch of a yearlong human rights forum that will bring together members of the City College and New York City communities to examine human rights issues through multiple lenses. The inaugural event will be a lecture by Dr. Eric D. Weitz, dean of humanities and the arts at City College, 6:30 - 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 10, in the North Academic Center Ballroom on the City College campus. “What Do We Mean by Human Rights? An

Self-taught artist Chrissy Pena’s exhibit looks at HIV/AIDS, breast cancer and self-preservation Self-taught fine artist Chrissy Pena has explored the beauty of life against all odds in her powerful exhibit "The Rhythm of My Colors," currently on display at the City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE). The 20-piece framed pastel art installation runs through December 6 and is free and open to the public. In her first exhibit at a college or university, Pena focuses her artwork on showcasing people’s strength, love, faith, and overcoming

On Monday, December 2, photos of more than 100 City College students who participated in the Project Speak Up Speak Out photo campaign will be displayed on a banner to be hung in the rotunda of the North Academic Center. The hanging of the banner, which will be unveiled at 12:30 p.m. that day, culminates a campaign begun during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October to increase awareness of domestic violence issues. Project Speak Up Speak Out created the banner to illustrate the power of community solidarity in working to end domestic violence, explained Gargi Padki, the campaign

T��ɫ��Ƶ launches "Science and Society," a yearlong lecture series, Thursday, December 5. Yale University historian Daniel Kevles will be the first speaker. His talk, "Genetics, Law and Human Rights," will be presented from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Room 1/201, North Academic Center. Each speaker in the series is a prominent scholar in the humanities or social sciences whose work engages with the history, politics and societal significance of the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math). Keith Wailoo , a noted historian of medicine and vice dean of the Woodrow

Award takes Haitian native back home to document earthquake recovery More than three years after one of the worst natural disasters in memory in the western hemisphere, recovery remains painfully slow from the earthquake that killed close to a quarter million people in Haiti. Widline Cadet, a 2013 City College of New York graduate, is documenting the aftermath through photography as a 2013 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow . She is supported by $19,000 stipend from the Mortimer and Sara Hays Endowment at Brandeis University. The fellowships provide support for travel and living expenses

Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson awarded $250,000 to design strategies to improve coastal resiliency of a vital ecological resource T��ɫ��Ƶ is one of four colleges and universities awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundationto develop design strategies to improve resiliency in coastal zones subject to flooding such as that caused by Hurricane Sandy. The CCNY project will focus on developing proposals for Jamaica Bay, a 31-square mile estuarine embayment located in Brooklyn and Queens. The research is intended to supplement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' North

The City College community will gather with the friends and family of Marshall Berman Friday, November 22, to pay tribute to Professor Berman, who passed away September 11. The tribute will be held 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, and is free and open to the public. Dr. Berman, a distinguished professor of political science in the Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College, was a highly regarded humanist, social theorist and public intellectual. The Bronx native had been a member of the City College faculty since

‘Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations’ is first volume of its kind Retha Powers, acting assistant director of City College's publishing certificate program, has edited the first book to catalog more than 5,000 years of quotations attributed to black people. " Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations : 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World," published by Little, Brown and Co. , goes on sale November 19. The 720-page volume contains 5,000 quotes that date as far back as the time of Ancient Egypt and go through American slavery, Jim