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Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture students at �������� under the advisement of Adjunct Professor Steve Preston designed a mobile learning workstation for a local children’s hospital. This work was completed as part of Freedom by Design (FBD), a community service program sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), that aims to solve everyday problems with modest design and construction solutions. The student team included Juan Giraldo (director), Gildalis Torres (historian), Mouhamadou Dieng (construction manager), Evelyn Krutoy

Grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies and the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC), in the amount of $10,000 each, were awarded to support ARCH @ 60: “Bridging Past Visions and Present Realities,” a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Architects’ Renewal Committee (ARCH) in Harlem at CCNY’s J Max Bond Center for Urban Futures, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture on Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16 at CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall. The event critically examines the current shifts and their relative causes in the physical and cultural transformations of Harlem

The Zahn Innovation Center at �������� is working with the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship to deliver a new Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship Certificate targeted at undergraduate students. Experts at CCNY and MIT are creating videos, in-person workshops, and course content designed to help CCNY students solve business problems using AI applications. “CCNY’s Zahn Innovation Center has, for more than a decade, helped students develop both an entrepreneurial mindset and concrete business ventures through a

�������� presents the James Baldwin Centennial Celebration, an homage to the enduring legacy of Harlem-bred writer and activist James Baldwin. Spanning fall 2024, the celebration will encompass film screenings, panels, performances, live music, a writing contest and a Harlem community walk centered on the legacy of James Baldwin, our hometown giant. Born in 1924, James Baldwin's extensive body of work, which includes essays, speeches, plays, poetry, short stories, and novels, fearlessly tackles racial and social issues, offering profound insights into the Black American

Justis Fiduccia, MFA Film student at ��������, was accepted into NBCU Academy’s new Original Voices Accelerator Fellowship six-month program. Fiduccia, Class of 2025, is a documentary filmmaker with autism. The program is for U.S.-based student filmmakers and film critics interested in documentary film, journalism and inclusion The Original Voices Accelerator is a pipeline to launch the generation of diverse creatives behind the camera and in the bylines with an annual convergence at the nation’s oldest journalism school and leading independent documentary film festival

A new $2,500,000 five-year gift by the Friedman family to �������� has established a fund to support the Colin Powell Career Fellows program and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership’s new Social Mobility Lab. The Colin Powell Career Fellows program, established in 2022, provides students with stipends for unpaid and underpaid internships as well as with workshops, training, career coaching, and professional development in order to prepare them for internships. Each internship stipend provides support of up to $5,500 for a Colin Powell student. Internship

Aaron Rand, an alumnus of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at ��������, gifted the college $30,000 to help students in Spitzer School’s Bachelor of Architecture Program. A total of $25,000 of the gift is used to establish The Elan Ganeles Endowed Scholarship Fund, and $5,000 will be used as an annual award for a student to receive The Elan Ganeles Annual Scholarship Award. Both the fund and award are in memory of Rand’s late grandson, Elan Ganeles. Ganeles was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut and double majored in sustainable development and

Boukary Sawadogo, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Black Studies in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, is ��������’s 2024-2025 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to CCNY by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. A highlight of Sawadogo’s new appointment will be the Katz Lecture that he will deliver on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at CCNY’s Advanced Science Research Center Auditorium. Entitled “Of Here and Afar: The World in Me," his talk begins at 4:30 p.m. The event is

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at �������� presents the fall 2024 Sciame Lecture Series, Design Matters: The Housing Question Revisited, examining innovative solutions to the global housing crisis. All lectures are in-person, free, and held at 5:30 pm on Thursdays at the Spitzer School of Architecture in Room 107, the Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10031. The series situates the contemporary dilemma in the powerful arguments made by Friedrich Engels in the late 1800s. In his revolutionary text, “The Housing Question,” Engels

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the noted astrophysicist and bestselling author, is the 2024 John H. Finley Award recipient. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of �������� for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. Click here for details and registration information. In addition, the association is honoring seven CCNY alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They’ll receive the Townsend Harris Medal at the 144th Annual Alumni Gala, at 6 p.m. on Nov. 7 in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, at CCNY. The Townsend Harris recipients are: Victor