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Sciame Lecture Series 2025

Gender Equality in the Built Environment is topic of Spring 2025 Sciame Series

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at 91ĸƵ presents the spring 2025 Sciame Lecture Series, Still Making Space for Gender, featuring trailblazing women and LGBTQIA+ design practitioners, scholars and activists in discussion about the built environment. All lectures are in-person, free, and held at 5:30 pm at the Spitzer School of Architecture in Room 107, the Sciame Auditorium, 141 Convent Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10031. In the series of lectures, a wide range of topics from aesthetics to health and wellbeing, and from partying to revolution, are
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Pathways To Home

Spitzer School’s Laura Wainer, alumni and student publish research on immigrant-centered housing

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at 91ĸƵ has published “ PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing,” which addresses issues of immigration and housing justice in New York City by focusing on the polyglot Jackson Heights section of Queens. Written by Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Laura Sara Wainer, recent graduates Valeska Abarca and Lorraine Colbert, and fifth-year student Juan Jimenez Giraldo, Pathways to Home is a collection of student projects, research, international case studies, and reflections. It the
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CCNY’s Spitzer School of Architecture nets five Independent Projects grants

Four faculty members and one alumna of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at 91ĸƵ have received Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York. Each $10,000 award was granted for a self-generated year-long project in design practice and research that sought to answer the question of where design can go next. In the 2024 cycle, 25 proposals were selected out of 120 applications by a panel of 10 designers and educators. The CCNY grant recipients are: Assistant Professor and
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Isabel Estrada

CCNY students and alumni discuss their experiences at CUNY mini-conference

The first-ever Mini-Conference on Undergraduate Research at CUNY’s central office attracted more than 150 attendees from across the University, a significant proportion of them from 91ĸƵ. Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Isabel M. Estrada, who directs CCNY’s Fellowships Program, led off by discussing an application for an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant that would create the CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program. To be known as CUNY STARS, this program “would integrate community college students into growth-oriented multi-institutional pathways
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Carl Fudge Techno-Abstraction

CCNY artist Carl Fudge returns triumphantly from Paris

Artist and City College of New York professor Carl Fudge presented his exhibit Techno-Abstraction at Galerie Richard in Paris. This exhibition was the third time Fudge, the director of the MFA program in studio arts, showed his work in the City of Light. Invited by gallery owners Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Fudge was eager to see how he, a renowned New York artist, would be received in Europe. Richard “has quite an international program,” he said. “He has a few American artists, a few Japanese artists, a few from Belgium and Germany, and a few from Paris, so it's a broad range.” Fudge
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Prof. Anil Agrawal

Grove School Professor Anil K. Agrawal receives top 2025 ASCE Moisseiff Award

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at 91ĸƵ is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his paper “ Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024. The paper proposes a novel robustness evaluation approach that is suited for short, medium and long-span bridges. A significant advantage of this approach is its ability to account for, and estimate, structural robustness corresponding to
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CCNY STEM_Lectec Partnership

CCNY STEM Institute partners with Shark Tank-featured startup for hands-on engineering

Last fall, 91ĸƵ’s STEM Institute partnered with Lectec, an innovative STEM education company founded by engineers who want to change how students experience STEM. Luke St. Amand, co-founder of Lectec, taught at the CCNY STEM Institute in the fall, leading students through a hands-on engineering and entrepreneurship curriculum where they built electric vehicles, learned about manufacturing, and explored real-world applications of STEM. Now, Lectec is set to appear on ABC network’s Shark Tank, 8 p.m. on Feb. 7, to showcase the same cutting-edge educational tools used in
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Rosalia Reyes Simon

NY State Assembly, Latin American Cultural Heritage honor CCNY educator Rosalia Reyes Simon

Lecturer of Teaching Spanish Language & Latin American/Latinx Literature and Cultures Rosalia Reyes Simon, MA, Spanish ‘17 of 91ĸƵ’s Division of Humanities & the Arts was awarded citations from the New York State Assembly, and the Latin American Cultural Heritage organization, for her contributions and commitment to education and the dissemination of Latinx and Latin American cultures. Reyes Simon received the citations at a ceremony held at the Washington Heights-based Directorate of Dominican Culture Abroad, an official Dominican agency that promotes the country’s
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Roxane Gay is this year’s medal recipient at the 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival on Feb. 13.

91ĸƵ celebrates Black History Month 2025

Student Life, in the Division of Student Affairs at 91ĸƵ, kicks off Black History Month 2025 with a Spring Activity Fair on Feb. 6 from 12-2 p.m. in the Great Hall. On Feb. 13 from 6-8 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall, CCNY’s Black Studies Department and The Rifkind Center presents the 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, and this year’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient is Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar. A list of Black History Month events follows: Langston Hughes Festival Student Symposium on Feb. 13 from 12 -2 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall
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Mellon Foundation

$500k grant to CCNY enables platform for stories of South Bronx environmental issues

91ĸƵ has received a $490,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a new project at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, “SUSTAIN-NYC: Storytelling for Urban Sustainability and Transformation in New York City." This project, a partnership with local environmental justice organization South Bronx Unite, aims to undertake various media projects that document, analyze, and publicize ongoing issues of environmental injustice in the communities of Mott Haven and Port Morris. These communities have been affected disproportionately by these
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