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June 16, 2022
Digital Game Design Is Newest CCNY Major
A new bachelor's degree program in Digital Game Design launches this fall at The City College of New York, the first opportunity of its kind in New York City public higher education. In partnership with Mayor Eric Adams' Office of Media and Entertainment, the program is an investment in the next generation of designers and diversity for the growing game design industry. It will also provide students from Hostos Community College's Digital Game Design Associate Degree program the opportunity to pursue a bachelor’s at City College.
 
Research and Scholarship
DNA Study Points to Disease-Fighting Potential
In a study of DNA replication, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry David Jeruzalmi of CCNY's Division of Science and colleagues find that E. coli and bacteriophage λP DNA evolved similar helicase loaders despite divergent evolution. The implications of this discovery are far-reaching: "If we developed a molecule that forces [the helicase] to stay open, the cell can't replicate. That's a new antibiotic," says Jeruzalmi.
 
New Book Details Health Impacts of Racism
America's deadly racial health disparities, long a focus of Professor Linda Villarosa's journalism, are the subject of Villarosa's new book, "Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation." Published this week, the book also was excerpted in the June 12 New York Times Magazine cover story, "The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America." As an educator, Villarosa divides her time between CCNY's Division of Humanities and the Arts and CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
 
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Students in Action
Meet the 2022 Great Grads
Introducing the Great Grads of 2022: Nominated by their mentors from every CCNY school and division, the 15 individuals selected excel in the classroom, inspire with their personal stories and illustrate the transformative power of the City College experience. Join us in celebrating the achievements of this year's Great Grads as they embark on becoming change agents and role models as healers, educators, researchers, public servants and policy makers.
 
I Am CCNY: Philip Lee, Class of 2024
Why CCNY: Its successful history of supporting first-generation college students. Considering how my parents never had the opportunity for higher education, CCNY has allowed me to make my parents, my grandfather and myself proud of what hard work and diligence can accomplish.
Major: Architecture, because prior to even knowing my grandfather was an architect, he would always teach me how to use construction tools and help with his projects in the garden, and give me art lessons on how to draw my surroundings.
CCNY Organizations and Opportunities: The Spitzer School of Architecture Asian Club and the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS). This past year, I served as director of our chapter of Freedom by Design, a student-run branch of AIAS founded on community outreach through design-build projects. In spring semester, I participated in the Climate Policy Fellows Program of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. I have been a long-time recipient of an Alfred Harcourt Scholarship at CCNY. Recently, I received the Castagna Scholarship, a Spitzer School of Architecture scholarship program that supports students interested in studying abroad.
 
Giving and Growth
Hockey Alumni Give to CCNY and Community 
After more than four decades, ice hockey is back at City College, thanks to alumni who played on CCNY's team in the 1970s. Coaches Vincent Cuomo ('79) and Ken Levine and general manager Nicholas Tagarelli ('75) lead the CCNY Men's and Women's Ice Hockey Club, and Norb Ecksl ('75) handles alumni operations. The club has ongoing ties with local organization Ice Hockey in Harlem, most recently donating equipment of the late team captain and CCNY Hall of Fame member Dan Papachristos ('76), kneeling in the first row, fourth from right, in the 1974-5 varsity team photo. Alumni engagement and fundraisers like May's successful Ice Bucket Challenge (returning this fall) help to keep CCNY hockey alive and thriving.
 
Culture and Community
Join Us for The Americas Film Festival
The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) returns to in-person screenings when it opens tomorrow for its ninth year. Hosted by CCNY's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education and partners, the seven-day program highlights the cultures and peoples of the Americas. Included are U.S. premieres, producer and director discussions, a short films competition and a June 21 tribute to works from CCNY's MFA in Film program.
 
Dates to Save

June 18
"Cinema and Sanctuary" at the New York City Independent Film Festival

June 22
The Back to College Comedy Show with Kevin "Dot Com" Brown

July 6
Summer Session 2 Begins

August 13
Harlem Week: New York Road Runners' Harlem 5K Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce

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CCNY in the News

Former NICU Patient Graduates Medical School, Aims to Return to NICU as Doctor
Good Morning America


Opinion: NYC's Rebounding Rents Shine Light on Long-Standing Crisis
City Limits


How GroupM's McDonald Is Re-Shaping the Agency in a "Talent Crisis"
Beet.TV


Why So Many Young Adults with Depression Don't Get Treatment
Time


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