CCNY Hosts NYC Vaccination Site
The City College of New York's vaccination site is a life-saving resource close to home for residents of communities in Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx hard hit by COVID-19. It also serves New Yorkers at large. Opened March 25 in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the site has administered 15,477 doses of the free vaccine and registered 10,022 upcoming appointments, according to the most recent data. Appointments can be made online or by phone. Choose any site in New York City, or to specify City College's North Academic Center, enter "1549 Amsterdam Ave." in the NYC COVID-19 Vaccine Finder. To preview the experience of getting vaccinated at City College, watch a new CUNY video featuring CCNY student volunteers from the CUNY School of Medicine.
Research: Making Discoveries, Creating Change
Advancing Equity in Cancer Treatment Research
For cancer treatments to be available to and effective for all, clinical trials need to be more inclusive. Patients of color are dramatically underrepresented in treatment research trials, U.S. FDA data show, yet suffer some of the shortest survival rates for most cancers. In a new $6 million initiative to increase diversity in clinical trials, Karen Hubbard, professor of Biology in CCNY's Division of Science, co-leads a health equity partnership with three New York cancer centers.
Watson Fellows Join Select, Supportive Cohort
Nija Daniels and Kimberly Pereyra Monero, both sophomores in CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are recipients of 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships. The selective awards, granted to outstanding undergraduates from New York City colleges, provide three years of financial support and mentoring, as well as summer internships at prominent organizations in the U.S. or abroad.
I Am CCNY: Daniel Talero, Class of 2021 Why CCNY: A fellow LaGuardia Community College alumnus recommended the Honors Program in Legal Studies at CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. It was a perfect fit and ultimately led me to pick CCNY over other schools. Major/Minors:Political Science, with double minors in Philosophy and Legal Studies. The Black Lives Matter protests of the early 2010's pushed me toward higher education. Politics and law are at the heart of criminal justice reform, and CCNY offered a pathway to work on those issues. CCNY Organizations: In addition to being a member of the Honors Program in Legal Studies, I am a Climate Policy Fellow. Through the Climate Policy fellowship, I will be spending the summer working as a policy researcher at the Environmental Defense Fund. Lastly, I serve on the Faculty Student Disciplinary Committee here at CCNY.
Memorial Gift Honors Alumnus Thomas J. Fararo
A generous donation in the name of alumnus Thomas J. Fararo (1933-2020) will fund the Stuyvesant-CCNY Initiative. Building on a relationship between the two institutions dating back more than a century, the Initiative will expand City College's recruitment and retention of graduates of Stuyvesant High School, which Fararo attended. After studies at CCNY and Columbia, Fararo received his PhD in Sociology from Syracuse University. He spent four decades in academia and retired in 2006 as Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Speakers and Seminars
CCNY Celebrates Week of Science
Join the CCNY Division of Science April 19-23 for an online series of free public events designed to spark curiosity, conversations and engagement in a broad spectrum of the sciences. Among the highlights of the Week of Science 2021 are a virtual tour of CCNY teaching and research laboratories, a panel with distinguished alumni, an Earth Day film screening and a CCNY Planetarium show that sends viewers soaring through the Harlem skies, the solar system and beyond. RSVP for some or all of the Week of Science events.
Culture and Community
One Act. Four Days. 43 Plays.
All are invited to attend the CCNY One-Act Play Festival May 6-9. Presented by student theatre artists of the Department of Theatre and Speech within CCNY's Division of Humanities and the Arts, the program includes several original works by student playwrights. All productions are filmed in advance and will be available online during the free virtual festival.
