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City Tech Team Wins $174K Mother Cabrini Foundation Grant for Radiologic Tech Equipment

Maureen Archer-Festa (School of Professional Studies), Beth Levine (City Tech Foundation), and Ryan Rowe (Radiologic Tech & Medical Imaging) submitted a successful proposal to the Mother Cabrini Foundation for $174,630 to purchase an anatomage table and a portable radiographic unit for the Department of Radiologic Tech & Medical Imaging.

Soyeon Cho Receives $100K SSA Grant to Address Barriers for Asian American Older Adults

Soyeon Cho (Human Services) submitted a proposal to the NY Retirement & Disability Research Center in May for the project: Enhancing Equity in SSA Services: Addressing the Barriers Faced by Asian American Older Adults in Chinese, Korean, and Indian Communities, which was accepted for funding by the Social Security Administration! The research grant is for a total of $100,000

Laura Westenguard Secures $35K for LGBTQIA+ Programming at City Tech

Laura Westenguard (English) is pleased to announce that City Tech has been awarded $35,000 for AY 24-25 to support LGBTQIA+ programming and initiatives – the third year in a row that we have received funding!

Marzieh Azarderakhsh Awarded $150K for Algal Bloom Monitoring Project in Delaware River

Marzieh Azarderakhsh (Construction Management & Civil Engineering Technology) is pleased to announce the award of $150,000 for City Tech as part of a multi-institutional/agency collaborative for the project, Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms in the Delaware River Watershed Using Drones and Spatial Analysis, funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation – Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund. The project will develop algorithms to predict the development of benthic and planktonic HABs under various hydrologic/seasonal conditions to inform decision-making for habitat management and restoration initiatives, particularly related to drinking water quality, wildlife conservation, and recreation activities.

Sara Gómez Woolley Interviewed for PW Podcast on Comics as a Second Language Anthology

Sara Gómez Woolley (Communication Design) was interviewed for the PW podcast, More to Come, where she discussed ‘Comics As a Second Language’, an anthology of student work that came out of a course she developed and taught last fall at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Art of Visual Memory: Exploring and Creating Biography and Memoir in the Graphic Novel Format.

Christopher Swift Wins Bevington Prize for Book on Medieval Theatre

Christopher Swift (Humanities) has won this year’s Bevington Prize from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) for his book, Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. The committee of judges wrote, “Swift’s impressive monograph brings Iberian theater out of the blind-spot of the field of early drama studies and teaches us something new about medieval theatrical traditions that have gone overlooked and understudied while also making important and exciting contributions to current theories of performance and performativity. The committee found Swift’s book innovative, engaging, and beautifully expressed.”

Sarah Ann Standing Publishes Two New Books in Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance Series

Sarah Ann Standing (Humanities) has issued two new books in her book series, Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance (STEP) for Routledge Press, for AY 2023-2024: Angenette Spalink, Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene (2023) and Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley (eds.) Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (2024). Four additional books are in contract with the series at this time.