Share This

News

RSS
  • CCNY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPT. RECEIVES $750,000 NCI GRANT FOR COLLABORATIONS WITH MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING

    NEW YORK, November 3, 2005 – The City College of New York (CCNY) Biomedical Engineering Department announced that it has received a $750,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct cancer research and training activities in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).

    Read More »
  • ACCLAIMED SCI-FI AUTHOR OCTAVIA BUTLER RECEIVES CCNY LANGSTON HUGHES MEDAL

    NEW YORK, November 3, 2005 - Octavia E. Butler, the highly acclaimed author of science fiction and fantasy, will receive the 2005 Langston Hughes Medal at The City College of New York’s 32nd annual Langston Hughes Festival, Friday, November 11.

    Read More »
  • CCNY ENGINEERING PROFESSOR CHARLES WATKINS NAMED 2005 AAAS FELLOW

    NEW YORK, November 2, 2005 – Dr. Charles B. Watkins, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Dean of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

    Read More »
  • CCNY PRESIDENT GREGORY H. WILLIAMS ANNOUNCES $26 MILLION GIFT FROM INTEL CO-FOUNDER ANDREW S. GROVE, ’60

    NEW YORK, October 27, 2005 – The City College of New York (CCNY) announced today that Andrew S. Grove, a member of the Class of 1960 and a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corp., the world’s leading producer of microchips, will donate $26 million to his alma mater, and that CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein will recommend to the CUNY Board of Trustees that CCNY’s School of Engineering be named as The Grove School of Engineering.

    Read More »
  • 27 PREMED STUDENTS JOIN NEWLY FORMED CCNY CHAPTER OF ALPHA EPSILON DELTA HONOR SOCIETY

    NEW YORK, October 26, 2005 -- Twenty-seven premed students at The City College of New York, whose Program in Pre-Medical Studies (PPS) offers career opportunities in medicine for underrepresented groups, have been inducted as charter members of CCNY’s new Alpha Epsilon Delta Chapter.

    Read More »
  • CCNY TO HOST DIRECTOR’S VIEW FILM FESTIVAL

    NEW YORK, October 20, 2005 - The six year-old Director's View Film Festival will hold its first event at its new home, The City College of New York in Harlem, October 20 – 23.

    Read More »
  • ARTISTS CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE, CUNY CHANCELLOR MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN, TO RECEIVE JOHN H. FINLEY AWARD AT CCNY’S 125th ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER

    NEW YORK, October 20, 2005 – The Alumni Association of The City College of New York will present its John H. Finley Award to renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Dr. Matthew Goldstein, ’63, Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY) at its 125th Annual Dinner Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at The New York Marriott Marquis.

    Read More »
  • CCNY HONORS STUDENT BENJAMIN SCHILLER WINS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SCHOLARSHIP 

    NEW YORK, October 19, 2005 – Honors student Benjamin Jon Schiller, whose burning desire to become a civil engineer led him to The City College of New York eight years after graduating high school, was chosen to receive a Samuel Fletcher Tapman Scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 

    Read More »
  • AMBASSADOR RICHARD HOLBROOKE TO OFFER KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT CCNY CONFERENCE ON UNITED NATIONS REFORM

    NEW YORK, October 11, 2005 – Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1999 to 2001, will deliver the keynote address at an all-day conference on a recently issued U.N. reform proposal Friday, October 14, at The City College of New York (CCNY).

    Read More »
  • CCNY RECEIVES NEW FIVE-YEAR, $12.5 MILLION RCMI GRANT FROM NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH

    NEW YORK, October 11, 2005 – The City College of New York (CCNY) announced today that the National Institute of Health (NIH) has approved its five-year grant through the RCMI (Research Centers for Minority Institutions) initiative.  The grant, which is retroactive to August 2005, provides $2.158 million in year one funding with recommendations for an additional $10.3 million over the life of the grant.  Notification of the approval was received in late September.

    Read More »
  • CCNY, NATIONAL ARTS CLUB PRESENT FIRST GEORGE B. POST AWARD TO ARCHITECT JAMES STEWART POLSHEK

    NEW YORK, September 22, 2005 – James Stewart Polshek of New York, who designed the Clinton Presidential Center as well as expansions and renovations of several notable public buildings, will receive the first George B. Post Award for Excellence in Architecture, given by The City College of New York (CCNY) and the National Arts Club.  The award will be presented at a reception and dinner in Mr. Polshek’s honor Monday, September 26, at the Club’s headquarters on Gramercy Park.

    Read More »