Since its founding in 1847 as the first municipally financed institution of higher education, the City College of New York (CCNY) has taken seriously its mission to educate "the children of the whole people, and to do so in an institution of the highest grade." These words of our first president have served to guide the College in its subsequent development of high quality programs in sciences, arts, and professions. Today, City College is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), a system of nineteen senior and community colleges. City College, itself, consists of a College of Liberal Arts and Science and a complex of professional schools including Engineering, Architecture, Medicine, and Education. The Division of Science of the College of Liberal Arts and Science include the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics | more
The Program Director DR. JERRY GUYDEN
The City College of New York has developed a research center through the support of the National Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program at the National Institutes of Health. Our research facility, the Center | more
The RCMI Director Sidney A. McNairy, Jr., Ph.D., D. Sc.
The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program of the National Center for Research Resources is congressionally mandated and was initiated by the National Health Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1985. The authorizing | more
Principal Investigator Dr. Lisa Staiano-Coico
Dr. Lisa Staiano-Coico, a nationally prominent educator and researcher in microbiology and immunology and former Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Surgery at Temple University, is the 12th President of The City College of New York. A native of Brooklyn, President Staiano-Coico earned a B.S. with honors in biology... | more