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The City College of New York is one of the nation’s outstanding schools for value, another top ranking affirms. CCNY has been recognized as one of Money’s Best Colleges in America 2026. In addition, Money’s, which gives CCNY four and a half stars out of five, ranks it among the Best Public Colleges that provide excellent value for students in their home states, and as one of the Best Colleges in the Northeast. “Money's analysis showcases the country's top 735 colleges based on graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial aid, alumni salaries and more. There isn't one "best" college for

Coinciding with the celebration of 25 years of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Educational Partnership Program, The City College of New York will host the 12th NOAA EPP Biennial Education and Science Forum from July 20 to July 23. The Forum, which will take place on the CCNY campus, will bring together all components of EPP, including the four NOAA Cooperative Science Centers with more than 24 partner institutions. These Fora serve as national platforms for students, faculty, scientists, and professionals to showcase collaborative research, share insights, and build

Anant Honkan, Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Georgia State University and an alumnus of The City College of New York, has established The Veer Savarkar Legacy Student Support Fund to help exceptional students with financial need in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. The $1,000 annual scholarship awards are intended to support all education-related expenses. The scholarship is open to both undergraduate and graduate students, preferably in the mechanical engineering department. If no mechanical engineering majors meet the criteria, the awards can go to worthy students in other Grove

Daniel Keedy, associate professor in The City College of New York’s Division of Science and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the winner of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award. Covering five years, the $948,848 award is for his research, entitled “New routes to designing dynamic protein structures,” that entails the use of artificial intelligence. NSF CAREER Awards are one of the nation’s highest honors for early-career scientists. They recognize and provide funding to exceptional researchers who are conducting innovative research at the

Researchers in City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics ( LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism, and electric charge are strongly intertwined. This rapidly evolving field could enable next-generation optoelectronic and quantum technologies leveraging the coupled dynamics of light, charge, and spin. A review article in Nature Materials titled “Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials,” surveys recent advances by the CCNY team in layered magnetic semiconductors

The Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust established an annual fellowship program in 2024, and since then, the Reinhardt Family Fellowship has supported high-achieving, first-generation City College of New York students who demonstrate a commitment to social justice. Their latest gift—that brings their total CCNY funding to $93,000—will be used to support internship stipends for students enrolled in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. The Reinhardt Foundation’s first gift of $42,000 provided recipients, at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, with full tuition plus

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation gifted $50,000 to The City College of New York’s Division of interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE). The grant will be used to establish the Newcombe Scholarships for Mature Students. “This generous gift from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation is an investment in the determination and potential of our adult learners. Many of our students balance work, family responsibilities, and academic aspirations every day,” said J uan Carlos Mercado, dean of CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. “These scholarships will help remove

The David Aronow Foundation (DAF) is continuing its partnership with The City College of New York by gifting an additional $20,000 to go towards the David Aronow Fellowship. The fellowship is named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow, and it provides a $4000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. DAF previously gifted CCNY $75,000 in 2023. Aronow was the youngest, and only, member of his immigrant family to have the chance to get a free college education at City College. His four siblings had to work to keep their families afloat, and once he graduated and was professionally

June Williamson, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture at The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, has been named 2026-2027 president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). A longtime supporter of ACSA, Williamson has been elected to the ACSA Board of Directors twice: as Second Vice President in the 2024-2025 term and as a Director-At-Large from 2018-2021. “I’ve had a long association with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, going back to my very first academic paper—it was such a thrill

Dr. Stephen O'Brien, a noted materials scientist who heads the O'Brien Research Group, is the new Martin and Michele Cohen Dean of Science at The City College of New York. His appointment follows a nation-wide search. A Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, he had served as Interim Dean since July 2025. O’Brien joined CCNY as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry (now Chemistry & Biochemistry) in 2009. He was department chair from 2020 to 2025, becoming the Louis J. Curtman Chair in 2023. He stepped down from the chairmanship last summer to become the Interim Dean of