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Three students from The City College of New York are winners of the inaugural FRAME FORWARD Student Video Festival from the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. The festival is open to all CUNY students, regardless of their major, with this year’s theme: “Featuring Student Life Through the Eyes of Those Living It.” The festival was founded by Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Lorena De Miranda Marques, academic advisor, marketing and communications, recruitment coordinator at CWE. All winners received a trophy and

Dayanara Rodriguez, a M Arch ’26 student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, is a 2025 AIA Bronx Student Empowerment Award winner. She received a $1,000 scholarship and was honored at the awards ceremony along with other students for their participation in the Bronx Reimagined Design Challenge, a competition dedicated to transforming abandoned buildings in the Bronx into spaces that positively impact the surrounding community. “We are incredibly proud of Dayanara Rodriguez for receiving the 2025 Bronx AIA Empowerment Scholarship,” said

The Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York has an abundance of good news to share from its faculty. Writer and Professor Emily Raboteau (“ Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’”) received a 2025 Environmental Arts Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Anonymous Was a Woman. The grant supports environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists from the United States and U.S. territories. Raboteau, a professor of Black Studies, was awarded $20,000 for her project, “Voices from the Cross-Bronx Expressway.” Her book-length

Two faculty members and one graduate student of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York have received 2025 Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York. Each $10,000 award was granted for a self-generated year-long project in design practice and research that sought to answer the question of where design can go next. In the 2025 cycle, 25 proposals were selected out of 176 applications by a panel of 12 designers and educators. The CCNY grant recipients are: Assistant

Executive, scholar, educator and diplomat are all titles that describe Marc Ostfield, who becomes the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York on Jan. 26, 2026. Identified through a search process that drew more than 100 applicants from across the country, Ostfield spent more than two decades in government service, including serving as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay from January 2022 to January 2025. As the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. government to this South American

As Arctic flooding accelerates due to climate change and current satellite systems frequently miss the peak of flood events, City College of New York scientists led by Nicholas C. Steiner have embarked on a pioneering project that addresses a critical gap in responsive flood monitoring for Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The High-Latitude Flood and Open Water Surveillance (HiFLOWS) project runs from 2025 to 2027 with more than $350,000 in funding from NASA’s Climate and Earth System Response to Arctic Change (CESRA) program. It will use commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellations

Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE), is one of five leading academics and “creators of recognized international prestige” elected Corresponding Members of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). The distinction recognizes outstanding academic careers dedicated to the study, teaching, and international promotion of the Spanish language and Hispanic culture. ANLE cited Mercado as “a pioneer in expanding educational access and international cooperation.” It noted his research

Marking the first anniversary of its establishment at The City College of New York, the United Nations University Hub on Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems ( R-SIRUS) will present a weeklong Professional Development Workshop in Digital Earth and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability in January 2026. The five-day micro-credential workshop, from Monday, Jan. 12 to Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., will take place on site and online. Designed for professionals, researchers, and policymakers looking to harness digital innovation for

The City College of New York senior Tevin McKenzie and alumnus Jared Hoffman, MFA ’25, Documentary Film, are winners of the College Media Association's 2025 Pinnacle Awards. Competing nationally in the large colleges division, McKenzie, an Advertising/Public Relations major and Journalism minor, received first place in the feature story category for his piece on the noisiest neighborhood in New York City. Hoffman received second place in the podcast category for his exploration of the origins of a controversial AI-assisted video sparked by President Trump's February remarks about redeveloping

Seymour “Sy” Sternberg, B.E.E.’65, Voza Rivers, and the late Lloyd Williams are The City College of New York’s 2025 President’s Medal recipients. Sternberg and Rivers received their medals from CCNY President Vincent G. Boudreau at the annual President’s Circle Dinner on Nov. 4 at the University Club of New York. Williams’s son, Lateef Ade Williams, accepted his father's posthumous honor on the family’s behalf. The President's Medal is awarded for distinguished achievement and public service. Past recipients include: Nelson Mandela; Nobel Laureates Robert Aumann and Leon M. Lederman; Coretta