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Samah M. Saeed, associate professor of electrical engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Recipients of this prestigious and highly competitive award are considered the best and brightest talents in the United States. Many of the winners later became world-famous scientists and Nobel laureates. A computer engineer, Saeed’s award is for her project titled “CAREER: Towards Secure and Reliable Cloud-Based Quantum Computers.” It aims to bridge the gap between the theoretical foundations of secure

Since its launch in 2022, U.S Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has been a strong advocate for the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative (RIWI) at The City College of New York, whose mission is to prepare local workforce for the crucial work of rebuilding America’s infrastructure. Over the past four years Espaillat’s support for this unique program in his Congressional district, named for his late predecessor Charles B. Rangel, has translated into nearly $13 million in federal funding, with the latest allotment, $2 million, included in the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations

The ethical implications of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI), and its impact on higher education, were confronted by panelists and an audience of students, faculty and administrators recently at The City College of New York’s first AI Summit. “We felt that the ethical implications of AI was a necessary conversation and, as a body whose mission is to engage the campus in exploring ideas and collaborating, we were well positioned to facilitate this conversation,” said Gareth Williams, the special projects coordinator in the office of CCNY Senior Associate Provost for Academic

The “ Arctic Coastlines-FORTE” mission, a $15 million NASA-funded initiative led by City College of New York Professor Maria Tzortziou to study the changing Coastal Arctic and impacts on coastal resources, ecosystems, food security, and coastal communities, has earned UNESCO designation as a UN Ocean Decade Project. FORTE is one of the latest additions to Ocean Decade Projects deemed by the UN to strengthening international scientific cooperation in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean, and contributing to the ‘Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025-2034)’ and the

Acclaimed musician, composer, band leader, educator and cultural leader Wynton Marsalis is the 2026 recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, presented by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. The award honors individuals who have attained the highest level of achievement in their fields and who embody the leadership values demonstrated throughout the life and career of Gen. Colin L. Powell, a 1958 graduate of CCNY. Those values — integrity, humility, responsibility, pragmatism, and optimism — were articulated most

Anastasiia Vasylaki, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The City College of New York is one of ten recipients nationally of PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships in the Drug Delivery category. She will receive $60,000 over two years from the program that provides stipend support to graduate students engaged in thesis research. Overall, PhRMA has awarded more than $4.6 million in grants and fellows to 65 exceptional early-career researchers this year. Vasylaki is conducting research in the Williams Immune Nanomedicine Lab, located in CCNY’s Grove School

Tenor saxophonist and composer Chris Potter, a leading voice of a generation of jazz artists, will headline the 2026 CUNY Jazz Festival at The City College of New York. Also featured will be acclaimed drummer Adam Cruz performing with the CCNY Faculty Jazz Ensemble. All the performances will be held in the Aaron Davis Hall from Thursday, May 7 to Friday May 8. The festival begins 11:30 a.m. on May 7, with a performance by the CCNY Faculty Jazz Ensemble, comprised of internationally acclaimed jazz artists including Jason Rigby, tenor saxophone; Pete McCann, guitar; Ray Gallon, piano; Aidan O

The Division of Humanities and the Arts presents the 54th Annual City College of New York Poetry Festival on Friday, May 1 at Aaron Davis Hall’s Theatre B black box space. Kay Poema, B.A. '15, M.F.A. '18, Bronx poet laureate emerita, will be this year’s featured guest poet. Poema is an interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose work bridges language and image to explore themes of memory, identity, and transformation. The author of “ Diary of Intercessor” (Finishing Line Press, 2021), she served as the Bronx poet laureate from 2023 to 2025, and was recently the artist in residence at the Bx

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant-General Russel L. Honoré, who gained national renown in 2005 for his command of Joint Task Force-Katrina, and physicist Daniel Berg, a 1950 alumnus widely recognized for his work in the management of technology and innovation, will receive honorary doctoral degrees from The City College of New York’s 173rd Commencement exercises on Friday, May 29. Lt.-Gen. Honoré will also deliver the keynote address. Also at the ceremony, Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the City

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the launch of the Evelyn Linares Legacy Scholarship, a new $50,000 fund housed at The City College of New York, to support New York students entering the teaching profession. This initiative is a direct continuation and expansion of the Carol Robles-Román Excellence Award at CUNY John Jay College announced during last year’s Somos Conference in Albany. By adding this new fund at CCNY, the Governor is building a comprehensive scholarship portfolio for New York students. “By investing in our young educators, we are investing in New York’s future,” Gov