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May 14, 2025

Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid

Article in The City on Trump administration's funding cuts to NIH program supporting budding CUNY scientists quotes CCNY's Jonathan Levitt, director of the U-RISE program at the institution.
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May 13, 2025

Students to Present Ideas for Transforming Historic East New York LIRR Substation

Advance Design Studio Course students in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture presented their ideas of adapative reuse for the LIRR Substation at 2 Snediker Avenue on May 9. Professor Nandini Bagchee's class worked in conjunction with Preserving East New York and East Community New York Land Trust to advocate for the repurposing of the space built in the early 20th century.
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May 06, 2025

A depleted workforce would take a generation to fix

Article by CCNY physicist Michael Lubell in the journal Nature on how the cost to the United States of failing to nurture scientists will not be merely economic.
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May 05, 2025

Bilingual Education and TESOL Professor Tatyana Kleyn on preparing teachers to work with immigrant students

More teachers should learn some fundamentals around immigration and the processes students and their families face when coming to the United States, Professor of Bilingual Education & TESOL Tatyana Kleyn told Education Week in an article about how teachers' political beliefs shape their views on immigrant students and English language learners.
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May 05, 2025

Trump's threats to Canada and Mexico "obliterating" America’s greatest strategic advantage: Rajan Menon

Barely three months into his second term, President Donald Trump has damaged relationships with his country’s two neighbors and largest trading partners, wrote Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair Emeritus in Political Science Rajan Menon in a co-authored op-ed in the Guardian.
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April 09, 2025

When Politics Has a Place in the Classroom

Read English Professor Elizabeth Mazzola's letter to "The New York Times" about politics in the classroom.
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April 09, 2025

Spitzer School of Architecture hosts forum on African burial ground site plans

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Dean Marta Gutman and Assistant Professor Jerome Haferd tell PIX 11 News about the future plans for the African burial ground discovered in 2015 under an abandoned East Harlem bus depot.
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April 09, 2025

Exclusive: NIH nixes funds for several pre- and postdoctoral training programs

CCNY biologist Jonathan Levitt is quoted in this piece by The Transmitter on NIH grant cuts.
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April 08, 2025

Colin Powell School political scientist Daniel DiSalvo on Houston's police contract negotiations

Professor and Chair of Political Science Daniel DiSalvo considers the role of performance metrics as an issue in Houston's contract negotiations with its police union.
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April 03, 2025

Physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves

PHYSORG piece on groundbreaking research by Vinod Menon's LaNMP team at CCNY on the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves.
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