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Herman B. Gray, MD will be the keynote speaker at The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York's Class of 2025 Clinical White Coat Ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 10. He will address the student medical doctors, their parents/guests, faculty, staff and students. Dr. Gray, MD, MBA, is the chair of the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics. He is the former president and CEO of United Way for Southeastern Michigan as well as the former president and CEO of Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Gray received his medical degree from the University of

Marie A. Bernard, MD is the keynote speaker at The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York's 2023 BS Commencement and White Coat Ceremony. She addressed 75 Medical Doctor Candidates (The CUNY Med MD Class of 2027), their families, faculty, staff, and students. Dr. Bernard is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she leads a full range of talent to promote scientific creativity, diversity, inclusiveness, and equity throughout the organization. As head of the NIH’s COSWD, Dr. Bernard provides

Summer school at The City College of New York for 36 outstanding students from two of war-torn Ukraine’s top specialized high schools for physics and mathematics began with a 12-hour bus ride from the capital Kyiv to the Polish border on the west. It would take another six hours to get to Warsaw, Poland’s main city, from where the weary travelers caught a 10-hour flight to JFK. Conflict has a way of complicating the simplest of things in life. Until Aug. 12, however, normalcy returns to the lives of these young, gifted minds from the Kyiv’s Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (UPML) and

Xi Chen, the City College of New York chemical engineer whose pioneering research includes water-responsive materials, is the winner of a coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Recipients of this prestigious award are considered the best and brightest talents in the United States. Many of the winners later became world-famous scientists and Nobel laureates. An assistant professor in The City College’s Grove School of Engineering, with affiliation to the Nanoscience Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Chen is widely regarded as a leader in

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohorts of Moynihan Leaders-in-Residence and Postdoctoral Fellows. Leaders-in-Residence are distinguished practitioners and thinkers whose careers are notable for their contributions to public service and/or to public scholarship. They spend dedicated periods of time at the Moynihan Center, giving lectures, mentoring students, and otherwise broadening and deepening the network of people and ideas that interface with the Moynihan Center

Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York. She was previously named interim dean in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic when teaching had to pivot quickly to online learning. During that time, Miller secured federal funds to support staff and update technology. The Division of Humanities and the Arts teaches more students across the entire College than any other division. Its more than 430 full-time and part-time faculty also serve over 2,000 undergraduate majors, 600 minors, and 350 graduate

Dave A. Chokshi, M.D., the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, has been appointed the inaugural Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. This endowed professorship, first announced in April 2022, was established with a gift from Seymour (Sy) Sternberg ’65, ’10 (hon.) and Laurie Sternberg in honor of the late General Colin Powell. As the Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership, Chokshi will play a central role in the development of leadership studies at the Colin

Kay Bell, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of English and academic advisor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, is the 2023-2025 Bronx Poet Laureate. During her tenure, she will promote the history of poetry in the Bronx and ignite a passion for poetry and creative expression throughout the borough through various community engagements. Bell is an alumna of City College and received her Bachelor of Arts in English in 2015 and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in 2019. “I am confident that working closely with the Bronx community as

Dee Dee Mozeleski, vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Relations, executive director of the Foundation for City College and senior advisor to the president, is a 2023 Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Leaders in Advertising, Marketing & PR. The editorial feature recognizes top leaders in advertising, marketing and public relations in the New York metro area. In 2021, Mozeleski was named a CASE District II Professional of the Year and a Crain’s New York Business’ Notable in Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Mozeleski has spent more than 30 years

The City College of New York is a participant in a $12 million Google initiative to stimulate the cybersecurity ecosystem and establish New York City as the global leader in cybersecurity. CUNY, Columbia University, Cornell, and New York University are the other institutions involved in the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program. Three faculty from The City College’s Grove School of Engineering -- Rosario Gennaro, Nelly Fazio (both computer science) and Samah Saeed (electrical engineering) are among the beneficiaries of the $12 million grant that will go towards cutting-edge research