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DoE announces $37M to build research capacity in historically underrepresented institutions; CCNY a recipient

The City College of New York is one of 44 beneficiaries of $37 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at institutions historically underrepresented in DOE’s Office of Science portfolio. These include Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs). “Through the Funding for Accelerated, Inclusive Research (FAIR) initiative, the Office of Science is supporting mutually beneficial relationships between MSIs/ERIs and partnering institutions to perform basic research in applied mathematics
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Ramona Hernandez, CUNY DSI director

CCNY’s CUNY Dominican Studies Institute receives historic $1.5M NSF grant

Backed by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (DSI) based at The City College of New York is going beyond its core mission of research and scholarship and now aims to improve the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of Latino/a/x students in STEM programs. The grant from the NSF’s Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Program, is part of a $3 million largesse to be shared equally between CUNY DSI and the Institute for Study of "Race" & Social Justice of the University of New Mexico (UNM). The funding will support the
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Spitzer_Mellon multidisciplinary community-based incubator

Mellon Foundation awards Spitzer School $1.5M for multidisciplinary community-based incubator

The City College of New York is the recipient of a three-year $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support a new multidisciplinary Place, Memory and Culture Incubator (PMCI) in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The incubator’s focus will be community-based partnerships and projects in Harlem that engage built--environment design and the humanities through a social--justice lens. City College President Vincent G. Boudreau thanked the Mellon Foundation for the grant and lauded the Foundation’s long-running support of CCNY programs, faculty, and students. This is
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Proposed CCNY Quantum Institute earns $5M NSF funding

The City College of New York is establishing a state-of-the-art quantum institute, funded by a five-year $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation [NSF], to advance quantum research. Conceptualized by City College physicist Alexander Khanikaev – recipient of the NSF's prestigious Special Creativity Award in 2021, and one of the most Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) worldwide in 2022 – The City College of New York Quantum Institute comprises leading experts in quantum at CCNY and scientific partners from Nokia Bell labs and the University of Central Florida College of Optics and
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Vinod_Florian magneto-optical research

CCNY scientists trap light inside a magnet

A new study led by Vinod M. Menon and his research group at The City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses of magnets are important for the development of magnetic lasers and magneto-optical memory devices, as well as for emerging quantum transduction applications. In their new article in the journal " Nature," Menon and his team report the properties of a layered magnet that hosts strongly bound excitons -- quasiparticles with particularly strong optical interactions. Because of
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The Princeton Review’s “Best 389 Colleges for 2024

CCNY features in The Princeton Review’s “Best 389 Colleges for 2024”

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 389 Colleges: 2024 Edition, (August 15, 2023, Penguin Random House, $26.99). Notably, CCNY is listed among the best in the Northeast. Only about 15% of America’s 2,600 four-year colleges are profiled in the book. The Princeton Review chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their
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Bloom Energy Fellows

Colin Powell School Wins Award for New Fellowship Program

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has been recognized for its Colin Powell Bloom Energy Innovation Fellowship with a DEI Impact Award that honors its efforts in diversity, inclusion and equity in clean energy. The School won in the “One to Watch” category for the partnership with Bloom Energy, launched in January 2023. The program aims to diversify the ranks of leaders in the clean energy, tech, and sustainability industries. “While the judges rated your nomination highly, they agreed that the program is too new to accurately provide a
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Jerome Haferd's award-winning design in the Africatown competition

Spitzer Professor Jerome Haferd wins first place in Africatown International Design Idea Competition

Professor Jerome Haferd of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York and his architectural firm JEROME HAFERD / BRANDT : HAFERD won first place in the Africatown International Design Idea Competition for site number two at the former Josephine Allen public housing area in Mobile, Alabama with his proposal “In the Wake.” The Design Idea Competition is a way to create a vision for The Africatown Cultural Mile, 16 venues of cultural heritage to form a destination system, in the greater Mobile region. Africatown is the only 19th-century settlement created
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CCNY President Boudreau (first row, second from right) and Team at the 2023 Percy Sutton 5K Run CCNY at the

CCNY celebrates historic Harlem with a sold out 2023 Percy Sutton 5K Run 

For the second year in a row, entry for Team CCNY’s Percy Sutton Harlem 5K Run, a collaboration between The City College of New York, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Week 2023 and the New York Road Runners (NYRR), reached capacity. The run took place on August 12 and 4,667 people total completed the run while taking in the sights of Harlem. This 5K race honors the late Percy Sutton, who was the Manhattan borough president in the 1970s and who championed the New York City Marathon as a five-borough event. It celebrates historic Harlem and Harlem Week, which is one of the
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Maria Tzortziou, Martin and Michele Cohen Endowed Professor of Environmental Sciences

White House names CCNY professor Maria Tzortziou to national ocean policy advisory panel

Maria Tzortziou, Martin and Michele Cohen Endowed Professor of Environmental Sciences at The City College of New York’s Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI), is one of 18 experts appointed by the White House to the newly formed Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). Tzortziou and 17 other members were selected by a public nomination process, and appointed by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, who co-chair the Ocean Policy Committee (OPC). “The ocean has never been more important – it regulates our
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