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The CUNY Health and Opportunity Leadership Institute (HOLI), announced in early 2025 and launched at The City College of New York this spring, is elevating its mission of cultivating a new generation of health leaders drawn from diverse and historically marginalized communities. Under the leadership of its founding director, Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, the Sternberg Family Professor at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and a former New York City health commissioner, HOLI has raised $1.9 million thus far, including $1.4 million to support operations and projects from January 2026

Gerson Lanza, the world renowned tap dancer, choreographer and educator brings his acclaimed show “To Dance Means To Be Free,” that fuses the performing arts and advocacy, to The City College of New York, May 14 -15. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. in CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, located at 129 Convent Ave., and West 135th Street in Manhattan. The two-night event is presented by CCNY’s Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts (LDCPA) and largely funded by the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI). Click here for tickets. Through tap dance, live music, and spoken word, Lanza creates a compelling journey

The City College of New York ranks #162 among the top 243 universities in the United States for its ability to translate scientific discovery into real-world healthcare impact. The Index also recognizes CCNY as a Leading HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution). The Index also places The City College #135 for market translation, #150 for entrepreneurial readiness and #217 for research capabilities. The Cure Innovation Index is the first national, data-driven platform designed to assess how effectively U.S. biomedical research institutions convert discovery into therapies, companies, and measurable

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