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CCNY VP named among “25 Influential Black Women in Business” Karen Mackey Witherspoon, vice president, division of government, community and cultural affairs, The City College of New York, will be honored at The Network Journal’s (TNJ) “25 Influential Black Women in Business” luncheon March 26 in Manhattan. Emmy award-winning journalist Brenda Blackmon will emcee the 17th annual awards ceremony 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Midtown. “For 17 consecutive years The Network Journal has recognized the outstanding professionalism of 25 African American women annually, and for 17

The American Institute of Architects’ Jury of Fellows has elevated George Ranalli, dean of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, to its College of Fellows. Dean Ranalli and other 2015 fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony at the AIA Convention in Atlanta, Ga., May 15. The Fellowship program was developed to recognize architects that have made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level, as well as achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Less than 4 % of AIA’s more than 85,000 members have been

Low cost, academics, and research are college assets The City College of New York is one of the nation’s “Best Value” colleges and universities, according to The Princeton Review, for “astonishingly” low cost, strong connection to research, and rigorous academic programs. The education services company profiles CCNY in its latest book, “The 200 Best Value Colleges and What it Takes to Get In—2015 Edition” and on its website. “The Princeton Review recognition coincides with a number of recent City College achievements, including 2014 Nobel Laureate and alumnus John O’Keefe, groundbreaking

In recent years, The City College of New York's Engineers Without Borders-USA student chapter has spent summers and winter break working on water distribution and sanitation projects in rural Honduras. This winter, the chapter will extend its goodwill closer to home and help build a green and sustainable community center on a reservation. Five members of the chapter are headed to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota to spend a week, January 20-27, helping develop a community center for the Sicangu Lakota and Rosebud Sioux tribes. The center will be part of the larger scale Keya

A City College of New York led-team has successfully demonstrated how to both enhance light emission and capture light from metamaterials embedded with light emitting nanocrystals. The breakthrough, headed by physicist Dr. Vinod Menon , could lead to a range of applications including ultrafast LEDs, nanoscale lasers and efficient single photon sources. In the demonstration, the team used metamaterials having hyperbolic dispersion to enhance the light emission properties of the nanocrystals and simultaneously engineered an efficient light extraction scheme. “The idea of metamaterials in the

Dr. Mary Erina Driscol l, dean of The City College of New York’s School of Education (SOE), has been named the Harold Kobliner Chair in Education at CCNY. The Kobliner Chair is bestowed upon a distinguished and committed faculty member in the SOE. It is named after Harold Kobliner, a 1950 CCNY alumnus, in tribute to his 40 years of service in the New York City public school system. “Dean Driscoll's commitment to academic excellence in leadership emulates the essence of the Kobliner Chair,” said Dr. Lisa S. Coico , President of City College. “Please join me in congratulating her on her

Dr. Neville A. Parker, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York, has been awarded the 2014 Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research Award by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The national honor recognizes individuals with a history of outstanding contributions to university transportation education and research that has benefitted transportation. CUTC was founded to promote collaboration between university-based transportation research centers and between universities, government and industry

In a field often dominated by men, City College of New York biologist Dr. Ana Carnaval’s lab at CCNY’s Harlem campus breaks the mold. During her four years at CCNY, she has mentored 21 women at different career stages – from college freshmen to international post doctorates. Up to 73 % of the researchers associated with her lab are female. The assistant professor will be the third speaker in City College’s “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series Thursday, February 5, 4 – 5: 30 p.m. in Shepard 250 at CCNY. Her topic will be “Integrating Biology and

As the largest single chunk of melting snow and ice in the world, the massive ice sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland is recognized as the biggest potential contributor to rising sea levels due to glacial meltwater. Until now, however, scientists’ attention has mostly focused on the ice sheet’s aquamarine lakes — bodies of meltwater that tend to abruptly drain — and on monster chunks of ice that slide into the ocean to become icebergs. But a new study involving City College of New York scientist Marco Tedesco and a UCLA team reveals a vast network of little-understood rivers and

“Glimpses of Black People in the Earliest Documents of the Modern Americas,” an exhibit that traces the first African presence in the Americas, opens at The City College of New York Friday, May 1, 2015. It will be on view in the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s (DSI) exhibit room, NAC 2/202. On display will be images of original documents, transcriptions, translations and photographs of historic sites on the island-colony of La Española (Hispaniola) that is today the neighboring states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The exhibit is a continuation of DSI’s larger project entitled “First