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Jane Chu, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, will deliver the ninth annual Sternberg Family Lecture in Public Scholarship, “Leadership in Ambiguity: A Celebration of Immigrant Stories,” at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 15 at 4 p.m. in CCNY’s Great Hall. During her four-year tenure at the NEA (2014-18), Chu traveled to all 50 U.S. states and four countries, making more than 400 site visits to meet with artists and arts leaders, government and civic leaders, philanthropists, and the general public. Under her leadership, the NEA awarded $430 million to support

The City College of New York has appointed Scott Gurba to be its chief operating officer. As COO, Gurba will be responsible for: optimizing CCNY’s assets; professionalizing and integrating the College’s operations to attain optimal outcomes; and developing the College’s human capital. Gurba possesses a broad range of financial and operational responsibilities in the financial services industry across the private and public sectors. Formerly senior vice president of strategy and process innovation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he served in increasingly responsible positions at the

Dr. Vincent Boudreau, City College of New York president, who merges educational advancement and a commitment to social mobility to workforce development has been named to City & State’s 2023 Higher Education Power 100 list. The list recognizes the 100 most influential people in academia statewide, including leaders of some of New York’s best-known colleges, universities and professional schools. His award this year marks his third consecutive year of inclusion in City and State's Power list in Higher Education. Boudreau's legacy of leadership began with his appointment as the founding dean of

The Public Service Career Hub at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has earned the American Association of University Administrators’ Exemplary Model Award for 2023. The Hub, housed within the Colin Powell School’s Office of Student Success, was recognized for its efforts “t o make educational opportunities available to groups of students who may not originally have the assets, the contacts, and the preparation to experience the value of internships, fellowships, and fieldwork that can be the signature activity of their academic careers,” said

Gabriel Foreman is the first-ever Executive in Residence in the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Affairs at The City College of New York, and will work on projects with Rise Light & Power, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and the unified Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative and CUNY’s Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE) collaborative. In his role, Foreman will build sustained pathways to CCNY for high school students as well as help with recruitment, talent development curriculum, industry placement and grant

City College of New York physics senior Refath Bari has published his first academic paper, " Simulating the Action Principle in Optics," in the peer-reviewed journal, The Physics Teacher. An undergraduate publishing a paper in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal is a rarity. "We see light reflecting off mirrored surfaces, and it always appears to move in a straight line," said Bari. "But put a pencil in a glass of water, and the pencil appears to be bent," said Bari. Light appears to obey one law at one moment and a different law at another. The Principle of Least Action, (PLA) is the single

With climate change an increasingly pressing global issue, The City College of New York’s involvement in finding solutions continues to expand. CCNY is joining a group of other prominent institutions in a new CAP (Climate Adaptation Partnerships) program supported by a $6,037,4681 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office ( NOAA- CPO). Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN) is part of a broader network of 12 teams funded by NOAA's CAP ( formerly known as the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program) across the U.S. Titled: “

Dr. Helen H. Hobbs, the award-winning University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) medical researcher and molecular geneticist, presents the 2023 Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York on Thursday, March 23. Her talk, “Nature, Nurture, and Disorders of Lipid Excess,” begins at 5 p.m. in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Her lecture will propose that insufficient time has elapsed for human genomes to adapt to the caloric abundance and reduced physical activity accompanying industrialization. “Diseases of dietary excess, rather than

The City College of New York is the recipient of two grants totaling more than $15 million under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. The congressionally mandated UTC program was created in 1987 to support the formation of university consortia to advance transportation research, technology development, and education and workforce development in the United States. CCNY’s University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) will lead the regional UTC for USDOT Region 2, which includes New York State, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin

Three City College of New York students are recipients of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award, which supports women over the age of 35 who have overcome adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grants are awarded directly to the recipient for any costs associated with advancing her education. The winners and their bios are listed below. Doreen Ahumah is a double major in childhood education at the School of Education and psychology at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and she will graduate in the fall of 2023. As a single parent, who lost her