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The City College of New York is proud to announce that PRNEWS has chosen the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) for its 2023 Education A-List. PRNEWS is the industry standard for business intelligence, education, recognition and peer-to-peer networking for Fortune 1,000 agencies and professionals. CCNY’s BIC program is one of 50 schools nationwide, including top private schools such as New York University, Syracuse University, University of Southern California, and Georgetown University, to be chosen, and the list is the definitive guide to the

A three-member team from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering emerged US-Canada region winners in New York University’s global CSAW ’22 AI vs. Humans Challenge at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. The Grove team comprised electrical engineering (EE) PhD candidate Vedika Saravanan, EE PhD student Mohammad Walid Charrwi; and computer engineering graduate student Facundo Aguirre. Samah M. Saeed, assistant professor, electrical engineering, was the faculty advisor. Making its debut in the CSAW games, CCNY was nominated to the final phase where it competed against the

The City College of New York and the Foundation for City College’s ongoing outreach initiatives to provide fresh, nutritious meals to those in need continues to expand, including a massive effort that resulted in hundreds of meals being distributed the week of Thanksgiving. Every year since 2020, the College and Foundation have partnered with Black-owned school food management company Red Rabbit to deliver the meals to different community partners, including PSS Manhattanville Center, Wilson Major Morris Community Center, Greater File Chapel Baptist Church, and Living Redemption. Eight hundred

The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York’s Pathways to Careers in Medicine and Research Program receives increased funding due to Governor Kathy Hochul and the state’s commitment of more than $2.4 million to diversity programs managed by the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY), which is funded in part by the state Department of Health. This funding is expected to reach more than 800 students through new and existing diversity initiatives, including Bridges to Medicine, AMSNY's successful post-baccalaureate program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences

The City College of New York is proud to announce the 2022 Hollander Design Fellowship winner for students of the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Cassandra Castano won the three-year Hollander Design Fellowship. Ximena Diaz Velasco and Sonia Uthuph each won a one-time award of $4,000. All three students are in their first years, as per the eligibility requirements, as the fellowship is meant to support students for the duration of their studies. Hollander Design Landscape Architects was founded by Edmund Hollander, FASLA

Distinguished Professor Andrea Alù, Professor of biology Robert Anderson; and Alexander Khanikaev, Professor in the Grove School of Engineering represent The City College of New York on the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) list. The highly awaited annual list identifies elite researchers worldwide who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. This recognition draws from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation

Social historian Margo Groenewoud, an expert in the 20th century Dutch Caribbean at the University of Curaçao, is the 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar in Residence at The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (DSI). Her Fulbright residency includes CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Groenewoud earned a PhD degree in the humanities from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, which was founded in 1575 and is one of Europe's leading international research universities. A senior lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural

City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture alumnus Pedro J. Cruz Cruz, M Arch ’22, won an award at the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennial in Portugal. The Triennial is a non-profit organization whose mission is to investigate, stimulate and promote thought and practice in architecture. This year’s theme, Terra, looks into communities throughout the world to embrace our common home, planet Earth, and runs through Dec. 5. Now an adjunct lecturer at the Spitzer School, Cruz won the highly competitive Millennium bcp Universities Competition Award for his project “El

Viral immunologist Kizzmekia Corbett, Ph,D. of Harvard University delivers the 2022 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture on "Coronavirus Vaccine Development: Where Do We Go From Here?" at The City College of New York on Monday, Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. The Lecture, which will be followed by a question and answer session, is free and open to the public. Click here for more information and to reserve a spot. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were designed and developed rapidly. Today, three years since the onset of the pandemic, researchers have been met with many

This year’s Forbes list of 50 women over 50 recognized for their impact includes Dr. Carmen Green, dean of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) at The City College of New York. She is cited by the publication for her medical leadership over the past 30 years. “Green is a leading researcher on inequities in pain care and, throughout her career, has been a vocal advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine,” said Forbes. “In 2006, she was selected for the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship and helped draft the National Pain Care Policy Act, which went into the