News

The City College of New York has been selected as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review, which features City College in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to 375 Green Colleges. "We strongly recommend The City College of New York and the other fine colleges in this guide to the many environmentally-minded students who seek to study and live at green colleges," said The Princeton Review's Robert Franek, Senior VP-Publisher. The Princeton Review chose the schools for this seventh annual edition of its "green guide" based on data from

The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute is the recipient of a five-year $5.2 million National Science Foundation PIRE grant for advanced research on complex fluids. It will fund the Institute’s “PIRE: Multi-scale, Multi-phase Phenomena in Complex Fluids for the Energy Industries” project that involves 11 international partner institutions from France, Germany and Norway. This collaborative research is expected to advance knowledge and make transformative scientific discoveries that could result in far reaching innovations, in both experimental and modeling methods. “This could

David Lohman, associate professor of biology at The City College of New York’s Division of Science, is co-author of a landmark paper on butterflies “ An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).” Lohman and his colleagues from Taiwan and Indonesia revise the taxonomy of Asian palmflies in the genus Elymnias in light of a forthcoming study on the butterflies’ evolutionary history. The scientists discovered numerous cryptic species–two or more species erroneously classified as one species–as well as single species mistakenly described as two or three

City College of New York biologist Shubha Govind and her research team have identified the composition of “virus-like particles" (VLPs) found in the venom of a wasp that is a parasite of fruit flies. Invisible to the eye, wasp VLPs suppress the flies’ immune responses by killing their blood cells. Wasps lay their eggs along with spiked VLP particles into the worm-like immature bodies of Drosophila melanogaster, the long-venerated genetic model of human disease and development. In the wild, parasitic wasps attack insects and are used to naturally control crop damage by insect pests. The Govind

The City College of New York remains among the top 100 Best Regional Universities in the North and a Top Public School in the North, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2018 rankings. Celebrating its 170th anniversary this year, City College climbed 10 places in the Top Public Schools rankings in the North from 2017. CCNY is now #16 among 51 schools that made U.S. News’ stringent ranking. It was #26 last year. CCNY also made a considerable jump in the Best Regional Universities rankings. It is #56 among 196 universities – a leap of 29 places from #85 in 2017. There is also a discernible

The City College of New York is proud to announce the merger of the Anthropology department with two programs, International Studies and Women’s Studies, into one integrated department within the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. While each area of study will retain its defined majors and minors, the union of three disciplines recognizes existing synergies and offers increased resources. “One of the motivating aspects is that there are so many productive intersections between gender, anthropology and international studies,” said Sarah Muir, Ph.D., director of International

In an effort increase the number of health professionals from Harlem and to improve health outcomes in the community, Terri N. Watson, a City College of New York educator, co-created the CCNY-based Growing Our Own Doctor’s Project. For that, the Harlem native is an honoree at the 48th Annual African-American Day Parade on Sept. 17. Healthcare is this year’s theme. “As part of our Parade celebration we are recognizing and honoring the contributions of African American leaders in health care, including doctors, innovators, administrators and community leaders,” said Gale A. Brewer, Borough

Michel Ghosn, a civil engineering professor in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of the 2017 IASSAR Research Award. The award is presented every four years by the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability at its quadrennial meeting. IASSAR promotes the study, research, and applications of scientific principles of safety, risk and reliability in the analysis, design, construction, maintenance and operations of structures and other engineering systems. Ghosn is an expert in the areas of structural reliability and system safety with a

The work of groundbreaking art director George Lois will be on display at The City College of New York and celebrated with an opening reception on Tuesday, September 12. Lois, considered the original “Mad Man” of advertising, donated a portion of his archive, a collection reflecting 60 years of American culture and social evolution, to City College (CCNY) in 2016. He chose the college as the home of his archive in recognition of CCNY’s media arts program and its history in helping talented students from diverse backgrounds succeed. This collection contains original layout sketches for 27 of

City College of New York’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, whose mentors have ranged from literary great Donald Barthelme to distinguished poet Marilyn Hacker, welcomes British playwright, poet and the U.K. Parliament’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence Rommi Smith for a talk and reading. Her talk, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, in the Rifkind Room (NAC 6/316) is entitled “Our Voices, Ourselves.” On Wednesday, Sept. 13, Smith will give a reading and performance from 5 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 250. Both events are free and open to the public. In addition to her parliamentary residence, Smith has