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AccountAbility Chief Executive Officer Sunil A. (Sunny) Misser is the newest member of the Board of Visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York, joining 24 other distinguished Board members. Prior to joining AccountAbility, a global consulting and standards firm, Misser served as the global managing partner for the Sustainability Advisory Business at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the firm's sustainability and corporate governance efforts worldwide. Earlier, he held the role of global strategy leader for PwC’s Assurance and Business

Innovative pitches by student startups from The City College of New York and other CUNY and SUNY schools won big in CCNY’s 2025 Zahn Innovation Center Incubator Venture Competition. Eighty-two thousand dollars in prizes went to the budding inventor/entrepreneurs to develop their ideas. The startups competed for grand prizes of $15,000 each in four categories, with each second-place finisher receiving $5,000. In addition, one team in each category received a $500 demo day audience choice award. Following are the categories and final pitch results (all CCNY unless indicated): Zahn Software Grand

The Bachelor of Science in Digital Game Development, at The City College of New York’s Division of Science, will admit its first cohort of students this fall. The new degree program, originally called Gaming Pathways, is a collaboration between the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, Urban Arts, and CCNY and Science Arts Engagement New York’s Harlem Gallery of Science. Students enrolled in the four-year program will take courses in programming, game design, animation, graphic design, and more advanced techniques as they progress. Introductory courses are for beginners providing students

Two current City College of New York students and two recent graduates are recipients of Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. CCNY’s 2025 Salk Scholars are: Janice Rateshwar, graduating senior, biomedical science; Abiola D. Laguda, graduating senior, biomedical science; Beliz Kayis, Class of 2024, BS biomedical engineering, Macaulay Honors College; and Sameah Algharazi, Class of 2023, BS biology. As Salk Scholars, the four will each receive a stipend of $8

Teacher preparation programs should provide all teacher education students with appropriate training in recognizing and supporting mental health concerns so that they are able to recognize needs for mental health services referral. This is the argument that The City College of New York Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology Nicole Lorenzetti presented to the American Education Research Association’s 2025 annual meeting. Lorenzetti, who also directs the CCNY School of Education’s Program in Special Education, presented “It’s Just Who He Is: Mindsets of Teacher Education Students and

Victor Almanzar, the star of award-winning theatrical, television and film productions, returns to his alma mater to deliver the David Dortort Lecture in the Dramatic Arts at The City College of New York on Wednesday, May 7. Free and open to the public, his talk, 6 – 8 p.m. in Theatre B of Aaron Davis Hall, is entitled “An Actor's Journey.” From the Class of 2012, Almanzar, who majored in theatre, will share how his CCNY degree led to success on the stage and screen, appearing on Broadway and in productions such as Steppenwolf, Homeland and Empire. Aaron Davis Hall is located at 140 Convent

Robert J. Messinger, associate professor of chemical engineering at The City College of New York whose research includes developing a new generation of rechargeable batteries, has been named to City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in Clean Energy list. The list shines a spotlight on New York’s most remarkable renewable energy leaders, including innovative industry figures, groundbreaking policymakers and notable environmentalists and conservationists. “The transition to clean energy has entered a new phase in New York, as the state faces threats from new tariffs, economic headwinds and a pivot

United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the 2025 recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, bestowed by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. The award recognizes individuals who have reached the highest level in their fields, and who embody the leadership values that General Powell, a 1958 graduate of CCNY, demonstrated throughout his career: integrity, humility, humor, pragmatism, and common sense. These values were articulated most famously in Powell’s Thirteen Rules of Leadership, which culminate with

The City College of New York received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Program to create a CCNY-based program to guide CUNY community college students to CUNY STEM graduate education. The program will be known as “CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program,” or CUNY STARS. The brainchild of Karin A. Block-Cora, professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science in CCNY’s Division of Science, CUNY STARS will be incorporated under the City College Fellowships Program, which is directed by Professor of Iberian and Latin American

Award-winning poet Hadara Bar-Nadav is the featured poet at the 53rd annual City College Poetry Festival on May 2 in CCNY’s Marian Anderson Theater, in Aaron Davis Hall. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” says Pamela Laskin, retired lecturer in CCNY’s English department and former director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which produces the festival. “Its assumption is that there are many poets, and they all have