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Keziah Sullivan, who has served in various capacities in the past 20 years at WHCR 90.3 FM, The City College of New York’s non-commercial community radio station, is the station’s new general manager and program director. Known on air as Keziah Glow, she has served WHCR 90.3 FM in a wide range of roles, including host, producer, board operator, news director, and relief production manager. In addition to her longstanding service at WHCR, she also held leadership positions at WBAI 99.5 FM, where she advanced to executive producer and interim program director, all while continuing her commitment

Researchers at The City College of New York have shown how a quantum emitter, the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond, interacts in unexpected ways with a specially engineered photonic structure when moved around with a scanning tip. The study, led by Carlos A. Meriles, Martin and Michele Cohen Professor of Physics in the Division of Science and entitled “Emission of Nitrogen–Vacancy Centres in Diamond Shaped by Topological Photonic Waveguide Modes,” appears in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. What has long been considered a drawback of the NV center—its broad and messy emission spectrum

Reaffirming its reputation as a social mobility powerhouse, Forbes lists The City College of New York among the 25 colleges nationally with the highest payoff. As part of its Forbes 2026 Top Colleges ranking, the business magazine put together a list of the 25 schools that offer students the best returns on their investment—high earnings potential for a relatively low price. To determine which of Forbes’ top 500 colleges offer the best return on investment (ROI), it looked at each school’s price-to-earnings premium, a calculation by the think tank Third Way that shows the number of years it

Rated among the nation’s elite engineering programs annually, The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is listed #120 by U.S. News & World Report in its 2025 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Grove is #113 in the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs category for schools whose highest degree is a doctorate. U.S. News' rankings compare schools on their research activity, faculty resources, academic achievements of entering students, and assessments by other engineering schools and employers. Click here for the complete methodology used to rank the best engineering schools. The

In a move to expand opportunities for New Yorkers interested in becoming educators in critical shortage areas, Governor Kathy Hochul has announced $14.4 million in Workforce Development awards to several colleges and universities – private and public – including The City College of New York. Part of the State’s Education Workforce Investment, the grants will be distributed through the Upskilling Paraprofessionals Program and the Alternative Teacher Certification Program. “Every student deserves a great teacher, and every aspiring educator deserves a clear, supported path into the classroom,”

The City College of New York is one of the nation's academically best undergraduate institutions according to the education services company The Princeton Review®. The company profiles CCNY in the 2026 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 391 Colleges (Penguin Random House) and its website feature about the project. Only about 15% of America’s nearly 2,400 four-year colleges are included in The Princeton Review guidebook. The company chose the colleges for the book based on its surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. The company also

City College of New York faculty members Kevin H. Gardner, Rosario Gennaro, Andreas Killen and Jennifer Roberts are the institution’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professors. Conferred by the City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees, Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession. The title is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. Following are brief bios of The City College’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professors: Kevin H. Gardner: An

Researchers at The City College of New York have linked chemotherapy treatment to lasting cognitive changes in rats – potentially shedding light, for the first time, on cognitive problems some cancer survivors experience long after treatment ends. Entitled “Chemotherapy treatment alters DNA methylation patterns in the prefrontal cortex of female rat brain,” the study appears in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports. “Our study explored how chemotherapy affects the brain at the molecular level using an animal model,” said Karen Hubbard, professor of biology in CCNY’s Division of Science, who

Zhigang Zhu, the Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is a co-principal investigator for a new National Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute, which has been awarded a five-year, $20 million investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF AI-MI, as it is known, will accelerate and transform the discovery of next-generation materials by integrating human scientific expertise with AI methods. Eun-Ah Kim, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics at Cornell University, serves as principal investigator.

A $51,000 grant to The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture created a competition, in the form of a course, that provided select fourth- and fifth-year architecture students the unique opportunity to see a design project from conception through construction. The competition, “The Beauty of Block,” was sponsored by: Concrete Masonry Checkoff, the industry-funded association of block producers across the United States, which gave $36,000; Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 1 NY & Long Island & Labor Management Committee, which gave $10,000; and