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Dr. Robert R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York and one of the world’s pre-eminent researchers in the field, is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society’s (IPS) 2024 Laser Instrumentation Award. The honor is for Alfano’s “discovery of supercontinuum light source as an enabling technology for diverse applications and tunable Cr4 and Cr3 lasers," IPS said. He’ll receive the award at the 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference, Nov. 10-14, in Rome, Italy. Karen A. Mergner, the Society’s senior governance and awards administrator, said the Laser

The Seaside Institute has bestowed the 2025 Seaside Prize upon The City College of New York’s architect and Professor June Williamson and her writing and research partner Professor Ellen Dunham-Jones. Williamson is director of Graduate Architecture at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Dunham-Jones is director of the master’s in urban design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The Seaside Institute’s award attests to the tremendous impact the duo have had on the built environment via their books and teachings. Co-authors of the groundbreaking “Retrofitting

Professor Laura Wainer, of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is to participate in the newly created Urban Design Forum Global Exchange. The fellowship, themed “Big Swings,” will build bridges between leaders in New York and other cities taking “big swings” at their housing crises. Born in Argentina, Wainer is known for her academic work on the intersection between housing policy, design politics, and urban governance. She concentrates on housing inequality among migrants in NYC and the nine-month Fellowship dovetails perfectly with her work. She is

The Economics and Business Department at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York received an investment to establish the Bloomberg Lab at CCNY. The new lab, located in the Tech Center on the first floor in CCNY’s Cohen Library in the North Academic Building, will feature 12 Bloomberg Terminals ©. It is made possible in part by a generous donation by Liz Weikes , a managing director at J.P. Morgan Wealth Management and a member of the Colin Powell School’s Board of Visitors. “Bloomberg Terminals© are part of the lifeblood of finance and business

The City College of New York Jazz Studies Graduate Ensemble 1 won the category of Graduate College Outstanding Performance by “Downbeat” magazine. Saxophonist Steve Wilson, director of CCNY Jazz Studies and associate professor, led the Ensemble to the win. The Ensemble included graduate students Matthias Meyer, Julian Brezon, Martin Locken, Nicolai Daneck, Nitzan Gavrieli, Daniel Nagel and Antonio Cerfeda. CCNY Jazz Studies is in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. Wilson is an award-winning musician and has consistently placed in the “Downbeat" Magazine Critics and Readers Polls in the

The Foundation for City College has accepted a gift of $25,000 from the estate of Edward Flower ’46 (1929-2022) to be added to the Alpha Phi Omega Endowed Scholarship Fund . The Fund currently provides an annual scholarship of $2,500 to a Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership sophomore or a junior in economic need who possesses a minimum GPA of 3.0 and who demonstrates services to the College and/or the community. The annual scholarship can be divided into two separate awards. “My father felt very strongly about the education he got, and that was reflected in part, by his

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a great education with excellent career preparation and at a relatively affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company named The City College as one of its Best Value Colleges for 2024 on June 20. The full list of The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2024 and the project’s seven categories of ranking lists, as well as the company’s profiles of the schools, is accessible for free. Click here to register. The Princeton Review chose 209 schools for the 2024 list

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, the only public school of engineering in the metropolitan area, has once again been ranked among the 2024 Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News & World Report. The Grove School ranked #109 in the overall Best Engineering School category. Designed for prospective students looking to advance their education post-college, the Best Graduate Schools rankings evaluate programs in a variety of disciplines, including business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing. Other Grove programs ranked nationally by U.S. News are: Best

Alejandro Estevez, a fifth-year student in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is one of 10 outstanding students nationally awarded $10,000 HOK scholarships. A global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, HOK presents the scholarships to reinforce its commitment to fostering greater diversity within the architectural profession. The 2024 scholarship presentation marks the fourth year of the Diversity by Design program, which has consistently grown since its inception in 2021. HOK has now invested a cumulative total of $370,000 into the

The 11th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York opens on June 13 with the New York premiere of “The Extorsion” Martino Zaidelis at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 21 with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by a special presentation of “Frybread Face and Me” by Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo filmmaker, Billy Luther. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, TAFFNY presents eight feature films and more than 25