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Student Life, in the Division of Student Affairs at The City College of New York, kicks off Black History Month 2025 with a Spring Activity Fair on Feb. 6 from 12-2 p.m. in the Great Hall. On Feb. 13 from 6-8 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall, CCNY’s Black Studies Department and The Rifkind Center presents the 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, and this year’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient is Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar. A list of Black History Month events follows: Langston Hughes Festival Student Symposium on Feb. 13 from 12 -2 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall

The City College of New York has received a $490,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a new project at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, “SUSTAIN-NYC: Storytelling for Urban Sustainability and Transformation in New York City." This project, a partnership with local environmental justice organization South Bronx Unite, aims to undertake various media projects that document, analyze, and publicize ongoing issues of environmental injustice in the communities of Mott Haven and Port Morris. These communities have been affected disproportionately by these

Naresh Devineni, professor of civil engineering at The City College of New York and a water systems and hydroclimate expert, is the recipient of a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a holistic research and training program for its RENEW (Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce) initiative. The outcome will be to prepare a workforce that can respond to extreme natural hazards. From CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, Devineni will lead the three-year project. Other faculty from CCNY include Te Pei and Hansong Tang from Civil Engineering, Shakila Merchant from CUNY

Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute and doctoral lecturer of computer science at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is lead author of a critical essay on measurement in scientific discourse. The essay, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, warns of the dangerous implications of measurement illiteracy in contemporary scientific discourse and urges broad, systematic efforts be undertaken to reform measurement literacy. Measurement literacy is necessary for

The City College of New York has been awarded a $500,000 planning grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to incubate a Health and Opportunity Leadership Institute. HOLI, as it is known, aspires to cultivate a new generation of leaders in public health, medicine, health policy, and public affairs drawn from diverse and historically marginalized communities. This initiative is a response to what residents of these communities witness and experience every day: poor leadership costs lives and livelihoods, while effective leadership enables human flourishing. In tandem with developing this

Adjunct Assistant Professor Marina Correia B Arch ’06 is the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Made possible by an initial gift by Mark A. Willis and Carol A. Willis, the position allows a distinguished senior designer or scholar with expertise in urbanism to spend a semester at the Spitzer School to teach a seminar or studio. The lectureship is in keeping with the vision of Sorkin (1948-2020), distinguished professor and director emeritus of Spitzer’s graduate urban design program, and is intended to encourage

Mark A. Libatique is The City College of New York’s first-ever director of Data, Analytics and Advancement Services, as of Jan. 2, 2025. In this newly-created position, Libatique and the existing team manage a complicated system of donor and alumni contributions, a comprehensive direct mail management program, and the CUNY system's largest alumni information network, among other responsibilities. “CCNY is a first generation institution that transforms lives in a direct way,” said Libatique. “I was drawn to CCNY because I want to engage in community empowerment work in the context of higher

Dormitory Authority of the State of New York President and CEO Robert J. Rodriguez, and The City College of New York President Vince Boudreau recently toured construction sites on CCNY’s campus to view projects that will create lasting improvements for student learning. DASNY is currently managing 44 active projects, valued at more than $383 million, for CCNY. “DASNY is proud to work with CCNY to create spaces that enhance students’ educational experiences,” said Rodriguez. “For nearly five decades, DASNY has collaborated with CCNY to construct and renovate numerous facilities that promote

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York’s 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient. She’ll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, Feb. 13-14. This year’s event commemorates the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance, that intellectual and cultural revival of African-American literature, music, art, theater and scholarship of which Langston Hughes was a central figure. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora. It recognizes honorees for their impressive

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York’s Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses hydrogen cations (H+) to manipulate relativistic electronic bandstructures in a magnetic Weyl semimetal -- a topological material where electrons mimic massless particles called Weyl fermions. These particles are distinguished by their chirality or “handedness” linked to their spin and momentum. In the magnetic material MnSb₂Te₄, researchers unveiled a fascinating ability to “tune” and enhance the chirality of electronic transport by introducing hydrogen ions, reshaping on