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The City College of New York jumped in several categories today following the release of the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Colleges rankings. CCNY is a top performer in social mobility (#12) and top public schools (#72) with an overall #151 ranking out of 443 national universities. The following is a list of CCNY’s rankings: #12 in Social Mobility - National Universities #72 Top Public Schools - National Universities (tie) #104 Best Undergraduate Engineering - Doctorate (tie) #151 overall in National Universities (tie) #158 Best Undergraduate Computer Science In addition, the college

From The City College of New York’s Center for Discovery and Innovation and the Physics Department comes news of a new type of magnetic quasiparticle created by coupling light to a stack of ultrathin two-dimensional magnets. This achievement sprouting from a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin lays the foundation for an emergent strategy to artificially design materials by ensuring their strong interaction with light. "Implementing our approach with magnetic materials is a promising path towards efficient magneto-optical effects,” said CCNY physicist Vinod M. Menon, whose

The City College of New York and Braven, a national nonprofit organization helping promising college students on a path to economic mobility, partnered for a college-to-career pipeline that will serve 3,750 students over the first five years. “Our collaboration with Braven is an important step in our efforts to elevate student success at CCNY. Proactive advising linked directly to career preparedness and internship work is clearly where higher education is going these days,” said CCNY President Vincent Boudreau. “Braven’s work will help us ensure that our students connect the work they do on

An interdisciplinary City College of New York team is the recipient of a $999,839 National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE award for its proposal, “ADVANCE Adaptation: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in STEM (AIDE-STEM).” The award is over three years. The NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the National Science Foundation's goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce. Led by Rosemarie D. Wesson, associate provost for research and professor of chemical engineering in City College’s Grove School of Engineering, the CCNY team comprises: Christine Li, biology

Rosario Gennaro, professor of computer science in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of a five-year $850,000 grant to further CCNY’s contributions to the advancement of blockchain systems. The funding is part of a five-year, $5.75 million grant by the Algorand Foundation to a Yale University-led consortium. The Foundation is the charitable arm of blockchain company Algorand, founded in 2017 by Silvio Micali of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The main focus of the CCNY grant, which is eligible for renewal at the end of the five-year period

Thanks to a generous $1 million gift from Rick and Susan Goings in honor of the late General Colin L. Powell, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership will launch a new national speakers’ series, the Rick and Susan Goings Conversations in Leadership. The series will feature discussions with marquee names from every sector who have taken unconventional paths to success at the highest levels of their professions. On Sept. 7, 2022, the series will kick off with a discussion with Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings and editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. King will be in

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York today announced the appointment of Manan (Mike) Shah, a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP and 1994 CCNY alumnus, to serve as a member of its Board of Visitors. He joins 23 other distinguished Board Members. “The Colin Powell School’s central purpose is to prepare one of the nation’s most diverse student bodies to become tomorrow’s global leaders. Mike Shah embodies that mission. As an alum, he is proof of the transformative impact of a CCNY education, and he is a role model for our students,”

Pamela L. Laskin, director of The City College of New York’s 50-year-old Poetry Outreach Center, is the recipient of a 2022 Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Award for her work to enable children to unload their grief and to empower voices through poetry. The international award was established by the Pennsylvania-based Judith’s Reading Room in 2015 to identify and honor individual champions of literacy from all disciplines around the world — teachers, librarians, authors, researchers, educators — anyone who has done exemplary work to instill in others a love of reading. “Pamela’s

Dr. Kaveh Madani, the renowned environmental scientist and Research Professor at The City College of New York-based CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST), is the next leader of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). His appointment was announced by the UN. Madani will assume the position of UNU-INWEH Director early next year and will maintain his CUNY CREST affiliation in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. Known as the UN’s water think tank or water university, UNU-INWEH is the United Nations’ academic arm that focuses on

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the new edition of its annual college guide, “The Best 388 Colleges: 2023 Edition,” (August 23, 2022, Penguin Random House, $24.99). The Princeton Review chose the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. For its selection of profiled schools for the book, the company also reviews data from its surveys of