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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

Keith Haring’s Apocalypse series, including 30 distinct pieces of art, has been donated to The City College of New York by the Leonard-Litz LGBTQ+ Foundation, The Foundation for City College announced. Haring created "Apocalypse" in 1988, at the height of the AIDS pandemic and after his own diagnosis. The screen prints are accompanied by captions composed by his series collaborator, William S. Burroughs. The complete set, including the captions, will be displayed in campus spaces to inspire discussion among students, faculty, staff, and alumni, especially members of the CCNY and CUNY LGBTQ+

Researchers at the City College of New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are raising hopes that AI can improve early detection of breast cancer. Researchers have developed an AI algorithm and evaluated its ability to identify breast cancer on MRI scans one year in advance. The AI model was trained on MRI from 52,598 breasts and fine-turned on 3,209 scans from 910 patients at high risk of developing cancer. The data contained 115 cancers that were diagnosed one year after a normal MRI result. According to the study published in Academic Radiology, the algorithm can detect

The Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust announces the establishment of an annual fellowship program at The City College of New York to support a high-achieving first-generation student demonstrating a commitment to social justice. Based on need, the Reinhardt Family Fellowship will provide the recipient full tuition plus expenses for a total of $42,000 over three years, said Mark Reinhardt, Esq., Trust Chairman. The first Reinhardt Fellowship at CCNY, which has been a bastion for first-generation students since its founding in 1847, will be awarded in the fall 2025 semester. In addition to the

Five undergraduates from The City College of New York were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference attracted more than 4,000 participants – including graduate students, researchers and scientists – in one of ABRCMS’s largest gatherings in its 24-year history. The students were supported by various programs including PURT (the CCNY-MSK partnership), headed by Karen Hubbard; U-RISE (Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement), led by Jonathan Levitt; CCAPP (City Academy for

The University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at The City College of New York is partnering with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) on two transformative transportation initiatives supported by $16 million in federal funding. The cutting-edge projects promise to revolutionize urban mobility and infrastructure management through advanced artificial intelligence and smart technology solutions. NYC DOT is one of seven recipients nationwide to receive funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Congestion Relief Grant Program. Their $11.6m award will fund

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA), a landscape architecture firm, gifted $30,000 to the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York for establishment of The MVVA Fellowship Program for students in the Master of Landscape Architecture program. The MVVA Fellowship seeks to support rising individuals in the field of landscape architecture who come from backgrounds that are currently and have been historically underrepresented in the field. The goal of this fellowship is to strengthen the pool of resources for emerging design professionals and to

Before he became a New York City Park Ranger, Rafael Cruz knew that he wanted to be an environmental conservation educator, but was unsure how to channel that ambition when he first enrolled at The City College of New York as an undeclared major. Then, he had a chance encounter with Yael Wyner, an associate professor at the School of Education. The director of SoE’s science education program, Wyner suggested to Cruz that he consider enrolling in the School’s Science Learning and Public Education major, which was established in 2021 to prepare students for a range of STEM education careers. “I

Lynne Scott Jackson, distinguished lecturer and the director of Industry Relations, Internships and Professional Development in the Ad/PR Program at The City College of New York, is the recipient of the 2024 PRSA-NY Big Apple Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award honors individuals who continuously lead, guide and selflessly counsel and stimulate the careers of communications professionals at all career stages. The event, themed “Collaboration and Innovation,” is the premier networking event for the public relations industry and also recognizes the 2024 15 Under 35. She also received PRSA