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Naresh Devineni, professor of civil engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is partnering with Stony Brook University experts on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded collaborative research project led by the SUNY institution, that combines multimodal AI with physics-informed flood modeling. Titled, “Collaborative Research: CAIG: Inferring Hidden Urban Flood Controls Using Physics-Informed Multimodal Learning,” the three-year study aims to better understand the hidden influences on urban flooding that can result in two nearby streets experiencing

Distinguished Professor of Physics Hernan Makse and Harold Shames Professor of Biomedical Engineering Lucas C. Parra are the initial recipients of the President’s Innovation Fund award at The City College of New York for their project, “Democratizing AI through Symmetry Compression: Scaling our current 10x Model Compression Technology to Commercially Relevant Large Language Models.” Selected from a competitive field of 17 proposals spanning biomedical engineering, clean energy, AI and other disciplines, the pair’s project will receive $50,000 in funding over the next academic year to address

Matthew Zhou, a fourth-year B Arch student in Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is a recipient of the 2026 Hoffmann Scholarship. The scholarship was established by design firm Hoffmann Architects + Engineers, in collaboration with the Connecticut Architecture Foundation (CAF), to support students seeking degrees in architecture or engineering. It offers a paid summer internship in one of the firm’s three offices. Zhou was an architectural intern in Hoffmann’s New York City office this past summer. Throughout his 12-week

“A Book of One's Own,” a site-specific installation by artist Danielle Alhassid, opens Nov. 4 in the Archives and Special Collections of the Cohen Library at The City College of New York. Presented in collaboration with Elazar Elhanan of the Michael & Irene Ross Program in CCNY’s Jewish Studies Program, the exhibition runs through Dec. 16, 2026. An opening reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 4. The evolving installation pairs stop-motion videos and prints with editions of the Tsenerene, a 17th-century Yiddish Bible translation known as "the women's Bible." Drawing on copies held in the

The City College Fellowships Program (CCFELL) at The City College of New York has introduced its inaugural cohort of students in the “CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program,” known as CUNY STARS. Funded by a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Program, the CCNY-based program guides CUNY community college students to CUNY STEM graduate education. The 2026-27 CUNY STARS, all of whom are juniors who previously conducted scientific research at either Borough of Manhattan Community College or Queensborough Community College

Dr. Julie Forman-Kay, an eminent Senior Scientist in the Molecular Medicine Program at the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children in Canada, and biochemistry Professor at the University of Toronto, presents the 2026 Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture at The City College of New York on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Her talk, “Intrinsically disordered proteins and biomolecular condensates in biology and disease,” starts at 4 p.m. at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center located on the CCNY campus at 85 Saint Nicholas Terrace, Manhattan. The Cosloy-Blank

Researchers from Rutgers, IBM and collaborating institutions, including The City College of New York‘s Sriram Ganeshan, have shown that a quantum computer can check what is happening inside it and respond while it is running, repeatedly resetting parts of the system to bring chaotic behavior under control. The advance is a critical step toward building larger, more reliable quantum computers. Today’s quantum computers operate according to the unusual rules governing atoms and other extremely small particles. They could one day solve problems beyond the reach of conventional computers —

Three renowned City College of New York faculty members, sociologist Ramona Hernández, physics/science educator Richard Steinberg and documentary filmmaker Andrea Weiss, are among 12 outstanding City University of New York (CUNY) scholars elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The title of Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. It’s conferred by the CUNY Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and

Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education junior Ramez Hassanen is The City College of New York’s 2026-2028 Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service recipient. The Bay Ridge, Brooklyn native is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and a first-generation Egyptian-American. An Arabic-speaking South Brooklyn EMT for the past two years who aspires to attend the CUNY School of Medicine, he seeks to serve those members of his largely immigrant community who struggle to access proper healthcare. “When there's a barrier between their language and properly managing their health, we're

The City College of New York Libraries: Archives and Special Collections Division, in collaboration with the West Harlem Arts Alliance, presents “Mom Is Dead, But You Are Going to Cure Her” (Mamá está muerta, pero la vamos a curar). The exhibition, by West Harlem-based artist and Spanish writer Jana Leo, opens during Domestic Violence Awareness Month and is on view through Nov. 20. The exhibition can be viewed Mon. through Fri. from 12-4:30 p.m. at the Cohen Library Archives Gallery in the North Academic Center on 160 Convent Avenue, Room 5/301. The exhibition is based on Leo’s archive project