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The City College of New York’s interdisciplinary Sustainability in the Urban Environment Graduate Program is partnering with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health ( UNU-INWEH) to launch a joint Master of Science (MS) Program at CCNY this Fall. It will focus on advancing Geospatial Data Sciences for addressing sustainable development. The new program will be offered through the UNU Hub on Remote Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS), housed in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. This partnership will offer new and

The Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust established an annual fellowship program in 2024, and since then, the Reinhardt Family Fellowship has supported high-achieving, first-generation City College of New York students who demonstrate a commitment to social justice. Their latest gift—that brings their total CCNY funding to $93,000—will be used to support internship stipends for students enrolled in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. The Reinhardt Foundation’s first gift of $42,000 provided recipients, at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, with full tuition plus

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation gifted $50,000 to The City College of New York’s Division of interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE). The grant will be used to establish the Newcombe Scholarships for Mature Students. “This generous gift from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation is an investment in the determination and potential of our adult learners. Many of our students balance work, family responsibilities, and academic aspirations every day,” said J uan Carlos Mercado, dean of CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. “These scholarships will help remove

June Williamson, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture at The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, has been named 2026-2027 president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). A longtime supporter of ACSA, Williamson has been elected to the ACSA Board of Directors twice: as Second Vice President in the 2024-2025 term and as a Director-At-Large from 2018-2021. “I’ve had a long association with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, going back to my very first academic paper—it was such a thrill

The David Aronow Foundation (DAF) is continuing its partnership with The City College of New York by gifting an additional $20,000 to go towards the David Aronow Fellowship. The fellowship is named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow, and it provides a $4000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. DAF previously gifted CCNY $75,000 in 2023. Aronow was the youngest, and only, member of his immigrant family to have the chance to get a free college education at City College. His four siblings had to work to keep their families afloat, and once he graduated and was professionally

Dr. Stephen O'Brien, a noted materials scientist who heads the O'Brien Research Group, is the new Martin and Michele Cohen Dean of Science at The City College of New York. His appointment follows a nation-wide search. A Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry, he had served as Interim Dean since July 2025. O’Brien joined CCNY as an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry (now Chemistry & Biochemistry) in 2009. He was department chair from 2020 to 2025, becoming the Louis J. Curtman Chair in 2023. He stepped down from the chairmanship last summer to become the Interim Dean of

While the FIFA World Cup attracts a global audience of up to five billion people--or six of every 10 people on the planet--what may be less known is the prevalence of The City College of New York’s connection to this quadrennial tournament. CCNY students reported ancestral representation on 22 of the 32 national teams in the 2026 knockout round, the College’s Office of Institutional Research found. The country with the most student representation is, unsurprisingly, the United States, with 54 percent of enrolled undergraduate and graduate students self-reporting the USA as the country of

The City College of New York Philosophy Professor Nickolas Pappas has been selected as the Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for the 2026-27 academic year. This endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to CCNY by alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq. ‘64. The gift supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division for one academic year. Emerging from a competitive selection process, Pappas will receive $10,000 to support his research and creative activity for the current academic year. The 10th faculty member to hold this professorship

The City College of New York and the Foundation for City College attained a significant achievement by reaching half of the $1 billion goal of its “The Campaign for City College: Doing Remarkable Things Together” campaign. The 10-year campaign, announced by President Vincent Boudreau in May 2022, coincided with the 175th anniversary of the College’s founding as the Free Academy in 1847, and aimed to triple its then-existing endowment by 2032. The milestone was achieved on May 1, which coincided with this year’s Day of Giving and Homecoming Weekend. “Expanding and stabilizing the college’s

The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) received a historic collection of almost 500 historical items, including maps of the island of Hispaniola and its environs, some dating back as far as the 16th century, at a ceremony at the CUNY DSI Library in CCNY’s North Academic Center. This gift, the Joseph A. Gonzalez and Ralph E. Magnus Collection of Antique Maps of Hispaniola and the West Indies, took the two donors almost three decades to amass. The items in the collection include: a map of the island of Santo Domingo published in 1858 by order of the