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The City College of New York has partnered with the New York Small Business Development Centers to open a regional center at CCNY to encourage entrepreneurship and the creation of small businesses by the members of the CCNY community, as well as entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout Upper Manhattan. This will be the fifth CUNY campus to host a regional center, joining Baruch College, York College, the College of Staten Island, and LaGuardia Community College. The center will be located in Shepard Hall and managed by the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, & External

An exhilarating and wide-ranging variety of events are available almost daily in the month of February to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month at The City College of New York led by the Black Studies Department. The following events are open to the public. The Harlem Chamber Players, in partnership with the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at City College, and in association with the Harlem School of the Arts presents the 18th Annual Black History Month Celebration “American Landscapes” on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. at Aaron Davis Hall, 129 Convent Avenue, New

The City College of New York's and the Foundation for City College's ongoing outreach initiatives to provide fresh, nutritious meals to those in need continues to expand, including a massive effort that resulted in hundreds of meals being distributed the week of Thanksgiving and again the last week of 2025. Every year since 2020, the College and the Foundation have partnered with Black-owned school food management company Red Rabbit to deliver the meals to different community partners, including PSS Manhattanville Center, Wilson Major Morris Community Center, Greater File Chapel Baptist Church

For decades, the world has been warned of a looming water crisis. A landmark report released today at the United Nations Headquarters argues that the time for "crisis management" has passed. The report, Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, is the outcome of an investigation led by Kaveh Madani, the renowned environmental scientist and Research Professor at The City College of New York’s CUNY CREST Institute. The study concludes that humanity has entered a state of “ Global Water Bankruptcy”—a permanent, systemic failure where the natural capital

Five City College of New York undergraduates from the Division of Science were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in San Antonio, Texas. The conference attracted close to 5,000 participants – including graduate students, researchers, scientists and exhibitors. Following are details about CCNY’s triumphant ABRCMS quintet, their majors, subject matter and project titles: Litsi Auquilla, junior, biomedical science; social and behavioral sciences and public health, “Comparing Environmental and Clinical Characteristics of Lung Cancer Across New

Three students from The City College of New York are winners of the inaugural FRAME FORWARD Student Video Festival from the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. The festival is open to all CUNY students, regardless of their major, with this year’s theme: “Featuring Student Life Through the Eyes of Those Living It.” The festival was founded by Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Lorena De Miranda Marques, academic advisor, marketing and communications, recruitment coordinator at CWE. All winners received a trophy and

Dayanara Rodriguez, a M Arch ’26 student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, is a 2025 AIA Bronx Student Empowerment Award winner. She received a $1,000 scholarship and was honored at the awards ceremony along with other students for their participation in the Bronx Reimagined Design Challenge, a competition dedicated to transforming abandoned buildings in the Bronx into spaces that positively impact the surrounding community. “We are incredibly proud of Dayanara Rodriguez for receiving the 2025 Bronx AIA Empowerment Scholarship,” said

The Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York has an abundance of good news to share from its faculty. Writer and Professor Emily Raboteau (“ Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse’”) received a 2025 Environmental Arts Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Anonymous Was a Woman. The grant supports environmental art projects led by women-identifying artists from the United States and U.S. territories. Raboteau, a professor of Black Studies, was awarded $20,000 for her project, “Voices from the Cross-Bronx Expressway.” Her book-length

Two faculty members and one graduate student of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York have received 2025 Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts in conjunction with the Architectural League of New York. Each $10,000 award was granted for a self-generated year-long project in design practice and research that sought to answer the question of where design can go next. In the 2025 cycle, 25 proposals were selected out of 176 applications by a panel of 12 designers and educators. The CCNY grant recipients are: Assistant

Executive, scholar, educator and diplomat are all titles that describe Marc Ostfield, who becomes the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York on Jan. 26, 2026. Identified through a search process that drew more than 100 applicants from across the country, Ostfield spent more than two decades in government service, including serving as the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay from January 2022 to January 2025. As the chief diplomatic representative of the U.S. government to this South American