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T he City College of New York’s Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CiPASS) is the recipient of a $50,000 grant from Life Science Cares New York to support student programming. In collaboration with the Division of Science’s Biology Department, CiPASS will use the grant to create and deliver hands-on, project-based lab skills and training workshops to at least 40 City College students. CiPASS’s mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities studying STEM at CCNY by supporting them in their studies and providing resources and experiences to gain workplace skills

In a major stride toward revolutionizing indoor navigation, a City College of New York-led team has developed groundbreaking technology that could chart real-time paths, delivering users—both sighted and low vision—a seamless and accurate indoor navigation experience complete with turn-by-turn guidance. The invention has earned a U.S. patent titled "System and Method for Real-time Indoor Navigation." The innovation is the brainchild of the City College-based CUNY Computational Vision and Convergence Laboratory (CCVCL) headed by Zhigang Zhu, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York is partnering with the Hebrew Free Loan Society to provide interest-free emergency loans of up to $2,000 to currently-enrolled low and moderate-income students. This first of its kind partnership between HFLS and a college will supplement the Colin Powell School’s existing Student Emergency Fund , which was created to assist enrolled students unable to cover living expenses such as food, housing, and utilities. This Fund has been supported over the years by the generous support of the Viola Foundation, and

Sebastian Bush, assistant director of athletics for communications and sports information at The City College of New York, has been named to the 2023 College Sports Communicators 30 Under 30 Class. The recognition honors up-and-coming strategic, creative, and digital athletics communications professionals throughout CSC’s more than 4,100 membership across the United States and Canada. Candidates are selected based on achievement in one or more areas, such as professional success, impact on their athletic department/conference office, and service to CSC. “The CSC 30 Under 30 class of 2023 is an

The CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE) premieres its new video series, featuring school-wide projects produced by three elementary schools in New York state, on Tuesday, Dec. 5 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall on The City College of New York campus. “ Not Too Young: Immigration in Elementary Schools ” illustrates the ways in which schools can be responsive to their immigrant communities and prioritize immigrant students and families at their schools. The projects are: “ Welcoming New Students: A Guide for Teachers, Created by Students ” (PS212Q, Jackson Heights);

Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research by Richard G. Monge and Tom Delord members of the Meriles Group in CCNY’s Division of Science, is entitled “Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit” and appears in the journal “ Nature Nanotechnology.” “It means that we can store many different images at the same place in the diamond by using a laser of a slightly different color to store different

Maintaining The City College of New York’s excellence at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), four CCNY undergraduates majoring in biomedical science emerged winners at the 2023 event in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference attracted more than 5,000 participants – including graduate students, researchers and scientists – in what was ABRCMS’s largest gathering in its 23-year history. All four CCNY winners participated in the City College of New York- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( CCNY-MSKCC) Partnership’s PURT program in the summer. PURT

The City College of New York’s newly established Office for Experiential Learning (OEL) has received a five-year grant of $2,999,599 from the U.S. Department of Education’s (DoE) Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (DHSI) Program to support the Career Awareness and Pathways at City College (CAPACity) initiative and its associated activities. The Office for Experiential Learning will work collaboratively with three divisions, The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, by

Doctoral students at nine New York City area graduate engineering programs, including CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, will soon be able to take courses at each other’s institutions without any additional tuition, as part of a new multi-school agreement. The Inter-University Engineering Doctoral Consortium (IUEDC), led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering, encourages PhD students to complement their primary program by taking courses of interest offered at different schools, providing access to specialty instruction and expertise that may not be available at their home universities. Students

Dr. Margaret Rosario, an eminent psychologist in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the City University of New York (CUNY). 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 international standards of excellence in their profession