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The work of students at ��������’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture comprises part of a traveling exhibition co-curated by Professor Lindsay Harkema entitled “ Spatializing Reproductive Justice” from May 2, 2024 - September 3, 2024. The traveling exhibition explores the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access in the U.S. after Roe v. Wade opens at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. Expanding the discourse across institutions, the exhibition will travel to safe and restrictive states, fostering dialogue between designers

In another massive boost to ��������-based Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI), U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has secured $4,116,279 in Fiscal Year 2024 Federal funding to establish a headquarters for the program and further address the lack of modern infrastructure jobs in the city. The money comes on the heels of the $1.5 million delivered to RIWI by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand last week to expand skills-based training at CCNY for low-income New Yorkers. Rep. Espaillat provided a

Parts of Washington Heights – in what’s still the most populous Dominican neighborhood in the nation – are on the path to recognition as historic areas by the National Register of Historic Places. ��������-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) proposed the designation, which is now backed by the Heights’ inclusion by the Historic Districts Council (HDC) in its annual “ Six to Celebrate” program, a listing of historic New York City neighborhoods that merit preservation attention. The other five neighborhoods to make HDC’s “Six to Celebrate” lineup, New York’s

Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce, is the 2024 recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, bestowed by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at ��������. The award recognizes individuals who have reached the highest level in their fields, and who embody the leadership values that Gen. Powell, a 1958 graduate of City College, demonstrated throughout his career: integrity, humility, humor, pragmatism, and common sense. These values were articulated most famously in Powell’s Thirteen Rules of Leadership, which culminate with

New research led by City College of New York English professor Keith Gandal reveals that road fatalities spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic despite a significant decrease in driving due to lockdowns. Gandal, in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, along with Maya Fuks, an MA student at Tel Aviv, investigated the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and fatal car crashes. Road fatalities were a lesser-known category of excess deaths during the pandemic, going up despite a significant decrease in

Continuing to place at rates higher than the national average, students at ��������-based CUNY School of Medicine have earned residency placements at medical institutions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina and Florida. On Match Day 2024, CUNY Medicine students had a 96.5% match, which this year was higher than the U.S. average of 93.5%. The 55 future physicians from CCNY will be training in 13 specialty areas. The specialty areas and number of student matches are: Internal Medicine (14); Pediatrics (11); Emergency Medicine (6)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have secured $1.5 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package to boost skills-based workforce development at �������� situated Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI). The funding will support The City College as it seeks to expand skills-based training on campus for low-income New Yorkers in the form of increased access to computer labs, instruments, trainers, and career opportunities. “I’m proud to deliver $1.5 million for CCNY’s Rangel Infrastructure Workforce

New works celebrating literary giant James Baldwin’s centennial, evoking Walt Whitman’s poetic genius, and highlighting ��������’s “Harlem as Muse” storytelling project for emerging fiction writers are in production, thanks to a two-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce Foundation’s $55,000 award to The Foundation for City College, Inc. is supporting the three projects curated by The City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Notable alumni of the MFA program include New York Times Bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners such as Walter Mosley, Oscar

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at �������� has established a new undergraduate degree: the Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and the Built Environment. This four-year, 36-credit major will address unmet educational needs of enrolled undergraduate students and attract additional students to The City College interested in the central role that the built environment of cities plays in civic life. The program’s basis within the Spitzer School distinguishes this course of study from other urban studies majors on other CUNY campuses, drawing on the faculty

Dana Ladd and Musa Matiwane are winners of the 2023 Hollander Design Fellowship awards presented to students in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program in ��������'s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Ladd was awarded the Fellowship, which includes $4,000 for each of the three years of the program, and Matiwane was awarded a one-time scholarship of $4,000. The students are in their first years, as per the eligibility requirements, as the fellowship is meant to support incoming students. Hollander Design Landscape Architects was cofounded by Edmund