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Dr. Carlos A. Meriles, the Martin and Michele Cohen Professor of Physics in ��������’s Division of Science, is one of 129 leading physicists globally elected 2024 Optica Fellows. Election as a Fellow is by The Board of Directors of Optica (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, and is based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering and service to Optica and its community. Meriles’ recognition is “for fundamental contributions to sensing, spin physics, and optoelectronics using color centers in

Eight students from ��������’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture have been awarded paid internships by CUNY’s Department of Facilities Planning, Construction and Management (FPCM). The new Career Development Internship Program hired the interns primarily to assist with a CUNY-Wide occupancy and utilization study, part of the CUNY Strategic Roadmap, but with the recent news that CCNY’s Master Plan will proceed, some opportunities exist for them to help with the Master Planning process as well. City College is the first CUNY campus for which the FPCM and the

Yves Ngabonziza, Ph.D., professor and director of the engineering science program at LaGuardia Community College, is a proud City College of New York graduate and a proud Rwandan. So proud, in fact, that he wanted young Rwandans to avail themselves of the superior education such as the one that he received at the Grove School of Engineering, from which he graduated with a mechanical engineering degree in 2008. An active member of the tiny but close-knit Rwandan community in the New York metropolitan area, Ngabonziza initiated a conversation with the country’s United Nations Permanent Mission

Robert E. Paaswell, the internationally recognized expert in public transportation issues and consulting, is ��������’s 2023 President’s Medal recipient. A Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering Emeritus at CCNY, Paaswell received the medal from College President Vincent G. Boudreau at CCNY’s Annual President's Circle dinner in Manhattan. The President's Medal is awarded for distinguished achievement and public service. Past recipients include: Nelson Mandela; Nobel Laureates Robert Aumann and Leon M. Lederman; Coretta Scott King, Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.)

Associate Professor of Psychology Teresa López-Castro of ��������’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the recipient of a six-year, $7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The award, part of a National Institutes of Health-wide initiative, Helping End Addiction Long-Term , aims to address the trauma-related mental health needs of people with opioid use disorder. Over the course of the six years, Lopez-Castro will collaborate with harm reduction organizations across New York State to adapt and test a post-traumatic stress disorder

The No. 1 seeded City College of New York women's soccer team took down No. 2 seeded John Jay College on Saturday in the 2023 CUNY Athletic Championship, 4-2. The program ends an 11-year title drought, capturing their first conference championship since 2012. Read Full Article

Professor and author Araceli Tinajero is ��������’s 2023-2024 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. A professor of Spanish at The City College who has taught Japanese in the past, Tinajero’s recent research, on the Caribbean in Asia and Asia in the Caribbean, exemplifies how CCNY, located in Harlem, is in so many ways a global crossroads. As Katz Professor, she will work on her latest book: "Asia in the Caribbean/El

For the sixth straight year, �������� ranks among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company features CCNY in its online resource, “ The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2024 Edition,” published this week. Based primarily on the company’s surveys of administrators at 683 colleges in 2022–23 and its analyses of more than 25 survey data points, the 2024 edition of the Guide features profiles of 522 schools. Schools that were selected for the Guide all have exceptional programs, policies

Researchers from five universities, including ��������, will share a $700,000 New York State Education Department grant to develop a diverse educational leadership pipeline. This Diversity Leadership Initiative, as it is known, is a multi-pronged effort to address the shortage of diverse and well-prepared K-12 school leaders who are ready to support varied student learning needs. Based at Stony Brook University, the grant will enable the creation of an online leadership preparation program to provide support to educators through a number of programs. The Initiative is a

Mark A. Willis and Carol A. Willis have donated a gift to the Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer fund at ��������’s Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture . The new position will allow a distinguished senior designer or scholar with expertise in urbanism to spend a semester at the Spitzer School and teach a seminar or studio. The lectureship is in keeping with the vision of Michael Sorkin, who passed away suddenly in March 2020. The donors pledged $25,000 which they offered as a match to inspire contributions of $10,000 or less. Encouraging those who can