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City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R. Alfano and his team at the CUNY Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (CUNY IUSL) continue their groundbreaking work in spectroscopy by discovering evidence that quantum events occur in plants. “It has been theorized that quantum events occur in nature, but it hasn’t been measured until now. These are the first steps in understanding that quantum effects occur in nature and biology,” Alfano said. His team’s findings, published in the latest issue of the journal “ Photochemistry and Photobiology,”

Dr. Teresa J. Bandosz, a chemical engineer, chemist and internationally-renowned authority in nano-engineered carbon-based materials and composites, is ��������’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professor. The position is the highest academic honor that the City University of New York (CUNY) can offer its faculty and is approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees. Distinguished Professors should have a national reputation as scholars, an acknowledged status as one of the leaders in their field of specialization, and a record of innovative, sustained, and influential research; or, in

New research from ��������’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership suggests that racial/ethnic minority (REM) students thrive in environments with no-racial/ethnic majority, producing higher graduation rates, even through adverse factors such as low household income and low parental education. Generally, research has found that REM students graduate from colleges and universities at lower rates than White students. National graduation rates of Black (27.62 percent) and Latinx (19.81 percent) students remain considerably lower than White (43.87 percent) and

�������� is the recipient of a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to boost the number of racial/ethnic minority (REM) students in biomedical and behavioral sciences research. The funding will support a five-year project, Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program, or “Manhattan-Bridge,” whose goal is to bridge the path for students in those fields transferring from the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). “Manhattan-Bridge is part of a strategic plan in the Department of Psychology to build a pipeline for REM students from community

Campbell Dalglish, associate professor of Film at ��������, has been interested in chronicling the Spirit Roads of Native American Indians since he visited a sacred petroglyph on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in 1972. He was accompanied by Hopi spiritual leader Thomas Banyacya who described to him the four levels of civilization where survival today means returning to the laws of nature. That interest – buttressed by Campbell’s immersion in various tribal cultures over the past half-century -- has molded the documentary and narrative filmmaker’s career, for which he has

Dr. Edwin M. Lamboy, a scholar of the Spanish language and its use in the United States and globally, is the new Dean of ��������’s School of Education (SOE). He assumes the role permanently during the SOE’s centennial after serving as interim Dean since February 2020. “Dean Lamboy was chosen as interim Dean based on the exceptionally strong support of his colleagues in the School of Education,” said City College Provost Tony Liss, who announced Lamboy’s latest appointment. “During the 15 months I’ve had the pleasure of working with him in his Interim capacity, I grew to

“ Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges,” the recent publication co-authored by June Williamson, chair in ��������’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is the 2021 winner of the Great Places Award for books. Presented by the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), in partnership with Project for Public Spaces, the Great Places Awards uniquely recognize work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice, and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that capture the public

The Foundation for City College at the City College of New York is pleased to announce the appointment of CCNY alumnus Joseph Fleischer to its Board. Throughout his 45+ year career, Fleischer managed the design of facilities across the United States and the world, including the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, The Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, among many others. In 2013, Fleischer retired from Ennead Architects, LLP and serves as Emeritus Partner of the firm. He

Award-winning writer and City College of New York Professor of literature and creative writing Lyn Sandín Di Iorio, is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Fiction. Fellowships are intended to support an artist's vision or voice at all levels of their artistic development and Di Iorio was selected by a jury of her peers. Her application included work excerpted from her current in-progress project, “Hurricanes and Other Stories,” a short story collection about Puerto Rican islanders dealing with the fallout of a long financial crisis and back-to-back natural

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York is pleased to announce a partnership with Santander Bank, N.A., through its Santander Universities program (“Santander”), to create the Santander Finance Boot Camp and the Santander Fellows program. The three-year, $300,000 initiative, fully supported by Santander, is designed to prepare Colin Powell School students for careers in banking and finance by providing them with the tools they need to apply for analyst and internship experiences in their junior years. The initiative will also contribute to the