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AI-powered products that offer early wildfire smoke and air quality predictions, and track tenant and landlord leases were among the winners in the inaugural “BYTE Hacks,” a 24-hour hackathon at The City College of New York. More than 100 students from schools in the Metropolitan area, including New York University, Fordham, Rutgers Honors College, Stony Brook and Hunter College, participated in the event sponsored by Google Labs, Vercel, and Red Bull. Organized by BYTE (Build Your Technical Experience), a CCNY student club, the hackathon offered $5,000 in prizes. Project themes were

The City College of New York’s Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing’s annual Chai and Chat Reading Series kicks off with author and Professor Salar Abdoh ( A Nearby Country Called Love) in conversation with writer Irvin Weathersby, Jr. on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 6:30p.m. in the Rifkind Center, NAC 6/316. Weathersby is the CCNY Bernard Mendik Guest Professor and will read from his work. The event is free and open to the public. Prospective MFA candidates will have an opportunity to meet Program Director Michelle Valladares at the event. Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New

Throughout high school, Eli Akselrod, B.M. ’24 was a music enthusiast who wanted to make a career in music production. Then came time to choose a college major. “As much as I enjoy playing music, I wanted to be behind the board,” she said, which is how she came to The City College of New York to enroll in the Division of Humanities and The Arts’ four-year Bachelor of Music (B.M.) degree with a major in sonic arts. “I wanted to do audio engineering and the Sonic Arts Center was the perfect place to do it.” “This is a pre-professional program,” explained Paul Kozol, the Center’s founding

Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President of The City College of New York, is the recipient of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York’s (BCTC) 2025 Building Futures Award. The honor, which recognizes labor, contractor, and government dignitaries who have made significant contributions to building a more inclusive and equitable construction industry, was presented to Boudreau, The City College’s 13th president, by BCTC President Gary LaBarbera. "Without President Boudreau's understanding and support of the family-sustaining career opportunities the union construction industry

Dr. Yang Liu, assistant professor in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and an expert in experimental fluid mechanics, is one of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) Class of 2026 Associate Fellows. The honor is for his pioneering research and academic leadership. This includes his impactful contributions to experimental aerodynamics and multiphase flow, advancing aircraft icing mitigation, additive manufacturing, and plasma-droplet interactions. According to the AIAA, the grade of Associate Fellow recognizes individuals “who have accomplished

“Scarefest,” City College of New York’s annual family-friendly Halloween celebration welcomes the Harlem community on campus on Friday, Oct. 31, with spooky fun and frights for all. In its eighth year, the event, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. As always, the highlight of Scarefest is a walk through the dark tunnels running underneath The City College campus and designed to resemble a haunted passageway. Curated by CCNY’s Theatre and Speech Department, the 15-minute experience includes all the staple elements of your traditional

Wishing to provide opportunities for future generations of full-time Grove School of Engineering undergraduate students at The City College of New York, James Cunningham, BEE ’69 and his wife, Vicki Cunningham, have contributed $1,000,000 to establish the James and Vicki Cunningham Scholarship Fund. The new endowed fund will generate annual awards of $40,000 to support five full-time Grove School undergraduate students who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher with scholarships of $8,000 each. The scholarships are to be used for tuition costs and research-related expenses, allowing

CUNY Distinguished Professor Rosario Gennaro and Assistant Professor Tushar Jois, two of The City College of New York’s leading cryptography experts, are participants in a $3.8 million National Science Foundation-funded project led by New York University to speed up cryptographic computing. Stanford University is the other institution involved in the four-year research helmed by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The challenge facing the team is that the most advanced cryptographic computing technologies today — which enable privacy-preserving computation — are confined in research labs by one

For the second time in three years, some of Ukraine’s brightest high school students can count on The City College of New York as they continue on the path to become their embattled nation’s next generation of scientists and engineers. The “Science for Ukraine” program is the brainchild of former CCNY physicist Alexander Khanikaev, a pioneer of topological photonics and one of the world’s Highly Cited Researchers (HCR). It brings students, mostly from the STEM-focused Ukraine Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (UPML) in Kyiv, and is supported by the Simons Foundation, the Office of Naval Research

In its 2026 edition of Best Colleges published today, U.S. News & World Report ranks The City College of New York #132 out of the top 436 National Universities. CCNY is also ranked #9 in Top Performers on Social Mobility, a traditional forte of the institution. Overall, more than 1,700 U.S. colleges and universities are ranked, with most participating in the U.S. News statistical survey. The City College’s other top placings in the U.S. News rankings include: #68 in Top Public Schools; #91 in Best Colleges for Veterans (web-exclusive); #109 in 2026 Best Value Schools; #112 in Undergraduate