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The Foundation for City College has accepted a gift of $25,000 from the estate of Edward Flower ’46 (1929-2022) to be added to the Alpha Phi Omega Endowed Scholarship Fund . The Fund currently provides an annual scholarship of $2,500 to a Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership sophomore or a junior in economic need who possesses a minimum GPA of 3.0 and who demonstrates services to the College and/or the community. The annual scholarship can be divided into two separate awards. “My father felt very strongly about the education he got, and that was reflected in part, by his

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a great education with excellent career preparation and at a relatively affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company named The City College as one of its Best Value Colleges for 2024 on June 20. The full list of The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2024 and the project’s seven categories of ranking lists, as well as the company’s profiles of the schools, is accessible for free. Click here to register. The Princeton Review chose 209 schools for the 2024 list

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, the only public school of engineering in the metropolitan area, has once again been ranked among the 2024 Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News & World Report. The Grove School ranked #109 in the overall Best Engineering School category. Designed for prospective students looking to advance their education post-college, the Best Graduate Schools rankings evaluate programs in a variety of disciplines, including business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing. Other Grove programs ranked nationally by U.S. News are: Best

Alejandro Estevez, a fifth-year student in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is one of 10 outstanding students nationally awarded $10,000 HOK scholarships. A global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, HOK presents the scholarships to reinforce its commitment to fostering greater diversity within the architectural profession. The 2024 scholarship presentation marks the fourth year of the Diversity by Design program, which has consistently grown since its inception in 2021. HOK has now invested a cumulative total of $370,000 into the

The 11th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York opens on June 13 with the New York premiere of “The Extorsion” Martino Zaidelis at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 21 with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by a special presentation of “Frybread Face and Me” by Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo filmmaker, Billy Luther. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, TAFFNY presents eight feature films and more than 25

City College of New York Professor Maria Tzortziou is the recipient of a $15 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to lead a new mission that will study the changing Coastal Arctic and impacts on vulnerable ecosystems and communities. Tzortziou’s project, “Arctic Coastlines–Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems (FORTE),” is one of six new NASA-funded airborne missions that will use novel, high-resolution observations from aircraft to complement what scientists can see from orbit, measure from the ground, and simulate in computer models. The other

Assistant Professor Ifeoma Ebo of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is selected to be a member of the 2024 Cohort for the Academy for Public Scholarship on the Built Environment: CLIMATE ACTION. The honor comes from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the ACSA Research & Scholarship Committee, in partnership with The OpEd Project and the University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Climate Journalism and Communication. Ebo is one of 12 architecture faculty members chosen for her research reflecting climate

The City College of New York’s LGBTQ+ Student Center in collaboration with the CUNY LGBTQI+ Council and the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month with a series of events. Below is a list of events: CCNY and CUNY march in the Queens Pride Parade on Sunday, June 2 at 11 a.m.; CCNY and CUNY celebrate the 7th Annual CUNY Pridefest at Queens College on Friday June 7 at 12 p.m. The CCNY LGBTQ+ Student Center will be tabling for a "Build-a-Benny" activity; CCNY and CUNY march in Brooklyn Pride on Saturday, June 8 at 6:30 p.m.; Brooklyn-based CUNY colleges are hosting a Queer Prom on

Home of a unique NASA center to develop batteries for deep space missions, The City College of New York is the beneficiary of a $5 million cooperative agreement from the agency awarded to Hunter College for advanced research on storing energy for use in space. Robert J. Messinger, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is PI of The City College subcontract. CCNY will receive $1.5M of NASA funding over five years. Messinger is also the PI and founding director of the NASA-CCNY Center for Advanced Batteries for Space (CABS), a separate $5

Eight student-led City College of New York and CUNY startup ventures won $80,000 in prizes during the Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubator Competition. The Zahn Center’s 2024 Demo Week provided 14 finalists the opportunity to pitch to panels of expert judges and compete for prizes to continue the development of their startups. Demo Week was the culmination of a semester-long extra-curricular incubator program, serving more than 55 CCNY and CUNY undergraduate and graduate students as well as community colleagues. The event also marked the 10th anniversary of the