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A current New York Times report ranks CCNY Number 1 in the nation among 369 select public colleges for economic mobility: we have the highest percentage of graduates who move two or more quintiles up the income ladder. In fact, 36% of CCNY students who come from families whose income is in the bottom fifth rise to the top fifth as adults! Read more from this, and other associated reports, about the transformative power of a City College education.

As the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon oversaw major reforms on peacekeeping, pushed for action on global warming and tackled the Darfur conflict. Soon scholars, students and policy-makers studying his legacy will have access to his official papers on these and other actions, thanks to The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Jean Krasno, lecturer in the Colin Powell School, leads the project with colleague Jacques Fomerand, a former UN official, to organize, select and catalogue the collected papers of Ban. This will

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York is embarking on another ground breaking digital project. A $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will fund the first online study regarding the history of Dominican music in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Ramona Hernández, professor of sociology in City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, heads the project. "This is a collective effort that brings together young researchers at CUNY DSI: John Bimbiras (music), Ruth Lizardi (art) and Jhensen Ortiz (librarian), along

In celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., City College of New York students and staff honor the slain Civil Rights leader with CCNY’s annual MLK Day of Service. This year’s theme is “Why Do You Serve?” and partners CityServ with New York Cares and PS 194 for a day of community work. CityServ is a City College based program designed to connect students with community service organizations. For MLK 2017, volunteers gather at PS 194 for activities that include painting the school’s hallways, literacy tutorials with students and arts, craft and fitness classes. Volunteers can also

After a bountiful fall harvest from a garden extension to The City College of New York’s award-winning Solar Roofpod come the bees. The nationally recognized rooftop project designed by students in CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture,under the guidance of Professor Christian Volkmann, is the recipient of a Sponsor-A-Hive grant of honey bees from The Honeybee Conservancy. It is part of the conservancy’s mission to save bees. The grant to City College and its partner, the CCNY-based High School for Math, Science and Engineering, includes beehives, bees, a beekeeping suit and a

A reference book on new deep tissue imaging techniques; a text on work, stress and health; and a guide to Brooklyn by a pioneering sociologist who has walked every block of the borough. These are some of the latest publications by City College of New York faculty members. Physicist Robert R. Alfano, a leader in the field of ultrafast laser spectroscopy, is the co-editor of the forthcoming " Deep Imaging in Tissue and Tissue-Like Media with Linear and Nonlinear Optics" (Pan Stanford). Lingyan Shi, who studied deep brain imaging while a research associate at the Alfano-led Institute for

Nine City College of New York professors are recipients of Mellon Faculty fellowships designed to increase diversity and the retention rate of CUNY faculty. They will participate in the new CUNY Mellon Faculty Diversity Career Enhancement Initiative funded by a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Launched by Chancellor James B. Milliken, the CUNY Mellon initiative offers research/writing seminars, mentoring sessions and professionalization workshops. Eighteen other faculty members from Brooklyn, Hunter and Queens colleges will take part in the program. “The next generation of

Credit goes to a team of chemistry and biochemistry students at The City College of New York for enabling the identification of a new chemical “deprotection” technique. Undergraduates Fatou Tine, Michael Benavidez, and Marikone Gaši from Professor Barbara Zajc’s laboratory, along with Tashrique Khandaker and Lisa Guerrera from Professor Mahesh Lakshman’s group, collaborated with Dr. Vikram Basava and graduate student Nana Agyemang on the research. In the process of chemically manipulating organic molecules, prevention of reactions at undesired sites necessitates the use of “protecting groups”

Marina Santos of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is the winner of a 2016 American Institute of Architects New York State (AIANYS) Student Award. The honor is for her project “Reach,” a design proposal for an art gallery at Brooklyn College. Santos’ project was nominated by the Spitzer School for the AIANYS award, whose 2016 theme is focused on the role of design in transforming communities. She created the design as part of her first-year M Arch studio project. In addition, she had to present her design to Brooklyn College and won first place for

City College of New York English professor Mikhal Dekel, is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities faculty award for her book in progress “Tehran Children: On the Trail of WWII Refugees in Uzbekistan and Iran." Dekel, who heads City College’s Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, will spend the fall 2017 semester working on "Tehran Children," which is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Based on testimony, travel narrative, and extensive archival research that was conducted in Poland, Russia, Uzbekistan, Iran, Israel and the United States, the book recounts the long and