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Associate Professor of Psychology Teresa López-Castro of The City College of New York’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 The City College of New York’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, The City College of New York 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 The City College of New York, 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 The City College of New York’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

For the third year running, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is proclaiming The City College of New York a Fulbright Hispanic–Serving Institution (HSI) Leader. ECA announced the top HSI leaders for 2023 during the International Plenary session of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Annual Conference in Chicago today. The distinction is in recognition of the strong engagement of select HSIs with the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international academic exchange program. Fulbright HSI Leaders demonstrate

The 6th Annual Halloween CCNY Scarefest: A New American Nightmare is back this Tuesday, Oct. 31 from 4-10 p.m. Join the Harlem community for a spooky and fun time. The event is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Adults and kids are welcome. Family-friendly hour is from 4-5:30 p.m. with a silent disco in the Hoffman Lounge and a children's fair in the NAC Ballroom. The entrance is located at West 140th Street and Convent Avenue. An ADA entrance is located at the Compton-Goethals entrance and Amsterdam Avenue between 139th and 140th Street. About The City College of

Helium gas, most commonly known as the substance used to inflate floating balloons, or as the inhaled party gimmick that alters the human voice to a Munchkin-level pitch, is vital for its many applications in many areas of scientific research and medicine. It is an essential part of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging. NMR machines use high powered magnets to create an electromagnetic field which allows scientists to visualize the structure of individual molecules. The process generates a great deal of heat. Helium in liquid form exists at temperatures of −452.20 °F (4.15° K). In this

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is partnering with three leading Japanese institutes and Columbia University on a mission to innovate 5G/6G communications by developing a Floating Cyber Physical System (F-CPS). Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), KDDI Research, Inc., and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are The City College’s Japanese collaborators in the project funded by a grant of nearly $1million by NICT. “The project aims to process spatial and temporal data for the applications by allowing the flexible transfer of