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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York has published “ PATHWAYS TO HOME: Design Solutions for Immigrant-Centered Housing,” which addresses issues of immigration and housing justice in New York City by focusing on the polyglot Jackson Heights section of Queens. Written by Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism Laura Sara Wainer, recent graduates Valeska Abarca and Lorraine Colbert, and fifth-year student Juan Jimenez Giraldo, Pathways to Home is a collection of student projects, research, international case studies, and reflections. It the

The first-ever Mini-Conference on Undergraduate Research at CUNY’s central office attracted more than 150 attendees from across the University, a significant proportion of them from The City College of New York. Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures Isabel M. Estrada, who directs CCNY’s Fellowships Program, led off by discussing an application for an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant that would create the CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program. To be known as CUNY STARS, this program “would integrate community college students into growth-oriented multi-institutional pathways

Artist and City College of New York professor Carl Fudge presented his exhibit Techno-Abstraction at Galerie Richard in Paris. This exhibition was the third time Fudge, the director of the MFA program in studio arts, showed his work in the City of Light. Invited by gallery owners Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Fudge was eager to see how he, a renowned New York artist, would be received in Europe. Richard “has quite an international program,” he said. “He has a few American artists, a few Japanese artists, a few from Belgium and Germany, and a few from Paris, so it's a broad range.” Fudge

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his paper “ Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024. The paper proposes a novel robustness evaluation approach that is suited for short, medium and long-span bridges. A significant advantage of this approach is its ability to account for, and estimate, structural robustness corresponding to

Lecturer of Teaching Spanish Language & Latin American/Latinx Literature and Cultures Rosalia Reyes Simon, MA, Spanish ‘17 of The City College of New York’s Division of Humanities & the Arts was awarded citations from the New York State Assembly, and the Latin American Cultural Heritage organization, for her contributions and commitment to education and the dissemination of Latinx and Latin American cultures. Reyes Simon received the citations at a ceremony held at the Washington Heights-based Directorate of Dominican Culture Abroad, an official Dominican agency that promotes the country’s

Student Life, in the Division of Student Affairs at The City College of New York, kicks off Black History Month 2025 with a Spring Activity Fair on Feb. 6 from 12-2 p.m. in the Great Hall. On Feb. 13 from 6-8 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall, CCNY’s Black Studies Department and The Rifkind Center presents the 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, and this year’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient is Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar. A list of Black History Month events follows: Langston Hughes Festival Student Symposium on Feb. 13 from 12 -2 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall

Last fall, The City College of New York’s STEM Institute partnered with Lectec, an innovative STEM education company founded by engineers who want to change how students experience STEM. Luke St. Amand, co-founder of Lectec, taught at the CCNY STEM Institute in the fall, leading students through a hands-on engineering and entrepreneurship curriculum where they built electric vehicles, learned about manufacturing, and explored real-world applications of STEM. Now, Lectec is set to appear on ABC network’s Shark Tank, 8 p.m. on Feb. 7, to showcase the same cutting-edge educational tools used in

The City College of New York has received a $490,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a new project at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, “SUSTAIN-NYC: Storytelling for Urban Sustainability and Transformation in New York City." This project, a partnership with local environmental justice organization South Bronx Unite, aims to undertake various media projects that document, analyze, and publicize ongoing issues of environmental injustice in the communities of Mott Haven and Port Morris. These communities have been affected disproportionately by these

Naresh Devineni, professor of civil engineering at The City College of New York and a water systems and hydroclimate expert, is the recipient of a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a holistic research and training program for its RENEW (Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce) initiative. The outcome will be to prepare a workforce that can respond to extreme natural hazards. From CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, Devineni will lead the three-year project. Other faculty from CCNY include Te Pei and Hansong Tang from Civil Engineering, Shakila Merchant from CUNY

Arthur Paul Pedersen, faculty research scientist with the CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems (CREST) Institute and doctoral lecturer of computer science at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is lead author of a critical essay on measurement in scientific discourse. The essay, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, warns of the dangerous implications of measurement illiteracy in contemporary scientific discourse and urges broad, systematic efforts be undertaken to reform measurement literacy. Measurement literacy is necessary for