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Thanks to a generous $1 million gift from Rick and Susan Goings in honor of the late General Colin L. Powell, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership will launch a new national speakers’ series, the Rick and Susan Goings Conversations in Leadership. The series will feature discussions with marquee names from every sector who have taken unconventional paths to success at the highest levels of their professions. On Sept. 7, 2022, the series will kick off with a discussion with Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings and editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. King will be in

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York today announced the appointment of Manan (Mike) Shah, a partner in the New York office of Milbank LLP and 1994 CCNY alumnus, to serve as a member of its Board of Visitors. He joins 23 other distinguished Board Members. “The Colin Powell School’s central purpose is to prepare one of the nation’s most diverse student bodies to become tomorrow’s global leaders. Mike Shah embodies that mission. As an alum, he is proof of the transformative impact of a CCNY education, and he is a role model for our students,”

Pamela L. Laskin, director of The City College of New York’s 50-year-old Poetry Outreach Center, is the recipient of a 2022 Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Award for her work to enable children to unload their grief and to empower voices through poetry. The international award was established by the Pennsylvania-based Judith’s Reading Room in 2015 to identify and honor individual champions of literacy from all disciplines around the world — teachers, librarians, authors, researchers, educators — anyone who has done exemplary work to instill in others a love of reading. “Pamela’s

Dr. Kaveh Madani, the renowned environmental scientist and Research Professor at The City College of New York-based CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST), is the next leader of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). His appointment was announced by the UN. Madani will assume the position of UNU-INWEH Director early next year and will maintain his CUNY CREST affiliation in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. Known as the UN’s water think tank or water university, UNU-INWEH is the United Nations’ academic arm that focuses on

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the new edition of its annual college guide, “The Best 388 Colleges: 2023 Edition,” (August 23, 2022, Penguin Random House, $24.99). The Princeton Review chose the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. For its selection of profiled schools for the book, the company also reviews data from its surveys of

The City College of New York, in conjunction with the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Week 2022 and the New York Road Runners (NYRR), gathered for the annual Percy Sutton Harlem 5K Run and the Harlem Health Walk. The 5K race took place on Aug. 13 and honors the late Percy Sutton, who was the Manhattan borough president in the 1970s and who championed the New York City Marathon as a five-borough event. CCNY President Vincent Boudreau along with students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the run and walk with this year’s Harlem Health Walk theme of “Anti-Gun Violence, Save

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The City College of New York, is the 2021-2022 recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year Award. Agrawal is recognized for his character, professional integrity, contribution to academia and years of outstanding service to ASCE and the civil engineering profession. He is also the recipient of 2019 Richard R. Torrens Award for outstanding performance as editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, one of ASCE’s 35 journals, and won the 2020 Arthur M

The City College of New York is pleased to announce a major gift to establish The Paper Endowed Scholarship Fund for Social Justice for students interested in journalism and engaged in social justice projects, and who require additional monetary support to complete their academics and extracurricular activities that strengthen their community. Established by the founders and alumni of The Paper, an independent student publication founded in 1970, the scholarships are open to all CCNY undergraduates enrolled in the SEEK Program, and may be expanded College-wide later. Awards are based on

In response to the pressing need for decarbonization in the building sector, The City College of New York has begun a joint effort with the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Building Technology Office (BTO) and the City of New York Office of Climate and Sustainability for the development of advanced heat pump systems (HP). The project was facilitated by the Minority Serving Research & Development Consortium (MSRDC). Buildings represent a large source of energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are a major space for decarbonization. The main goal of this initiative is

City College of New York physicist Pouyan Ghaemi and his research team are claiming significant progress in using quantum computers to study and predict how the state of a large number of interacting quantum particles evolves over time. This was done by developing a quantum algorithm that they run on an IBM quantum computer. “To the best of our knowledge, such particular quantum algorithm which can simulate how interacting quantum particles evolve over time has not been implemented before,” said Ghaemi, associate professor in CCNY’s Division of Science. Entitled “Probing geometric excitations