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Attentive Energy One – a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power – is committing $10 million to The City College of New York (CCNY) to establish a new renewable energy training program as part of its 1,400 MW offshore wind proposal to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in January 2023. The announcement was made today by Attentive Energy One and CCNY leadership on a visit to CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering in Harlem. The Attentive Energy One project will build an offshore wind farm, which will deliver clean energy to over 700,000 homes

Making its U.S. debut, the exhibition “Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing” opens at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, on Tuesday, March 21 with a reception at 6 p.m. in the Atrium Gallery. The exhibition which runs through Sunday, May 7, is a joint presentation by the Spitzer School, The Architectural League of New York, and the Curatorial Research Collective of the TU/e, with support from the Dutch Culture USA program of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, New York, and is the first in-person show at Spitzer since

Fifty-eight years after capturing numerous iconic photos of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights March as a student photojournalist, alumnus Stephen Somerstein returns to his alma mater for the first ever public exhibition of his historic images at The City College of New York. The exhibition, “Witness to History: Selma 1965 Photography of Stephen Somerstein,” is open to the public and runs March 21 to May 14 in the Lincoln Corridor of CCNY’s Shepard Hall. The opening day reception is March 20 and includes a conversation, 5:30 – 7 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 350, between

Graduates and students of the new major in Science Education and Public Engagement in the School of Education at CCNY will share their insights and experiences on a Science Learning and Public Engagement Career Panel on Thursday, March 16 at 12:30 p.m. in NAC 5/101. Co-hosted by the School of Education’s Science Education program and the Macaulay Honors College, the event brings together six panelists, each of whom brings his or her unique perspective on career opportunities for those interested in science education that include, but can go beyond, teaching. One of the panelists, Dave Johnston

The City College of New York is pleased to announce that Gerstner Philanthropies has made a gift of $166,667 to support the Helping Hands Student Emergency Fund at CCNY. Helping Hands provides one-time assistance to students facing one-time emergencies with the goal to help college students continue through to graduation. “We are excited to be expanding our support to five CUNY colleges with strong social mobility outcomes, particularly as impacts from inflation put more students at risk of economic instability,” said Alice Goh, program director of Gerstner Philanthropies. Helping Hands offers

The City College of New York has appointed Scott Gurba to be its chief operating officer. As COO, Gurba will be responsible for: optimizing CCNY’s assets; professionalizing and integrating the College’s operations to attain optimal outcomes; and developing the College’s human capital. Gurba possesses a broad range of financial and operational responsibilities in the financial services industry across the private and public sectors. Formerly senior vice president of strategy and process innovation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he served in increasingly responsible positions at the

Dr. Vincent Boudreau, City College of New York president, who merges educational advancement and a commitment to social mobility to workforce development has been named to City & State’s 2023 Higher Education Power 100 list. The list recognizes the 100 most influential people in academia statewide, including leaders of some of New York’s best-known colleges, universities and professional schools. His award this year marks his third consecutive year of inclusion in City and State's Power list in Higher Education. Boudreau's legacy of leadership began with his appointment as the founding dean of

The Public Service Career Hub at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has earned the American Association of University Administrators’ Exemplary Model Award for 2023. The Hub, housed within the Colin Powell School’s Office of Student Success, was recognized for its efforts “t o make educational opportunities available to groups of students who may not originally have the assets, the contacts, and the preparation to experience the value of internships, fellowships, and fieldwork that can be the signature activity of their academic careers,” said

Jane Chu, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, will deliver the ninth annual Sternberg Family Lecture in Public Scholarship, “Leadership in Ambiguity: A Celebration of Immigrant Stories,” at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 15 at 4 p.m. in CCNY’s Great Hall. During her four-year tenure at the NEA (2014-18), Chu traveled to all 50 U.S. states and four countries, making more than 400 site visits to meet with artists and arts leaders, government and civic leaders, philanthropists, and the general public. Under her leadership, the NEA awarded $430 million to support

Gabriel Foreman is the first-ever Executive in Residence in the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Affairs at The City College of New York, and will work on projects with Rise Light & Power, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and the unified Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative and CUNY’s Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE) collaborative. In his role, Foreman will build sustained pathways to CCNY for high school students as well as help with recruitment, talent development curriculum, industry placement and grant