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The City College of New York has been awarded a $500,000 planning grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to incubate a Health and Opportunity Leadership Institute. HOLI, as it is known, aspires to cultivate a new generation of leaders in public health, medicine, health policy, and public affairs drawn from diverse and historically marginalized communities. This initiative is a response to what residents of these communities witness and experience every day: poor leadership costs lives and livelihoods, while effective leadership enables human flourishing. In tandem with developing this

Adjunct Assistant Professor Marina Correia B Arch ’06 is the inaugural Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Made possible by an initial gift by Mark A. Willis and Carol A. Willis, the position allows a distinguished senior designer or scholar with expertise in urbanism to spend a semester at the Spitzer School to teach a seminar or studio. The lectureship is in keeping with the vision of Sorkin (1948-2020), distinguished professor and director emeritus of Spitzer’s graduate urban design program, and is intended to encourage

Mark A. Libatique is The City College of New York’s first-ever director of Data, Analytics and Advancement Services, as of Jan. 2, 2025. In this newly-created position, Libatique and the existing team manage a complicated system of donor and alumni contributions, a comprehensive direct mail management program, and the CUNY system's largest alumni information network, among other responsibilities. “CCNY is a first generation institution that transforms lives in a direct way,” said Libatique. “I was drawn to CCNY because I want to engage in community empowerment work in the context of higher

Dormitory Authority of the State of New York President and CEO Robert J. Rodriguez, and The City College of New York President Vince Boudreau recently toured construction sites on CCNY’s campus to view projects that will create lasting improvements for student learning. DASNY is currently managing 44 active projects, valued at more than $383 million, for CCNY. “DASNY is proud to work with CCNY to create spaces that enhance students’ educational experiences,” said Rodriguez. “For nearly five decades, DASNY has collaborated with CCNY to construct and renovate numerous facilities that promote

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York’s 2025 Langston Hughes Medal recipient. She’ll receive the Medal at CCNY's 46th annual Langston Hughes Festival, Feb. 13-14. This year’s event commemorates the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance, that intellectual and cultural revival of African-American literature, music, art, theater and scholarship of which Langston Hughes was a central figure. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora. It recognizes honorees for their impressive

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York’s Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses hydrogen cations (H+) to manipulate relativistic electronic bandstructures in a magnetic Weyl semimetal -- a topological material where electrons mimic massless particles called Weyl fermions. These particles are distinguished by their chirality or “handedness” linked to their spin and momentum. In the magnetic material MnSb₂Te₄, researchers unveiled a fascinating ability to “tune” and enhance the chirality of electronic transport by introducing hydrogen ions, reshaping on

Keith Haring’s Apocalypse series, including 30 distinct pieces of art, has been donated to The City College of New York by the Leonard-Litz LGBTQ+ Foundation, The Foundation for City College announced. Haring created "Apocalypse" in 1988, at the height of the AIDS pandemic and after his own diagnosis. The screen prints are accompanied by captions composed by his series collaborator, William S. Burroughs. The complete set, including the captions, will be displayed in campus spaces to inspire discussion among students, faculty, staff, and alumni, especially members of the CCNY and CUNY LGBTQ+

Researchers at the City College of New York and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are raising hopes that AI can improve early detection of breast cancer. Researchers have developed an AI algorithm and evaluated its ability to identify breast cancer on MRI scans one year in advance. The AI model was trained on MRI from 52,598 breasts and fine-turned on 3,209 scans from 910 patients at high risk of developing cancer. The data contained 115 cancers that were diagnosed one year after a normal MRI result. According to the study published in Academic Radiology, the algorithm can detect

The Reinhardt Family Foundation Trust announces the establishment of an annual fellowship program at The City College of New York to support a high-achieving first-generation student demonstrating a commitment to social justice. Based on need, the Reinhardt Family Fellowship will provide the recipient full tuition plus expenses for a total of $42,000 over three years, said Mark Reinhardt, Esq., Trust Chairman. The first Reinhardt Fellowship at CCNY, which has been a bastion for first-generation students since its founding in 1847, will be awarded in the fall 2025 semester. In addition to the

Five undergraduates from The City College of New York were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference attracted more than 4,000 participants – including graduate students, researchers and scientists – in one of ABRCMS’s largest gatherings in its 24-year history. The students were supported by various programs including PURT (the CCNY-MSK partnership), headed by Karen Hubbard; U-RISE (Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement), led by Jonathan Levitt; CCAPP (City Academy for