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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

The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) has awarded a $250,000 research grant to The City College of New York to fund new Alzheimer’s research which could potentially lead to the development of new medications to treat the disease. The project aims to learn more about the role that disrupting the amyloid precursor protein (APP) plays in causing Alzheimer’s. “Scientists have been working hard and making progress, but there is still more we need to learn and discover about Alzheimer’s disease,” said AFA Founder and Board Chair Bert E. Brodsky. “We are pleased to support CCNY’s research and

With a student body representing more than 150 nationalities, The City College of New York’s age-old allure to immigrants is undisputable. As is the 175-year-old institution’s unstinting commitment dating back to 1847 to educate “the children of the whole people.” No surprise then that CCNY is home to the CUNY-Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE), co-founded just before the Covid pandemic by CCNY educators Tatyana Kleyn, Nancy Stern; and Ariana Mangual Figueroa of the Graduate Center, CUNY. The unique five-year project is funded by the New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Dr. Adriana Espinosa, assistant professor, psychology, in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is the principal investigator of a $467,205 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an innovative study of tobacco use and its varying impact on white and Black adolescents. Entitled “An intersectional examination of early tobacco use among white and Black adolescents,” the two-year study also involves researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, and the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. “The project will identify

Journalism students from The City College of New York won the prestigious Region 1 Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Mark of Excellence Award for the second year in a row. Anthony Ruiz, Flora Lennihan, Samantha Alvarez, Kainoa Presbitero, and MeiJun (Megan) Lei, are the 2022 recipients of the SPJ Mark of Excellence Award for their outstanding storytelling. Each year, the Mark of Excellence Awards honors the best in collegiate journalism from schools in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Ruiz won Best

The City College of New York is one of several recipients nationally of a Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates (RaMP) in Biological Sciences program grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The $2,999,169 award to a team led by The City College Division of Science’s Ruth E. Stark and David Jeruzalmi will run for four years beginning in fall 2022. It will enable CCNY to establish a regional network to support full-time research, mentoring, and professional training for recent college graduates who have had few or no research or training opportunities during college in research