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In New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, Luis Abinader, state President of the Dominican Republic, took time off to visit The City College of New York and inaugurate the “ 1961: Year of Freedom” exhibit that commemorates the end of the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship on the Caribbean Island 60 years ago. Pres. Abinader was joined at the ceremony by City College President Vincent Boudreau. A free and open-to-the-public photography exhibit on the CCNY campus, “The Year of Freedom” runs through Nov. 30, 2021. It is organized by the Dominican ministries of Culture and Education and

The City College of New York ranks #1 for Best Value among the top 250 U.S. schools, according to the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Best College Rankings. The publications determined this by dividing each institution’s overall score by its net price. City College, #212 overall on the rankings out of 796 colleges and universities, was followed in second place by another CUNY school, Baruch College, for value. CCNY also ranked #6 for Environment, a category that reflects four elements that are fortes for CCNY, which has a student body representing more than 150 nationalities

Ricardo Polanco, an Honors student at The City College of New York majoring in civil engineering, is one of 24 Americans selected as Minority Student Fellows by the Washington, D.C.-based Transportation Research Board (TRB), a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Born in Manhattan of Dominican immigrant parents, Polanco is the only Fellow from the East Coast north of Maryland State. A junior, he’s one of 15 undergraduate and nine graduate students in TRB’s Class of 2022. As a TRB Fellow, Polanco and his peers will research and explore ideas and

“Cardenal en mi ventana con una máscara en el pico / Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on its Beak,” a poetry manuscript by Carlos Aguasaco, professor of Latin American cultural studies at The City College of New York, is the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize. On his Twitter, @aguasaco_carlos, Aguasaco dedicated the award to the more than 45 million Spanish speakers in the U.S., “especially to all the migrant workers, dreamers, & refugees, many of whom attend #CUNY.” Established in 2017, the Ambroggio Prize is the only annual award of its kind in the United States that

Playwright and City College of New York librarian Seamus Scanlon is the recipient of a $5,000 City Artist Corps grant for NYC-based working artists disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The program is presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and Queens Theatre. Scanlon was recognized for his award-winning play “The Long Wet Grass.” He will arrange a bilingual reading – in English and Spanish – of the play. Actors Gina Costigan and Tim Ruddy will

The City College of New York is partnering with the University of Colorado Boulder in an innovative National Science Foundation-funded research center for sustainable building technology. A $1.5 million NSF grant, matched by industry associates for a minimum of $3 million over five years, will establish the Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST) Center in Boulder. BEST’s mission will be to advance sustainable buildings and cities ranging from HVAC manufacturing, to smart glazing for windows, smart building controls, advanced insulation materials, new energy storage systems, and improved air

The Department of Student Life and Leadership Development at The City College of New York celebrates Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2021 with a LHM Virtual Honoree Wall representing the 21 Latin American countries from Sept. 15-Oct. 15. As part of their Instagram Live Speaker Series, Student Life & Leadership Development will host their Instagram Live Speaker Series: Latinx/a/o Heritage Month (LHM) Edition, in collaboration with Student Leadership & Campus Life at Guttman Community College, on Tuesday, Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta (Bronx Community College) and Elena Romero (FIT &

Heart rate patterns fluctuate under many conditions. Meditation reduces heart rate while being surprised increases it. Listening to stories also affects heart rate. These changes occur synchronously among people listening individually, not only in groups, indicating cognitive processing of the story affects us on a physiological level separate from relational dynamics. Conversely, narratives do not seem to affect respiratory rate. Heart rate pattern changes also occur in patients suffering from disorders of consciousness when audio narratives are played. These fluctuations could be effective

Scoring highly in several categories, The City College of New York is #10 nationally for social mobility in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings published today. City College places highly in six other categories including #26 for economic diversity and #29 for campus ethnic diversity. Overall, CCNY is ranked #148 on the list of Best National Universities, a jump of 28 places from its #176 ranking last year. According to U.S. News & World Report, schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Click here for more

Forbes’ first Covid-era rankings of the nation’s most outstanding schools using a revised methodology maintains The City College of New York’s standing among the best. From an exclusive field of 600 four-year schools drawn from the nearly 2,700 such degree-granting institutions in the U.S., CCNY is #140 overall on the Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges 2021 List. The University of California at Berkeley is #1, the first public school ever ranked so by Forbes. CCNY placed high in other categories, too. These include: #63 in Public Colleges; #99 in Research Universities; #58 in The Northeast and #84