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For centuries experts have pondered over one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most intriguing and yet unconsummated projects: the Galata bridge whose double-curvature arch design, ca. 1502-1503, was so futuristic it was rejected as risky. Enter Mohammad Bolhassani, assistant professor and masonry structures specialist in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. While MIT researchers have proven the structural feasibility of the design, Bolhassani and his team attempt -- more than 500 years later -- to deconstruct the great inventor and artist’s mind in designing

In a boost for the development of nanomedicines to study and diagnose inflammatory diseases, City College of New York biomedical engineer Ryan M. Williams is the recipient of a $1.96 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). The funding, over five years, is part of the MIRA ESI program (Maximizing Investigator's Research Award for Early Stage Investigators) that supports the nation's most highly talented and promising young investigators. Williams’ award is titled: “Investigating real-time multi-system cytokine signaling in chronic disease.” “The main

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 2022 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 387 Colleges published today by Penguin Random House and retailing at $24.99. Only about 14% of America’s 2,700 four-year colleges are profiled in the book, which is one of The Princeton Review’s most popular publications. The company chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from administrators at hundreds of colleges about

With the beginning of the fall semester in sight, The City College of New York is pleased to announce the second annual “Community Read” project. The project is an effort to pull the entire CCNY community—staff, students, faculty and Harlem partner organizations—together to read and discuss a work that carries significance during these difficult times. A selection committee reviewed dozens of nominated books and chose “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” written by Heather McGhee, former president of the inequality-focused think tank Demos. The book

Dr. Carmen Renee’ Green, M.D., a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, is the new dean of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) at The City College of New York. She is the second dean of the Harlem-based medical school established in 2015 in partnership with Bronx-based St. Barnabas Hospital (a part of the SBH Health System). The CUNY School of Medicine is an expansion of City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, which was founded in 1973. The medical school houses a novel 7-year BS/MD program and one of the oldest physician assistant programs in the US. It is the only

City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R. Alfano and his team at the CUNY Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (CUNY IUSL) continue their groundbreaking work in spectroscopy by discovering evidence that quantum events occur in plants. “It has been theorized that quantum events occur in nature, but it hasn’t been measured until now. These are the first steps in understanding that quantum effects occur in nature and biology,” Alfano said. His team’s findings, published in the latest issue of the journal “ Photochemistry and Photobiology,”

Dr. Teresa J. Bandosz, a chemical engineer, chemist and internationally-renowned authority in nano-engineered carbon-based materials and composites, is The City College of New York’s latest CUNY Distinguished Professor. The position is the highest academic honor that the City University of New York (CUNY) can offer its faculty and is approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees. Distinguished Professors should have a national reputation as scholars, an acknowledged status as one of the leaders in their field of specialization, and a record of innovative, sustained, and influential research; or, in

New research from The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership suggests that racial/ethnic minority (REM) students thrive in environments with no-racial/ethnic majority, producing higher graduation rates, even through adverse factors such as low household income and low parental education. Generally, research has found that REM students graduate from colleges and universities at lower rates than White students. National graduation rates of Black (27.62 percent) and Latinx (19.81 percent) students remain considerably lower than White (43.87 percent) and

The City College of New York is the recipient of a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to boost the number of racial/ethnic minority (REM) students in biomedical and behavioral sciences research. The funding will support a five-year project, Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program, or “Manhattan-Bridge,” whose goal is to bridge the path for students in those fields transferring from the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). “Manhattan-Bridge is part of a strategic plan in the Department of Psychology to build a pipeline for REM students from community

Campbell Dalglish, associate professor of Film at The City College of New York, has been interested in chronicling the Spirit Roads of Native American Indians since he visited a sacred petroglyph on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in 1972. He was accompanied by Hopi spiritual leader Thomas Banyacya who described to him the four levels of civilization where survival today means returning to the laws of nature. That interest – buttressed by Campbell’s immersion in various tribal cultures over the past half-century -- has molded the documentary and narrative filmmaker’s career, for which he has