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The year was 1921, and the world was still reeling from the Spanish flu that had claimed 50 million lives, including nearly 700,000 Americans, in the previous three years. At The City College of New York, the nation’s first tuition-free college when it was founded in 1847, two major events occurred in 1921. In April of that year, the great physicist Albert Einstein stood before an enthusiastic audience at City College and delivered his first-ever lecture in the United States. Later that year, the School of Education (SOE) was established, opening a new chapter in pedagogy at CCNY. The SOE was

On March 26, The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture presents “Ninety Minutes with Michael” celebrating the life of Michael Sorkin, a distinguished professor and director emeritus of the Graduate Program in Urban Design. The virtual event is free and open to the public and looks back at Sorkin’s life as an urbanist, critic and mentor. On the first anniversary of his passing, due to Covid-19, Sorkin’s comrades—Trevor Boddy, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, Eyal Weizman, Sharon Zukin and his wife Joan Copjec—will gather to consider: What would Michael call on us

Unemployed and underemployed residents of the South Bronx can soon look forward to receiving training and seeking full-time job opportunities in the environmental field, thanks to a City College of New York program funded by the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]. CCNY is the recipient of a three-year $200,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grant from the EPA to create a skilled workforce in communities where brownfields assessment and cleanup activities are taking place. Working in conjunction with the Office of Continuing and Professional Studies on campus

Caleb Garard and Cameron E. Morales, second-year students in the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) at The City College of New York, are the first recipients of the Dorothy and Max Bendich Student Research Fellowship. The award has been established by pediatric specialist and CCNY Class of 1971 alumnus David Bendich, MD, in honor of his parents. It will support exceptional students showing an interest in science education and clinical research. Fellows will receive $3,000 per semester each for expenses incurred while engaged in assigned research. Bendich, who initially studied music at CCNY before

The City College of New York celebrates Women’s History Month 2021 with a plethora of events including a kickoff event discussing sorority life and leadership, presentations from women leaders in medicine as well as discussions of art and architecture. The schedule of virtual events is as follows: Womxn's Herstory Month (WHM) Kickoff is a discussion about leadership and sorority life presented by the Department of Student Life & Leadership Development in collaboration with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. | Lambda Chapter on Thursday, March 4 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Please RSVP at tinyurl.com

While COVID’s often deadly outcome has resulted in the worst pandemic in a century, studies are unveiling a post-COVID phase for survivors during which neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as fatigue, anxiety and depression, can occur. How to treat this debilitating phase, called NeuroCOVID, is the challenge City College of New York biomedical engineer Marom Bikson and his team are tackling. The first stage of COVID is characterized by fever, heart or lung problems. NeuroCOVID is second stage, characterized by one or a combination of symptoms like vertigo, loss of smell, headaches, fatigue and

City College of New York physicist Alexander Khanikaev is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s rarely given Special Creativity Award. The honor from the Division of Materials Research (DMR) recognizes what the NSF cites as Khanikaev’s “excellent research, productivity, and impact on topologically nontrivial photonic systems and nonlinear photonic nanostructures and plasmonic metamaterials, as well as the broader impacts emanating from a current NSF project.” Recipients of the award, who are considered the most creative of investigators, receive an automatic two-year extension of

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s J. Max Bond Center for Urban Futures and the New York-based firm Davis Brody Bond (DBB) announce the formation of a research partnership focused on equitable design practices and urban research. DBB and the Bond Center, which was established in 2012, both represent the legacy and celebrated career of DBB partner, J. Max Bond, Jr., FAIA (1935 – 2009), who worked tirelessly for social and spatial justice. Regarded as American’s most prominent and accomplished African American architect, Bond, was also architecture dean at The City College of

As it celebrates its centennial, The City College of New York’s School of Education (SOE) welcomes a timely tome co-written by one of its experts, Megan Blumenreich, on how the nation can attract, prepare, and retain high-quality teachers for all students. “ Schooling Teachers: Teach For America and the Future of Teacher Education” rolls off the Teachers College Press this spring. The book draws on participant voices from the inaugural 1990 cohort of Teach For America. It situates their experiences within the larger context of teacher education and reform of the last three decades. “Schooling

As work on advancing the Internet progresses on different fronts globally, a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to four partners, including Grove School of Engineering professor T arek N. Saadawi, is ensuring City College of New York participation in the effort. CCNY is collaborating with lead institution Columbia University, Rutgers and Arizona in a three-year project to establish a global Internet testbed for the next generation of Internet. According to the NSF abstract, the project enables the use of unique programmable wireless, optical, and edge-cloud network testbed