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Michael Eric Dyson, the award-winning author, renowned Georgetown University sociologist and noted political analyst, receives the Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York on Nov. 12. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora at CCNY's annual Langston Hughes Festival, which is celebrating its 42nd anniversary this year. It recognizes honorees for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes. Past award winners include

City College and the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture announced the establishment of the Hollander Design Fellowship. This three-year fellowship was established by Hollander Design Landscape Architects to encourage and support New York City students from demographics and communities that are historically underrepresented in landscape architecture to pursue the field. “Landscape architecture is a profession that is felt at the community level, and all communities should have a voice in helping to shape the fabric of our lives outdoors,” said Edmund Hollander, FASLA, president of

Why would New York City, with its excellent, state-of-the-art hospitals, have a death rate from COVID-19 that is significantly higher than that of Mumbai, with its extremely overcrowded slums that house more than half of its citizens? New research, from Keith Gandal, professor of English in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, examine the surprising fact that the New York City death rates from COVID-19 have been four times that of Mumbai, India. According to their research, the

Patricia A. Broderick, inventor, researcher and medical professor in the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York, is the host of “Eazysense” on Bold Brave Media Tune in Radio Talk Show and recently spoke about spinal cord injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic. “ The Covid Brain” focuses on conceptual and empirical leaps into the temporal synchrony of movement, freezing and panic disorders. The episode also focused on what affects movement other than muscles, limbs and spiny interneurons. As the inventor of The BRODERICK PROBE®, named after her father, and owner of its Trademark

In August, The City College of New York announced the establishment of the President’s Innovation Fund, part of a holistic, coordinated, innovation acceleration strategy. The fund seeks to address a gap in resources for the development of early-stage innovations into new products and ventures. City College President Vince Boudreau described the establishment of the fund as “an institutional call to demonstrate our commitment to catalyze the development of innovations conceived at City College to achieve greater commercial and societal impacts.” The President’s Innovation Fund is part of a

A constant presence on annual rankings of the world’s top schools, The City College of New York once again makes the list of The Princeton Review’s best colleges in the Northeast. CCNY is also listed among the best 1,000 schools globally in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The Princeton Review’s “ 2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region” website feature recognizes CCNY as one of the 224 best colleges in the Northeast. The website feature salutes a total of 655 colleges that The Princeton Review recommends over five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and

The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York and TechnoVax, Inc., a biotechnology developer of novel vaccines, announce a breakthrough in their collaborative effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Scientists from the two organizations have generated and characterized SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particles (VLPs) which are structural mimics of the native virus in size, morphology and surface composition but devoid of viral, infection causing, genetic material. These features of the VLP platform make it an ideal candidate for COVID-19 vaccine development. This technology has a proven

A team of international physicists led by Lia Krusin-Elbaum of the City College of New York, has created a new topological magnetic superlattice material, that at a high temperature can conduct electrical current without dissipation and lost energy. The finding, detailed in a paper published in “ Nature Physics,” could be the basis of research leading to an entire new quantum materials class that can potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing. The material in the form of crystals is created in a laboratory chamber. Atoms, in this process, naturally arrange into well

Keith Gandal, professor of English in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at The City College of New York, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, found that U.S. death tolls from COVID-19 are 40% lower on the weekend. Deaths rise from Tuesday-Friday and come down Saturday-Monday—hitting a low on Sunday or Monday‪,‬ and the same pattern has repeated every single week of the pandemic‪.‬ Deaths during weekends were at least 40‪%‬ lower than on weekdays‪.‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ According to their research, the average death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is 901

Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum, Professor Emeritus in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is one of 12 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House. The awards are America’s highest honor for mentors who work with underrepresented groups to develop fully the nation's human resources in STEM. Previously a CUNY Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Weinbaum is the only honoree from New York State. “Sheldon Weinbaum