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The City College of New York’s early childhood education bachelor’s program is ranked in the top three percent nationally in the Bachelor’s Degree Center’s latest rankings. The degree is jointly offered by CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education and the School of Education. The CCNY program is #13 among the top 25 colleges and universities nationwide that made the cut from an initial pool of more than 500 schools. This is the culmination of a thorough search by Bachelor’s Degree Center editors of all Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

A focus of civil engineer Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh’s research at The City College of New York is the development of sustainable concrete -- key to modern construction. His research on concrete sustainability and his expertise in sharing his knowledge with middle school and college students in Harlem has earned him the American Concrete Institute’s Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Assistant professor in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, Yazdanbakhsh, will receive the honor on March 24 at ACI’s spring 2019 convention in Quebec City, Canada. The award recognizes junior faculty

This year, students from The City College of New York are volunteering on Saturday, January 19 for the annual MLK Day of Service in partnership with the Division of Student Life and Leadership Development and Student Leadership & Campus Life at Guttman Community College. Students dedicate the day to doing acts of service. This year, students will help paint classrooms at the East Harlem Scholars Academy II, which is a part of the East Harlem Tutorial Program. The goal of the annual day of service is to make a difference within the Harlem community. The event takes place from 10-5 p.m. on

Dr. Tony Liss, an internationally known physicist with research experience at the world’s highest energy accelerators, is The City College of New York’s new provost, CCNY President Vincent Boudreau announced. Liss had served as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since March 2018. In his permanent capacity, Liss continues to help lead the 172-year-old CCNY that is now classified in the “Doctoral Universities: High Research” category by The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ®. The Carnegie Classification has been the leading framework for

Yaritza Holguin has a longstanding commitment to social justice and serving her community. As a student in the Master’s in Public Administration program (MPA) at CCNY, her passion has led her to build upon her grassroots experience and forge a career in social impact. After graduating from John Jay with a degree in forensic psychology, she spent three years as a community health worker in the Bronx, promoting health equity and access in underrepresented neighborhoods. Bilingual, born and raised in the city, Holguin wanted to continue serving her community by making change on a broader scale –

When it comes to the application of light and photonics technologies to the study of biological, biomedical and condensed matter systems, few have charted the path better than Robert R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York. The pioneering researcher and inventor is co-editor of the text “ Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy,” published by Elsevier of Oxford, England. Alfano’s 610-page tome, in collaboration with Lingyan Shi, a City College PhD graduate and former research associate in his lab, is one of the latest publications by

The third cohort of City College of New York undergraduate students are named University Innovation Fellows by the Stanford d.school program. They are among 358 students from 96 higher education institutions in 16 countries that become agents of change by ensuring that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. The program is run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), and with the addition of the new fellows, it has trained more than 1,800 students since its

Winter break for City College of New York undergraduates Seher Ali and Oneika Pryce this time around means three weeks in Jordan and Senegal, respectively, as Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholars. The two students are recipients of the competitive national award that provides support for overseas travel and research. A junior majoring in biotechnology in City College’s Division of Science, Ali travels to Amman, Jordan, on Dec. 28 for a stint studying Arabic at the Qasid Institute. The Brooklyn resident grew up in Pakistan speaking Urdu, a language whose alphabet is similar to Arabic. Ali

The City College of New York’s biomedical engineering professor Jacek Dmochowski uses ultrasound and lasers to stimulate the brain treating mental disorders as well as physical and mental wellness during deep space exploration missions. His research just got a boost from the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, in partnership with NASA. “The brain is sensitive to mechanical forces, and we think that we will be able to make the brain more or less active by sending in a

Award-winning poet and author Nicole Sealey is adding another accolade to her numerous honors. The Doris Lippman Visiting Poet in The City College of New York’s MFA in Creative Writing Program is one of five winners internationally of 2019-2020 Hodder fellowships. The awards are presented by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. They provide artists and humanists in the early stages of their careers, with “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts,” an opportunity to undertake significant new work. Sealey’s fellow nationally renowned co-recipients are: Visual artist