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A memorial service for Alma E. Rangel, the beloved wife of the distinguished Charles B. Rangel, former United States Representative and Statesman-in-Residence at The City College of New York, is set for 10 a.m., Oct. 19, 2024, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, located at 219 West 132nd Street in Manhattan. Mrs. Rangel, a long-time activist and social worker, passed away last week. In his statement Congressman Rangel said: “To those who had the pleasure of knowing my beautiful wife, Alma, let me take this time to thank you for sharing your condolences and sympathy for our family’s loss this week

A trailblazing fluid mechanics project led by City College of New York Grove School of Engineering Professor T aehun Lee is one of 16 initiatives nationally awarded supercomputing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). They will pursue advances in areas ranging from quantum chemistry to clean energy technologies to AI for science. The Lee project, “High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in High-Temperature Gas Reactor Cavities,” will use the

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York’s Santander Finance Fellowship has been extended for an additional three years, through 2028, with a grant of $450,000, a 50 percent increase from the initial three-year grant of $300,000 in 2021. This Fellowship was developed to dismantle barriers and level the playing field for students from underrepresented backgrounds who are pursuing careers in banking and financial services. The program equips students with the skills, knowledge, and industry connections needed to thrive in this industry; they receive

The City College of New York is one of The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse’s 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. and also ranked #4 in best value. The best college rankings rate the top 500 universities in the country and was developed in collaboration with WSJ’s research partners College Pulse and Statista. The rankings also include #21 in social mobility, #163 in student experience and #187 in best salaries. City College ranked #225 in the best college category. The ranking aims to guide prospective students across the nation while recognizing the colleges doing an outstanding job in higher

Fairuz Omar Raya, Class of 2027 at The City College of New York, is a member of the third cohort of The New York Times Corps, a talent-mentorship program for undergraduates to develop relationships with and receive career-building advice from Times journalists. Raya, a graduate of Bronx High School of Science, is a political science major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and a journalism minor in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. She has interned with the NBCU Academy. At the Times, she has been matched with Jeanna Smialek, who covers the Federal Reserve and

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohort of Social Mobility Lab research grantees. Launched on April 15 with a panel discussion on The How and Why of Social Mobility, the Social Mobility Lab’s mission is to discover new ways to accelerate and expand opportunity for students and the communities they represent. Its approach is to learn more about what is driving social mobility, translate that knowledge into programs and practices to help students move up in life, and to engage the people and communities who can

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York is launching a one-year program to bring new art mural projects to Washington Heights. CUNY DSI aims to create vibrant, visually appealing spaces in areas greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, fostering community pride and contributing to revitalizing the urban environment. The mural project is funded by a grant of nearly $400,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian’s Northern Manhattan Recovery Fund, which was established in 2020 in collaboration with U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) to help the community recover from the

The CCNY STEM Institute’s Summer 2024 semester concluded with a ceremony on Aug. 6, when the graduating students presented a total of 54 projects. The semester’s theme was Researching Optimization of Urban Transportation Environments, known as “R.O.U.T.E.,” a collaboration of CCNY and the New York City Department of Transportation. Two hundred ninety-eight of the 355 participating students (74 middle schoolers and 224 high schoolers) completed the five-week summer program, which offered hands-on activities and immersive learning to those interested in pursuing science, technology, engineering

Pamela L. Laskin, the award-winning poet, children’s book author, and English lecturer at CCNY, is the guest poet at CCNY’s 52nd annual Poetry Festival 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, in the Aaron Davis Hall’s Marian Anderson Theater. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. It was rescheduled from May 10. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Laskin, who is also the long serving director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which produces the festival. “Its

Award-winning City College of New York physicist Robert R. Alfano’s supercontinuum discovery has been an enabling technology for diverse novel applications including the detection of cancer using light spectroscopy and laser tissue welding. Now comes a new possibility: producing rain by the manipulation of ions. This has caught the attention of the United Arab Emirates Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science (UAEREP), which sent a three-member delegation, led by director Alya Al Mazroui, to The City College to learn more about Alfano’s research and discuss possible collaborations. UAEREP