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Twenty students from Japan's Nagoya University of Foreign Studies arrived at the City College of New York earlier this week for a whirlwind two-week visit that includes a full program of educational and cultural activities. Coordinated by Associate Professor Catherine Franklin of the School of Education's Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, the visit is the first trip outside of Japan for some of the students, all of whom are undergraduates in the NUFS's Department of World Liberal Arts. Led by Professor Toshikazu Kikuchi, the group will visit a number of sites around the city

Sixteen mathematics education professors from the Dominican Republic recently completed a two-week program, co-sponsored by the City College of New York’s School of Education and the Study Abroad and International Programs , designed to improve the D.R.’s educational system. The visiting professors, accompanied by two administrators, were from Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña (Salome Urena Higher Teacher Training Institute), known informally as Isfodosu. The professors came to City College to strengthen their content knowledge and to learn new teaching strategies. Over the

����Ӱҵ has been selected as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review for the fourth consecutive year. The Princeton Review also rated City College as one of the northeast's best colleges, one of the country's greenest colleges, and one of the "colleges that pay you back." This ranking is the latest accolade that ����Ӱҵ has received recently. Last week, ����Ӱҵ was one of America's Top Colleges as ranked by Forbes. Last month, ����Ӱҵ was recognized as one of the world's best institutions of higher education by the 2015 Center for

Kwangwoon “Jon” Lee, a student in the laboratory of Ronnie Ghose, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was just awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship. He is the first CUNY student to receive this highly competitive fellowship. The fellowship, which started on July 1 of this year and will continue until June 30, 2017, will allow Lee to continue his research into obtaining a better understanding of a cellular signaling pathway, the deregulation of which leads to hypertension. In particular, his research focuses on how this pathway that is regulated by the ubiquitous

����Ӱҵ rose significantly in Forbes magazine’s 2015 rankings of America’s Top Colleges, landing in the top 100 in the Northeast for the second consecutive year. ����Ӱҵ also ranked in the top 200 overall for the first time. The only CUNY college to make the region’s top 100, ����Ӱҵ jumped to #78 from #92. ����Ӱҵ is also one of only two New York state public institutions to rank in the top 200 overall; ����Ӱҵ climbed to #177, up from last year’s rank of #215. The Forbes rankings cap a particularly successful year for ����Ӱҵ. Highlights of the past year include: the awarding of the

Gilda Barabino, dean of the Grove School of Engineering, was one of four experts invited to Washington on July 28 to brief the U.S. Congressional Sickle Cell and Research & Development Caucuses on promising new technologies to treat sickle cell disease. The briefing, “Gene Editing and the Path to a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease,” provided an opportunity for the researchers to discuss recent breakthroughs in gene-editing technology. Two such technologies are CRISPR/Cas-9 and TALENs, which have made gene editing faster and cheaper. “While sickle cell disease is the first molecular disease, having

����Ӱҵ’s Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Bank are set to ramp up their partnership after a successful first semester of collaboration.The two announced the Standard Chartered Technology Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs program last December. The program supports greater diversity in gender representation within technology entrepreneurship. Since then, the Zahn Center has benefitted from a resource center for early-stage women entrepreneurs, and a $30,000 prize for student start-ups established by Standard Chartered. A highlight of the next stage is an

Community leaders have hailed the establishment of the first public medical school in Harlem by ����Ӱҵ in partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital. The CUNY School of Medicine at City College will accept its first intake in fall 2016. Lloyd A. Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) called the City College development "historic." "In light of all the health issues predominate in the upper Manhattan area, the fact that a medical school will open at the City College of New York is historic and of dramatic importance to the health and well

In a major development in the institution’s 168-year history, ����Ӱҵ announces the establishment of the CUNY School of Medicine at City College in partnership with Bronx-based St. Barnabas Hospital (which is part of the SBH Health System). The new Harlem-based medical school, whose first class is scheduled to begin fall 2016, will be an expansion of City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education . Established in 1973 on the City College campus, the Sophie Davis School currently offers a unique seven-year BS/MD program that integrates an undergraduate education

Five speakers are lined up for the year-long City College of New York "Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement," series that begins with a presentation by architectural historian Marta Gutman Thursday, November 13 at 4 p.m. in Shepard 95 on the ����Ӱҵ campus. Professor Gutman will talk about her book, " A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950." The other speakers and their topics in the forum that features a City College faculty member in conversation with ����Ӱҵ President Lisa S. Coico are (all discussions start at 4