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Professor and author Araceli Tinajero is ����Ӱҵ’s 2023-2024 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. A professor of Spanish at The City College who has taught Japanese in the past, Tinajero’s recent research, on the Caribbean in Asia and Asia in the Caribbean, exemplifies how ����Ӱҵ, located in Harlem, is in so many ways a global crossroads. As Katz Professor, she will work on her latest book: "Asia in the Caribbean/El

For the sixth straight year, ����Ӱҵ ranks among the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company features ����Ӱҵ in its online resource, “ The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2024 Edition,” published this week. Based primarily on the company’s surveys of administrators at 683 colleges in 2022–23 and its analyses of more than 25 survey data points, the 2024 edition of the Guide features profiles of 522 schools. Schools that were selected for the Guide all have exceptional programs, policies

Researchers from five universities, including ����Ӱҵ, will share a $700,000 New York State Education Department grant to develop a diverse educational leadership pipeline. This Diversity Leadership Initiative, as it is known, is a multi-pronged effort to address the shortage of diverse and well-prepared K-12 school leaders who are ready to support varied student learning needs. Based at Stony Brook University, the grant will enable the creation of an online leadership preparation program to provide support to educators through a number of programs. The Initiative is a

Mark A. Willis and Carol A. Willis have donated a gift to the Michael Sorkin Visiting Distinguished Lecturer fund at ����Ӱҵ’s Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture . The new position will allow a distinguished senior designer or scholar with expertise in urbanism to spend a semester at the Spitzer School and teach a seminar or studio. The lectureship is in keeping with the vision of Michael Sorkin, who passed away suddenly in March 2020. The donors pledged $25,000 which they offered as a match to inspire contributions of $10,000 or less. Encouraging those who can

For the third year running, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is proclaiming ����Ӱҵ a Fulbright Hispanic–Serving Institution (HSI) Leader. ECA announced the top HSI leaders for 2023 during the International Plenary session of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Annual Conference in Chicago today. The distinction is in recognition of the strong engagement of select HSIs with the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international academic exchange program. Fulbright HSI Leaders demonstrate

The 6th Annual Halloween ����Ӱҵ Scarefest: A New American Nightmare is back this Tuesday, Oct. 31 from 4-10 p.m. Join the Harlem community for a spooky and fun time. The event is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Adults and kids are welcome. Family-friendly hour is from 4-5:30 p.m. with a silent disco in the Hoffman Lounge and a children's fair in the NAC Ballroom. The entrance is located at West 140th Street and Convent Avenue. An ADA entrance is located at the Compton-Goethals entrance and Amsterdam Avenue between 139th and 140th Street. About The City College of

Helium gas, most commonly known as the substance used to inflate floating balloons, or as the inhaled party gimmick that alters the human voice to a Munchkin-level pitch, is vital for its many applications in many areas of scientific research and medicine. It is an essential part of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging. NMR machines use high powered magnets to create an electromagnetic field which allows scientists to visualize the structure of individual molecules. The process generates a great deal of heat. Helium in liquid form exists at temperatures of −452.20 °F (4.15° K). In this

����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering is partnering with three leading Japanese institutes and Columbia University on a mission to innovate 5G/6G communications by developing a Floating Cyber Physical System (F-CPS). Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), KDDI Research, Inc., and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are The City College’s Japanese collaborators in the project funded by a grant of nearly $1million by NICT. “The project aims to process spatial and temporal data for the applications by allowing the flexible transfer of

����Ӱҵ MFA student in Film, Cinema, and Video Studies Sisa Quispe was awarded a 2023 New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) scholarship. She was one of seven film, television, and media production students at New York area schools as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media. The other awardees were Brooklyn College Film Production undergraduate student Mahalia Jackson; Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema MFA Directing candidate Sarah Rhye; Hunter College MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts Yehui Zhao; New

President Joe Biden has awarded the National Medal of Science to Myriam Sarachik (posthumously) and Sheldon Weinbaum, two of the most distinguished researchers and educators of their generation who, collectively, spent more than a century on faculty at ����Ӱҵ. They were among nine recipients of the medal honored at the White House. Established in 1959 by the U.S. Congress, the National Medal of Science is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. The presidential award is given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of