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In her three years at City College, Taisiya Zuyeva was a volleyball ace. She helped lead ����Ӱҵ to the 2008-2009 CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) title and earned Scholar-Athlete and conference All-Star honors. Not long after she graduated from ����Ӱҵ last May with a degree in education cum laude, Medgar Evers College hired her at the tender age of 21 to lead its women’s volleyball program. She became the youngest coach in the program’s history and the youngest coach in CUNYAC. Her coaching debut on September 6, five weeks after her 22nd birthday, saw the Evers “Lady Cougars” defeat Yeshiva

“The Graduate,” the Edwin Howland Blashfield mural that adorns the stage of City College’s Great Hall, is featured in a new book about the painter to be released September 28. In addition to a write-up about the mural, which was painted on The Great Hall’s curved front wall, a color photo of the painting appears both inside and on the book’s rear jacket. “The Great Hall mural is considered one of Blashfield’s major works,” says Mina Rieur Weiner, editor and one of four writers who contributed to “Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist,” W.W. Norton 2009. “It was done at the height

����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) will hold a ceremony and reception to dedicate the new home of The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 16, in the building’s atrium gallery. The facility, the first new academic building on the ����Ӱҵ campus since 1982, opened for classes at the start of the fall 2009 semester. The naming of the architecture school in honor of Mr. Spitzer, a member of ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 1943, and his wife was approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees April 27, 2009. The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust has given a $25 million gift to

NEW YORK, September 9, 2009 – Dr. Gregory H. Williams, President of ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), announced today that he is resigning to become President of the University of Cincinnati. Buck Niehoff, Chairman of The University of Cincinnati’s Board of Trustees, announced the appointment, which is effective November 1, 2009. “The University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees has offered me an exceptional opportunity to serve as leader of a proud institution and I have chosen to accept their offer,” President Williams said in announcing what he called a “difficult” decision. “Just as City

����Ӱҵ President Gregory H. Williams was honored by the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) for his stellar service to the community and long-standing commitment to Harlem at the annual Harlem Week “Joints Are Jumpin’” event, Wednesday, August 26. President Williams said he was humbled and honored to receive the award. “To earn the recognition of a Chamber that has presided over the remarkable transformation Uptown that has been dubbed the second Harlem renaissance is simply marvelous,” he said. The President noted that ����Ӱҵ and the Harlem community shared an inextricable bond through

Spurred by new programs related to cancer and nanoscience, funded research at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) rose 21.5 percent during the 2008-09 fiscal year, according to Office of Research Administration figures. Total support from government, corporations and foundations reached $55.2 million, compared with $45.4 million the prior year. Figures represent monies allocated during the year. “These gains put us well ahead of our plan for achieving the goal of $65 million in funded research by 2012,” said Dr. Zeev Dagan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the College

The Historian of the U.S. Senate functions as its institutional memory. Last month, newly appointed Senate Historian Dr. Donald A. Ritchie, a member of ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 1967, played a role in helping journalists report on the 47-year career of the “Lion of the Senate,” Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, who passed away August 25. "Over the last month, I've taken a lot of calls from reporters regarding Ted Kennedy's long congressional career," said Dr. Ritchie, who last month succeeded Richard A. Baker in the post."The types of questions we received ranged from wanting to know how the Senate had changed

NEW YORK, August 24, 2009 – ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) ranks first in diversity among masters-level universities where Hispanics comprise the largest minority group, according to the 2010 “U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Colleges” guidebook. Hispanics comprise 39 percent of ����Ӱҵ’s student population, the report noted. “Diversity imbues everything we do at City College,” said ����Ӱҵ President Gregory H. Williams. “It has a profound positive impact on the student experience here since all major ethnic groups have a sizable presence on our campus. We are heartened to be recognized

NEW YORK, August 25, 2009 – The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNYDSI) at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) recently received collections of books from well-known Dominican writers Julia Alvarez and Rhina Espaillat. The donations include complete collections of the authors’ published writings as well as several books from their personal libraries on topics related to the history, society and culture of the Dominican Republic. “We are very pleased with this donation of their books by Julia Alvarez and Rhina Espaillat. This is a gesture of solidarity,” said Dr. Ramona Hernández, Director

NEW YORK, August 21, 2009 – ����Ӱҵ President Gregory H. Williams inaugurates the Center for Worker Education’s Book Talk lecture series, which runs August 31 through December 14. All lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 6 p.m. They will be held in the CWE auditorium, located on the seventh floor at 25 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. “Book Talk will bring some of the best and most recognized authors in the country to the Center,” said Juan Carlos Mercado, Dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. “We expect the turnout to be tremendous.”