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����Ӱҵ and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles have teamed up to create ����Ӱҵ license plates so that alumni, staff, students, faculty and anyone who wants to display their ����Ӱҵ pride have a new way to celebrate their school spirit. The idea came about at the start of planning for the 170th anniversary. The college was looking for unique ways to expand the campus's public visibility, including the establishment of “ Gear Up Tuesdays,” which encourages the college community to wear their favorite ����Ӱҵ clothing and/or accessory every Tuesday. Last May, ����Ӱҵ kicked

Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, is the inaugural recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, bestowed by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at ����Ӱҵ. The award recognizes individuals who have reached the highest level in their fields, and who embody the leadership values that General Powell, a 1958 graduate of The City College, demonstrated throughout his career: integrity, humility, humor, pragmatism, and common sense. These values were articulated most famously in Powell’s Thirteen Rules of Leadership, which

Vanessa K. Valdés, associate provost for community engagement at ����Ӱҵ, is co-curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition: Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter. The exhibit runs from April 3-July 16 and is co-curated by David Pullins, associate curator in The Met’s Department of European Painting. Valdés was the former interim dean at the Macaulay Honors College and director of the Black Studies Program at ����Ӱҵ. She is the author of “ Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Schomburg” and wrote the essay “Arturo Schomburg, Juan de Pareja, and Afro

Graduate student Ryan Walsh and senior Marieme Jiddou, both from ����Ӱҵ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are recipients of highly competitive Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) from the United States Department of State. The CLS program provides overseas foreign language instruction and cultural immersion experiences for American undergraduate and graduate students in 14 critical need languages to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity. Walsh is

Ruth E. Stark, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at ����Ӱҵ, is the recipient of a $805,865 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study ways of developing new antifungal therapies that target melanization pathways. She and two researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine are Multiple Principal Investigators on a $4,079,890 grant from NIH’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) entitled “The Biology of Fungal Melanization.” “Melanin is a very important pigment in the biosphere and

Dr. Hazel M. Carter, an expert in education reform pipeline programs in ����Ӱҵ’s School of Education, is the 2023 winner of the Pelican Award presented by the American Foundation of The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) and The University of the West Indies Alumni Association New York chapter. The honor recognizes distinguished UWI alumni who have achieved unprecedented success in their chosen field or industry, operate with integrity, and serve as exemplary role models to The UWI community globally, particularly to its current students. An AFUWI board member, Carter

The David Aronow Foundation is partnering, once again, with ����Ӱҵ for a fellowship named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow. The David Aronow Fellowship at City College will provide a $3000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. Aronow was the youngest of five surviving children in an immigrant family, and the only member of his generation to have the chance to go to college: City College. He founded his foundation in 1947, and it has contributed to educational, humanitarian, cultural and scientific causes for over seven decades "We at The David Aronow

MD candidates, from the CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at ����Ӱҵ, join medical school students throughout the country to learn where they have matched for their residencies. “ Match Day,” is run by the National Resident Matching Program, which releases results to applicants seeking residency positions in the U.S. “The specific contribution of our medical school lies in our ability to provide culturally competent primary care physicians to underserved communities,” said ����Ӱҵ President Vincent Boudreau. “Every year match day - when our graduates learn where they will

Attentive Energy One – a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power – is committing $10 million to ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) to establish a new renewable energy training program as part of its 1,400 MW offshore wind proposal to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in January 2023. The announcement was made today by Attentive Energy One and ����Ӱҵ leadership on a visit to ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering in Harlem. The Attentive Energy One project will build an offshore wind farm, which will deliver clean energy to over 700,000 homes

Making its U.S. debut, the exhibition “Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing” opens at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at ����Ӱҵ, on Tuesday, March 21 with a reception at 6 p.m. in the Atrium Gallery. The exhibition which runs through Sunday, May 7, is a joint presentation by the Spitzer School, The Architectural League of New York, and the Curatorial Research Collective of the TU/e, with support from the Dutch Culture USA program of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, New York, and is the first in-person show at Spitzer since