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����Ӱҵ is pleased to announce the creation of The Elyse L. Nass Endowed Scholarship Fund. The annual fund will support ����Ӱҵ students enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program and/or the Department of Theater and Speech. It will allow the departments to offer generous aid in the form of scholarships, stipends, and other means of support for students pursuing careers in writing, especially in the field of playwrighting. “The MFA Program in Creative Writing is deeply grateful for this new scholarship from the Elyse L. Nass Scholarship Fund,” said

Already accepted to several top graduate schools including Stanford and Columbia, Michael Vera of ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 2021 is the winner of a highly competitive GEM Fellowship that offers funding for a master's program in structural engineering at New York University. GEM fellowships fund master's and PhDs in engineering for underrepresented students of exceptional quality who intend to work in industry. Each year, GEM identifies and recruits more than 1,000 undergraduate students, graduate students, and working professionals for admission to advanced degree programs at the

In a first of its kind review in the United States, social scientists led by ����Ӱҵ’s Deidre M. Anglin suggest that the legacy of systemic racism in the U.S. shapes racial inequities in social determinants of psychosis at neighborhood and individual levels. Anglin and her co-authors examine U.S.-based evidence that connects characteristics of the social environment with outcomes across the psychosis continuum, from psychotic experiences to schizophrenia. Their study, entitled “ From Womb to Neighborhood: A Racial Analysis of Social Determinants of Psychosis in the U.S.,”

The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important for scalability, which amplifies a breakthrough by City College of New York researchers led by physicist Vinod Menon. They’ve demonstrated for the first time the use of "Rydberg states" in solid state materials (previously shown in cold atom gases) to enhance nonlinear optical interactions to unprecedented levels in solid state systems. This feat is a first step towards realizing chip-scale scalable

����Ӱҵ maintains its lofty position among the top 1.8% out of 19,788 universities worldwide according to the 2021-22 edition of the “Global 2000 List” by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). “This is an outstanding achievement to be celebrated,” said Dr. Nadim Mahassen, president of the CWUR, which publishes the largest academic rankings of global universities. City College is #350 among the 19,788 degree-granting institutions of higher education analyzed by CWUR, #108 in the United States and #123 regionally (USA and Canada). Harvard University, Massachusetts

The civil engineering department in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering is the recipient of The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2021 Walter LeFevre Award (Large Group). The national award is bestowed for “outstanding program promoting licensure, ethics, and professionalism.” Department Chair and Associate Professor Beth (Ann E.) Wittig will accept the trophy virtually on the department’s behalf at the upcoming National Civil Engineering Department Heads Conference. “Licensure, ethics and professionalism are all critical for our graduates because of the civic

Boukary Sawadogo of ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Humanities and the Arts, is a winner of the 2021 Henry Wasser Award for outstanding Assistant Professors from the City University of New York. The honor is one of two presented to outstanding assistant professors CUNY-wide by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. The other accolade is the Feliks Gross Award. The Academy selects recipients for the two awards from a large group of highly qualified, academically impressive, assistant professors from all 25 CUNY campuses. Half receive the Gross award and half receive the

Matthew Romano, an honors student who’s overcome the stigma of autism to excel academically, is ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 2021 Valedictorian. The 22-year-old Bronx resident of Caribbean heritage is graduating summa cum laude with a 3.99 GPA. He’ll receive a BA degree in English with a minor in education. Shilpa Ann Shaju from the William E. Macaulay Honors College at ����Ӱҵ, is the Salutatorian. A political science and international studies double major minoring in legal studies, she’s graduating with a BA degree. Talking of overcoming his challenges, Romano said: “It was only

����Ӱҵ is mourning Vartan Gregorian, a distinguished member of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Board of Visitors, noted scholar, philanthropic leader, and president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He died last Thursday aged 87. “Vartan Gregorian was the consummate humanitarian and a great friend to the College,” said City College President Vincent Boudreau. “His staunch advocacy for the rights and interests of immigrants in society, in particular, struck a strong and resonant chord with our own mission.” Of Gregorian’s support for the

Nija Daniels and Kimberly Pereyra Monero, both sophomores in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are ����Ӱҵ’s 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship recipients. They are among 15 promising undergraduates from New York City colleges and universities selected for the highly competitive awards. Created in 1999 and supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the program provides fellows with three years of personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. Fellows are provided with annual funding of $6,000, $7,500 and $8,500