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����Ӱҵ is pleased to announce a major gift to establish the Stanley Kushinsky and Jean Carmen Scholarship Fund. The new Fund will support qualified undergraduate or graduate students majoring in chemistry. Recipients of scholarships from the Fund will be determined by the Chemistry Department Chair Professor Stephen O’Brien in consultation with the Department’s Executive Committee. While the awards are predominantly merit-based, the criteria also take into account students’ circumstances and background that help promote diversity and inclusion. Scholarships will also aim

Nine City College of New York students have been selected for the prestigious 2020 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, gaining skills critical to national security and economic competitiveness. However, due to the uncertainty of the current health crisis, ����Ӱҵ Gilman scholars will travel abroad in 2021. Asia Dominguez, a political science major, will study law and criminology in the Netherlands. Dominguez hopes to gain personal as well as academic experience while networking in the Netherlands

With a student body representing more than 150 nationalities, ����Ӱҵ is one of the most diverse campuses in the nation. ����Ӱҵ is now helping steer a unique $6 million state-funded City University of New York (CUNY) project, intersecting education and immigration, in the world’s most diverse city. Tatyana Kleyn and Nancy Stern, faculty in the ����Ӱҵ School of Education’s Programs in Bilingual Education and TESOL, are principal and co-principal investigators, respectively, of the five-year CUNY- Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE) supported by the New York State

Hao Su, a robotics specialist in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, heads an interdisciplinary team of experts from three universities in a $2.78 million National Science Foundation (NSF) project to develop a perceptive and adaptive soft (PECASO) wearable robot. Dubbed “The Future of Work Program,” it could lead to improved employment opportunities for workers with upper body disabilities. Su’s eight-member team, that will also study labor economics and policy implications of assistive robots, comprises faculty from New York University, Rutgers University and CUNY

Dr. Nancy Kopell, a professor of mathematics and statistics at Boston University, will be the speaker at this year’s Annual Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture. Dr. Kopell has worked on mathematical problems in neuroscience for the past two decades. Her current interests include how does the brain produce its dynamics, how do brain rhythms take part in cognition, and how can pathologies of brain dynamics help to understand symptoms of neurological diseases. The lecture will take place as an online webinar, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 at 4:00PM. To register and

Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Namath and, posthumously, giants of New York journalism, Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill, are winners of the 73rd John H. Finley Award from The Alumni Association of ����Ӱҵ. Herbert Rubin, Esq., from the Class of 1938 and at 102 one of the oldest living City College alumni, heads a list of seven distinguished Townsend Harris Medal recipients for outstanding post-graduate achievements. This year’s other Townsend Harris recipients are: Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen, Class of 2011, a physician; Radha Blank ’97, a filmmaker; Charles Copeland ’68, President

CiPASS-ExL, an interdisciplinary program at ����Ӱҵ focusing on experiential learning, is the recipient of a $3 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to boost the number of Hispanic and low-income graduates leaving ����Ӱҵ with work-ready skills and connections to employers. Harlem-based ����Ӱҵ is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution of Higher Education by the DOE. The acronym for “City College initiative to Promote the Academic Success of Students - Experiential Learning,” CiPASS-ExL is the creation of four ����Ӱҵ units: the Grove School of

Scoring high on campus diversity, ����Ӱҵ places eighth out of the top 797 schools nationally for Environment in the 2021 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education Best College Rankings. The category reflects four elements that are fortes for an institution with a student body representing more than 150 nationalities. Following is a breakdown of the WSJ/THE Environment scoring for ����Ӱҵ. Student diversity, 94.5 points; Faculty diversity, 92.9; Student inclusion, 91.6; International students, 59.7. ����Ӱҵ placed in the first decile for Environment and #8 nationally. In other

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at ����Ӱҵ is pleased to announce the appointment of healthcare executive and ����Ӱҵ alumnus Richard J. Henley to its Board of Visitors. He joins twenty-nine other distinguished Board Members. Henley is President and CEO at Healthcare Strategic Solutions, LLC, an advisory firm focused on optimizing enterprise value for health systems, private equity firms, portfolio companies, and other business entities through strategy, leadership and business development. He has spent more than thirty years in senior leadership

Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial muscles for a broad array of applications. These are the new possibilities with the creation by an international team of researchers, led by ����Ӱҵ’s Xi Chen and his co-authors at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, of shape-changing crystals that enable energy transfer from evaporation to mechanical motion. Entitled: “ Mechanistic insights of evaporation-induced actuation in supramolecular crystals,” the study appears in the journal “Nature Materials.”