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Literature professor, author and editor Vanessa K. Valdés is the new director of ����Ӱҵ’s Black Studies Program. Announcing her appointment, City College President Vincent Boudreau said: “Dr. Valdés comes to this position after years of teaching in and working with the program, and I am powerfully confident that her vision and commitment to education in this area will stand the program in good stead for years to come. I know that our students and the program generally will benefit from her wise leadership.” An accomplished scholar who joined ����Ӱҵ in 2007, Valdés holds the

In the latest distinction for the institution, ����Ӱҵ is now classified in the “Doctoral Universities: High Research” category by The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ®. The Carnegie Classification has been the leading framework for recognizing and describing institutional diversity in U.S. higher education for the past four and a half decades. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education developed a classification of colleges and universities to support its program of research and policy analysis. Derived from empirical data on colleges and

City College President Vince Boudreau has asked Dee Dee Mozeleski to continue in her role as Executive Director of the Combined Foundations at ����Ӱҵ on a permanent basis. Mozeleski has spent two years in this role as interim Executive Director, following four years in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College, where she was brought on to help build the School and establish some of its most enduring programs, including projects related to human rights awareness, social justice leadership development and a diversity and inclusion pipeline project with the Appalachian

����Ӱҵ’s early childhood education bachelor’s program is ranked in the top three percent nationally in the Bachelor’s Degree Center’s latest rankings. The degree is jointly offered by ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education and the School of Education. The ����Ӱҵ program is #13 among the top 25 colleges and universities nationwide that made the cut from an initial pool of more than 500 schools. This is the culmination of a thorough search by Bachelor’s Degree Center editors of all Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation

A focus of civil engineer Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh’s research at ����Ӱҵ is the development of sustainable concrete -- key to modern construction. His research on concrete sustainability and his expertise in sharing his knowledge with middle school and college students in Harlem has earned him the American Concrete Institute’s Walter P. Moore, Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. Assistant professor in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, Yazdanbakhsh, will receive the honor on March 24 at ACI’s spring 2019 convention in Quebec City, Canada. The award recognizes junior faculty

This year, students from ����Ӱҵ are volunteering on Saturday, January 19 for the annual MLK Day of Service in partnership with the Division of Student Life and Leadership Development and Student Leadership & Campus Life at Guttman Community College. Students dedicate the day to doing acts of service. This year, students will help paint classrooms at the East Harlem Scholars Academy II, which is a part of the East Harlem Tutorial Program. The goal of the annual day of service is to make a difference within the Harlem community. The event takes place from 10-5 p.m. on

Dr. Tony Liss, an internationally known physicist with research experience at the world’s highest energy accelerators, is ����Ӱҵ’s new provost, ����Ӱҵ President Vincent Boudreau announced. Liss had served as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs since March 2018. In his permanent capacity, Liss continues to help lead the 172-year-old ����Ӱҵ that is now classified in the “Doctoral Universities: High Research” category by The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ®. The Carnegie Classification has been the leading framework for

Yaritza Holguin has a longstanding commitment to social justice and serving her community. As a student in the Master’s in Public Administration program (MPA) at ����Ӱҵ, her passion has led her to build upon her grassroots experience and forge a career in social impact. After graduating from John Jay with a degree in forensic psychology, she spent three years as a community health worker in the Bronx, promoting health equity and access in underrepresented neighborhoods. Bilingual, born and raised in the city, Holguin wanted to continue serving her community by making change on a broader scale –

When it comes to the application of light and photonics technologies to the study of biological, biomedical and condensed matter systems, few have charted the path better than Robert R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at ����Ӱҵ. The pioneering researcher and inventor is co-editor of the text “ Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy,” published by Elsevier of Oxford, England. Alfano’s 610-page tome, in collaboration with Lingyan Shi, a City College PhD graduate and former research associate in his lab, is one of the latest publications by

The third cohort of City College of New York undergraduate students are named University Innovation Fellows by the Stanford d.school program. They are among 358 students from 96 higher education institutions in 16 countries that become agents of change by ensuring that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. The program is run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), and with the addition of the new fellows, it has trained more than 1,800 students since its