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New research led by City College of New York English professor Keith Gandal reveals that road fatalities spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic despite a significant decrease in driving due to lockdowns. Gandal, in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, along with Maya Fuks, an MA student at Tel Aviv, investigated the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and fatal car crashes. Road fatalities were a lesser-known category of excess deaths during the pandemic, going up despite a significant decrease in

Continuing to place at rates higher than the national average, students at T��ɫ��Ƶ-based CUNY School of Medicine have earned residency placements at medical institutions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina and Florida. On Match Day 2024, CUNY Medicine students had a 96.5% match, which this year was higher than the U.S. average of 93.5%. The 55 future physicians from CCNY will be training in 13 specialty areas. The specialty areas and number of student matches are: Internal Medicine (14); Pediatrics (11); Emergency Medicine (6)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have secured $1.5 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package to boost skills-based workforce development at T��ɫ��Ƶ situated Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI). The funding will support The City College as it seeks to expand skills-based training on campus for low-income New Yorkers in the form of increased access to computer labs, instruments, trainers, and career opportunities. “I’m proud to deliver $1.5 million for CCNY’s Rangel Infrastructure Workforce

New works celebrating literary giant James Baldwin’s centennial, evoking Walt Whitman’s poetic genius, and highlighting T��ɫ��Ƶ’s “Harlem as Muse” storytelling project for emerging fiction writers are in production, thanks to a two-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce Foundation’s $55,000 award to The Foundation for City College, Inc. is supporting the three projects curated by The City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Notable alumni of the MFA program include New York Times Bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners such as Walter Mosley, Oscar

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at T��ɫ��Ƶ has established a new undergraduate degree: the Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and the Built Environment. This four-year, 36-credit major will address unmet educational needs of enrolled undergraduate students and attract additional students to The City College interested in the central role that the built environment of cities plays in civic life. The program’s basis within the Spitzer School distinguishes this course of study from other urban studies majors on other CUNY campuses, drawing on the faculty

Dana Ladd and Musa Matiwane are winners of the 2023 Hollander Design Fellowship awards presented to students in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program in T��ɫ��Ƶ's Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Ladd was awarded the Fellowship, which includes $4,000 for each of the three years of the program, and Matiwane was awarded a one-time scholarship of $4,000. The students are in their first years, as per the eligibility requirements, as the fellowship is meant to support incoming students. Hollander Design Landscape Architects was cofounded by Edmund

David Gissen, the renowned architect, historian, and theorist, will deliver this year's Lewis Mumford Lecture at T��ɫ��Ƶ on Thurs., March 28, 2024. His talk begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture's Sciame Auditorium and is entitled "The Architecture and Urbanism of Disability.” Gissen is an author and designer based in New York City. For the lecture he draws upon his book " The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities and Landscapes Beyond Access” (2023), which explains the conceptual underpinnings of accessible design and its

Professionals from a variety of scientific and educational organizations shared their insights and experiences on a Science Learning and Public Engagement Career Panel, coordinated by the new Science Education and Public Engagement major in the School of Education at T��ɫ��Ƶ. Co-sponsored with the City College Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM ( CiPASS ), and CCNY’s Division of Science and Grove School of Engineering , the event brought together five panelists, each of whom gave her unique perspective on career opportunities for those interested in science

Dr. Eric N. Olson, who led the discovery of the key transcription factors and mechanisms that control development and disease of cardiac and skeletal muscles, delivers the 2024 Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at T��ɫ��Ƶ on Tuesday, April 9. His talk, “Correction of Muscle and Heart Disease by Gene Editing,” 5 – 8 p.m. in The Great Hall, located in CCNY’s Shepard Hall, is free and open to the public. Click here to register. Olson is the founding Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He holds

T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Office of Student Life and Leadership Development is celebrating Women’s History Month with Women's Herstory Month Events including an art exhibition, movie screening, honorary wall and more. CCNY students can register by signing into their Student Life account here. Tamiko White, author of “Careers in the Fashion Industry,” will be in the NAC Ballroom on March 5 from 5-7 p.m. promoting her book, and the first 25 guests will receive a free copy. On March 7, the CCNY Women Make Art Exhibition, co-sponsored by CCNY Libraries and the Alumni Association, will