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Professor Jerome Haferd of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at T��ɫ��Ƶ and his architectural firm JEROME HAFERD / BRANDT : HAFERD won first place in the Africatown International Design Idea Competition for site number two at the former Josephine Allen public housing area in Mobile, Alabama with his proposal “In the Wake.” The Design Idea Competition is a way to create a vision for The Africatown Cultural Mile, 16 venues of cultural heritage to form a destination system, in the greater Mobile region. Africatown is the only 19th-century settlement created

For the second year in a row, entry for Team CCNY’s Percy Sutton Harlem 5K Run, a collaboration between T��ɫ��Ƶ, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Week 2023 and the New York Road Runners (NYRR), reached capacity. The run took place on August 12 and 4,667 people total completed the run while taking in the sights of Harlem. This 5K race honors the late Percy Sutton, who was the Manhattan borough president in the 1970s and who championed the New York City Marathon as a five-borough event. It celebrates historic Harlem and Harlem Week, which is one of the

Maria Tzortziou, Martin and Michele Cohen Endowed Professor of Environmental Sciences at T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI), is one of 18 experts appointed by the White House to the newly formed Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). Tzortziou and 17 other members were selected by a public nomination process, and appointed by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, who co-chair the Ocean Policy Committee (OPC). “The ocean has never been more important – it regulates our

Maria C. Tamargo and Benjamin Steinberg, noted faculty in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Division of Science, are among 12 outstanding CUNY scholars elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor during the 2022-23 academic year. They join an extraordinary group of 145 other faculty university-wide holding that distinction. The title of Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. It’s conferred by the CUNY Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of

Herman B. Gray, MD will be the keynote speaker at The CUNY School of Medicine at T��ɫ��Ƶ's Class of 2025 Clinical White Coat Ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 10. He will address the student medical doctors, their parents/guests, faculty, staff and students. Dr. Gray, MD, MBA, is the chair of the Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics. He is the former president and CEO of United Way for Southeastern Michigan as well as the former president and CEO of Detroit Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Gray received his medical degree from the University of

Marie A. Bernard, MD is the keynote speaker at The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at T��ɫ��Ƶ's 2023 BS Commencement and White Coat Ceremony. She addressed 75 Medical Doctor Candidates (The CUNY Med MD Class of 2027), their families, faculty, staff, and students. Dr. Bernard is the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she leads a full range of talent to promote scientific creativity, diversity, inclusiveness, and equity throughout the organization. As head of the NIH’s COSWD, Dr. Bernard provides

Summer school at T��ɫ��Ƶ for 36 outstanding students from two of war-torn Ukraine’s top specialized high schools for physics and mathematics began with a 12-hour bus ride from the capital Kyiv to the Polish border on the west. It would take another six hours to get to Warsaw, Poland’s main city, from where the weary travelers caught a 10-hour flight to JFK. Conflict has a way of complicating the simplest of things in life. Until Aug. 12, however, normalcy returns to the lives of these young, gifted minds from the Kyiv’s Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum (UPML) and

Xi Chen, t��ɫ��Ƶ chemical engineer whose pioneering research includes water-responsive materials, is the winner of a coveted National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Recipients of this prestigious award are considered the best and brightest talents in the United States. Many of the winners later became world-famous scientists and Nobel laureates. An assistant professor in The City College’s Grove School of Engineering, with affiliation to the Nanoscience Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Chen is widely regarded as a leader in

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at T��ɫ��Ƶ has announced its inaugural cohorts of Moynihan Leaders-in-Residence and Postdoctoral Fellows. Leaders-in-Residence are distinguished practitioners and thinkers whose careers are notable for their contributions to public service and/or to public scholarship. They spend dedicated periods of time at the Moynihan Center, giving lectures, mentoring students, and otherwise broadening and deepening the network of people and ideas that interface with the Moynihan Center

Author and Professor Renata Kobetts Miller has been appointed dean of the Division of Humanities and the Arts at T��ɫ��Ƶ. She was previously named interim dean in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic when teaching had to pivot quickly to online learning. During that time, Miller secured federal funds to support staff and update technology. The Division of Humanities and the Arts teaches more students across the entire College than any other division. Its more than 430 full-time and part-time faculty also serve over 2,000 undergraduate majors, 600 minors, and 350 graduate