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A team led by City College of New York physicist Lia Krusin-Elbaum is behind breakthrough research that could open a breadth of new quantum device platforms for harnessing emergent topological states for nano-spintronics and fault-tolerant quantum computing. The group of physicists and chemists has invented a new facile and powerful technique that uses ionic hydrogen to reduce charge carrier density in the bulk of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators and magnets. The result is that robust non-dissipative surface or edge quantum conduction channels can be accessed for manipulation and

Vocal legend Sheila Jordan, guitar hero Pete McCann, the acclaimed Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra, and piano master Fred Hersch will perform at the 2022 CUNY Jazz Festival, May 5-6, at T��ɫ��Ƶ. The 22nd annual event, a gathering of bands and ensembles from across the CUNY system, takes place at CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, Theatre B, located at 135th Street and Convent Avenue in Manhattan. All performances are free and open to the public. Sheila Jordan, one of the most unique and influential voices in jazz is the festival’s headliner. She will also offer master classes 2:30 p.m

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, is the keynote speaker at T��ɫ��Ƶ’s 169th Commencement 10 a.m. on June 3. He will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Science. City College will also honor Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, a 1976 CCNY alumnus, with the honorary degree Doctor of Fine Arts. Both awards to Fauci and Nelson are pending full CUNY Board of Trustees confirmation. The commencement exercises return to in-person format at CCNY’s South

Ban Ki-moon, who served as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, will discuss global affairs when he delivers the eighth annual Sternberg Family Lecture in Public Scholarship at T��ɫ��Ƶ on Monday, May 2. The in-person event, in CCNY’s Great Hall, starts at 11 a.m. Ban’s lecture comes amid global turmoil with war in Eastern Europe following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, economic turbulence and massive disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. U.N. boss from 2007 to 2016, Ban during his tenure mobilized world leaders around a set of new global challenges

Four Folded Square Alphabet Letters from the Fletcher Benton: The Alphabet series are on permanent display at T��ɫ��Ƶ’s south campus. Known as one of America’s leading sculptors, the late artist’s style consisted of cutting, folding and realigning two-dimensional sheets of steel into three-dimensional objects that seem to defy gravity. Gifted to the college in 2013 by Eva Haller, who attended City College from 1954-1955, and her husband Dr. Yoel Haller, the letters spell out CCNY and were estimated to be worth $500,000 at the time. Haller, a philanthropist, activist and

David C. Banks, who as Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education heads the largest school system in the nation, speaks at T��ɫ��Ƶ on Thursday, April 28. The Chancellor will present his vision for the city’s more than 1,700 schools and little more than a million students in his talk entitled: “A Conversation with David Banks: The Vision for NYC Public Schools.” The invitation-only event starts at 5 p.m. in CCNY’s Great Hall, located in Shepard Hall. CCNY Provost Tony Liss will be the moderator. Banks assumed the office of Chancellor on Jan. 1, 2022, becoming

The CCNY-MSK Partnership, a partnership between T��ɫ��Ƶ and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is hosting a Harlem Community Health Expo. The expo is on Saturday, April 23 from 1-5 p.m. and includes health information, cancer and dental screenings, COVID-19 information, nutritional information as well as health and wellness classes. In case of rain, events are postponed to a later date. Events take place outside on CCNY’s south campus at 135th Street and Convent Avenue. The expo is followed by a free movie screening of “Encanto” from 7:30-9:30 p.m., which also takes

A new endowed scholarship, the Norman Klein Scholarship, has been created to support graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at T��ɫ��Ƶ. The scholarship, which is pending CUNY Board of Trustees approval, will provide expenses for recipients, which may include tuition and fees, as well as support for students to participate in national project competitions. The first Norman Klein (1958 & 1961) Scholarship will be awarded in the 2022/2023 academic year. The scholarship has been established by Norman Klein, who graduated from CCNY with a BS in 1958, and

Rose Mary Biju, a summa cum laude graduate of the Sophie Davis Biomedical Education Program with a 3.96 GPA, is T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Class of 2022 Valedictorian. Ali Khalil, who is graduating summa cum laude with a 3.91 GPA and BS in biology, is the Salutatorian. Both Biju and Khalil are immigrant members of a CCNY student body ranked among the most diverse in the nation by the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education. The Valedictorian and her Indian family emigrated to the U.S. when she was eight, while the Salutatorian arrived in New York from Egypt in 2016, barely speaking

As war rages in Eastern Europe, T��ɫ��Ƶ welcomes Luis Moreno Ocampo, founding and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the keynote speaker at a timely conference on human rights, April 20-22. The Argentine-born Moreno Ocampo will discuss “War and Justice in the 21st Century” at the start of CCNY’s second annual Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference. His talk, both virtual and in-person, starts 6 p.m. on April 20, in the City College Downtown auditorium at 25 Broadway in lower Manhattan. Click here for the Zoom link. Other