Brew, Re-Energize, Recycle Americans consume nearly 400 million cups of coffee a day, and the used coffee grounds that remain — like the leftovers of your Grande Skinny Caramel Macchiato — most often end up in the trash....>>
KCC’s Urban Farm Keeps Growing The locavore movement is enjoying ever more popularity in New York City, with urban farms, chicken coops and beehives cropping up around Brooklyn. And, at Kingsborough Community College, April is the first anni...>>
Signposts That Digitally Aid the Deaf Matt Huenerfauth’s Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at Queens College is outfitted with spandex bodysuits with Wii-like sensors, spandex gloves that have little thin strips signaling precise joi...>>
‘Damnable Scribbler’ Mac Wellman may be the American theater’s most perseverant renegade playwright. A cockeyed iconoclast, Wellman has never had much use for conventional notions of plot, character or even language. This could exp...>>
Top-Notch Quality — From Cutting - Edge Labs to the Rooftop “Jay Walk.” John Jay College of Criminal Justice has a brand new campus. Opened last fall, the 625,000-square-foot vertical building cost $600 million and boasts innovative spaces and technologically advanced forensic faci...>>
Streamlined PATHWAYS It was fall 2011, and Greg Bradford was looking forward to graduating from Brooklyn College at the end of the semester. Over a nine-year period, he had studied at York College, then Borough of Manhattan Communi...>>
Aspiring Doctor Is Well on Her Way As a fifth grader growing up on Long Island, Melissa LoPresti was riveted by the stories her parents told about helping to save lives. Her father is an oncology pharmacist and her mother, a nurse. “I would list...>>
Farsighted Dynamo As a scientist, Lisa S. Coico is president of City College of New York at a crucial, exciting time. A unique, CUNY and City College research campus is rising on CCNY’s south campus, adding to the New York State...>>
Baruch ‘Quants’ Ace International Contest Students in Baruch College’s Masters in Financial Engineering program are ready to trade on Wall Street. Two teams from the program won first and fourth places in the prestigious 2012 Rotman International Tradi...>>
Dream Weavers Elizabeth Cusick analyzed stunted brain growth among HIV-infected South African children. Mubashir Billah learned Arabic and dug beneath stereotypes of Arab radicalism in Jordan. And Thomas Lombardo staged his ...>>
It’s all About Connecting Like most CUNY students, Jasmine Osorio had to work full time in the summer to make some extra money. She had a $10-an-hour job lined up at a Harlem clothing boutique not far from her home in the Bronx....>>
Commuting To Class — With the Kids Early on the first morning of the new semester, Ebonie Council leaves her apartment in Flushing and navigates her three children under age 5 — to Long Island City, an eight-mile trip that takes an hour and a ha...>>
The Defense Rests Alan Dershowitz, the famed, chutzpah-driven attorney, donated his historic papers to Brooklyn College, and after they were sorted into 1,841 archival boxes, a ceremony was held on campus one day last fall. Der...>>
New Ideas Highlight An Inspired Setting There’s the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Football Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But the original Hall of Fame — located at Bronx Community College — might be among the best-kept secrets in Amer...>>
Exploring a Portal to the Past A Queens College archaeologist’s team is probing origins of an ancient Greek settlement in Turkey. With its rich soil and abundant natural resources the Sinop region in Turkey was the earliest Greek colony o...>>
Why NYC’s Recession Was Shorter Than USA’s While the United States lost 8.4 million jobs — about 6 percent — during the 27-month Great Recession that started in December 2007, employment in New York City declined by 3.5 percent, and the downturn lasted ...>>
Noted and Quoted: Record 16 CUNY Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships A record 16 CUNY students — 15 of whom earned undergraduate degrees at the University — have won coveted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for work toward their master’s or doctoral degr...>>
GRANTS and HONORS: Recognizing Faculty Achievement The University’s renowned faculty members continually win professional-achievement awards from prestigious organizations as well as research grants from government agencies, farsighted foundations and leading c...>>
Count on Us! University Student Senate Chairperson Kafui Kouakou intends to do something novel in November: cast his first vote as a newly minted American citizen. Coming from Togo — a country that has seen coups, political...>>
‘Glorious Panoramas’ of an Unsung Borough For more than a quarter of a century award-winning landscape painter Daniel Hauben has set up his easel under elevated subway trains, at street corners and on overpasses, capturing the life of the Bronx on canv...>>
Pride of the City 2012
Finding Her Literary Voice For Tara Gildea, a Macaulay Honors College at Queens College student, a rare Beinecke Scholarship is her ticket to Oxford >>
She's Finding a New Pathway Hunter grad Ellen Leitman, who is in medical school, is using a Clarendon Fund Scholarship to Oxford to focus on AIDS research >>
A Fellowship That Really Adds Up City College senior Yekaterina Garmash, one of four at CUNY to win a $100,000 Math for America award, is eager to teach math in New York City schools. >>
Making Her Mark on the World's Stage Fulbright winner Kayhan Irani, who graduated from CUNY's Baccalaureate program, is returning to her native stage - India -- to gather material for a play that plays to the politics of different generations to deliver a message that she hopes will spur social change. >>
A landmark study conducted by Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) Senior Scientist Elizabeth Theil, PhD, and collaborators at >>
Science Wire
Leading Mathematics and Computer Sciences Researcher Wins Prestigious Award
Lehman College Professor Melvin Fitting will receive the Herbrand Award for his groundbreaking contribution to the field of automated theorem proving. >>
CUNY Radio
“An embarrassment and an affront to the American people,” is how Time political correspondent Joe Klein describes the field of Republican candidates in the 2012 >>
Chancellor Report
At The City University of New York, we are deeply committed to maintaining learning and work environments in which members of the University community may pursue their goals and objectives in an atmosphere of respect, sensitivity, and tolerance... >>