Nearing graduation from high school in 2007, Michael Suarez looked up some of the colleges his friends were applying to and felt nothing so much as alarm....>>

 The media campaign CUNY Countdown is in high gear to boost voter registration and participation… The University's Energy Institute has developed a battery with breakthrough technology that ultimately ...>>

 Royal purple, the color of robes swathing the emperors of Rome, ancient kings and high priests, and prized for its richness of hue and a brightness that wouldn't fade, has long carried its own molecul...>>

 When an East Harlem lawyer named Oscar García Rivera was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1937, La Prensa covered the news as the history it was for its readers and the country: Rivera that d...>>

 Dara Byrne, an associate professor of communication and theatre arts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says her "favorite place is in a class with freshmen, because I enjoy helping them see wha...>>

 Not long ago, assistant professor Sihong Wang and Zeynep Dereli Korkut, who earned her Ph.D. in Wang's lab at City College's Grove School of Engineering, would have rhapsodized about the dinner-mint-s...>>

 Lehman College's new Science Hall has earned a prestigious LEED Platinum Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the only teaching/research lab in New York City to receive the co...>>

 History, Reflections, Sociology and Fiction by University Scholars...>>

 TRANSFER STUDENTS are streaming into the University's four-year baccalaureate colleges at unprecedented rates — expanding diversity as a CUNY redefined by a decade of improved academics, record-breaki...>>

 HAVE YOU HEARD? What community college was named one of the nation's top four, earning it a $100,000 prize? And which University college is the latest to add doctorate degrees? Or what you'll find a...>>

 When Neighborhood Trust financial adviser Adalberto Jaimes first met Ruben Felix in September 2011, Felix was drowning in nearly $17,000 in debt, living paycheck to paycheck and feeling overwhelmed by...>>

 In the spring of 1963, the civil rights movement was in the thick of a tumultuous and pivotal period. The campaign had come to Birmingham, Ala., engulfing one of the South’s most virulently segregatio...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: BILL WILLIAMS jokes that what led him to collaborate with Sandra Clarkson was the constant refrain at cocktail parties: "Oh, you teach statistics? I hated statistics!"...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: KIMORA – SHE USES only one name – has taken on what may seem a quixotic mission: to encourage students who intend to become police, corrections or probation officers to be ethica...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: As a teenager on the brink of college, Jennifer Basil faced a big decision – theater or biology. At 17 she'd apprenticed at the New York State School of Performing Arts at the Ci...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: ANTHONY CARPI, professor of environmental toxicology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, hasn't been teaching much since he was tapped to be the Interim Associate Provost fo...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: TOM OFFERS TO SELL HIS JACKET to Sally for $50. Simple, right? But what if Ellen offers Tom more after Sally says OK? What if Tom changes his mind? Does it matter that nothing is...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: DARA BYRNE, an associate professor of communication and theatre arts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says her "favorite place is in a class with freshmen, because I enjo...>>

 THE UNIVERSITY is now in the book business with the launch of the CUNY Journalism Press. The academic press housed at the Graduate School of Journalism will use a new publishing model to produce books...>>

 Outstanding Teachers: When she was just 4 years old, Queens College associate professor Susan Croll announced that she would be a medical researcher. As a youngster, she was fascinated by her father's...>>