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....
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 ...
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 p...
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...
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 for...
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 Manhatt...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Internati...
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 s...
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 Bron...
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 hou...
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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 secre...
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 Gree...
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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 doc...
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...
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,...
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 Bro...
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.
Pride of the City 2012
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.
Pride of the City 2012
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.
Pride of the City 2012
A Personal Quest To Quell Cancer Deborah Opeyemi Ayeni, winner of a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is pursuing a doctorate in experimental pathology at Yale and hopes to make her career in industrial research.
Pride of the City 2012
Exploring the Universe Vivienne Baldassare will be looking at mergers in ultra-luminous infrared galaxies that have an "active" nucleus that emits 10
Pride of the City 2012
Big Ideas at the Nano Level Charlie Corredor, a City College grad who is in the doctoral program at the University of Washington in Seattle, is probing the effect nanomaterials have on the environment.
Pride of the City 2012
Opening a Window to the Brain Zvi Hershel Fishman, a City College grad, is looking forward to a career as a scientist "coaxing nature to reveal its secrets and sharing them with humanity."
Pride of the City 2012
Counting All His Chickadees Andrew Goldklank Fulmer, a doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center, is studying the eating habits of these birds to determine how they develop trusting relationships.
Pride of the City 2012
Skin-Deep Research Kirk Haltaufderhyde, a York College graduate, is at Brown University looking at the role light sensitivity plays in skin cells.
Pride of the City 2012
Looking for an Unbreakable Breakthrough Stephen Ma, a graduate of Macaulay Honors College at City College, is trying to create plastics that can be repaired with light or that can fix themselves.
Pride of the City 2012
Breaking the Brain Barrier Christopher Donald Hue, a graduate of Macaulay Honors College at City College, is working to understand how explosions damage the brain and how the injuries can be treated.
Pride of the City 2012
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.
Prominent Geologist Dr. William J. Fritz Named Interim President of the College of Staten Island
The City University of New York has named William J. Fritz, an experienced and dedicated administrator as well as a prominent geologist, professor
Science Wire
HOSTOS SCIENCE PROFESSOR RECEIVES GRANTS TO HELP COLLEGE IMPROVE PROGRAMS
Hostos Community College Professor Dr. Nelson Nuñez Rodríguez recently received two awards totaling over $30,000 from the American Society for Cell Biology: the 2012 Minority Visiting Professorship
CUNY Radio
Fleet Week 2012 — and the War of 1812
As New Yorkers welcomed the thousands of members of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard arriving to celebrate Fleet Week 2012, Veterans Corner host Don Buzney tal
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein May 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... http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2012/03/06/a-message-from-chancellor-goldstein/
Today at CUNY
- ARP's Third Annual Reunion Luncheon When May 29 | 12:00 PM Where College of Staten Island
- Spring 2012 Commencement When May 29 | 3:00 PM Where Hunter College
- Understanding Human Cognitive Uniqueness When May 29 — May 30 | 9:00 AM Where Brooklyn College
- Open Houses at the Colleges
