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Via Verde, a new, 222-unit housing project in the South Bronx, is being hailed as a triumph of sustainability, affordability and beauty. “I don’t think there will be any housing studio (class) where students will not be looking at Via Verde as a case study,” says Lance Brown, ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture in City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. “For the next five years it will be the go-to project for how to integrate principles of sustainability with design excellence.”

There is Colin Powell, former military leader, statesman and author. There is also Jonas Salk, creator of the polio vaccine, and Andrew Grove whose Intel chip revolutionized computers. The list of notable City College of New York alumni is lengthy.

Now add Floriana “Lola” Garo to the roll. A year after graduating from CCNY with a BS degree in International/Global Studies, the 5-foot-11 beauty queen who began her modeling career at City was chosen Miss Albania 2012.

Baruch College graduate Belen Guerra-Carrillo was recently awarded a fellowship by the National Science Foundation for her graduate research efforts.

Sophomore Jordan Abettan isn’t certain what he wants to study or pursue as a career, but he knows one thing for sure: He’s planning to have a ball next academic year when he heads to Paris as an exchange student, partly on the dime of the U.S. State Department.

The Medgar Evers College Upward Bound Program recently received a one-year $250,000 dollar grant from the Department of Education. This is part of a five year grant in the amount of $1,250,000 that the college will receive, pending satisfaction of program mandates assessed on an annual basis.

There are too many worms. In a mid-Manhattan classroom, 20 applicants write their thoughts about going to community college on paper cutouts and stick them to a poster of a tree — multicolored, tapered leaves for hopes, square bits of trunk for strengths, squiggly worms for fears. The worms dominate.

Major construction projects support record enrollments — and help bolster the city’s economy.

Fueled by unprecedented enrollment increases in the past decade, The City University of New York is generating needed construction and renovation programs that support both modern facilities for current and future generations of students and economic development in New York City.

Several alumni and faculty members of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism were part of news teams that were nominated for this year’s Emmy Awards. The winners will be announced Monday, Oct. 1 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in the Time Warner Center in New York [...]

Several alumni and faculty members of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism were part of news teams that were nominated for this year’s Emmy Awards. The winners will be announced Monday, Oct. 1 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in the Time Warner Center in New York [...]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has appointed Rosemarie Maldonado, Assistant Vice President and Counsel at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to the New York City Panel for Educational Policy.

Brooklyn, N.Y.—Based on decades of leadership and persistent advocacy for children’s rights, Gertrud Lenzer, professor of sociology and director of the Children’s Studies Center for Research, Policy, and Public Service, recently returned from Geneva, where she was invited by the United Nations to participate in a working group on children’s rights. Lenzer was representing the [...]

SEEK student Tiffany Pham received a BA in SLS-Early Childhood Education and a BS in Mathematics. She will now pursue a Master of Arts degree in Adolescent Mathematics Education at Brooklyn College. During her five years at CSI, Pham not only worked diligently on her studies, she also made a huge contribution to the College and the community.

The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday.

Get this: Although you may be just sitting at your desk or planted on your couch while reading this, you are burning the same number of calories as the hardest-working hunter-gatherer in East Africa.

A new model co-developed by BMCC Science Professors Saavik Ford and Barry McKernan shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their supermassive counterparts.

Two LaGuardia Community College basic skills students, who both returned to school after a long hiatus to become voracious learners and budding writers, recently won New York City writing contests for literacy students.

Recent alumni Gil Agassi and Sophie Knowles have been granted awards to work abroad for a year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Body mass index (BMI) is a widely used indicator of obesity, but a new study suggests it may not be the best predictor of whether your weight raises your risk of death.

A new model shows how an elusive type of black hole can be formed in the gas surrounding their supermassive counterparts. In research published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, the City University of New York, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics propose that intermediate-mass black holes—light-swallowing celestial objects with masses ranging from hundreds to many thousands of times the mass of the Sun—can grow in the gas disks around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. The physical mechanism parallels the model astrophysicists use to describe the growth of giant planets in the gas disks surrounding stars.

When Steven Roberts enrolled at BMCC in 2009, he couldn’t say for sure what a PhD was. “I knew I wanted to become a psychologist, but I had no idea how that would happen,” he says. “I figured I’d go to school, major in Liberal Arts, and the cards would fall into place.”