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PRWeek names the Branding + Integrated Communications Master of Professional Studies Program (BIC) among its finalists for Outstanding Education Program of the Year. The winner will receive their award at the 2024 PRWeek Awards on March 14. BIC is a 36-credit, portfolio-driven master's degree program that combines theory and practice in an interdisciplinary, multi-tracked curriculum that addresses the opportunities and needs of marketing communications industries on behalf of both private and not-for-profit organizations. Students can choose from four specialization tracks: management/planning

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, City College of New York’s award-winning chemical engineering professor, is a participant in a Lehigh University-led multi-institution project to develop a new class of molecules, chemistries, and chemical processes to better store and transport green energy across the globe. The effort is funded by a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The multidisciplinary team aims to improve current liquid organic hydrogen carriers and use AI to identify novel approaches that could lay the groundwork for a global renewable energy supply chain. Biddinger’s

T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Grove School of Engineering is listed among the nation’s finest in Money Magazine’s inaugural ranking of the best graduate school programs. The online publication partnered with College Factual to find the country’s top-value programs. With a focus on annual costs, typical debt burdens, employment rates and recent graduate salaries, they graded programs on a 5-star scale. The only public school of engineering in the New York metropolitan area, Grove School excels in the “ Best Engineering Master’s Programs for Your Money 2024” category. Money notes that “typical

Harlem’s first large-scale outdoor sculpture exhibition has added T��ɫ��Ƶ to its roster of sites when it opens in May 2024. Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be displayed in three uptown parks: Morningside, St. Nicholas and Jackie Robinson. The City College will contribute to the exhibition with a number of acquired sculptures the college owns along with works of art on its campus grounds, including the statue of College founder Townsend Harris, a bust of Abraham Lincoln in Shepard Hall’s Lincoln Corridor, and four of Fletcher Benton’s Folded Square Alphabet Letters. “City

T ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CiPASS) is the recipient of a $50,000 grant from Life Science Cares New York to support student programming. In collaboration with the Division of Science’s Biology Department, CiPASS will use the grant to create and deliver hands-on, project-based lab skills and training workshops to at least 40 City College students. CiPASS’s mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities studying STEM at CCNY by supporting them in their studies and providing resources and experiences to gain workplace skills

In a major stride toward revolutionizing indoor navigation, a City College of New York-led team has developed groundbreaking technology that could chart real-time paths, delivering users—both sighted and low vision—a seamless and accurate indoor navigation experience complete with turn-by-turn guidance. The invention has earned a U.S. patent titled "System and Method for Real-time Indoor Navigation." The innovation is the brainchild of the City College-based CUNY Computational Vision and Convergence Laboratory (CCVCL) headed by Zhigang Zhu, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at T��ɫ��Ƶ is partnering with the Hebrew Free Loan Society to provide interest-free emergency loans of up to $2,000 to currently-enrolled low and moderate-income students. This first of its kind partnership between HFLS and a college will supplement the Colin Powell School’s existing Student Emergency Fund , which was created to assist enrolled students unable to cover living expenses such as food, housing, and utilities. This Fund has been supported over the years by the generous support of the Viola Foundation, and

Sebastian Bush, assistant director of athletics for communications and sports information at T��ɫ��Ƶ, has been named to the 2023 College Sports Communicators 30 Under 30 Class. The recognition honors up-and-coming strategic, creative, and digital athletics communications professionals throughout CSC’s more than 4,100 membership across the United States and Canada. Candidates are selected based on achievement in one or more areas, such as professional success, impact on their athletic department/conference office, and service to CSC. “The CSC 30 Under 30 class of 2023 is an

The CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE) premieres its new video series, featuring school-wide projects produced by three elementary schools in New York state, on Tuesday, Dec. 5 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall on T��ɫ��Ƶ campus. “ Not Too Young: Immigration in Elementary Schools ” illustrates the ways in which schools can be responsive to their immigrant communities and prioritize immigrant students and families at their schools. The projects are: “ Welcoming New Students: A Guide for Teachers, Created by Students ” (PS212Q, Jackson Heights);

Physicists at T��ɫ��Ƶ have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research by Richard G. Monge and Tom Delord members of the Meriles Group in CCNY’s Division of Science, is entitled “Reversible optical data storage below the diffraction limit” and appears in the journal “ Nature Nanotechnology.” “It means that we can store many different images at the same place in the diamond by using a laser of a slightly different color to store different