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CUNY Helps To Rebuild Haiti  There are about 6,000 students of Haitian descent attending CUNY colleges, so when an earthquake rocked the island in January, the crisis hit close to home. Citizenship Now! a project founded 13 years ago by Baruch professor Allan Wernick, ... >>

Women Scientists Break Boundaries When Lesley Davenport examines the structures in DNA at the ends of chromosomes, she sees a weapon against cancer. In the toxic venom of marine organisms, Mande Holford sees future disease-fighting drugs. Both women are among many who are b... >>

Brooklyn Grads Give Generously Brooklyn College was the place where Leonard and Claire Tow met in the 1950s and after a prosperous life in business, the couple now has an enduring legacy at the college. Through their Tow Foundation, they offered the college a $10 million... >>

CUNY Peace Officers Save Lives, Keep Colleges Safe Last summer when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building across the street from City College's Bakerville Hall, Campus Police Officers Orlando Quinones, Desiree Joyner, Jacqueline Delarosa and Sgt. Celisha Copeland rushed in to b... >>

Academic Commons Provides Facebook for Faculty The University’s new Academic Commons website is a social networking tool that’s offering faculty, administrators and graduate students another approach to solve problems, collaborate on projects and advance scholarship. It includes blogs, ... >>

Textbook Example Helps Students The cost of textbooks – which runs between $700 and $1,000 – is especially hard for CUNY students where 38 percent come from families with household incomes of less than $20,000. A $2 million textbook initiative launched earlier this year ... >>

CUNY, London Study Obesity A report on childhood obesity conducted by the University with London Metropolitan University is different than others because it doesn't simply identify the causes and possible solutions but calls on cities to take part in the effort to re... >>

MFA Writing Programs Booming MFA creative writing programs at CUNY are getting more applications than ever, despite the cutbacks in the publishing industry. The University has MFA programs in creative writing at Hunter, City, Brookyn and Queens colleges. Although jobs ... >>

"Craft" Class Provides Surprises Craft writing classes that are part of CUNY's four MFA programs allow students to read their work for critiques and also study the work of established, published writers. "This is a class in poetic closure," Kimiko Hahn, an award-winning po... >>

For Teachers, It's a Joyful Balance What do writing teachers at CUNY look for in students? Tom Sleigh, Hunter's senior poet and program director of the MFA program in creative writing, says he seeks students who want to write for the sake of it, not because it will bring the... >>

Success Started on a Doorstep  Arlie Petters has a successful career in mathematical physics that has led to an endowed chair at Duke University and a triple appointment in the math and physics departments. He has also devoted himself to improving educational opportunit... >>

AIA Guide Balances the Old, New Fran Leadon and his City College architecture students photographed over 6,000 buildings over the course of a year that will go into the fifth edition of the AIA Guide to New York City. The guide, which began as a publication for architects... >>

A Music Fan Finds His Muse As a kid, Gary Giddins listened to the music of his generation - mostly popular artists like Little Richard, Jackie Wilson and Chuck Berry. But at 15, he took a trip to New Orleans where he found the music of his life - jazz. For 30 year... >>

Private, Public Money Propels Research Brooklyn College, City Tech, The College of Staten Island, York College and Hunter are just a few of the colleges and professional schools that received money last year from government agencies, prominent corporations and foundations. The m... >>

Documenting the Odyssey Focusing on one ethnic group's U.S. climb from persecution to prominence, a film by two more-recent immigrants reveals struggles and paradoxes of newcomers everywhere. Suma Kurien and her director husband Gianfranco Norelli, wanted to make ... >>

Mapping Center Helps Census Count Census takers in New York City have a daunting job. Neighborhoods crowded with multi-family houses and apartment buildings can make it had to count every resident. To help with the task, The University's Mapping Service at the Center fo... >>

John Jay Student Interns at White House Many college juniors dream of spending a semester abroad, but for Crystal Ferguson, Washington D.C. was a better fit. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice student snagged an internship at the White House's Office of Presidential Corresp... >>

The University's Winning Graduates A Colin Powell Fellowship winner who wants to help solve national and world issues. A National Science Foundation Research Fellow who develops "intelligent" robots. A Fulbright Fellowship recipient researching women entrepreneurs in Bahrain... >>

Recognizing Faculty Achievement The University's renowned faculty win awards for their scholarly research as well as grants that enable them to pursue studies or teach at specialized institutes abroad. Millions of dollars in funding from government agencies, foundations a... >>

Streamlining Students' Paths With 2010 fall enrollment expected to climb to nearly 267,000 -- a 3 percent increase from last fall -- the University is taking forceful new steps to maintain rigorous academic standards and enhance CUNY's historic mission at a time of unp... >>

Mets Count on Him for Top Players Hunter College instructor Benjamin Baumer is also a player in an emerging field that uses statistical methods to give a fuller picture of ball players' skills and performance. "It's actually two jobs," he says of his Mets position as team s... >>

The Bard Scores on Broadway Broadway's affinity for Shakespeare is richly explored by Hunter College professor emerita Irene Dash in her new book, Shakespeare and the American Musical (Indiana University Press), which focuses on five musicals based on his plays that p... >>

Giant Leaps for the Home Team Arrangements with professional and semi-pro sports venues, including the National Tennis Center and Icahn Stadium, have at long last transported University teams from bleak sandlots to fields of dreams -- attracting better players and more ... >>

Milestones To Medical School Sherine Crawford's dream is to go to medical school. The Medgar Evers College senior hatched the plan years ago after watching her younger sister struggle with a congenital heart defect. "Shauna couldn't play and run around like other chil... >>

The Race for a Better Battery At the CUNY Energy Institute, scientists from around the University are working to develop a generation of 21st-century super batteries - powerful packages of electrochemical energy that could help reduce the nation's dependence on foreign ... >>