Non-AAARI News

In a recent study, researchers interviewed Asian American parents to determine how ideas about diversity and racial attitudes influence their choice of schools. They found that participants favored schools with greater numbers of Asian American students, citing beliefs consistent with the model minority myth, suggesting that Asian students have stronger educational values and a stronger … Read more

CUNY SPH is delighted to announce that Professor Ghada Soliman has been appointed interim associate dean for faculty affairs, effective January 27, 2025.

The City College of New York has received a $490,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a new project at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, “SUSTAIN-NYC: Storytelling for Urban Sustainability and Transformation in New York City.”

Naresh Devineni, professor of civil engineering at The City College of New York and a water systems and hydroclimate expert, is the recipient of a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a holistic research and training program for its RENEW (Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce) initiative. The outcome will … Read more

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil Engineering at The City College of New York is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 2025 Moisseiff Award. The honor is for his paper “Reliability-Based Framework for Structural Robustness Evaluation of Bridges,” published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, April 2024.

The Representing and Empowering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Community History (REACH) Coalition and its member organizations are excited to announce the reintroduction of legislation seeking to establish a curriculum uplifting AANHPI history and civic impact in the New York State Legislature. Senate Bill 3334 and its companion Assembly Bill 4638, sponsored … Read more