Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY student Sandy Kelley reflects on her experience celebrating Chinese New Year.
It has been a busy start to 2025 for Brooklyn College/CUNY Assistant Professor of Theater Patrick Sabongui, who has also been the head of the college’s B.F.A. Acting Program since September 2020. Sabongui is an accomplished actor, director, and producer who has acted in The Flash (CW), Homeland (Showtime), Shameless (Showtime), 300 (WB), and more … Read more