Announcing the CUNY Winners of 2024 Google Cybersecurity Grants
Eleven professors from nine campuses win support for groundbreaking studies in AI, data analysis, and network security.
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New Nursing Chair Emerson Ea Welcomed at City Tech
As the Fall 2024 semester got underway, City Tech welcomed Dr. Emerson Ea as the chair of its Nursing Department. Ea has over 20 years of experience in education serving in roles ranging from clinical and classroom instructor, to administrator. As an academic leader, he has initiated and led faculty development, mentorship, and interdisciplinary programs that … Read more
South Asians could have outsize influence in Ga., Mich. and Pa.
There are close to 400,000 eligible voters of Indian, Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi, Nepalese and Bhutanese descent in the 10 most hotly contested swing states. In some of them, the South Asian electorate is now larger than the margin of victory in the last presidential election.
More Selective Colleges Report Diversity Dip
The University of Pennsylvania, along with Middlebury, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, all reported a drop in the share of students of color in their first-year classes this fall, according to newly released institutional data. They’re the most recent highly selective colleges to release demographic data for the Class of 2028, the first class admitted after … Read more
An Early Look at Diversity Post–Affirmative Action
Colleges are slowly releasing demographic data for the Class of 2028, giving a glimpse of the Supreme Court ruling’s impact on racial diversity. The results are decidedly mixed.
Assistant Professor Zeda Li Wins National Science Foundation Grant
Zeda Li, a Baruch College assistant professor at the Zicklin School of Business’s Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics, has won a National Science Foundation grant for his project entitled, “Covariate-Assisted Analysis of Spectral Matrices with Applications to Physiological Signal.”