Milton Santiago (Interim President) has been named to this year’s power players list, honored by PoliticsNY and amNY for his dedication to higher education, championing student-centered college governance and advancing…
Samaneh Gholitabar Receives NASA and NYC Health Dept Awards
Samaneh Gholitabar (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) has received a NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) MPLAN25 Award, a $50,000 grant for “Microgravity Simulation for Lunar In-Situ…
Gaffar Gailan Featured for Prosthetics and Additive Manufacturing Work
Gaffar Gailan (Mechanical Engineering Technology) was featured in the most recent issue of CUNY Research in Focus in an article for his work with City Tech’s Center of Medical Devices…
Ashari Edwards Joins City Tech as Wellness Center Director
Ashari Edwards, a licensed mental health counselor, joined City Tech this spring as the Director of the Student Wellness and Counseling Center. Read this Staff Spotlight interview to learn about…
Dorogan and Radivojevic Jovanovic Win $800K NSF Grant for Quantum Tech
Vitaliy Dorogan (Physics) and Ivana Radivojevic Jovanovic (Chemistry) in partnership with Wenli Guo (Physics, Queensborough Community College) have been awarded a three-year $800,000 National Science Foundation Experiential Learning for Emerging…
Christopher Blair Reveals Multiple Lizard Lineages in New Study
Christopher Blair (Biological Sciences) led a new study of the greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus). The findings, published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, reveal that what was once thought to…
Ashwani Bedi Promoted to Assistant Commissioner at NYC DDC
Ashwani Bedi (Architecture) has been promoted to assistant commissioner of engineering at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC). In his new role, Professor Bedi will ensure…
Illya Azaroff Speaks to CBS News on Regenerative Architecture
Illya Azaroff (Architecture), 2025 President-elect of The American Institute of Architecture (AIA), spoke to CBS News about building and restoring communities through regenerative designs and the role the AIA plays….
Amanda Almond Publishes on Anti-Racist Behaviors in Medicine
Amanda Almond (Social Sciences), has published an article in Springer Nature’s journal Current Psychology. “The transtheoretical model of change to promote anti-racist behaviors in medical settings,” proposes the application of…
Laura Westengard Receives $40,000 for LGBTQIA+ Programming
Laura Westengard (English), chair of the LGBTQIA+ Collective, has received funding for the fourth time to support programming and initiatives on campus during the 2025-2026 academic year, including the LGBTQIA+…

