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The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. [4]
S. Willis Rudy, College of the City of New York 1847–1947, 1949. James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City ...
Jerome Karle 1937 – Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1985 [1] Henry Kissinger 1923 (did not graduate) – winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1973. Arthur Kornberg 1937 – Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1959. Leon M. Lederman 1943 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1988. Arno Penzias 1954 – Nobel laureate in Physics, 1978.
Comprehensive colleges and universities. Berkeley College, Midtown Manhattan. Boricua College, Washington Heights and Williamsburg. Columbia University, Morningside Heights. Barnard College. Columbia Business School, Manhattanville. Columbia Climate School. Columbia College. Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
The 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team represented the City College of New York. The head coach was Nat Holman, who was one of the game's greatest innovators and playmakers. Unlike today, when colleges recruit players from all over the country, the 1949–50 CCNY team was composed of "kids from the sidewalks of New York City," who had ...
Arthur Kornberg, who graduated from the City College of New York, a senior college of CUNY, in 1937, was the first CUNY laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959. [7] Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , both of whom graduated from the City College in 1937 with Kornberg, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ...
The City University of New York (CUNY) system is the public university system of New York City. CUNY consists of 11 senior colleges, 7 community colleges, 1 honors college and 7 postgraduate institutions. As of 2018, CUNY is the United States' largest urban public university, with an enrollment of over 274,000 students. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
The Grove School of Engineering (GSoE) is the engineering school of the City College of New York (CCNY), a public university system in New York City and part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. It is one of the five schools of City College and CUNY's primary school of engineering. The GSoE is housed in the Steinman Hall, located ...