A Blog from the Urban Sustainability Graduate Programs at The City College of New York (CUNY)
Our fourth Decarbonize CCNY Town Hall featuring Public Power NY, PSC CUNY, NYPIRG, TREEage, Sustainable CCNY, and Ramboll took place in October of 2025. Here you can find two videos–one brief overview of the event and organizations and the full event recording. Learn more about Sustainability efforts on the CCNY campus and in our City!
This Fall, CCNY Sustainability spent a lot of time hosting, attending, and presenting at events for ClimateWeekNYC. Monday of Climate Week, September 22nd, CCNY SUS commemorated 15 years of the Master of Science Program with an Alumni Panel at the CUNY @ Amazon space in Midtown, Manhattan. The recording below begins with Program Director Kyle McDonald. The panel is moderated by Alex Diaz-Casos, a recent graduate of the Sustainability Program. Panelists (left to right) include Program Alumni Marian Shirley Chen, Michael Fera, Chelsea Encababian, and Varsha Halarnkar. On Thursday of Climate Week, CCNY Sustainability participated in two events. The first, …
At CCNY, research and scholarship advance every day on issues of crucial importance to people throughout New York City and across the world. In this series hosted by City College President Vincent Boudreau, meet faculty, hear firsthand about their research and, in conversation with outside experts, discover how that research is forging new solutions to real-world issues like poverty, homelessness, mental health challenges, affordable housing and disparities in health care. -Description via From City to the World’s Website. Recent episodes have featured just some of the exciting sustainability work and research happening on our CCNY campus. See details and embedded podcast …
Here is a short recap video on capstones presentations by Jason Redman in the Division of Science: Here are all of the presentations: Three capstone research teams gave their final presentations. First is Waste-to-Wings: An Approach to Wastewater in NYC for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production. Second (at 36 minutes) is Harlem Community Energy: Toward Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings and Virtual Power Plants. Third (at 1 hour & 18 minutes) is Assessing Climate Resilience of NYC’s Living Shorelines: Ecosystem, Infrastructure, and Community-Based Assessment Approach. For the link to the Mid-Year presentations, please e-mail [email protected]
33 Sustainability Graduates–our largest cohort of grads! View the Graduate Convocation here: View Main Commencement here:
Taking a moment to celebrate our graduates! View the full Main Commencement at this link on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw07xEpVDwQ&t=1s
Four final capstone presentations. First is Retrofitting Subdivisions for Sustainability: An Example from Latin America. Second (at 29 minutes) is Comparing Carbon Emissions in Residential Buildings: Embodied Versus Operational Emissions. Third (at 58 minutes) is Climate Justice and Urban Resilience in NYC. Fourth (at an hour and 26 minutes) is Reducing Human Health Risk and Exposure to Wastewater Spills in Coastal Environments: Analyzing Water Quality and Inundation Using Remote Sensing Tools in the Tijuana River
Find the embedded videos here for our final capstone project presentations from last Spring. The first presentation starts at 10 minutes in and below is the order indicating when each presentation begins. Presentation order: Decarbonizing CCNY (at 10 minutes) Supporting Disaster Assessment and Infrastructure Recovery in Ukraine (at 53 minutes) Impact of Construction Materials on the Success of Resiliency Plans (at 1 hour and 41 minutes)
See embedded videos of the final presentations here!
The Division of Science Student Council convened a panel of students with research and/or work experience to discuss how they got their opportunities and how they made the most of them.
