City University of New York News

Near the boeing Building, center, a Chicago Transit Authority elevated train moves on the Lake Street double-decked, double-leaf trunnion bascule bridge over the Chicago River April 3, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music today, May 19, 2013 at 1pm.

A lawyer for a Guantánamo Bay prisoner is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release photos of wounds the man suffered when struck with non-lethal rounds at a recent clash with guards at the prison.

"All movements go too far." Few writers are more quotable than Bertrand Russell, in or out of context, and few have a more colorful background.

THE CITY'S newest class of firefighters is also its most diverse in history - comprising 40% minorities plus the son of a 9/11 hero.

Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and City University of New York have invented a proprietary new formulation called VisikolTM that effectively clears organisms to be viewed under microscopes.

Cops busted a sicko who raped a woman in an alleyway near Brooklyn College, police sources said Thursday night.

You sit here today, $30,000 or $40,000 in debt, as the latest victims of what may well be the biggest conspiracy in U.S. history.

Susan Billy moved from Berkeley into her grandmother's house, the one her grandfather built at the turn of the century on the Hopland Rancheria in 1973.

Hofstadter's Butterfly, a complex pattern of the energy states of electrons that resembles a butterfly, has appeared in physics textbooks as a theoretical concept of quantum mechanics for nearly 40 years but had never been directly observed - until now.

Tenor Benjamin Robinson is among the guest soloists joining Richmond Choral Society for "Divine Light." "DIVINE LIGHT" Richmond Choral Society under the baton of Marina Alexandar STATEN ISLAND, NY - People shopping for transcendence and spiritual refreshment can look to churches and temples, 12-step sessions and yoga classes.

A discovery of the oldest known fossils from two major primate groups fills in a 10-million-year gap in the record and reveals new information about evolution Two new Oligocene primates found in Tanzania, Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus gunnelli , are shown here in an artist's reconstruction.

Dr. Bebop says his new theme song these days is "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," but the truth is he's doing fine.

The number of people who applied last week for new unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in a month and a half, indicating the U.S. labor market is still not healing fast enough to rapidly bring down the nation's jobless rate.

Two U.S. mayors who are all too familiar with the toll of gun violence on city streets - Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter - found a venue to voice their frustration here Wednesday.

Animal-rights activist Bill Crain is led away by a State Trooper after his arrest Dec.

What it's about: Debut novel, set in rural Mississippi, about a young black man whose family has been ruined in the Great Flood of 1927 and is seeking his place in a violent and unjust world.

Riverdalians Dita Wolf and Alec Diacou, along with Mary Ellen Sullivan, chair of the College of Mount Saint Vincent's teacher education department, are in the midst of applying to open non-profit charter schools in the Bronx in fall 2014.

This is an artistic image illustration of a butterfly departing from a graphene moire pattern formed on the top of an atomically thin boron nitride substrate.

The United Nations must change with the times, the world peacekeeping group's former leader told a Yale University audience Thursday.