Awards & Honors

With the support of a CUNY Climate Crisis Research Grant, Spitzer’s Professor Mohammad Bolhassani and Moni Chauhan of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College are developing their idea for a zero-carbon, 3D-printable “soil cement” that could drastically reduce CO2 emissions and, they hope, revolutionize the construction industry. “Forty percent of global energy consumption and

Spitzer students Jeffrey Gyemibi and Florence Methot have been awarded the AIANY Center for Architecture’s Eleanor Allwork Scholarship Merit Award and Design Scholarship, respectively. The Women’s Architectural Auxiliary Eleanor Allwork Scholarship was established in the early 1980s by architect and former AIA member Ronald Allwork. Both scholarships recognize students seeking their first degree in architecture from a

Three students from the class of 2020 have been selected to receive scholarship and mentorship benefits from WX Women Executives in Real Estate: Genesis Baque (B Arch), Pauline Dang, and Kari Kleinmann (both M Arch). Two other graduating B Arch students, Isabella Joseph and Alejandra Zapata, are recognized as scholars of merit and are eligible

We are pleased to announce that Professor Mohammad Bolhassani’s proposal to the CUNY Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant (ICCRG) Program, entitled “Employing a new construction material and technique to reduce the global CO2 emission,” has been selected for funding. The award amount is $15,000 in Tax Levy funds. Professor Bolhassani, with the help of Professor