To advance these aspirations, AP Blake announced the inauguration of City Tech's Research Council and described some of its objectives: to coordinate research support activities under one umbrella; to change the landscape and culture of research at City Tech while retaining focus on the robust involvement of our students; to facilitate growth in funding, encourage proposal submissions, support proposal excellence, and coordinate with overall institutional goals; to encourage a pipeline of ideas and abstracts so proposals are in the pipeline when solicitations come available; to conduct a survey of needs and ideas from the college community; to foreground, highlight and celebrate scholarly activities and accomplishments; to garner and encourage student participation; to act as a single institution in surfacing and encouraging priority research efforts; to explore how to better support research and creative activity; and to disseminate and create opportunities to present and discuss with colleagues, such as a newsletter, expanded web presence, roundtable, and other venues for the exchange of ideas and for collaboration.

In the past two years, the Research Council organized a series of grant-writing workshops, developed an expanded draft website, initiated the Community Roundtable for exchange of ideas and feedback, begun a department liaison initiative, and inaugurated an annual publication and expanded annual celebration of scholarship on campus. Moreover, under the auspices of the Research Council, City Tech established an MOU with the Brookhaven National Laboratory and has begun to work on a new MOU with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. An alliance with the National Center for Atmospheric Research was formed, and a stronger (more binding) partnership with CUNY's Advanced Science Research Center was initiated.

Research Council Members – 2024-2025