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CREST Annual Retreat
2025-10-20 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Center for Workers Education, Broadway, New York, New York

CREST HOLIDAY PARTY
2025-12-09 16:00 - 19:00 | Shepard 250, CCNY, 259 Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031, United States

Entrepreneurship Speaker Series by TiE New Jersey and CUNY CREST | Session 1: How People Actually Start a Company
2026-03-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Exhibit Room, Steinman Hall at Grove School of Engineering, 259 Convent Avenue, New York, United States
We’re excited to announce Session 1 of the Entrepreneurship Speaker Series by TiE New Jersey & CUNY CREST. This is the first in a series of six-monthly seminars beginning this semester & concluding in the Fall. Learn more about the whole series here.

Topic: How People Actually Start a Company

Speaker: Dr. Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Strategic Advisor, Mentor, Entrepreneur, Thought Leader, Author

Event Details:
Date & Time: March 19, 2026 | 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: Exhibit Room, GSOE at City College/ Zoom Link
Schedule: 12pm- Networking & Pizza, 12:30 pm- Speaker Presentation, 1:30 pm- Networking Continues

What to Expect:
You’ll learn how founders gain momentum, overcome uncertainty, validate ideas, and discover that mindset is the first startup asset. Open to all CUNY students and faculty. Read the flyer here for details. Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and be inspired. Please share with colleagues, students, or anyone who could benefit from this event. We look forward to seeing you there!

Video Recording of the Seminar:
Recording Link | Passcode: [REDACTED]

Entrepreneurship Seminar Series by CREST & TiE New Jersey Session 2: Design Thinking-Building For Your User
2026-04-16 12:00 - 14:00 | 6-105 NAC, CCNY
Session 2 of the Entrepreneurship Seminar Series by CUNY CREST and TiE New Jersey. This is a series of six monthly seminars beginning this semester and concluding in the Fall.

Topic: Design Thinking-Building for Your User
Speaker: Ami Rao Elisman, Founder at Morro: Behavioral Design & Designing for Adoption

Event Details:
Date & Time: April 16, 2026 | 12:00-2:00 PM
Location: North Academic Center (NAC) 6-105 at CCNY | Zoom Link

What to Expect:
You’ll learn how to understand your users and uncover their needs, move past assumptions to define the right problem, and choose and test solutions that genuinely serve your audience.

Read the flyer here for details.

Seminar on Microbial Resource Management in Engineered and Natural Ecosystems
2026-04-29 12:00 - 13:00 | T 105 at Steinman Hall in the Grove School of Engineering (CCNY), 275 Convent Ave, New York, NY, 10031, United States
The CUNY CREST Institute and the Civil Engineering Department at the City College of New York invite you to an upcoming seminar on Microbial Resource Management in Engineered and Natural Ecosystems.
Speaker: Dr. Ramesh Goel, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Utah
Date & Time: April 29, 2026 | 12:00-1:00 PM
Location: ST-105, Grove School of Engineering, CCNY/ Zoom link
This seminar will explore microbial resource management (MRM) as an integrative framework linking microbial community structure to ecosystem function in both engineered and natural systems. Topics include advances in wastewater treatment, genomic and computational tools for microbial analysis, and insights into microbial diversity and reactor optimization.
Dr. Goel’s research focuses on environmental microbiology, wastewater treatment processes, microbial community dynamics, and computational bioinformatics. He has published extensively in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Research, and his work is supported by NSF, USEPA, and other major agencies.
Flyer for details.

BATWorks Tour at the Brooklyn Army Terminal
2026-04-30 11:00 - 14:30 | BATWorks Temporary Space 102 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220, BATWorks Temporary Space 102 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11220, United States
Join us for a visit to BATWorks at the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) on Thursday, April 30th from 11:00 am to approximately 1:30–2:30 pm. This event will provide students, faculty, and staff from CUNY CREST, City Tech, and anyone else from CUNY an opportunity to tour the BATWorks temporary facility and learn more about the vision for the future site.
BATWorks is a climate innovation hub and incubator based at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, supporting startups, workforce development, and applied research in sustainable and clean technologies through a partnership between CUNY, NYU, and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI).
Participants will gain insight into emerging workforce development and entrepreneurship programs in climate technology developed through this collaboration. If you are interested in exploring opportunities in climate innovation, applied research, and career pathways in this growing sector, we encourage you to register by April 27th.
Lunch will be provided | Limited Capacity
For more information, contact: Hamid Norouzi at HNorouzi@CityTech.Cuny.Edu
Registration Link: https://shorturl.at/aB3OI
Address: BATWorks Temporary Space 102 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Thursday, April 30th from 11:00 am to approximately 1:30-2:30 pm
BATWorks Tour Flyer

Virtual Seminar: Building a Resilient Australian Great Barrier Reef
2026-04-30 12:15 - 13:30
What does it take to build resilience in one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems?
Join the upcoming virtual seminar, Building a Resilient Australian Great Barrier Reef, featuring leading voices in reef science and resilience practice. We are honored to welcome Fred Nucifora, General Manager for Major Projects at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), as our featured speaker.
Organized by the CUNY CREST International Collaboration Pillar led by Juan Mercado, Neal Phillip, Ph. D., Paramita Sen, and Nir Krakauer, this session will highlight current research and management efforts supporting the long-term health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef, with a focus on climate adaptation, ecosystem monitoring, and global collaboration.
📍April 30, 2026 | 12:15-1:30 PM EDT | Zoom: https://shorturl.at/xIcce
🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eTTsFe_y
We look forward to your participation!

Science Talk by CREST Faculty Affiliate Dr. Linda Y. Tseng
2026-06-10 10:00
We are pleased to invite you to the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH’s) upcoming Science Talk on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, from 10:00–11:00 AM EST.

CREST Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Linda Y. Tseng, Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, will deliver the talk on Using Radiocarbon Analysis to Understand Fossil Carbon in Water Recovery Processes: Implications of Fossil Carbon for IPCC Greenhouse Gas Methodologies. She will discuss how radiocarbon analysis has revealed fossil carbon in wastewater systems and how this finding is reshaping greenhouse gas accounting frameworks, including updates to IPCC guidelines.

Please register here to join the session. Meeting details will be shared with all registered participants upon registration.

Talk on AI, Sustainable Development, and the Future by Tshilidzi Marwala
2026-06-23 11:30 - 12:30 | Exhibit Room, Steinman Hall at Grove School of Engineering, 259 Convent Avenue, New York, United States
You are invited to an upcoming talk on Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, and the Future by Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Event Details:
Date: June 23, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Location: Exhibit Room at GSOE in The City College of New York/Zoom Link
This talk will explore how artificial intelligence is shaping sustainable development across critical areas such as climate, health, education, and resilient cities. It will also examine AI’s role in accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while addressing the risks and challenges of its unchecked use. The session will further highlight the United Nations’ role in promoting responsible and inclusive AI governance.

Read the Flyer for details:
_Seminar Flyer (June 23)
