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September 25, 2018

Does the Purple Mattress Live Up to the Hype? Investigation Puts It to the Test

Professor Ali Sadegh, of CCNY's Grove School of Engineering, was alongside supervising Inside Edition’s Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero in the college's Wingate Fitness Center as she tried to see if the human egg drop test really worked on the Purple Mattress.
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September 05, 2018

What Was Lost in Brazil’s Devastating Museum Fire

CCNY associate professor of biology Ana Carnaval comments on two hundred years of work—and millions of priceless specimens—destroyed in a preventable tragedy.
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September 04, 2018

'Cursed' Spanish Novel Published After 400 Years

WBUR report quotes Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Distinguished Professor at CCNY, who specializes in colonial letters from the Andean region and Mexico.
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August 29, 2018

Suburbs See Apartment-Building Boom

CCNY architecture professor June Williamson comments on apartment construction boom in article published by "Governing."
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August 29, 2018

Plastics’ Effect on Waste: The Answer Might Surprise You

Sustainable Brands Issue in Focus piece quotes from research by CCNY's chemical engineers on historic drivers of municipal solid waste and links to the materials that make up the waste.
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August 29, 2018

Editorial: The flip side to America's (and Alabama's) upbeat job news

Anniston Star editorial on state of U.S. economy quotes Colin Powell School professor Rajan Menon.
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August 28, 2018

Genoa bridge collapse: search for bodies underway as Italy seeks answers

CNN quotes CCNY civil engineer Anil Agrawal on Genoa bridge collapse in Italy.
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August 14, 2018

Nueva York en el centro creativo de la bachata

Jerry W. Carlson, chair of the Department of Media & Communication Arts, and Ramona Hernandez, director of CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, were quoted in El Diario about bachata in New York.
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August 13, 2018

New chief judge named for U.S. District Court

CCNY alumnus Juan R. Sanchez '78 becomes the first Latino to lead the Eastern District of Pennsylvania federal court in its 229-year history.
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August 13, 2018

‘I feel their pain’

CCNY Alumnus and Holocaust survivor Andy Holten is profiled in the Albuquerque Journal.
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