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The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, along with four partner institutions, has received a $1.325 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for talent and workforce development, and research training, as part of a collaborative project to prevent infections in tissue-engineered organs, implants, and other medical devices. The study, “Collaborative Research: GCR: Infection-Resisting Resorbable Scaffolds for Engineering Human Tissue,” is being carried out by cross-disciplinary partners at Stevens Institute of Technology (the lead institution), Syracuse

Jie Wei, professor of computer science at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a $299,000 grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research to improve situational assessment and awareness (SAAW), which is critical to military operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) applications. The three-year project, in collaboration with Professor Haibin Ling of SUNY Stony Brook’s Department of Computer Sci-ence, is entitled “Efficient, Robust and Explainable Situational Assessment and Awareness AI/ML System Using Multi-Modal Sensing and Deep Learning

A three-member team from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering emerged US-Canada region winners in New York University’s global CSAW ’22 AI vs. Humans Challenge at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. The Grove team comprised electrical engineering (EE) PhD candidate Vedika Saravanan, EE PhD student Mohammad Walid Charrwi; and computer engineering graduate student Facundo Aguirre. Samah M. Saeed, assistant professor, electrical engineering, was the faculty advisor. Making its debut in the CSAW games, CCNY was nominated to the final phase where it competed against the

Ewelina A. Randall, a senior in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of an internationally contested undergraduate award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The honor is presented to top junior or senior undergraduate students globally in recognition of outstanding research in the area of spectroscopy. Randall, a Polish-born mechanical engineering major residing in Brooklyn, was nominated for the award by her research advisor Dr. Daniel Heller at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “This is for my work in the construction of hyperspectral

The City College of New York Grove School of Engineering today released a new report which examined advanced recycling. The report concluded that advanced recycling helps avoid climate impacts, reduces demand for energy resources, and offers key tools for expanding the circular economy. The report was authored by Dr. Marco J. Castaldi, professor of chemical engineering and director of CCNY’s Earth Engineering Center (EEC), and EEC research associate Lauren Creadore. The authors examined 13 recently completed life cycle assessments (LCAs) and found that advanced recycling can transform hard-to

The City College of New York-based CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute (CUNY CREST) and Bronx Community College (BCC) are set for myriad collaborations with Indian academic institutions around STEM, remote sensing, climate change-related issues, sustainability, and related fields after signing a unique partnership. City College President Vincent Boudreau and his BCC counterpart Thomas A. Isekenegbe inked an agreement establishing the India Initiative of Research and Education Collaborations of the CUNY CREST Institute (IICCCI). New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a Proclamation

The City College of New York jumped in several categories today following the release of the U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023 Best Colleges rankings. CCNY is a top performer in social mobility (#12) and top public schools (#72) with an overall #151 ranking out of 443 national universities. The following is a list of CCNY’s rankings: #12 in Social Mobility - National Universities #72 Top Public Schools - National Universities (tie) #104 Best Undergraduate Engineering - Doctorate (tie) #151 overall in National Universities (tie) #158 Best Undergraduate Computer Science In addition, the college

Rosario Gennaro, professor of computer science in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of a five-year $850,000 grant to further CCNY’s contributions to the advancement of blockchain systems. The funding is part of a five-year, $5.75 million grant by the Algorand Foundation to a Yale University-led consortium. The Foundation is the charitable arm of blockchain company Algorand, founded in 2017 by Silvio Micali of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The main focus of the CCNY grant, which is eligible for renewal at the end of the five-year period

Dr. Kaveh Madani, the renowned environmental scientist and Research Professor at The City College of New York-based CUNY Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST), is the next leader of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). His appointment was announced by the UN. Madani will assume the position of UNU-INWEH Director early next year and will maintain his CUNY CREST affiliation in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering. Known as the UN’s water think tank or water university, UNU-INWEH is the United Nations’ academic arm that focuses on

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The City College of New York, is the 2021-2022 recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year Award. Agrawal is recognized for his character, professional integrity, contribution to academia and years of outstanding service to ASCE and the civil engineering profession. He is also the recipient of 2019 Richard R. Torrens Award for outstanding performance as editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, one of ASCE’s 35 journals, and won the 2020 Arthur M