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Prof. Robert Messinger, CCNY chemical engineer

Hunter-CCNY space energy partnership with NASA JPL receives $5M NASA funding

Home of a unique NASA center to develop batteries for deep space missions, The City College of New York is the beneficiary of a $5 million cooperative agreement from the agency awarded to Hunter College for advanced research on storing energy for use in space. Robert J. Messinger, associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies, in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is PI of The City College subcontract. CCNY will receive $1.5M of NASA funding over five years. Messinger is also the PI and founding director of the NASA-CCNY Center for Advanced Batteries for Space (CABS), a separate $5
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CCNY's 2024 Gilman Scholars [from left]: Amber Raine McCandless, Deborah Cobourne and Marlyn Santos-De La Rosa.

CCNY trio earns Gilman Scholarships for study abroad

Three City College of New York undergraduates are headed to Asia and South America on Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. Seniors Deborah Cobourne and Marlyn Santos-De La Rosa, and sophomore Amber Raine McCandless are recipients of the competitive national scholarships that provide support for overseas travel and research. Cobourne, who is a psychology major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, will spend the 2024-2025 academic year in South Korea studying sociology. The Brooklyn resident’s other honors at CCNY include the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship from
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Asala Ahmad, CCNY senior, biomedical engineering, and member of the AutoTENS venture in the Standard Chartered Women+Tech track.

Innovative student ventures sweep $80K in prizes during CCNY’s Zahn Center Demo Week

Eight student-led City College of New York and CUNY startup ventures won $80,000 in prizes during the Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Women in Tech Incubator Competition. The Zahn Center’s 2024 Demo Week provided 14 finalists the opportunity to pitch to panels of expert judges and compete for prizes to continue the development of their startups. Demo Week was the culmination of a semester-long extra-curricular incubator program, serving more than 55 CCNY and CUNY undergraduate and graduate students as well as community colleagues. The event also marked the 10th anniversary of the
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Vivian Gornick Commencement 2024

Vivian Gornick ’57 is CCNY commencement speaker

Journalist, essayist, critic and memoirist Vivian Gornick ’57 is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 171 st Commencement ceremony on May 31. She will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. Gornick has achieved renown and has garnered many accolades for her work since she graduated from CCNY. A prominent feminist, she has written 11 books, including 1987’s Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, which was selected in 2019 as The New York Times’ Best #1 Memoir of the Past 50 Years. The book was widely acclaimed for its emotional honesty and vivid portrayal of
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Jillian Springer CCNY BIC 4As MAIP 2024

CCNY’s BIC master’s student Jillian Springer joins 2024 MAIP fellowship program

Jillian Springer, a master’s student in the Branding and Communications Program (BIC) at The City College of New York, was chosen by the 4A's / American Association of Advertising Agencies Foundation to take part in the highly selective 2024 Multicultural Advertising Internship Program (MAIP). Springer, who graduates in 2025, joins Pereira O'Dell (POD) as a design intern. POD is a New York-based independent creative agency founded by past BIC Lecturer P.J. Pereira. At POD, Springer will have the opportunity to work on accounts such as IHOP, Zelle, Adobe, as well as several brands under the
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CCNY Dr. Srinam Ganeshan Feliks Gross Award Winner 2024

CCNY Professor Sriram Ganeshan is Feliks Gross awardee for Oustanding Research

Dr. Sriram Ganeshan, assistant professor of physics in The City College of New York’s Division of Science is a recipient of the Feliks Gross Award for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors in the City University of New York (CUNY). Each awardee will present their research in a talk alongside other awardees, as part of the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series, when the award will also be officially conferred. This will take place during the upcoming academic year 2024-25. The award is accompanied by a small stipend that will be transferred to CCNY to be distributed to Ganeshan
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CCNY's CWE student Lucero Saavedra Huerta is a Women’s Forum Education Fund Scholar.

CCNY’s CWE student Lucero Saavedra Huerta is a Women’s Forum Education Fund Scholar

Lucero Saavedra Huerta, a City College of New York student in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, is a recipient of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award. The Women’s Forum of New York created the award in 1987 to recognize and support women over the age of 35 who have overcome extreme adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grant helps Huerta pay for her classes, expenses and course books, which helped relieve her stress and focus on classes. She’s an early childhood education major and will graduate in the fall of 2024. She
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CCNY among top 2% schools globally, according to 2024 CWUR rankings

The City College of New York maintains its lofty position among the top 2% out of 20,966 universities worldwide. This is according to the 2024 edition of the outcome-based Global 2000 list published today by the Center for World University Rankings. The City College is #412 among the 20,966 degree-granting institutions of higher education analyzed by CWUR, #112 in the United States and #127 regionally (USA and Canada). Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, in that order, occupy the first three places on the rankings. CCNY’s other placings on the
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Surowitz and Teclaw

Colin Powell School receives major gift to support new program in neuroscience

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has established the Eugene J. Surowitz and Helen M. Teclaw Program in Neuroscience, made possible with a generous gift from Eugene J. Surowitz ‘68. This major long-term research and training initiative aims to understand the basic structure and function of the brain by focusing on the interconnectedness within it and the abstract functions of the mind. The advancement of new knowledge and understanding in this research field portends implications for a range of disciplines from analytic intelligence to
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2024 Salk Scholars: from left - Jalen Crespo, Fabliha Hussain & Ekene Onwubiko

CCNY trio wins 2024 Salk Scholarships for med school

Jalen Crespo, Fabliha Hussain and Ekene Onwubiko, recent graduates of The City College of New York, are recipients of Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by the City University of New York. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, Crespo, Hussain and Onwubiko will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be allocated over three or four years of medical studies. Following are brief bios of The City College’s three Scholars: Jalen Crespo From CCNY’s Class of 2022, Crespo graduated magna cum laude with a BS in biology
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