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Dan Wan, a student in The City College of New York’s civil engineering PhD program, is the winner of the University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year Award from the Region 2 University Transportation Research Center. Wan won for her thesis entitled: “Calibrating Safety Performance Functions for Intersections in New York City: Relaxing the Functions in Space.” Her paper rigorously analyzed intersection crashes in New York City by regressing local safety data at the jurisdiction level. “The safety performance functions developed in this study will serve as important

Alexandra (Sasha) Whittaker, an art history major in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a 2017-2018 Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Poland. She will spend nine months at Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań from this fall researching post-World War II Polish photography. Whittaker, who graduates from City College this June with a BA degree, will also take courses at the UAM Institute of Art History and study Polish. The Riverdale, Bronx, resident discovered her passion for art history, with a special interest in the history of photography

Gilda A. Barabino, Berg Professor and Dean of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of the 2017 Pierre Galletti Award presented by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. AIMBE’s highest individual honor, it recognizes a member’s contributions to public awareness of medical and biological engineering, and to the promotion of the national interest in science, engineering and education. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AIMBE is a non-profit organization representing 50,000 individuals and the top 2% of medical and biological engineers

A new City College of New York aid is making the inspection of laboratories easier. Recently copyrighted, The CUNY/CCNY Digital Lab Inspection Program is available to other CUNY colleges for use free of charge. “One practical feature of the DLIP is that it gives us the ability to organize data generated from our inspections into graphs and tables,” said Graciano Matos, Laboratory Hygiene Officer in City College’s Office of Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, who conceptualized the program. “We can do statistical analysis, measure outcomes, corrective action, observe trends, make

City College of New York biologist Sally G. Hoskins is the 2017 recipient of the Genetics Society of America’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education. The award recognizes Hoskins’ role in developing and promoting the transformative CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment) method which is now a national model. Hoskins developed CREATE at City College to enhance students’ critical thinking skills and give them a firmer grasp of how science research projects build understanding. This innovative approach uses primary

David Lohman, assistant professor of biology at The City College of New York, presents “Biodiversity Research in Tropical Asia: A Tale of Butterflies and Bureaucracy.” The talk, 4 -5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in City College’s Spitzer Auditorium, is part of the college’s Conversations in Engaged Scholarship series. The forum features CCNY faculty sharing their research and creative scholarship that impacts public policy, reform, and the civic, social, political or environmental landscape. Lohman will discuss the patterns and processes of biological diversification using tropical butterflies

Now in its second year, the S Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders, a selective year-long professional and career development program, is proving a massive success offering The City College of New York’s brightest real-world job experience through summer internships. At the Summer Internship Opportunities Expo, fellows get to network with elite corporate internship sites to improve employment opportunity upon graduation. The fellowship was named after ‘42 alumnus S Jay Levy, economist and forecaster, who was concerned with the cost of unemployment and was also an advocate for economic

Patricia A. Broderick, the CUNY School of Medicine professor also renowned as an inventor and researcher, is the recipient of the International Association of Top Professionals’ Lifetime Achievement Award. She will receive the Sapphire Diamond Crystal Tower at IAOTP’s annual gala at the end of the year. The award recognizes what IAOTP terms “incredibly talented” members for their professional and academic achievements, leadership abilities and contributions to their respective communities. Broderick has been honored for more than three decades of accomplishments as a professor, scientist

Researchers at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future. It is based on manganese dioxide (MnO2), an abundant, safe and non-toxic material. In a paper in the journal “ Nature Communications,” the scientists report that the uniqueness of the battery is that it is able to achieve both high cycle life and high areal capacity. Achieving high areal capacity is critical for packing a lot of battery electrodes together

Nicole Dennis-Benn, whose hugely successful debut novel " Here Comes the Sun" earned several best book of the year awards in 2016, is the Chinua Achebe Legacy Series speaker at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 8. Her talk, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the North Academic Center Ballroom, is free and open to the public. Click here to register. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Dennis-Benn continues the tradition of distinguished writers and artists gracing the Achebe Legacy Series. It was launched by City College’s Black Studies Program in 2014 to honor the late Nigerian writer