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Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Chemical Engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is the AIChE 2017 Shell Thomas Baron Award recipient. He received the award today at the organization’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he delivered the award’s eponymous lecture. His talk was entitled: “Exploring Complex Colloidal Dispersions by Simulation.” Also at the annual gathering, Rosemarie D. Wesson, associate dean for research and Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Grove School, was elected to a three-year term as AIChE treasurer. Her tenure begins in

Even before Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the Caribbean recently, experts at The City College of New York were gaining insight into how storms develop and intensify in the region. A $174,895 grant from the National Science Foundation promises to boost this research. The one-year funding to a team of NOAA CREST researchers in the Grove School of Engineering is entitled “RAPID: Impacts of Post-Hurricane Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective and Precipitation Processes in the Caribbean Region.” “The primary goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role played by modified

The City College of New York sent students to three prestigious hackathons for developing innovative technologies in October, and CCNY participants were winners in all three. At hackNY’s fall 2017 Student Hackathon, students presented their technologies and built original applications. Kirstyn Natavio, a Computer Science sophomore, working with Computer Engineering juniors Dwayne Johnson and Amarou Bah, were awarded Best Hack using a NYC Application Programming Interface (API) for their Emergency 911 app that lets bystanders connect and stream data of an emergency to 911 and other help

Here’s a bit of surprising news. A closer look at how climate change could impact our power supply shows that America’s infrastructure might be more adaptable than scientists anticipated. The results appear in a paper published in Nature Climate Change by Ariel Miara, a PhD Candidate in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and Charles J. Vörösmarty, Presidential Professor of civil engineering in the Grove School. One of the study’s key findings: climate change will negatively affect U.S. power supply reliability. But maintenance and a commitment to cleaner, more efficient

The Documentary Forum, at The City College of New York Center for Film, Journalism and Interactive Media, presents a screening of " Whose Streets?", a documentary about the Ferguson uprising, on Nov. 1 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall, Room 291. Filmmaker Sabaah Folayan, activist and storyteller, will be present for a Q&A. The film focuses on the residents of St. Louis, Missouri who come together to hold vigil and protest the shocking killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by police and then left lying in the street for hours. In the days that follow the killing, parents, artists, and

You may know Sonic Hedgehog as a Sega videogame character who saves us all from world domination. But within the realm of science, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is also helping to solve the mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease. Just ask Andreas Kottmann of The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York. Kottmann and his team were recently awarded a research grant by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) to validate their findings around SHH’s potential role in Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is caused by the degeneration of a certain type of neuron in the brain, so called

Immigrant inclusion is one of the biggest human rights challenges facing countries across the globe. The City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education tackles this issue with the photo exhibit “Mojados: Portrait of Immigrants.” It opens Oct. 27 and runs through Dec. 20. The opening day includes a reception at 6 p.m. at 25 Broadway on the 7th floor. A conversation between photographer and exhibit creator Francisco Uceda, CWE human rights expert and Patai Postdoctoral Fellow Danielle A. Zach, and Susanna Rosenbaum, director of CWE’s MA Program in the Study

Using entrepreneurial skills nurtured at the school’s Zahn Innovation Center, a team of City College of New York undergraduates placed second nationally in Intuit QuickBooks’2017 Product Management Case Competition. The four-member “Team AutoRiza” conceptualized a machine learning chatbot to help service small business owners. Out of several hundred submissions, the City College concept was second to an app conceived by a Harvard University team. Team AutoRiza comprised: Mahmoud Khedr, junior, applied psychology & economics; Danny Tsoi, sophomore, computer science; Nashid Chowdhury, junior

On the day that Zadie Smith receives City College of New York’s venerated Langston Hughes Medal, scholars and writers hold a symposium at CCNY on Nov. 16 to deconstruct the noted novelist’s work. Entitled “I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me," the event runs 12:30 – 3 p.m. in City College’s Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B, located at 135th St. and Convent Ave. It is free and open to the public. Click here to register. Participants in the Langston Hughes Festival symposium include: Novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn; Writer Kaitlyn Greenidge; Scholar and writer Robert Higney (City

“ Bones of Contention,” a documentary by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Weiss, premieres Saturday, Oct. 21 at Cinépolis Chelsea. This is one of latest releases by faculty in The City College of New York’s Department of Media and Communication Arts. The film focuses on the brutal Franco dictatorship, during whose reign up to 120,000 opponents of fascism were buried in unmarked graves all over Spain. A 2014 Fulbright Scholars award funded Weiss’ research. Legendary poet and playwright Federico Garcia-Lorca came to symbolize those that disappeared, and is called “the first LGBT victim of the