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Introducing Themira lohmanus, a fly like no other, and the most recently discovered species in the popular Manhattan urban oasis of Central Park! The immature insects subsist on duck droppings, and have a strong CCNY connection: Themira lohmanus is named after City College of New York entomologist, and Professor of Biology, David Lohman. But wait! It’s not the only species that gets its moniker from the well-traveled entomologist, who’s often to be found in tropical forests of Southeast Asia studying the ecology and evolution of insects. There’s also Chimaeragathis lohmani, a wasp found in

“ The Long Wet Grass,” the film adaptation of City College of New York librarian Seamus Scanlon’s award-winning play of the same title, premieres Oct. 1 at Irish Screen America in Manhattan. It features an original music score by Academy Award winner Marketa Irglova. “I woke up one night and thought Marketa Irglova would be best person to write the music because she wrote “Falling Slowly” [Academy Award winner] from the film “Once,” said Scanlon, a native of Galway, Ireland. “As a librarian at the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, I used my skills to

Two architecture students, from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, are studying in Barcelona, Spain this fall. Renowned for its unique and historical architecture, these students are taking in all Barcelona has to offer on Castagna Architectural Scholarships. Since its inception in 2016, the scholarship has provided support to nine architecture students who have achieved academic excellence and demonstrated financial need. Architecture students, in both the bachelor and master’s programs, receive a full year’s tuition and a study abroad and

Melissa Olivar and Angel Herrera, both summer graduates from the High School for Media and Communications in Washington Heights with immigrant roots, are the latest President’s Community Scholars at The City College of New York. They are the eighth cohort of community scholars since the awards – formally dubbed The City College of New York President’s Community Scholarship program -- began in 2010. It was introduced by City College to strengthen the links between the institution and the surrounding community. Awards are based strictly on academic merit and Scholars are required to perform

The fourth annual Sternberg Family Lecture at The City College of New York on Monday, Oct. 2, presents a conversation between John D. Judge, president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club and CCNY Interim President Vincent G. Boudreau. Hosted by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, their discussion is entitled “Democratizing the Outdoors: A Program for Wise Policy and Student Leadership” and starts at 4:30 p.m. in Shepard Hall, room 350. The event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP. An experienced nonprofit and government leader, Judge has headed the AMC

Kacy Charles and Sean Feol-Baugh, graduate students in the Master’s Program in Branding + Integrated Communication at the City College of New York, are winners of the PR Council’s first annual Student Innovation Challenge for their campaign titled “ Not Just a Box.” They were awarded $1000 at the PR Council’s Annual Dinner & Diversity Distinction in PR Awards. Chairs of the PR Council’s Diversity Committee, Brad MacAffee, senior partner and CEO of Porter Novelli; BIC Advisory Board member Barri Rafferty, partner and president of Ketchum; and Tonya Veasey, president and CEO of OCG PR, judged

The City College of New York has been selected as one of the most environmentally responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review, which features City College in the 2017 edition of The Princeton Review Guide to 375 Green Colleges. "We strongly recommend The City College of New York and the other fine colleges in this guide to the many environmentally-minded students who seek to study and live at green colleges," said The Princeton Review's Robert Franek, Senior VP-Publisher. The Princeton Review chose the schools for this seventh annual edition of its "green guide" based on data from

The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute is the recipient of a five-year $5.2 million National Science Foundation PIRE grant for advanced research on complex fluids. It will fund the Institute’s “PIRE: Multi-scale, Multi-phase Phenomena in Complex Fluids for the Energy Industries” project that involves 11 international partner institutions from France, Germany and Norway. This collaborative research is expected to advance knowledge and make transformative scientific discoveries that could result in far reaching innovations, in both experimental and modeling methods. “This could

David Lohman, associate professor of biology at The City College of New York’s Division of Science, is co-author of a landmark paper on butterflies “ An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).” Lohman and his colleagues from Taiwan and Indonesia revise the taxonomy of Asian palmflies in the genus Elymnias in light of a forthcoming study on the butterflies’ evolutionary history. The scientists discovered numerous cryptic species–two or more species erroneously classified as one species–as well as single species mistakenly described as two or three

City College of New York biologist Shubha Govind and her research team have identified the composition of “virus-like particles" (VLPs) found in the venom of a wasp that is a parasite of fruit flies. Invisible to the eye, wasp VLPs suppress the flies’ immune responses by killing their blood cells. Wasps lay their eggs along with spiked VLP particles into the worm-like immature bodies of Drosophila melanogaster, the long-venerated genetic model of human disease and development. In the wild, parasitic wasps attack insects and are used to naturally control crop damage by insect pests. The Govind