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Kaisa Ajaye, a City College of New York senior majoring in English, is the recipient of a $10,000 fellowship from the Women’s Forum Education Fund. The award recognizes extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming adversity in restructuring lives for success. Ajaye is one of 15 Fellows selected by the Women’s Forum of New York for their “superior qualifications, accomplishments and commitment to education after overcoming many of life’s adversities.” The cash award is an added incentive for them to complete their education. Ajaye first began her education 34 years ago when she entered

The City College of New York, whose student population hails from more than 150 nations, ranks in the top 1.2 % of institutions worldwide in the 2016 Center for World University Rankings. City College ranked # 294 among the more than 25,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education worldwide according to the CWUR, which conducts the largest academic ranking of global universities. CWUR uses several indicators to rank the world's top 1,000 universities. They include: Quality of education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes and

As the summer comes to an end, The City College of New York’s Class of 2020 steps onto CCNY’s historic grounds for the first time. Incoming freshmen, each from diverse backgrounds, transform their lives on their paths to success. Welcome, Class of 2020! Did you know…? There are approximately 1600 freshman enrolled, a ten percent increase from last year’s freshman. More than half the freshmen class are participating in CCNY’s Class of 2020 Facebook page. Of the freshmen enrolled, 100 are Macaulay Honors College students, 23 are City College Honors students, 45 are Grove Honors Students, and

As the lead institution in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology center, The City College of New York has produced more than half of the program’s 486 graduates since its inception. These include 61 PhDs, 98 MS/ME recipients and 112 undergraduates. And 70% of the City College students trained in NOAA sciences are from underrepresented minority communities, with 40% of them female. NOAA-CREST student success at CCNY includes cutting edge research projects such as: Satellite-based observations of Harmful Algal Blooms, the toxic

From the first public school of architecture in New York City to the first Harlem-based medical school, The City College of New York is no stranger to distinct programs. This fall, new and unique programs buzz at City College. City College offers a variety of programs, which range from a more structured seven-year B.S./M.D. program in medical studies, while others focus on real-world portfolio based curricula and certificate programs. A select list includes: A master’s program in Translational Medicine in City College’s Grove School of Engineering; A master’s degree in the Study of the

A team led by City College physics professor Vinod Menon demonstrates the use of metamaterials to enhance the light emission from atomically thin semiconductors. The work appears in the latest issue of Nano Letters. The new class of atomically thin semiconductors has recently found much interest in both electronics and photonics and is touted to be the platform for next generation optoelectronics. However, these materials have very poor light emission efficiency and hence various approaches have been pursued to enhance this property to make them conducive to practical devices such as LEDs. But

On a clear day, listeners as far as Teaneck, NJ, can pick up WHCR-90.3FM, the only community radio station broadcasting from a public higher education institution in upper Manhattan. It’s been like that since The City College of New York-owned station first hit the airwaves in 1986 with a lot of jazz - literally. As it celebrates its 30th anniversary, WHCR is a lot more than jazz now. Established to provide a voice for the Harlem community and beyond, while enhancing the learning experience of students, it broadcasts 24 hours a day to a potential 2.2 million listeners. That audience stretches

Using genomic data from three lizard species, City College of New York-led researchers gleaned insights not available before on the impact of climate change on the distribution of animal populations in South American forests. The findings improve ways of modeling the distribution of biodiversity in the past and future. “We saw that as the forest has changed, lizard populations have also changed. Yet, different lizards species showed either expansions or contractions, suggesting that responses to climate change are not the same for every organism,” said Ivan Prates, a PhD student in the

Innovative technology co-inspired by physicist Elisa Riedo of The City College of New York for developing new magnetic microchips is raising hopes for the manufacture of nanosized sensors, memories and microprocessors. The revolutionary technique entails magnetic microchips exploiting the electron spin in addition to its charge. This control of magnetism at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of new paradigms in optics, electronics and spintronics. This is the work of Riedo, professor of physics at City College and at the CUNY-ASRC, and researchers at the Nanomagnetism group of

For the five City College of New York undergraduates, summer doesn’t get better than this: 10 weeks spent archiving the George Lois collection gifted to City College by the legendary art director, designer and ad man, while receiving a $3,000 stipend each. Ad/PR majors Stephana Eghan, Carmen Kuang and Catherine Okoye; and their electronic design and multimedia peers Anna Pinger and Maria Tsampas, are doing this as the first cohort of ORCA Fellows at CCNY. ORCA (Opportunities in Research and Creative Arts) is a new CCNY program funded by a grant from CUNY. Initiated by Professors Christine Li