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Dr. David J. Lohman, assistant professor of biology at The City College of New York, and his colleagues received $2.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative study to resolve the evolutionary history of all butterfly species. Entitled “ButterflyNet—an integrative framework for comparative biology,” the support is part of $12.3 million in NSF Genealogy of Life awards announced last week. Lohman will lead a group of scientists from Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Florida and Yale University in the project. According to Lohman

Leading structural biology researchers from around the country take part in the opening symposium of two neighboring initiatives -- the City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center Structural Biology Initiative and the City College of New York Center for Discovery and Innovation's Structural and Molecular Biology Cluster -- on Sept. 25. The day-long symposium, Structural Biology 2015: Insight Through Integration, features a number of distinguished speakers, each of whom is an expert in different areas of structural biology. The symposium also recognizes the efforts toward

Josh Weston, a distinguished Class of 1950 alumnus and honorary chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., will deliver the second President’s Leadership Lecture at The City College of New York on Tuesday, Oct. 6. He will talk in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall from 12:30 to 2 p.m.The lecture is free and open to the entire CCNY community. A reservation is required. Click here to RSVP.Millard Drexler, chairman and CEO of J.Crew Inc., delivered CCNY’s inaugural President’s Leadership Lecture in February 2015. About Josh WestonWeston graduated from CCNY with a BS in economics and traveled to New

In a first for the Zahn Innovation Center, one of its startups received a significant investment from a Fortune 100 company.3M Safety and Graphics Business Group made a minority equity investment in StrongArm Technologies Inc., which develops leading safety solutions for injury prevention and peak performance for industrial workers, or those they call “Industrial Athletes.”StrongArm was founded in Rochester, N.Y. in 2012 by Sean Petterson and Justin Hillery, who created the company due to their personal experiences with their fathers. Both fathers worked strenuous blue collar jobs and needed

In a first for the Zahn Innovation Center, one of its startups received a significant investment from a Fortune 100 company. 3M Safety and Graphics Business Group made a minority equity investment in StrongArm Technologies Inc., which develops leading safety solutions for injury prevention and peak performance for industrial workers, or those they call “Industrial Athletes.” StrongArm was founded in Rochester, N.Y. in 2012 by Sean Petterson and Justin Hillery, who created the company due to their personal experiences with their fathers. Both fathers worked strenuous blue collar jobs and needed

" No Home Movie," a motion picture directed by City College of New York Distinguished Lecturer and renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman, has been selected for the 53rd New York Film Festival. It makes its U.S. premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Oct. 7-8. The Film Society is located in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in mid-Manhattan.Akerman’s 115-minute feature is an intimate portrayal of her Holocaust survivor mother’s last years. Critics call it one of the rare works of art that is both intensely personal and universal.For a schedule and tickets to NYFF screenings, click

Mehedi Mondal’s early years were challenging. Born in Brooklyn four weeks after his Bangladeshi immigrant parents arrived in New York, his father drove a cab while his mother worked as a cashier.Thanks to a City College of New York President’s Community Scholarship, Mondal, now a Bronx resident, is the first in his family to attend college. The 18-year-old is one of nine high-achieving students from upper Manhattan high schools awarded scholarships to study free at City College. “It’s given me a fighting chance to just study and not worry about tuition. Every penny counts when your parents are

For the third straight year, The City College of New York is partnering with Harlem Hospital Center in maintaining the community’s preparedness for any large-scale disaster. On Tuesday, September 22, from 12 noon to 4 p.m., the two institutions will co-host Harlem Emergency Preparedness Day in the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building Plaza, located at 163 West 125th Street in Manhattan.Members of the community are invited to attend and receive information on evacuation procedures, emergency procedures for the disabled, flood zones in Harlem, first aid care and survival go-bags

Today, City College of New York faculty staff and students joined millions of Americans and people around the world in somber remembrance of the 9/11 attacks.On campus, members of the City College community gathered in the Quad to honor those killed on that tragic day 14 years ago. The solemn event was presented by the ROTC program at CCNY and the City College Veterans Association.In lower Manhattan, near the site of the first attack at the World Trade Center, almost one hundred CCNY students joined their colleagues from seven other CUNY schools at a ceremony at the Borough of Manhattan

The City College of New York has maintained its standing as one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse institutions. City College is second among regional universities in the north for ethnic and economic diversity, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2016 rankings.Excluding international students, U.S. News factored in the proportion of minority students based on the 2014-2015 academic year student body to establish the diversity index. With 1.0 as the highest mark, the diversity index for City College is 0.73. This makes CCNY’s one of the top schools where students “are most likely to