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To understand how the repeated climatic shifts over the last 120,000 years may have influenced today's patterns of genetic diversity, a team of researchers led by City College of New York biologist Dr. Ana Carnaval developed a new biodiversity metric called "phylogeographic endemism." It quantifies the degree to which the genetic variation within species is restricted in geographical space. Dr. Carnaval, an assistant professor of biology, and 14 other researchers from institutions in Brazil, Australia and the United States, analyzed the effects of current and past climatic variation on the

Competition among species can cause geographical isolation In a study that could alter traditional notions in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, three City College of New York researchers present results indicating that competition between two species can lead to the geographic isolation of one of them. The finding by biologists Eliecer E. Gutiérrez , Robert A. Boria and Robert P. Anderson is the cover story in the August issue of the Swedish-published journal "Ecography" under the title, " Can biotic interactions cause allopatry? Niche models, competition, and distributions of

State officials have approved The City College of New York's plan for implementing Governor Andrew Cuomo's Start-Up New York initiative at CCNY. "We're now bona fide participants of Start-Up and several dozen companies have expressed interest in participating in our plan program," announced Dr. Ashiwel Undieh, CCNY's associate provost for research who is leading the College's Start-Up program. "The next step is to engage wider faculty participation and identify space on or off campus to house the program." Start-Up New York is Governor Cuomo's plan to transform university campuses, including

More than $5 million in federal research grants has been awarded to four City College of New York researchers in the interdisciplinary CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies . The funding is from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Defense (DoD). The recipients, all principal investigators for their respective projects, are: Professor Ranajeet Ghose , chemistry; $1,024,780 from the NSF for his five-year project, "Conformational Dynamics and Regulatory Interactions in a Bacteriophage RNA Polymerase Complex." Assistant Professor

" Zone Morality ," philosophy Professor David Weissman 's seventh book since 2000, is one of several titles by City College of New York faculty this summer and fall. The 128 page hardcover published by Walter De Gruyter, Inc. describes systems - families and businesses - and moral codes created by the causal reciprocities of their members. Other faculty publications include: " Forgiveness and Remembrance: Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life" (Oxford University Press) by Jeffrey M. Blustein, Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics and Professor of Philosophy; " Inequality in the

Four PhD students at The City College of New York have been awarded Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowships for excellence by the U.S. Department of Education (DoE). The fellows, who will receive need-based support including a stipend of up to $30,000 annually from the second year of their respective programs, are: Jared Bass (molecular, cellular and developmental biology) Jose Cobo (biochemistry) Silas Hartley (biochemistry) Alicia Sponholz (molecular, cellular and developmental biology) This brings to eight the number of GAANN fellows at City College in the last ten

Media and marketing experts have long sought a reliable method of forecasting responses from the general population to future products and messages. According to a study conducted at The City College of New York, it appears that the brain responses of just a few individuals are a remarkably strong predictor. By analyzing the brainwaves of 16 individuals as they watched mainstream television content, researchers were able to accurately predict the preferences of large TV audiences, up to 90 % in the case of Super Bowl commercials. The findings appear in a paper entitled, " Audience Preferences

Elizama Pons-Montalvo, a geology major at The City College of New York, is working this summer at the U.S. Geological Survey(USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole, Mass. She is helping to investigate the impact of Hurricane Sandy under the USGS's 2014 Summer Internship Program. Ms. Pons-Montalvo is analyzing data collected along the coast of Fire Island in New York as part of an effort to measure wave and current processes that contribute to the movement of sediment during major storm events. The junior is one of five City College students and an alumna, awarded

AdCamp, an exclusive program established by the American Advertising Federation (AAF) to introduce high school students of diverse backgrounds to advertising and communications professions, returns to The City College of New York, July 27 - August 1.Nineteen top students from around the nation, including Chicago, Mexico City and Fayetteville, Ga., were selected by the AAF for the camp following a competitive application process. The program made its New York City debut at City College last summer. AAF has conducted AdCamp programs in Chicago and Washington. Melissa Wong, AAF director for

A year ahead of its target date, The Campaign for The City College of New York has raised more than half a billion dollars, President Lisa S. Coico announced Tuesday night. “We could not have exceeded our campaign goal without the generous support of our donors who have invested in and supported our mission,” President Coico told guests at the 2014 Presidential Awards Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan. The dinner itself raised more than a million dollars for the ongoing campaign that has provided funding for various programs, resources and schools including: • The Andrew S