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Second Consecutive 20 Percent-Plus Yearly Gain Puts College Over Strategic Goal Two Years Early For the second consecutive year, funded research programs at The City College of New York experienced gains in excess of 20 percent. Awards for the 2009 – 2010 academic year totaled $69.1 million, a 24.3 percent gain from the prior year, according to the College’s Office of Research Administration. With its new level of funding, City College has exceeded, two years early, a target of $65 million set for 2012 in its most recent strategic plan. The 24.3 percent growth rate for the year also bested the

Farah Ahmad, Samuel Mikhail to Receive Scholarships at AIA NY Heritage Ball Two fourth-year students in the Spitzer School of Architectureat The City College of New York (CCNY) will receive scholarships in the name of the Clinton Climate Initiative for their team leadership efforts in CCNY’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. Farah Ahmad and Samuel Mikhail, natives of Staten Island now living in Manhattan, will be recognized October 7 at the Heritage Ball, a benefit held by the American Institute of Architects’ New York (AIA NY) chapter and the Center for

Report by CUNY, U. of Wisconsin and International Partners is First to Integrate Impact of Multiple Environmental Stressors on Humans and Biodiversity Multiple environmental stressors, such as agricultural runoff, pollution and invasive species, threaten rivers that serve 80 percent of the world’s population, around 5 billion people, according to researchers from The City College (CCNY) of The City University of New York (CUNY), University of Wisconsin and seven other institutions. These same stressors endanger the biodiversity of 65 percent of the world’s river habitats and put thousands of

For many undergraduates, summer break is all about fun and games. However, many bright and talented students at The City College of New York (CCNY) took advantage of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for internships and research experience in exotic locales and prestigious organizations. Take Eleanor Fallon, for example, a senior majoring in Biomedical Science in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. She conducted research at an Irish hospice that focused on the risk factors for falling among cancer patients. Vikas Goswamy, another Sophie Davis student, went to the Hospital

Two Projects Funded By Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy The CUNY Energy Institute, based at The City College of New York (CCNY), was awarded two grants totaling $4.6 million over three years in the latest round of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). They are among the 43 grants totaling $92 million announced July 12 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for cutting-edge research projects to dramatically improve how the United States uses and produces energy. “ARPA-E conducted an intensely competitive selection process

The City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education(CWE) has quickly built a reputation for bringing distinguished intellectuals to its Bowling Green campus. This fall is no exception. Eight notable speakers will take part in the Center’s free bi-annual Book Talk Lecture Series, to run September 13 - December 13. “All of our lecture series have been extremely successful,” said Dr. Juan Carlos Mercado, Dean of CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies based at the CWE. “Each one has provided a forum for a rich exchange of ideas. Students and lecture attendees are given the opportunity

The City College of New York (CCNY) has announced the 2010 City College and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows. The 13 students selected for the two programs – eight City College Fellows and five Mellon Mays Fellows – receive financial and academic support to prepare them for graduate school and future careers in research and college-level teaching. Among the 13 are five students born outside the United States. "I am delighted to welcome an exceptionally accomplished group of eight new City College Fellows and five new Mellon May Undergraduate Fellows," said Dr. Susan Besse, CCNY professor of

Number of Connections Less Important Than Proximity to Core A team of researchers led by Dr. Hernán Makse, professor of physics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has shed new light on the way that information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks. Writing in “Nature Physics,” they report that, contrary to conventional wisdom, persons with the most connections are not necessarily the best spreaders. “The important thing is where someone is located in a network,” said Professor Makse in an interview. “If someone is in the core, they can spread information more

“New York, New York: Place, Culture and Urbanity” will be the theme for the Fall 2010 Sciame Lecture Series at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY). The eight-part series, which is free and open to the public, presents authors and prominent architects discussing some of New York’s most iconic buildings and public works, including the Empire State Building, Pennsylvania Station and Rockefeller Center. The series is sponsored by F.J. Sciame Construction Co. Lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. and are held in Sciame Auditorium in the Spitzer School of

Panama Canal Expansion Creates Rare Opportunity to Obtain Samples in Environmentally Sensitive Area The widening of the Panama Canal currently underway has created a rare opportunity to study the insects that inhabit the plants of environmentally sensitive Central American rain forest habitats. Dr. Amy Berkov, Professor of Biology at The City College of New York (CCNY), is leading a research effort that could shed new light on biodiversity by documenting the area’s host-plant relationships. “If you want to study biodiversity and conservation, you need to know what animals eat and where they