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Bruce Kim, associate professor of electrical engineering at The City College of New York, is the principal investigator of a project to develop a nanosensor that can automatically detect explosive and narcotic vapors from maritime containers. The project, “Development of Automatic Detection System for Maritime Containers with Dangerous Cargo,” is financed by a five-year, $600,000 grant from the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering. The goal is to institute quick, efficient inspection of every one of the hundreds of thousands of container ships that enter American ports every

Recent City College of New York graduates Gabrielle Duchaussee (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) and Nicole Polanco (West Haverstraw, N.Y.) are among the record 605 nominees for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, which were announced on Tuesday. They were nominated after distinguishing themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers. Read Full Article

Physicist Sriram Ganeshan of The City College of New York’s Division of Science is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. It provides more than $500,000 for his research project: “Quantum Hydrodynamics: From Electron Fluids to Chiral Active Matter,” which could help develop new technologies based on the collective behavior of quantum systems. Ganeshan and his research team will focus on developing “quantum modifications” to the classical hydrodynamics that capture the unique properties of the macroscopic quantum state. His effort in this direction will build towards

The City College of New York began an official partnership in April 2020 with Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub (LRYOH), a community-based initiative in Central and West Harlem funded through the Manhattan District Attorney’s Criminal Justice Initiative in a collaborative effort with Community Connections for Youth. The new CCNY-LRYOH partnership encompasses a variety of community engagement and community strengthening initiatives. Living Redemption Youth Opportunity Hub launched in July 2017 under the leadership of its Founder and Executive Director, Reverend Maurice Winley. The LRYOH

A new report from the Brookings Institution ranks The City College of New York third among four-year schools with the greatest success in lifting low-income students into the middle class. Five other CUNY senior colleges are ranked in the top 10. The report is the latest confirmation of research over the past three years establishing City College and CUNY as the nation’s leading engines of social and economic mobility. Established in 1847 as the first tuition-free college in the United States, CCNY is the founding institution of CUNY. CCNY has been ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity

Thousands tuned in for the 7th annual The Americas Film Festival New York as it took the stories of the Americas online in its first ever virtual festival. In addition to digital screenings of major feature films and documentaries, TAFFNY’s Virtual Cinema presented 28 short films, selected from over 200 submissions from independent filmmakers and top film schools on the continent to compete in its Americas Film Festival Short Films Competition. Following, with citations, are the winning entries in the 2020 edition of TAFFNY, a cultural initiative of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at

In a historic Virtual Salute, the first in its 173-year legacy, City College of New York’s Class of 2020 was charged by the institution’s oldest known living alumnus, centenarian Benjamin B. Ferencz, former U.S. vice president Joe Biden and other speakers to help shape a post-COVID-19 world. A distinguished 1940 alumnus and the last surviving prosecutor from the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, Mr. Ferencz passed the baton, after a life-long activism for human rights and the rule of law, to City College’s newest graduates following in his footsteps 80 years later. “How do you get people to accept

Sandra Serrano is the latest undergraduate from The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) awarded a $10,000 Women’s Forum Education Fund fellowship. The awards are given to high-potential women, age 35 and over, whose education and lives have been disrupted by extreme adversity. They recognize extraordinary and often heroic efforts in overcoming adversity in restructuring lives for success. A senior pursuing a BA degree with a concentration in urban studies and public administration, Serrano is the third CWE student in a row

The City College of New York Division of Humanities and the Arts (H&A) has received a $300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) CARES Act Grant. This grant supports a cohort of 25 adjunct faculty whose jobs might otherwise have been jeopardized by anticipated state funding cuts; creates an instructional technologist job for one recent Ph.D. in humanities; and improves the teaching of humanities courses. The instructional technologist will provide the adjuncts with training and support in the pedagogical use of Digital Humanities tools and platforms that will engage students more

Centenarian Benjamin B. Ferencz, a distinguished 1940 alumnus and the last surviving prosecutor from the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s first ever “Virtual Salute” on June 30, in celebration of its Class of 2020. Mr. Ferencz, who turned 100 on March 11, will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Laws from his alma mater. He’s believed to be the oldest honorary degree recipient from City College. The institution was founded in 1847. Other speakers during CCNY’s 50-minute virtual salute, include: Joe Biden, former U.S. vice president and