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Many animal and insect species use Batesian mimicry – mimicking a poisonous species – as a defense against predators. The common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra (a species of satyrine butterfly), which is found throughout wide areas of tropical and subtropical Asia, adds a twist to this evolutionary strategy: the females evolved two distinct forms, either orange or dark brown, imitating two separate poisonous model species, Danaus or Euploea. The males are uniformly brown. A population group is either entirely brown (both males and females) or mixed (brown males and orange females). City

The City College of New York is pleased to announce a major gift by Ruth Sragow Newhouse to establish the Henry Newhouse Scholarship Fund. The new Fund will support qualified undergraduate or graduate students majoring in earth and atmospheric sciences at the College. Recipients of scholarships from the Fund will be determined by the EAS Department’s Scholarship Committee. While the awards are predominantly merit-based, the criteria will also take students’ circumstances and backgrounds into account. “We are very grateful for this gift, which is, by far, the biggest one ever received by the

The City College of New York is mourning the passing of H. Jack Geiger, Professor Emeritus and a founding faculty member of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY that became part of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM). He was 95. The New York Times has hailed Dr. Geiger for using medicine to tackle poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes. “Dr. Geiger was the founding Chair of the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM), which he chaired from 1978 until his retirement in 1996,” said Erica

Researchers at The City College of New York have uncovered a novel way in which Vibrio cholerae, the aquatic microbe that causes cholera, may increase its competitive fitness, and the likelihood of creating pandemic strains of the bacteria. The finding was revealed by examining the type VI secretion system, or T6SS for short, a secretion system used by Vibrio cholerae to inject toxic proteins into neighboring bacterial cells, killing them and increasing its survival advantage. The researchers studied a gene cluster within the T6SS called auxiliary cluster 3 (Aux3). The gene cluster exists in

The City College of New York Division of Humanities and the Arts is the recipient of a $150,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Initiatives Grant to develop and pilot an innovative curriculum for a minor in digital humanities. The grant is over three years. “This is a tremendously important and timely award that will support our ongoing efforts to build a compelling 21st century humanities curriculum and that will fuel vital DH faculty research,” said Erec R. Koch, Dean of Humanities and the Arts at City College. Students in the program will augment their traditional

For the third year in a row, The City College of New York student chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) is the recipient of an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. The accolade continues recognition of the chapter for its excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization, a designation given to fewer than 15 percent of all SPS chapters at colleges and universities in the United States and internationally. “This is the highest level of distinction given to our chapters,” said Brad R. Conrad, director, Society of Physics Students & Sigma Pi Sigma

City College MFA in Creative Writing candidate Lucy McKeon has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize for her essay, "Of Love and Blindness.” Since 1976, The Pushcart Prize has recognized the year’s best poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction published by small presses. McKeon’s essay was originally published in The Point literary magazine in 2019. McKeon has also published work in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, and Vanity Fair. “I'm so grateful to my editor Rachel Wiseman and the rest of the editorial team at The Point for their work and for nominating my essay,” said McKeon

Joshua Kemp, a 2017 graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, is one of 154 outstanding potential future leaders from 39 countries and more than 3,600 applicants named Schwarzman Scholars by the highly selective program. The recipient of a BA degree in International Relations from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, he heads to the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, next August to pursue a one-year master’s in Global Affairs. The Schwarzman Scholars Class of 2022 comprises an exceptional group of individuals. They

The City College of New York’s Early Childhood Education Program (ECE), ranks #4 in the United States among the top 85 most affordable such programs. This is according to the 2020 rankings by Discover Early Childhood EDU, an independent resource for prospective educators seeking long-term employment. A partnership between City College’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies and School of Education, the program offers a nationally accredited bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, leading to New York State teaching certification (Birth-Grade 2). Discover Early Childhood cites the CCNY

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York is pleased to announce the appointment of international climate policy analyst Trevor Houser ’06 to its Board of Visitors. He joins 29 other distinguished Board Members. Houser is Partner with the Rhodium Group, where he leads the firm’s Energy & Climate Practice. He also co-directs the Climate Impact Lab, a collaboration of leading research institutions combining climate, economic and data science to quantify climate risk around the world. He has served as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department