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The Foundation for City College/ Benny's Food Pantry has received a $16,000 grant to immediately support City College efforts in combating food insecurity for the CCNY community and the West Harlem neighborhood. The West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC) released Special COVID-19 Impact Grants to fund MCD9-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. The intent of the grants is to assist recipients with projects to address specific issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in West Harlem. WHDC’s grants address the following priority areas: Direct Health & Human Services, Workforce Services

The Rock Orient Foundation, led and chaired by Steven C. Rockefeller Jr., a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller Family, donated 100,000 masks to The City College of New York that will be used to support the CCNY community and neighborhood during the current COVID-19 pandemic. CCNY alumnus Daxi Li ’85, who got his Ph.D. in physics, helped establish the charity organization and initiated the donation with Ngee-Pong Chang, professor of physics at CCNY. Li attended City College with a full scholarship under the CCNY-China Exchange Program, which began under former CCNY Provost Harry Lustig

Inspired by nature, researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) can demonstrate a synthetic strategy to stabilize bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials. Their findings, published in the latest issue of “ Nature Chemistry,” could be a significant breakthrough in functionalizing molecular assemblies for future solar energy conversion technologies. In almost every corner of the world, despite extreme heat or cold temperature conditions, you will find photosynthetic organisms striving to capture solar energy. Uncovering nature’s secrets on how to harvest light so efficiently and

Karissa Collins and Huan Ying Zhang, undergraduates in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, are recipients of 2021 Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowships from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The awards total $18,500. The program’s mission is to attract qualified students to the field of transportation and research, and advance transportation workforce development. Fellows also participate in the Transportation Research Board annual meeting, to be held virtually in January 2021. Collins and Zhang are both seniors majoring in civil engineering. A

Alpha Amadou Bah, Arielle Brutus and Taisha Gomez were the City College of New York winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. The undergraduates from the Division of Science and Grove School of Engineering excelled in e-poster presentations at “ ABRCMS 2020 The Virtual Experience.” More than 3,350 undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, and graduate students in the STEM fields, as well as postdoctoral scientists at ABRCMS, participated in the event. Following are details on the CCNY trio at ABRCMS, their disciplines and project titles: Alpha Amadou Bah, junior

Researchers led by City College of New York physicist Pouyan Ghaemi report the development of a quantum algorithm with the potential to study a class of many-electron quantums system using quantum computers. Their paper, entitled “ Creating and Manipulating a Laughlin-Type ν=1/3 Fractional Quantum Hall State on a Quantum Computer with Linear Depth Circuits,” appears in the December issue of “PRX Quantum,” a journal of the American Physical Society. “Quantum physics is the fundamental theory of nature which leads to formation of molecules and the resulting matter around us,” said Ghaemi

CCNY Libraries at The City College of New York completed the digitization of the CCNY Hatch-Billops Oral History collection, which consists of over 320 hours of oral history recordings—interviews, lectures and panel discussions¬—on Black American cultural history conducted between 1970-1974. The collection is available for open listening on Artstor.org for any CUNY-affiliated Artstor users and was made possible by funding from the GRAMMY Museum Grant Program. The collection features unpublished recordings with some of the most notable Black American artists of the 20th century, capturing their

New research from The City College of New York and Teachers College at Columbia University illustrates seven principles of practice that offer an expanded definition for “high-quality early learning.” The study recognizes the promise and possibility of children's lives, ensuring that the lived experiences of those who have historically been underserved and the growing numbers of multilingual children and children of color nationally are represented in their learning environments. Beverly Falk of City College’s School of Education and Mariana Souto-Manning (Teachers College) led a team on a

The work and legacy of Michael Eric Dyson are the subject of a symposium ahead of the Langston Hughes Medal presentation to the award-winning author and renowned sociologist at The City College of New York on Nov. 12. Entitled “Celebrating Michael Eric Dyson," the virtual conference, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m., features several leading academics and intellectuals. City College President Vincent Boudreau, Provost Tony Liss and Dean of the Division of Humanities and Arts Erec Koch will offer remarks at the presentation ceremony, 6 – 8:30 p.m. In addition, the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, pastor of

Peter J. Delfyett, Jr., a 1981 alumnus of The City College of New York and one of the world’s pre-eminent ultrafast photonics researchers, is the winner of the 2021 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science from the American Physical Society (APS). Regarded as the highest accolade in the field, the $10,000 prize recognizes outstanding contributions to basic research which uses lasers to advance the knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light. Delfyett, who holds 43 US patents, is cited “for pioneering contributions to the development of