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The City College of New York’s Maria C. Tamargo, professor of chemistry in the Division of Science and doctoral faculty in electrical engineering at The Grove School of Engineering, is an elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Class of 2020. She is recognized for forging the way toward an inclusive science and engineering research community and for contributions to molecular-beam epitaxy of semiconductor materials. The induction ceremony took place virtually on October 4, 2020. "It was very inspiring to see how seriously the academy sees its role as an expert body that

The City College of New York’s Akira Kawaguchi, chair of the Department of Computer Science at The Grove School of Engineering, is named the 2019 NYC Tech Innovator from the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline. Kawaguchi and his team are recognized for their efforts in doubling the number of students graduating annually with tech-related bachelor’s degrees through the CUNY 2X Tech initiative. Under the initiative, CCNY was awarded $2.3 million, and Kawaguchi implemented the Computer Science Co-op Program, a collaboration with the Career and Professional Development Institute the two-semester-long program

In a further boost to two-dimensional materials research at The City College of New York, noted Spanish physicist Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal is spending the spring semester at CCNY as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. A professor at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Garcia Vidal is one of the world’s foremost researchers and influential authors in physics. His Fulbright project is entitled: “Polaritonics with 2D Materials.” “It demonstrates the high caliber of our scientists and their collaborative natures that preeminent physicists like Dr. Garcia-Vidal chose City College to do his cutting edge

A study led by Susan Tsang, a former Fulbright Research Fellow from The City College of New York, reveals dwindling populations and widespread hunting throughout Indonesia and the Philippines of the world’s largest bats, known as flying foxes. Unfortunately, hunting not only depletes the flying foxes, which are already rare, but also potentially exposes humans to animal-borne pathogens (a process known as zoonosis). “For instance, the current case of Wuhan Coronavirus is thought to have been spread from wild bats to humans through an intermediate host at a wildlife market,” said CCNY biologist

The City College of New York’s President Vince Boudreau and The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Dean Lesley Lokko engage in a conversation for the 2020 SCIAME lecture series: “Climate Justice: Time to Think, Talk, and Make Change,” which coincides with CCNY’s Year of Sustainability and Climate Justice. On March 26, the pair will discuss a wide range of topics including President Boudreau’s almost 30-year career at CCNY; his research as a political scientist; the importance and role of architecture in climate, environmental and social justice; educational entrepreneurship; and

Safe and environmentally-friendly hydrogen gas on demand could be on the horizon following a new "hydrogenation" chemical process in development at The City College of New York. Led by Mahesh K. Lakshman, the research uniquely bypasses the need for an external source of hydrogen gas to accomplish a wide range of hydrogenations. It appears as an inside cover feature in the 2020 issue #1 of journal “Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis.” Lakshman explained hydrogenation as the addition of hydrogen atoms. For instance, a very common application is for the production of fats from vegetable oils. In

An emerging scientific consensus is that gases—in particular carbon gases--released by volcanic eruptions millions of years ago contributed to some of Earth’s greatest mass extinctions. But new research at The City College of New York suggests that that’s not the entire story. “The key finding of our research is that carbon from massive, ancient volcanic eruptions does not line up well with the geochemical clues that tell us about how some of Earth’s most profound mass extinctions occurred,” said Benjamin Black, assistant professor in CCNY’s Division of Science, whose expertise includes

Harriet F. Senie, director of the MA art history program at The City College of New York, is the College Art Association’s (CAA) 2020 Distinguished Professor of Art History Award winner. She’ll receive the honor at the CAA annual conference in Chicago on Feb. 12. The 109-year-old CAA comprises more than 12,000 individual members, ranging from artists, art historians and scholars to curators, critics, educators and other professionals in the visual arts. Another 2,000 departments of art and art history in academic institutions, museums, libraries, and professional and commercial organizations

The City College of New York (CCNY), the founding college of the largest urban university system in the United States, added $1.9 billion in income to 10 counties in the New York region in fiscal year 2017-18. This is according to an economic impact study released by the labor analytics firm Emsi. The study measures the economic impact of City College on the business community and the benefits CCNY generates in return for the investments made by its key stakeholder groups -- students, taxpayers, and society. The report focuses on what Emsi terms the “CCNY Service Region,” 10 counties

Yaari Felber-Seligman and Seiji Shirane, historians at The City College of New York, are the institution’s latest National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship recipients. This is the fifth-year running that faculty in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts have won competitive NEH grants for innovative projects. The awards are part of $30.9 million in grants announced by the NEH to support 188 humanities projects in 45 states and the District of Columbia in 2020. NEH chairman Jon Parrish Peede said they’d funded just 11% percent of the fellowships proposals that it received “in