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Researchers from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering are working to safeguard the Internet from cyber attacks and are receiving a boost that could lead to more trustworthy networks. The boost comes in the form of a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore advanced resilient Internet architectures. The $450,000 grant is in partnership with the Kuytech Institute in Japan and additional support from the Japanese Science Foundation. It will be used to address research challenges associated with enabling trustworthy networks supporting the Internet of Things (IoT

In a sequel to his award-winning “ The New York Nobody Knows,” noted Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership sociologist William B. Helmreich returns with “ The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide” (Princeton University Press, November 2018). The book is one of the latest titles from City College of New York faculty. While crafting his first New York tome required him to walk every block of the Big Apple (6,000 miles in all), Helmreich retraced 721 of those miles in Manhattan to pen this walking guide of one of the world’s greatest cities. The result is a book by the

Robert R. Alfano’s decades-long contribution to the field of ultrafast laser science and photonics is legendary with more than 120 patents and 700 publications. In further recognition of his pioneering research, the Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at The City College of New York is the recipient of two more major honors: ENYIPLA’s 2018 Inventor of Year award and SPIE’s 2019 Gold Medal. The Inventor of the Year accolade from the Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association is for his patent that defines the application of supercontinuum light for medical and

BIC, the forward-thinking, culture-shifting Branding + Integrated Communications graduate program, is celebrating its fifth anniversary at The City College of New York. The innovative two-year Master of Professional Studies was the brainchild of Nancy Tag, an award winning educator and influential ad professional. As BIC’s director, Tag crafted the curriculum, enlisted professionals to teach, and assembled an illustrious board of industry leaders to advise. The silo smashing program has been a raging success, with grads going on to work at companies like Y&R, Apple, BBDO, Droga5, Cohn & Wolfe

A team led by scientists from The City College of New York (CCNY) and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (GC/CUNY) has made a major breakthrough in chemical synthesis making it possible to quickly and reliably modify the 3D structure of molecules used in drug discovery, according to a paper appearing in the current issue of the journal Science. The researchers’ work builds on the Nobel Prize-winning discovery by chemist Akira Suzuki, who pioneered the development of cross-coupling reactions, which use palladium catalysts to form bonds between two carbon atoms. Suzuki’s

The fifth annual Sternberg Family Lecture in Public Scholarship at The City College of New York on Tuesday, September 25, presents a discussion by two experts entitled “Student Success and the New American University: Shifting Needs, Changing Strategies." The lecture is in conversation with President Vince Boudreau and hosted by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The speakers are: William F. L. Moses, managing director for The Kresge Foundation’s Education Program, which supports postsecondary access and success for low-income, first-generation and underrepresented

Physicists at The City College of New York have used atomically thin two-dimensional materials to realize an array of quantum emitters operating at room temperature that can be integrated into next generation quantum communication systems. Researchers from the groups of City College Professors Carlos Meriles and Vinod Menon developed for the first time an array of on-demand single photon emitters that operate at room temperature. Using an atomically thin material, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), placed on nanopillars, the researchers demonstrated single photon emission at the pillar locations

A study of the pigment molecules that give color to the wings of butterflies, led by two City College of New York professors and two former students, was published in the science journal PLOS ONE. The paper, “Different ommochrome pigment mixtures enable sexually dimorphic Batesian mimicry in disjunct populations of the common palmfly butterfly, Elymnias hypermnestra”, was authored by Professor George John of the Chemistry Department and Professor David Lohman of the Biology Department, with Silvio Panettieri who earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the CUNY Graduate Center and Erisa Gjinaj who

As part of the $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, The City College of New York and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez will virtually recreate Hurricane Maria and its impact on Puerto Rico. The virtual creation of the hurricane will enable research focusing on the critical infrastructure that left the island and its people without power and water for months. According to principal investigator Jorge E. Gonzalez of the Grove School of Engineering, there is an urgent need for a better understanding of the future risks and expected damage due to extreme climate and

The City College of New York is among the top 100 Best Regional Universities in the North and a Top Public School in the North, as reported in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges. City College is ranked #14 of the Top Public Schools rankings in the North, and also ranked high at #55 in the Best Regional Universities rankings among 196 universities. Schools are ranked by U.S. News according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. To calculate the rankings, U.S. News gathers data from each college on up to 15 indicators of academic excellence. The