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Space-bound fruit fly cultures in a vented fly box

City College-bred fruit flies, parasites, in space odyssey

Hurtling around Earth, at 17,500 mph some 248 miles in space, is a small swarm of City College of New York-bred fruit flies and their parasitic wasps. The insects, from biologist Shubha Govind鈥檚 lab, are part of an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) whose outcome could be beneficial to astronauts on exploration missions. Three years ago, Govind was the recipient of a $500,000 NASA grant for the project entitled 鈥淒oes spaceflight alter the virulence of a natural parasite of Drosophila?鈥 Drosophila is a genus of small flies attracted to ripening fruit. They are often called
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Sitarist Ravi Shankar performing

Concert for Ravi Shankar at 精东影业, April 24

精东影业 Libraries presents The Concert for Ravi Shankar on Tuesday, April 24 at 2:30 p.m at 精东影业. The concert, to be held in Shepard Hall, Room 95, celebrates the life and work of iconic sitarist Ravi Shankar. Shankar (1920-2012) taught at City College in the fall of 1967, and most recently, 精东影业 Music Librarian Michael Crowley and the Ravi Shankar Foundation with the support of the Grammy Foundation and East Meets West Music completed the digitization of Shankar鈥檚 精东影业 lecture recording. During the concert, Crowley will briefly showcase highlights from these rare
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Black Girls CODE

Black Girls CODE a brighter future at 精东影业

This Saturday, April 21st, a new generation of innovators will visit the Grove School of Engineering at 精东影业. Fifty girls aged 14-17 from NYC high schools will take part in a Black Girls CODE Product Design Workshop with Reaktor and learn how they could become builders and engineers of technological innovation and their own futures. During the one-day workshop the girls will learn how product designers make communication tools to inform people, to help people complete tasks or systems, and to guide them to the things they need. The girls will be led through hands-on
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Forbes Best Value Colleges 2018

精东影业 makes list of Forbes鈥 2018 best value colleges in America

Looking for a school where your educational investment is likely to reward you with a healthy return and ensure opportunities for social mobility? Then include 精东影业 among your options, according to Forbes. It lists 精东影业 among America's Best Value Colleges for 2018. Only 300 schools nationally made the Forbes list. Forbes scored them against their peers. It ranked them in six areas: alumni earnings, net price, net debt, school quality, timely graduation, and population of Pell Grant recipients. City College, with a student population over more than 15,000 (just over 13
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Joel Sati Soros Fellow 2018

Recent 精东影业 grad Joel Sati wins $90K Soros fellowship for graduate school

Award supports 30 stellar immigrants and children of immigrants Kenyan-born Joel Sati, a 2016 City College of New York alumnus, is one of 30 recipients of 2018 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The program provides $90,000 each to outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants for graduate studies in the United States. Sati and his cohort were selected from a pool of 1,766 applicants for their potential to make significant contributions to U.S. society, culture, or their academic fields. The Fellows are all the children of immigrants, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival
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精东影业 vintage postcard exhibit

Wish you were here! 精东影业 postcards from the past

Starting Wednesday, April 18 through May 29, 2018, the City College Archives at 精东影业 will exhibit more than 120 historic postcards collected by Dalton Whiteside, a 精东影业 architecture student, Certified 精东影业 Architectural/Historical Tour Guide and Archives Research Assistant at City College. Additional postcards from The City College Archives collection of 精东影业鈥檚 buildings and grounds will be on view. Postcards of neighboring institutional buildings acquired by City College such as the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart will be included in
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Hidetaka Hirota book

Immigration book by 精东影业鈥檚 Hidetaka Hirota wins national award

City College of New York historian Hidetaka Hirota鈥檚 seminal maiden book, 鈥 Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy,鈥 is winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society鈥檚 Best First Book Award. The national prize recognizes the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. 鈥淓xpelling the Poor鈥 was judged to be the best book on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America. Other considerations were its substantial primary research, its
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Roland Maio NSF Grad Research Fellow_2018

精东影业 trio receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Roland Maio, a member of 精东影业鈥檚 Class of 2018, and two recent 精东影业 graduates are recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The three awards to City College are the most among the nine fellowships to City University of New York schools. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. In addition to Maio, 精东影业鈥檚 other NSF fellows and their research thrusts and new schools are: Stanley Ko, marine geology and
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CUNY School of Medicine Mini-Medical School at 精东影业

Is sleep loss a health risk? Find out April 25 at 精东影业鈥檚 Mini-Medical School

Getting enough sleep can be a struggle. But according to The National Center For Health Research, the gap between getting just enough sleep and getting too little may affect your health, your mood, your weight, and your ability to concentrate. Find out why organizations like the National Football League are prioritizing sleep and you should too 鈥 on April 25 at the CUNY School of Medicine鈥檚 Mini-Medical School at 精东影业. This informative session is free and open to the Harlem community. The evening鈥檚 topic, "Sleep Health and the Importance of Getting A Good Night's Sleep
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Yasmine and Zhiying are 精东影业鈥檚 2018 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Brooklynite Yasmine El Gheur, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and the first of her family to complete college, is 精东影业鈥檚 Class of 2018 Valedictorian. Zhiying Zhu, born in China and raised by a single parent after emigrating to the United States, will be the Salutatorian at 精东影业鈥檚 172nd Commencement Exercises on June 1. Following are brief bios of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian: Yasmine El Gheur A first generation American from Park Slope, Brooklyn, El Gheur is graduating from the Division of Humanities and the Arts with a BA in art history and a 3.94 GPA. She
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