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Six students from ����Ӱҵ were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Phoenix, Arizona. The undergraduates from the Division of Science, the CUNY Medical School at ����Ӱҵ, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Grove School of Engineering excelled in both poster and oral presentations. The students, their majors, topics and presentation categories, are: Geneva Hidalgo, psychology, social/behavioral sciences and public health (oral); Mariya Mayer, music, cancer biology (poster); Courtney Ogando, biomedical

Team ����Ӱҵ, comprising undergraduates from ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, is the 2017 AIChE Chem-E-Car finals’ Spirit of Competition Award winner for the third year running. In addition, “Sulfurious,” the ����Ӱҵ entry, placed 11th out of 41 domestic and international qualifiers in the competition in Minneapolis. Sulfurious won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic competition last spring to advance to the AIChE finals. The objective of the Chem-E-Car competition is for students to build a car, the size of a shoebox, which runs and stops at a

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: City College of New York (����Ӱҵ), considered a top ten military friendly school, will acknowledge the men and women of the college community who have served WHO: Christopher Gorman, Director of Veteran Affairs Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Interim President, ����Ӱҵ Student, Faculty and Staff Veterans WHERE: ����Ӱҵ NAC Plaza (outdoors) Convent Avenue and 138th Street WHEN: 10 am, Friday, November 10, 2017 Program 10:00 am – Greeting 10:05 am – Posting of the Colors 10:10 am – National Anthem performed by the ����Ӱҵ Gospel Choir 10:15 am – Speech 10:20 am – Closing

There’s no question that generations of university students want to change the world, starting with where they are. But how? Four undergraduates from ����Ӱҵ are among 229 students from 10 countries named 2017 University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. The program empowers students to become agents of change at their schools. Fellows work to ensure that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. Selected from City College (the

The Harlem community spoke and the CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ listened. Community members were asked if they’d like free health information sessions on topics of their choosing and the answer was a resounding YES! Thus the Mini-Medical school was born. 60 people showed up to the first Mini-Medical School event on Oct 18 th to talk about diet, physical activity and health. The presentations were engaging as was the Q & A. Afterward, many attendees said they’d be back for more. In fact, they promised to bring a friend or family member the next time. Which is why an

They call Patricia Broderick the “dynamite stick” because nothing stops her. She is the first person to marry the brain with sensors and has invented, patented and trademarked a revolutionary technology, THE BRODERICK PROBE® that some medical doctors say will change the face of science and medicine. Broderick is so dynamic that CUTV News Radio has asked her to talk about her work on air twice – on Monday Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. EDT and again Monday Nov 13 at 1 p.m. EDT. Broderick is a Medical Professor in Molecular Cellular and Biomedical science at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of

Eyewitness News co-anchors Bill Ritter and Sade Baderinwa are this year’s John H. Finley Award recipients. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of ����Ӱҵ for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. In addition, the association has honored seven City College alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They received the Townsend Harris Medal at ����Ӱҵ’s 137th annual alumni dinner in Manhattan. The seven are: Bernard S. Cohen, Esq. ’56B, the renowned lawyer who successfully argued the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia before the

Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Chemical Engineering in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering is the AIChE 2017 Shell Thomas Baron Award recipient. He received the award today at the organization’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he delivered the award’s eponymous lecture. His talk was entitled: “Exploring Complex Colloidal Dispersions by Simulation.” Also at the annual gathering, Rosemarie D. Wesson, associate dean for research and Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Grove School, was elected to a three-year term as AIChE treasurer. Her tenure begins in

Even before Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the Caribbean recently, experts at ����Ӱҵ were gaining insight into how storms develop and intensify in the region. A $174,895 grant from the National Science Foundation promises to boost this research. The one-year funding to a team of NOAA CREST researchers in the Grove School of Engineering is entitled “RAPID: Impacts of Post-Hurricane Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective and Precipitation Processes in the Caribbean Region.” “The primary goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role played by modified

����Ӱҵ sent students to three prestigious hackathons for developing innovative technologies in October, and ����Ӱҵ participants were winners in all three. At hackNY’s fall 2017 Student Hackathon, students presented their technologies and built original applications. Kirstyn Natavio, a Computer Science sophomore, working with Computer Engineering juniors Dwayne Johnson and Amarou Bah, were awarded Best Hack using a NYC Application Programming Interface (API) for their Emergency 911 app that lets bystanders connect and stream data of an emergency to 911 and other help