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$3.7 million NSF grant to fund project ����Ӱҵ is partnering with the University of Texas at El Paso to educate the next generation of Hispanic professors in environmental sciences and engineering. Entitled “Collaborative Research: The Hispanic AGEP Alliance for the Environmental Science and Engineering Professoriate,” the five-year project is funded by a $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation. It begins July 1, 2017. Harlem-based City College, which is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution of Higher Education by the U.S. Department of Education, will

Charisse Holder, Sean Feol-Baugh and Erica Lopez, all from ����Ӱҵ’s Masters in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) program, are recipients of 2017 LAGRANT Foundation scholarships. The scholarships support students from ethnically diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in advertising, marketing and public relations. Twenty graduate students nationally have been honored by the Los Angeles-based LAGRANT Foundation (TLF). Holder, a resident of Valley stream, N.Y., is in BIC’s strategic management track. She received her undergraduate degree in international marketing and

The surfaces of Earth, Mars, and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, have all been scoured by rivers. Yet despite this similarity and the amazingly Earth-like landscapes of Titan complete with valleys, lakes, and mountains, researchers led by City College of New York geologist Benjamin Black report new evidence that the origins of the topography there and on Mars are different from on Earth. In their paper “Global drainage patterns and the origins of topographic relief on Earth, Mars, and Titan,” published in the latest issue of “Science,” the team identifies plate tectonics on Earth as one key

For the second year in a row, a team from City College of New York’s Master’s Program in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) is a GOLD Pencil Winner at The ONE Show’s 2017 Young Ones Competition, one of the most prestigious student advertising, interactive and design competitions in the industry. Enmanuel Vargas, Yulia Lesnichaya, Surabhi Govindarajan and Tung-Han Lin won for their partnership proposal “ VIDEALL.” A plug-in, VIDEALL is the product of the partnership between Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft’s Sign Language Translator. It converts audio, subtitles or closed

Vivek Tiwary, the Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and New York Times best-selling author, is the guest speaker at ����Ӱҵ’s 171st Commencement Exercises on Friday, June 2. The ceremony starts at 9 a.m. on ����Ӱҵ’s South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. The Class of 2017 comprises approximately 3,820 students. Of these 2,894 are receiving undergraduate degrees and 926 graduate degrees. Tiwary returns to City College after delivering its 2017 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture in March. He founded the multiplatform arts and

Rausan Borujerdi, a 2016 graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at ����Ӱҵ, is the recipient of a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship. The political science major is one of 20 stellar graduates nationwide selected for the program, which prepares candidates to become members of the U.S. Foreign Service. Hundreds of applicants from over 270 colleges and universities competed for the fellowship managed and funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by The Washington Center. Fellows receive up to $37,500 in annual financial support toward a

����Ӱҵ presents the nineteenth edition of Cityvisions, the annual showcase of new thesis films from its MFA Program in Film. This year, Cityvisions will be held at the Auditorium on Broadway, 1871 Broadway (between 61st and 62nd) in New York City, on Friday, June 2. The festival begins at 5:00 PM and ends with an award ceremony at 9 pm. “The MFA program at the City College of New York is one of the most diverse and international film schools in the world, which makes Cityvisions a truly international film festival, showcasing innovative work by promising filmmakers from

New big-data analytics by a City College of New York-led team suggests that both an individual’s economic status and how they are likely to react to issues and policies can be inferred by their position in social networks. The study could be useful in maximizing the effects of large-scale economic stimulus policies. A team led by City College physicist Hernan A. Makse was legally granted access to two massive big datasets: all the phone calls of the entire population of Mexico for three months and the banking information of a subset of people. All the data, approximately 110 million phone

Ruth Nervig, an Master of Landscape Architecture major at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at ����Ӱҵ, is a 2017 National Olmsted Scholars Program finalist. The honor is for her thesis project on drinking water and hydraulic infrastructure in southern Senegal. The Olmsted Program is the premier national award and recognition program for landscape architecture students. Nervig first became interested in landscape architecture as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching sustainable agriculture techniques in rural Senegal. For her thesis project, Nervig walked an

Bus riders in New York City may now be opting to use bikeshare, according to a new study co-written by City College of New York Assistant Professor Candace Brakewood. This is the key finding of her peer-reviewed research study with Columbia University’s Kayleigh Campbell that was recently featured on the Atlantic’s CityLab website. Brakewood and Campbell studied trips made in New York City between May 2012 and July 2014 to assess how bus ridership changed after the introduction of the city’s bikesharing system, called Citi Bike. Bus routes were divided into control and treatment groups based