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City College of New York’s Chem-E- Car team is once again the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic champion. “Sulfurious,” ����Ӱҵ’s latest entrant, beat out vehicles from 23 other schools to scoop first place in the regional Chem-E- Car competition at Rowan University for the second year running. The Grove School of Engineering student-designed car finished ahead of a field including two entries each from Carnegie Mellon and NYU; Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Next stop for Sulfurious is the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting, Oct. 29 – Nov. 3

Shereese Trumpet, B Arch major at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at ����Ӱҵ, is one of 20 distinguished minority architects and designers featured in the “Say It Loud’ exhibition, which celebrates the creative work of distinguished black members of the National Organization of Minority Architects, New York Coalition of Black Architects. Trumpet interviewed at nycobaNOMA and was asked questions about diversity in architecture; they recorded her answers and added it to the exhibition, which highlights black, Hispanic and Asian professionals across the

Nine of the best and brightest alumni of ����Ӱҵ’s MFA creative writing program – all recently published authors -- return to their alma mater April 3 to discuss their postgraduate success. “Life After the MFA: My Path to Publication,” a panel discussion moderated by English professor and award-winning novelist Emily Raboteau, starts 7 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 95. It is free and open to the public. Participants include New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely, a 2011 ����Ӱҵ alumnus; and Lisa Ko ’12, whose novel “ The Leavers” won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for

Dan Wan, a student in ����Ӱҵ’s civil engineering PhD program, is the winner of the University Transportation Center Outstanding Student of the Year Award from the Region 2 University Transportation Research Center. Wan won for her thesis entitled: “Calibrating Safety Performance Functions for Intersections in New York City: Relaxing the Functions in Space.” Her paper rigorously analyzed intersection crashes in New York City by regressing local safety data at the jurisdiction level. “The safety performance functions developed in this study will serve as important

Gilda A. Barabino, Berg Professor and Dean of ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of the 2017 Pierre Galletti Award presented by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. AIMBE’s highest individual honor, it recognizes a member’s contributions to public awareness of medical and biological engineering, and to the promotion of the national interest in science, engineering and education. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AIMBE is a non-profit organization representing 50,000 individuals and the top 2% of medical and biological engineers

Alexandra (Sasha) Whittaker, an art history major in the Macaulay Honors College at ����Ӱҵ, is the recipient of a 2017-2018 Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Poland. She will spend nine months at Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań from this fall researching post-World War II Polish photography. Whittaker, who graduates from City College this June with a BA degree, will also take courses at the UAM Institute of Art History and study Polish. The Riverdale, Bronx, resident discovered her passion for art history, with a special interest in the history of photography

A new City College of New York aid is making the inspection of laboratories easier. Recently copyrighted, The CUNY/����Ӱҵ Digital Lab Inspection Program is available to other CUNY colleges for use free of charge. “One practical feature of the DLIP is that it gives us the ability to organize data generated from our inspections into graphs and tables,” said Graciano Matos, Laboratory Hygiene Officer in City College’s Office of Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, who conceptualized the program. “We can do statistical analysis, measure outcomes, corrective action, observe trends, make

City College of New York biologist Sally G. Hoskins is the 2017 recipient of the Genetics Society of America’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education. The award recognizes Hoskins’ role in developing and promoting the transformative CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate hypotheses, Analyze and interpret data, and Think of the next Experiment) method which is now a national model. Hoskins developed CREATE at City College to enhance students’ critical thinking skills and give them a firmer grasp of how science research projects build understanding. This innovative approach uses primary

David Lohman, assistant professor of biology at ����Ӱҵ, presents “Biodiversity Research in Tropical Asia: A Tale of Butterflies and Bureaucracy.” The talk, 4 -5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16, in City College’s Spitzer Auditorium, is part of the college’s Conversations in Engaged Scholarship series. The forum features ����Ӱҵ faculty sharing their research and creative scholarship that impacts public policy, reform, and the civic, social, political or environmental landscape. Lohman will discuss the patterns and processes of biological diversification using tropical butterflies

Now in its second year, the S Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders, a selective year-long professional and career development program, is proving a massive success offering ����Ӱҵ’s brightest real-world job experience through summer internships. At the Summer Internship Opportunities Expo, fellows get to network with elite corporate internship sites to improve employment opportunity upon graduation. The fellowship was named after ‘42 alumnus S Jay Levy, economist and forecaster, who was concerned with the cost of unemployment and was also an advocate for economic