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As the largest single chunk of melting snow and ice in the world, the massive ice sheet that covers about 80 percent of Greenland is recognized as the biggest potential contributor to rising sea levels due to glacial meltwater. Until now, however, scientists’ attention has mostly focused on the ice sheet’s aquamarine lakes — bodies of meltwater that tend to abruptly drain — and on monster chunks of ice that slide into the ocean to become icebergs. But a new study involving City College of New York scientist Marco Tedesco and a UCLA team reveals a vast network of little-understood rivers and

“Glimpses of Black People in the Earliest Documents of the Modern Americas,” an exhibit that traces the first African presence in the Americas, opens at ����Ӱҵ Friday, May 1, 2015. It will be on view in the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s (DSI) exhibit room, NAC 2/202. On display will be images of original documents, transcriptions, translations and photographs of historic sites on the island-colony of La Española (Hispaniola) that is today the neighboring states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The exhibit is a continuation of DSI’s larger project entitled “First

One of the longest running weekend primetime television shows in the New York area is a program showcasing international cinema developed and hosted by award-winning City College of New York filmmaker and scholar Jerry Carlson . Now in its 20th year, “ City Cinematheque ” airs movies on CUNY-TV Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 p.m. followed by a discussion on the social and historical value of the film with scholars, film professionals and critics. “Early in CUNY-TV’s creation, I pitched the idea that an international city like New York deserved a show about international cinema,” said Dr

The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY), presented by ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, will be held June 22-25, 2015. Today, the festival announced a call for submissions for feature films, documentaries, shorts and animations that represent the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas. “The extraordinary success of TAFFNY last year in terms of short and feature films as well as public participation in all functions demonstrated that this festival covers an artistic and cultural need,” said

Prospects of developing computing and communication technologies based on quantum properties of light and matter may have taken a major step forward thanks to research by City College of New York physicists led by Dr. Vinod Menon. In a pioneering study, Professor Menon and his team were able to discover half-light, half-matter particles in atomically thin semiconductors (thickness ~ a millionth of a single sheet of paper) consisting of two-dimensional (2D) layer of molybdenum and sulfur atoms arranged similar to graphene. They sandwiched this 2D material in a light trapping structure to

Elena Romero and Grace Aneiza Ali , adjuncts in ����Ӱҵ's Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE), will speak at the Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories conference in Florence, Italy, May 28-31, 2015. It will be the sixth in a series of conferences staged by New York University and Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Ms. Romero, an adjunct assistant professor, will be a panelist on a discussion of the body in hip hop culture. A former fashion editor for fashion

As a child in his native Trinidad, Lenn Hypolite’s young mind was immersed in comic books. He grew up dreaming of creating his own Afro-Caribbean superhero. Thanks to ����Ӱҵ’s electronic design and multimedia (EDM) program Mr. Hypolite is now about to introduce “Telestro” to readers. A teenager with the powers of teleportation, Telestro is the Trinidadian-based hero of a 50-page original web graphic novel produced by Mr. Hypolite for this year’s BFA thesis show. The senior credits the EDM program for helping him realize his dreams and adding Telestro to the pantheon of

����Ӱҵ’s student chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers took first place in three categories in addition to scooping the best “Trailblazer Chapter Award” at the NSBE Region 1 conference in Hauppauge, N.Y. The winners at the event from City College’s Grove School of Engineering were: Chiziterem Uwaga (senior, mechanical engineering), Individual Challenge Question with his presentation on tackling harmful pathogens; Rajiv Wallace (senior, chemistry), in the Technical Research Exhibition; “Team Parchment Protectors” comprising Oren Previl (junior, civil

The “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement,” series at ����Ӱҵ continues in 2015. Dr. Ana Carnaval , assistant professor of biology at ����Ӱҵ whose research has helped develop a new biodiversity metric called “phylogeographic endemism,” is the third speaker in the series, Thursday, February 5, 4 – 5:30 p.m. in Shepard 250. Her topic will be “Integrating Biology and Environmental Sciences to Understand Biodiversity Patterns in the Tropics.” The other scheduled speakers in the spring are: Dr. Andrea Weiss, Media and Communication Arts, “Bones of

����Ӱҵ’s student-designed “Solar Roofpod” is making a comeback atop the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building. Envisaged as a solution to New York City’s energy and emission problems, the innovative structure had been in storage since placing second in the “People’s Choice Award” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2011 Solar Decathlon on the National Mall. The first phase of its installation is nearing completion, allowing for its use as a classroom, living lab and lecture event space, hopefully in the spring semester, said Christian Volkmann, associate