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����Ӱҵ’s Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter is the winner of the Blake Lilly Prize from the American Institute of Physics (AIP). The award recognizes SPS chapters and individuals who make a genuine effort to positively influence the attitudes of school children and the general public about physics. “Your chapter’s outreach efforts and dedication to physics education have visibly made a difference in your community and the SPS National Office is proud to present you with this prestigious award,” Brad R. Conrad, director, Society of Physics Students & Sigma Pi Sigma

The Covid-19 pandemic has made home offices, virtual meetings and remote learning the norm, and it is likely here to stay. But are people paying attention in online meetings? Are students paying attention in virtual classrooms? Researchers Jens Madsen and Lucas C. Parra from City College of New York, demonstrate how eye tracking can be used to measure the level of attention online using standard web cameras, without the need to transfer any data from peoples computers, thus preserving privacy. In a paper entitled “ Synchronized eye movements predict test scores in online video education,"

����Ӱҵ celebrates Black History Month with a variety of events including the Black Lives Matter at School’s “Week of Action,” a film screening and “Douglass Day” just to name a few. The full schedule of events is listed below. Black History Month Kickoff Feb. 2, 2021, 6-8 p.m. Department of Student Life & Leadership Development Starting in February, the Department of Student Life & Leadership Development will be celebrating Black History Month with a kickoff of virtual activities and prizes. They will reveal a virtual BHM Honoree Wall and games will center around

If you are an undergraduate seeking research options in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), look no further than ����Ӱҵ. Using its unique and innovative InfluenceRanking Engine, AcademicInfluence.com lists City College among its 50 Best Research Universities in the U.S. for Undergraduates. ����Ӱҵ shares top billing with universities such as American, Boston, Brandeis and Brown for their excellence as research institutions of note for undergraduates. Other top ranked schools include: California Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University

Jing Fan, assistant professor in the Grove School of Engineering, is the sixth City College of New York faculty to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award since 2018. A mechanical engineer, her $546,626 award over five years is for her research project entitled: “Microfluidic development of dual-gel culture matrices for studying effects of interstitial flow on cellular behaviors.” Fan’s research interests lie primarily in the areas of soft materials and complex fluids. Her CAREER project will develop new tissue-mimetic, “dual gel” materials as cell culture matrices that allow

����Ӱҵ and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are the recipients of a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to use machine-learning for early breast cancer detection in high-risk women. The five-year project will analyze 100,000 breast exams from MSK, as well as data from Duke University and Johns Hopkins University. The project, “Machine learning for risk-adjusted breast MRI screening,” will be co-led by Lucas C. Parra, Harold Shames Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at ����Ӱҵ, and Elizabeth J. Sutton, MD, Associate Member in MSK’s

����Ӱҵ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is one of 17 academic partners nationally in NBCUniversal News Group’s new NBCU Academy, an innovative, multiplatform journalism training and development program for four-year university and community college students. A partnership with historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and colleges with significant Black, Indigenous, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Island and tribal populations, NBCU Academy signals Comcast NBCUniversal and NBCU News Group’s commitment to diversity

The seamless integration of sensing and computing is credited for numerous technological breakthroughs in recent years. Taking a deep dive into this exciting world, City College of New York computer science students are about to embark on a project to integrate the sensing power of multimodal signals with big data analytics and deep learning to enable the identification of military targets under previously difficult conditions. This is thanks to a $434,000 three-year grant to City College computer faculty Jie Wei and Zhigang Zhu from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). In

Many animal and insect species use Batesian mimicry – mimicking a poisonous species – as a defense against predators. The common palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra (a species of satyrine butterfly), which is found throughout wide areas of tropical and subtropical Asia, adds a twist to this evolutionary strategy: the females evolved two distinct forms, either orange or dark brown, imitating two separate poisonous model species, Danaus or Euploea. The males are uniformly brown. A population group is either entirely brown (both males and females) or mixed (brown males and orange females). City

����Ӱҵ is pleased to announce a major gift by Ruth Sragow Newhouse to establish the Henry Newhouse Scholarship Fund. The new Fund will support qualified undergraduate or graduate students majoring in earth and atmospheric sciences at the College. Recipients of scholarships from the Fund will be determined by the EAS Department’s Scholarship Committee. While the awards are predominantly merit-based, the criteria will also take students’ circumstances and backgrounds into account. “We are very grateful for this gift, which is, by far, the biggest one ever received by the