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Why would New York City, with its excellent, state-of-the-art hospitals, have a death rate from COVID-19 that is significantly higher than that of Mumbai, with its extremely overcrowded slums that house more than half of its citizens? New research, from Keith Gandal, professor of English in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at ����Ӱҵ, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, examine the surprising fact that the New York City death rates from COVID-19 have been four times that of Mumbai, India. According to their research, the

Patricia A. Broderick, inventor, researcher and medical professor in the CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ, is the host of “Eazysense” on Bold Brave Media Tune in Radio Talk Show and recently spoke about spinal cord injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic. “ The Covid Brain” focuses on conceptual and empirical leaps into the temporal synchrony of movement, freezing and panic disorders. The episode also focused on what affects movement other than muscles, limbs and spiny interneurons. As the inventor of The BRODERICK PROBE®, named after her father, and owner of its Trademark

In August, ����Ӱҵ announced the establishment of the President’s Innovation Fund, part of a holistic, coordinated, innovation acceleration strategy. The fund seeks to address a gap in resources for the development of early-stage innovations into new products and ventures. City College President Vince Boudreau described the establishment of the fund as “an institutional call to demonstrate our commitment to catalyze the development of innovations conceived at City College to achieve greater commercial and societal impacts.” The President’s Innovation Fund is part of a

A constant presence on annual rankings of the world’s top schools, ����Ӱҵ once again makes the list of The Princeton Review’s best colleges in the Northeast. ����Ӱҵ is also listed among the best 1,000 schools globally in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The Princeton Review’s “ 2021 Best Colleges: Region by Region” website feature recognizes ����Ӱҵ as one of the 224 best colleges in the Northeast. The website feature salutes a total of 655 colleges that The Princeton Review recommends over five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, and

The CUNY School of Medicine at ����Ӱҵ and TechnoVax, Inc., a biotechnology developer of novel vaccines, announce a breakthrough in their collaborative effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. Scientists from the two organizations have generated and characterized SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particles (VLPs) which are structural mimics of the native virus in size, morphology and surface composition but devoid of viral, infection causing, genetic material. These features of the VLP platform make it an ideal candidate for COVID-19 vaccine development. This technology has a proven

A team of international physicists led by Lia Krusin-Elbaum of the City College of New York, has created a new topological magnetic superlattice material, that at a high temperature can conduct electrical current without dissipation and lost energy. The finding, detailed in a paper published in “ Nature Physics,” could be the basis of research leading to an entire new quantum materials class that can potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing. The material in the form of crystals is created in a laboratory chamber. Atoms, in this process, naturally arrange into well

Keith Gandal, professor of English in the Division of Humanities and the Arts at ����Ӱҵ, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, found that U.S. death tolls from COVID-19 are 40% lower on the weekend. Deaths rise from Tuesday-Friday and come down Saturday-Monday—hitting a low on Sunday or Monday‪,‬ and the same pattern has repeated every single week of the pandemic‪.‬ Deaths during weekends were at least 40‪%‬ lower than on weekdays‪.‬ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ According to their research, the average death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is 901

Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum, Professor Emeritus in ����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering, is one of 12 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) from the White House. The awards are America’s highest honor for mentors who work with underrepresented groups to develop fully the nation's human resources in STEM. Previously a CUNY Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Weinbaum is the only honoree from New York State. “Sheldon Weinbaum

Grace McGrath of the Macaulay Honors College program at ����Ӱҵ is one of 10 undergraduates named 2020 Palantir Women In Technology Scholars. The highly competitive program created by software manufacturer Palantir is open to students in U.S., Canadian and Mexican institutions majoring in or planning to major in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) fields. The Palantir Women in Technology Scholarship was incepted in 2010 to celebrate and support women who are beginning careers in technology. It seeks to encourage women to pursue computer science, engineering

A still uncharted research field of much relevance beyond summer’s inevitable heatwaves is coming under the intense scrutiny of City College of New York mechanical engineer Prathap Ramamurthy, thanks to a $360,000 grant from The US Army Research Office (ARO). He’s tasked with unlocking the mysteries of urban fluid dynamics that impact the air flow and exchange of heat over cities. Ramamurthy’s three-year project is in collaboration with the Army Research Lab. “Urban areas have distinct landcover characteristics that impact the air flow and exchange of heat over cities,” said Ramamurthy