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A new mobile app developed by City College of New York physicist Hernan Makse and his colleagues will track and trace those infected with the novel coronavirus as a means of limiting and containing the spread of the virus, which causes COVID-19. The K-core Tracing app uses Global Positioning System data to track millions of data points from mobile phone calls, GPS-based app and social media use, Bluetooth signals and public transportation to develop an algorithm that uses location data to find all of a person’s contacts. This algorithm uses these data to notify the individual user that he or

Paul Bernabe, Marian Cuestas, Cynthia Rojas, and Ping Sun, from ����Ӱҵ’s Master of Professional Studies in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) program, took top prize at The One Club for Creativity’s Young Ones Student Awards. They received the Gold Pencil for their North Face campaign “ Nature Never Judges” as well as a Bronze ADC Cube. The One Club for Creativity is the world’s foremost non-profit organization recognizing creativity in marketing communications and design. The annual One Show and Young Ones Award Shows are considered the industry’s equivalent to

In pursuit of a dual degree in electrical engineering and Asian studies at ����Ӱҵ, Lizzette Salmeron, a first-generation college student from the Class of 2020, often juggled two jobs while carrying a fulltime course load. Reaping the rewards of her hard work, she’s now the recipient of a highly competitive GEM Fellowship, which includes an exclusive internship offer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She’ll then return to City College in the fall to begin her PhD in the Grove School of Engineering. GEM fellowships fund master's and PhDs in engineering for

����Ӱҵ announced a newly implemented program to train Home Health Aides (HHA). Sponsored by the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), the training of HHAs is critical to address an immediate shortage since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The program is a fully online, no-cost training that prepares New Yorkers with the necessary skills to care for individuals in their homes, under the supervision of nursing and medical staff. “The partnership between SBS and ����Ӱҵ is a win-win to address the critical shortage of Home Health Aides within this pandemic,”

First launched in 2013, the Translational Research Training in Addictions for Racial/Ethnic Minorities (TRACC) program at ����Ӱҵ and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) set about increasing the number of scientists from underrepresented racial/ethnic minority groups conducting translational studies in addiction research. Seven years later, a $1,672,150 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is extending TRACC for another five years. It brings to more than $3 million NIH funding for the innovative and interdisciplinary research training and mentoring

Four students from ����Ӱҵ’s Class of 2020 are recipients of Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarships from the Division of Humanities and the Arts. The $10,000 award, from alumnus Sydney Jacoff, helps ����Ӱҵ students in their pursuit of master’s and doctoral degrees in humanities and arts. The ����Ӱҵ recipients and their master’s or doctoral degrees are: Sean Apparicio, a philosophy major, will pursue an M.A. Program in Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. After completing his master’s degree, he will pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy and become a professor and activist scholar

The recipient of several top national awards in three stellar years at ����Ӱҵ, Mathiu Perez Rodriguez from the Class of 2020 is leaving his alma mater with one of the biggest research awards in the country, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Fellowship. Perez Rodriguez enters the highly competitive program this summer for one year before heading to medical school. The program promotes biomedical research training in allergic, immunologic, or infectious diseases. Fellows are talented senior-level undergraduate students, who have recently

����Ӱҵ has named Andrew Wooten as its first-ever senior director of innovation management and business development. In his new position, Wooten will be responsible for leading development and execution of ����Ӱҵ’s strategy to maximize the commercial success of innovations developed with ����Ӱҵ, CUNY and Foundation for City College resources. He reports to Dee Dee Mozeleski, the executive director of ����Ӱҵ’s Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications. “Andrew will play a vital role in identifying where the college can make the most significant impact in the area of

An important contributor to ����Ӱҵ's #1 national ranking for social mobility, ����Ӱҵ’s School of Education (SOE) is earning additional recognition for its programs. In its 2020 rankings of Best Colleges for Earning Potential, GradReports places both SOE’s Special Education and Educational Leadership graduate offerings in the top 10 in the United States. Out of the best 24 colleges that offer a master’s degree in special education -- based on median salary one year after graduation -- ����Ӱҵ is #6. This is based on SOE alumni earning a median salary of $64,000 once they leave

Paul Bernabe, Dimandja Utshudi, and Ayush Kumar, from ����Ӱҵ’s Master of Professional Studies in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) program, are recipients of scholarships from The LAGRANT Foundation. They are among 26 graduate students nationwide to receive a TLF scholarship whose winners share the foundation's mission of increasing ethnic diversity in the advertising, marketing and public relations industries. The trio will each receive $3,750 and join an impressive list of students from institutions such as Rice University, Georgetown, UCLA, Northwestern and