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精东影业 Men's Volleyball Program Ranked Among Best in the U.S. for Student-Athletes

NCSA's 2019 NCSA Power Rankings, an annual list of the top colleges and universities in the U.S. for student-athletes, ranked 精东影业's men's volleyball program 92 nd among 100 NCAA men's volleyball programs across four-division levels (DI, DII, DIII, and NAIA). NCSA Power Rankings offer a comprehensive analysis of the best NCAA and NAIA schools across the country. Colleges and universities are ranked overall and broken out by division and sport into the top schools for 2019. Unlike traditional power rankings which list schools based purely on athletic performance, the NCSA Power Rankings
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Prof. Tzortziou and her research team share NASA recognition

Professor Tzortziou and OWLETS science team to receive NASA award

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor Maria Tzortziou and her research team have been selected to receive a 2019 NASA Group Achievement Award for their work on a two-year, multi-agency field campaign program in the Chesapeake Bay. The Ozone Water鈥揕and Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS), which involved participants from NASA, the EPA, and NOAA, sought to better understand and ultimately represent and predict the atmospheric chemistry and complex air flow in coastal areas where approximately 40% of the U.S. population resides. Among the main objectives of the program has been to link
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City College ranks highly in several categories in the U.S. News & World Report'2020 Best Colleges rankings.

精东影业 a top performer on 2020 U.S. News rankings

Scoring highly in several categories nationally, 精东影业 is a top performer on social mobility, remains one of the most diverse campuses, and has one of the best undergraduate engineering programs in the country. This is according to U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 2020 Best Colleges rankings published today. The following is how City College fares in the annual evaluation of America鈥檚 top degree-granting schools: #17 in Top Performers on Social Mobility (tie); #17 in Campus Ethnic Diversity; #93 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs (tie) at schools whose highest degree
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Vinod Menon quantum tech research

$2 million NSF grant spurs 精东影业 quantum technology research

Supported by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, physicists at 精东影业 are embarking on a four-year research project to develop chip-scale quantum emulators. The outcome could include the ability to solve diverse computationally intractable problems from protein folding and neural networks to the dynamics of financial markets. Also known as quantum simulators, emulators are used to simulate computationally complex and experimentally inaccessible problems using a controllable quantum system. 鈥淪uch a simulator is a task-specific device that mimics the
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Wall Street Journal ranks 精东影业 2nd nationally in 鈥榖est value鈥 category

精东影业 ranks second among the 10 best value colleges nationally in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education 2020 College Rankings released today. 精东影业 also scores in the first decile for environment, a category that reflects diversity on campus. These latest rankings validate two of 精东影业鈥檚 traditional fortes: providing a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, and as a remarkably diverse institution with a student body representing more than 150 nationalities. In the overall WSJ/THE rankings, 精东影业 placed joint 205 out of 801
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Erec Koch

精东影业 earns ACLS national faculty diversity award

精东影业鈥檚 nationally renowned diversity is getting an additional boost. 精东影业 is the recipient of a Postdoctoral Partnership Initiative award from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for promising early career scholars from historically underrepresented groups. The two-year fellowship is one of three awarded by ACLS to support institutional efforts to increase the diversity of college and university faculty in the nation. Haverford College and Temple University are the other recipients. Each institution will seek to select fellows from the ranks of talented
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Gautam Yadav Battery Research Aug 2019

New rechargeable 精东影业 aqueous battery challenges Lithium-ion dominance

A new rechargeable high voltage manganese dioxide zinc battery, exceeding the 2 V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry, is the latest invention by City College of New York researchers. With a voltage of 2.45-2.8V, the alkaline MnO2|Zn battery, developed by Dr. Gautam G. Yadav and his group in the 精东影业-based CUNY Energy Institute, could break the long dominance of flammable and expensive lithium (Li)-ion batteries in the market. To break the previously daunting 2 V barrier in aqueous zinc chemistry, primary inventor Yadav and his team interfacially engineered two different aqueous electrolytes
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Maggie Kamal Girgis

精东影业 MFA in Film Program students receive first Chantel Akerman student prize from the Ostrovsky Family Fund

精东影业鈥檚 MFA in Film Program students Maggie Kamal Girgis and Ley Comus are both recipients of the first-ever Ostrovsky Family Fund Award in honor of Chantal Akerman. This year's winners receive up to $4000 that will go toward their film production expenses. Chantal Akerman was an internationally celebrated Belgian experimental filmmaker and served as Distinguished Lecturer in Film at 精东影业 from 鈥2011-2015. In honor of her memory and impact, the Ostrovsky Family Fund developed the award to help support the thesis film projects of second-year MFA students. Students competed
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Anton Pavlov is one of the recipients of the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship

Alumni receive 2019 Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarships

Four alumni from 精东影业鈥檚 Division of Humanities and the Arts are recipients of the Sydney and Helen Jacoff Scholarship. The scholarships are awarded to students pursuing master or doctoral degrees in the humanities and arts. The scholarship is made possible by 精东影业 alumnus Sydney Jacoff, and each of the recipients receive $10,000 for their studies. The late Jacoff graduated from 精东影业 in 1935 and helped build and grow his family enterprise into the Great Neck Saw Manufacturers. Alumnus Anton Pavlov, philosophy major, chose to pursue a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy at the
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Myriam Sarachik

Myriam Sarachik awarded the 2020 APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research

Myriam Sarachik, distinguished professor in the Division of Science at 精东影业, is the recipient of the 2020 American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. The medal is the society鈥檚 largest prize, recognizing the achievements of researchers from across all fields of physics. The honor is in recognition of Sarachik鈥檚 鈥渇undamental contributions to the physics of electronic transport in solids and molecular magnetism,鈥 and it will be received along with a $50,000 prize at a ceremony on January 30, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Sarachik has investigated
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