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Junior Alla Zamarayeva Named 2013 Goldwater Scholar

Alla Zamarayeva, a junior chemical engineering major in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for 2013 from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Goldwater Scholarship, which is federally funded, is America’s premiere award for undergraduates majoring in math, science and engineering.
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Anniversary Conference Celebrates 30 Years of Cloud Research

More than 80 scientists, climatologists and weather experts from across the globe will descend on The City College of New York this month to take part in a conference celebrating the collection of three decades-worth of worldwide satellite observations of the properties, behavior and effects of clouds.
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CCNY Team Spends Spring Break Studying Imperiled Caribbean Lakes

Spring break in the Caribbean conjures up images of days on the beach and nights in the clubs. But for five City College of New York undergraduate environmental engineering majors, two professors, a graduate student and a post-doc, it means something very different: trying to understand a climate-related phenomenon that is imperiling two lakes on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Two CCNY Scientists Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Two scientists from The City College of New York have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards to support their research, teaching and outreach over the next five years.
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CCNY Grad Students Create Tool to Measure a City’s Success

How does a city measure success? In the case of Newark, N.J., the city is a major employment, cultural and education center. However, limited education attainment and low incomes preclude many residents from taking advantage of opportunities right in their backyard.
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Novel Energy Idea Wins CCNY Team Entry Into Elite Competition

A simple, inexpensive idea to convert wood waste in India into renewable energy in the form of electricity and charcoal has won a team of City College of New York undergraduates the top prize in a CUNY-wide entrepreneurship competition and an opportunity to go up against teams from 20 top-tier graduate business schools in a national competition.
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Professor Castaldi Attends Engineering Education Symposium

Dr. Marco Castaldi, associate professor of chemical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, designs courses the same way he engineers a new piece of research equipment: assemble the fundamental parts, study how existing models operate, reimagine the models, then, do lots of hands-on building.
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Warmer Temperatures Make New USDA Plant Zone Map Obsolete

Gardeners and landscapers may want to rethink their fall tree plantings. Warming temperatures have already made the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new cold-weather planting guidelines obsolete, according to Dr. Nir Krakauer, assistant professor of civil engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering. He developed a new method to map cold-weather zones that takes rapidly rising temperatures into account.
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CCNY to Host Cyber Infrastructure Protection Conference

Government, business, and academic leaders will assess the vulnerability of America’s cyber infrastructure and provide strategic policy directions for its protection at the Third Cyber Infrastructure Protection 2012 Conference (CIP '12), September 13 – 14 at The City College of New York.
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CCNY’s Grove School Joins Global Engineering Education Exchange

In a move that gives its students the opportunity to participate in study-abroad programs at colleges and universities in 17 countries, The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering has joined the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3). Students will be able to participate in these programs at regular City College tuition rates and they can apply their current financial aid packages to pay for them.
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