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CCNY’s Grove School to Open Entrepreneurship Center
The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering will open an entrepreneurship center next month that will also serve as a business incubator for aspiring student and faculty entrepreneurs and a resource for local businesses. The facility, to be known as the Zahn Center, is supported by a $1 million gift from the Moxie Foundation, the charity of CCNY alumnus Irwin Zahn, ’48, a $440,000 grant from the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and the College.
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New obesity measure predicts early death better than BMI
A new measure of obesity developed by a City College of New York researcher and a physician predicts early death better than BMI, the Body Mass Index.
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Tense Film Scenes Trigger Brain Activity, CCNY-Led Team Finds
Visual and auditory stimuli that elicit high levels of engagement and emotional response can be linked to reliable patterns of brain activity, a team of researchers from The City College of New York and Columbia University reports. Their findings could lead to new ways for producers of films, television programs and commercials to predict what kinds of scenes their audiences will respond to.
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CUNY ITS to Help Train Abu Dhabi Department of Transport Personnel
The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (Abu Dhabi DoT) and The CUNY Institute for Transportation Systems (CUNY ITS) in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, signed a Memorandum of Understanding Monday, June 4, 2012, aimed at providing continuous development support in areas of transport management and technical programs to targeted United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Abu Dhabi DoT students, executives and staff.
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CCNY Announces Winner of $50,000 Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship
A hands-free system to help visually impaired people sense their surroundings won $50,000 for a team of five City College of New York students in the Second Annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship competition.
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CUNY Energy Institute Battery System Could Reduce Buildings' Electric Bills
The CUNY Energy Institute, which has been developing innovative low-cost batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates and high energy densities, announced that it has built an operating prototype zinc anode battery system. The Institute said large-scale commercialization of the battery would start later this year.
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1 CCNY Senior, 8 Recent Graduates Win NSF Research Fellowships
Nine City College of New York students – eight recent graduates and a graduating senior – are recipients of 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. The Fellowships are the most prestigious awards a graduate student in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) can receive. They provide $121,500 over three years and are given to recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields.
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Technology Eases Migraine Pain in the Deep Brain
A team of researchers that includes Dr. Marom Bikson, associate professor of biomedical engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, has shown that a brain stimulation technology can prevent migraine attacks from occurring.
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CCNY Robotics Professor Receives NSF Commercialization Grant
Dr. Jizhong Xiao, assistant professor of electrical engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering was awarded a six-month, $50,000 commercialization grant from the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program. Professor Xiao will use the award to assess the commercial readiness of the City-Climber, a mobile robot capable of climbing walls and running along ceilings.
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Mitchell B. Schaffler Named CUNY Distinguished Professor
Dr. Mitchell B. Schaffler, Wallace H. Coulter and Presidential Professor of Biomedical Engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering and Director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering, has been named a CUNY Distinguished Professor. The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the appointment at its February 27 meeting.
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City College Speaker Offers Five Rules for Business Success in China
When initiating business dealings in China, “know the cultural nuances, or you will fail before you start,” warned Savio Chan, president and CEO of US China Partners Inc., in a lecture at The City College of New York earlier this month. His talk, “Five Rules Of Doing Business In China,” was the inaugural presentation of the Aziz Ahmad Leadership Lecture Series at the Grove School of Engineering.
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