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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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Five Teams Picked as Kaylie Entrepreneurship Prize Finalists

Five student teams have been chosen as finalists for The City College of New York’s Second Annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship. Over the next four months, the teams will refine their business ideas as they compete for the first prize: financial support and housing to work over the summer in a Silicon Valley garage-like environment to further develop their projects, plus a $25,000 cash award from entrepreneur and contest benefactor Harvey Kaylie, CCNY Class of 1960.
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Carbonized Coffee Grounds Remove Foul Smells

For coffee lovers, the first cup of the morning is one of life’s best aromas. But did you know that the leftover grounds could eliminate one of the worst smells around – sewer gas?
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Robert Alfano Wins Inaugural Biomedical Optics Award

A scientific innovator from The City College of New York (CCNY) whose research unites the divergent fields of medicine, biology and high speed laser physics will be honored this month for his pioneering work in biomedical optics by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
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CCNY, Hostos and LaGuardia Receive $4 Million for STEM

The City College of New York and two CUNY community colleges are partnering on a multifaceted initiative to attract more students to the STEM disciplines – especially Hispanics and low-income students – and help them earn their degrees. Producing more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduates is critical to strengthening U.S. competitiveness in the global economy.
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Duqu Virus Precursor of More Attacks, Cyber Security Expert Warns

Although so far the Duqu seems to have affected only a small number of cyber systems, it likely is a precursor to imminent more harmful attacks, warns cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, professor of electrical engineering at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering.
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CCNY Sophomore Named U.S. Interior Dept. Student Ambassador

For ten weeks last summer, Ivan Estevez, a sophomore majoring in civil engineering at The City College of New York, interned at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) near San Francisco. His assignment was to study 3D scans of the geological damage done by the devastating Japan earthquake in the spring and to help create figures for the USGS’ report on the calamity.
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