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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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Stanford University Teams Up with The City University of New York and City College in New Engineering and Science Collaboration in NYC

In response to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call to strengthen New York City’s economy by creating a world-class applied science and engineering school here, Stanford University President John L. Hennessy, The City University of New York Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and City College President Lisa S. Coico today announced the creation of the Stanford-CUNY Collaboration at City College, or Stanford@CCNY.
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NOAA-CREST Begins Second Decade with $15 Million Grant

The NOAA-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (NOAA-CREST) has begun its second decade of operation, supported by a new five-year, $15 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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CCNY-led Research Could Lead to Wearable Sensors for the Blind

Wearable sensors that allow blind people to “see” with their hands, bodies or faces could be on the horizon, thanks to a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at The City College of New York and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
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NRC Ranks CCNY PhD Program Among Best in US

In 1999, the City University of New York began training PhD candidates in biomedical engineering, three years before its engineering school, the Grove School at The City College of New York, even had a biomedical engineering department. Fast-forward 12 years to 2011 and the program is now one of the nation’s best, according to National Research Council (NRC) rankings.
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CCNY’s Solar Roof Pod Showcases Innovative Technology

A unique structure in the urban landscape has arisen on a plaza of The City College of New York campus over the past few months. Designed and built by CCNY students, faculty and team sponsors, it is meant to be installed on the roofs of commercial and residential buildings in high-density urban centers. Dubbed the Solar Roof Pod, it showcases cutting-edge green technology inside and out, including a novel heating and cooling system with more than twice the energy efficiency of conventional units.
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Sponsor Network Turns Solar Roof Pod Dream Into Reality

When The City College of New York was selected from more than 100 entrants as one of 20 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon, it faced a huge challenge: Could this urban, public college assemble the resources needed to design and build the students’ prototype solar house and compete against well-heeled, private and public institutions large and small?
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Solar Roof Pod Volunteers Learn Skills Not Taught in Class

Yinery Baez, a fourth-year architecture student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, never gave much thought to screws. However, as project manager for the interior of the Solar Roof Pod, CCNY’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, specifying cabinet hardware is one of her many responsibilities.
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CCNY Sustainability Program Receives Green Infrastructure Grant

A joint proposal from The City College of New York’s interdisciplinary Sustainability in the Urban Environment master’s program and two other organizations was one of 15 projects funded in the New York Department of Environmental Protection’s 2011 Green Infrastructure Grant Program. The team, which also includes New York Restoration Project, as lead partner, and Stantec Consulting, received $244,920.
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CCNY Students Tweeting Their Summers

Each summer, many City College of New York students leave the classroom behind to immerse themselves in exciting off-campus experiences. This year, a cadre of undergraduates invites you to follow their adventures on Twitter as they launch summer projects in academia, government, and the non-profit sector.
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CCNY-Led Team Gets $3M for Northeast Earth System Model

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Charles Vörösmarty, professor of civil engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, was awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a regional earth system model of the Northeast. The effort involves partner institutions from around the region, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass.
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Security Expert Sees Cyber Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

A cyber attack earlier this year on an Iranian nuclear facility may have set back Iran’s alleged plan to build an atom bomb. However, the target of that incident, the plant’s control and monitoring systems, has implications for a wide range of strategic infrastructure, according to cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, director, Center for Information Networking, and professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York.
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CCNY Students Conquer Concrete Canoe Contest

A team of City College of New York engineering students paddled their way to victory in a “green” concrete canoe they designed and built for the 2011 Metropolitan Region Concrete Canoe Competition held last month in Denville, N.J.
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