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  • Two Teams Named Kaylie Entrepreneurship Prize Winners

    Two student teams were chosen as winners of The City College of New York’s first annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship.  CCNY alumnus and award benefactor Harvey Kaylie, EE ’60, announced the surprise decision, which was made by a five-member panel of judges, following final presentations by five teams on Tuesday, May 10.

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  • Engineering Societies Honor Two Grove School Professors

    Two professors in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York have been elected to top honors in their respective fields.  Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, has been elected a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  Dr. Mitchell B. Schaffler, Wallace Coulter and Presidential Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

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  • CCNY Appoints Martin Moskovits Provost, Chief Academic Officer

    Dr. Martin Moskovits, a scholar, university administrator and business executive who is a recognized leader in nanoscience and nanotechnology, will become the next provost and chief academic officer of The City College of New York, effective August 1.  The CUNY Board of Trustees approved his appointment May 2.

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  • CCNY Undergrad Johnson Ho Named 2011 Goldwater Scholar

    Johnson Shiuan-Jiun Ho, a junior biomedical engineering major in the Grove School of Engineering and Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for 2011.  The national award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate academic excellence and outstanding potential for future scientific research.

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  • 3 CCNY Students Receive Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship

    City College of New York students Jose Esteban Rodriguez Alverio, Elizabeth Kelman and Nicholas Macaluso have received Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships for 2011.  They are among 15 undergraduate recipients from 12 New York City colleges and universities.

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  • NOAA Administrator to Visit CCNY for NOAA-CREST Day

    Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will visit The City College of New York Friday, April 15, to participate in the ninth annual NOAA-CREST Day.  While here, she will also meet with CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Research Gillian Small and NOAA-CREST Director Reza Khanbilvardi.

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  • Grove School Professor Leads New Metamaterials Center

    A new National Science Foundation-sponsored industry & university cooperative research center program (I/UCRC) will “provide a one-stop shop for the design, fabrication and testing of a wide range of metamaterials.“  Dr. David Crouse, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, serves as director of the new Center for Metamaterials. 

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  • CCNY Professor Develops Speedy Cancer Drug Screening Device

    A biomedical engineering professor in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to develop a micro-tumor array that could evaluate dozens of different drugs on a single chip in a single test. If successful, the research could take the guesswork out of treating cancer and other diseases, and lead to faster recoveries and better patient outcomes.

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  • Kaylie Entrepreneurship Prize Finalists Announced

    Five teams comprised of 23 students were announced today as finalists to compete for the first annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship at The City College of New York.  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.

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  • ‘Buz’ Paaswell Receives Transportation Education Award

    Dr. Robert ‘Buz’ Paaswell, distinguished professor of civil engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, and director emeritus of the University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) – Region 2, has been awarded the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research Award. 

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  • CCNY-Led Interdisciplinary Team Recreates Colonial Hydrology

    Hydrologists may have a new way to study historical water conditions.   By synthesizing present-day data with historical records they may be able to recreate broad hydrologic trends on a regional basis for periods from which scant data is available.

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