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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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CCNY Alumnus Harvey Kaylie, ’60, Endows Entrepreneurship Contest

Helping students to bridge the academic and real worlds, the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York is launching an entrepreneurship contest supported by a new $3 million gift from CCNY alumnus Harvey Kaylie, ’60.
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U.S. Department of Education Awards $5.7 Million to CCNY

Two grants totaling $5.7 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education will help The City College of New York improve undergraduate retention and graduation rates and prepare graduate students for careers in the green economy. CCNY was the only mainland institution east of the Mississippi River to receive awards through the Department’s Title V programs for Hispanic-serving institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
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Professor Tu Invited to National Academy Symposium

Dr. Raymond Tu, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, is one of 53 young researchers and educators nationwide invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2010 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The event, which will bring together innovative, early-career engineering professors from more than 40 institutions, will be held December 13 – 16 in Irvine, Calif.
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Dominican Studies Institute Hosts Science Panel November 6

Four scientists will participate in a panel discussion on projects under way in the Dominican Republic and their impact on the country’s economic development. The event, presented by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) takes place 4 p.m. Saturday, November 6, Room 1/203, North Academic Center, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan.
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CCNY Research Funding Grows 24.3 Percent to $69.1 Million

For the second consecutive year, funded research programs at The City College of New York experienced gains in excess of 20 percent. Awards for the 2009 – 2010 academic year totaled $69.1 million, a 24.3 percent gain from the prior year, according to the College’s Office of Research Administration.
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Global Study Finds Widespread Threats to World’s Rivers

Multiple environmental stressors, such as agricultural runoff, pollution and invasive species, threaten rivers that serve 80 percent of the world’s population, around 5 billion people, according to researchers from The City College (CCNY) of The City University of New York (CUNY), University of Wisconsin and seven other institutions. These same stressors endanger the biodiversity of 65 percent of the world’s river habitats and put thousands of aquatic wildlife species at risk.
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Energy Department Awards CUNY Energy Institute $4.6 Million

The CUNY Energy Institute, based at The City College of New York (CCNY), was awarded two grants totaling $4.6 million over three years in the latest round of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). They are among the 43 grants totaling $92 million announced July 12 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for cutting-edge research projects to dramatically improve how the United States uses and produces energy.
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More Frequent, More Intense Heat Waves in Store for New York

Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists at The City College of New York (CCNY).
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Grove School Students Win Intelligent Ground Vehicle Design Competition

A five-member team of students in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) took first place in the design category in the 18th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). The event, in which 58 teams from six countries qualified to compete, was held June 4 – 7 at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Mich.
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