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Professor Castaldi Attends Engineering Education Symposium

Dr. Marco Castaldi, associate professor of chemical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, designs courses the same way he engineers a new piece of research equipment: assemble the fundamental parts, study how existing models operate, reimagine the models, then, do lots of hands-on building.
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Journal Launched by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez Marks 20 Years

In 1992, the world marked the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of America. That year, a new journal began publication featuring fresh and exciting directions in scholarship of the era that followed and lasted until the Latin American independence movement began in the early 19th century.
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CCNY Historian Barbara Ann Naddeo Wins Jaques Barzun Prize

Dr. Barbara Ann Naddeo, City College associate professor of history, is the winner of the 2011 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for “Vico and Naples: The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory,” published by Cornell University Press.
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Warmer Temperatures Make New USDA Plant Zone Map Obsolete

Gardeners and landscapers may want to rethink their fall tree plantings. Warming temperatures have already made the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new cold-weather planting guidelines obsolete, according to Dr. Nir Krakauer, assistant professor of civil engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering. He developed a new method to map cold-weather zones that takes rapidly rising temperatures into account.
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CCNY Announces Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Events

Whether it is called Hispanic Heritage Month or Latino Heritage Month, it is a fiesta of lectures, concerts, parties and forums celebrating the cultures and traditions of the peoples who comprise the largest segment of The City College of New York’s student population. Events run September 13 through October 17 and take place on CCNY’s main campus at 138th Street and Convent Avenue and at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, New York.
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Princeton Review Selects CCNY as One of Nation’s Best Colleges

For the first time, The Princeton Review will add The City College of New York to its roster of the nation’s best colleges. The prestigious selection earns CCNY a place in The Princeton Review’s annual “Best Colleges” guidebook, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition, published this week.
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Greenland Melting Breaks Record Four Weeks Early

Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on August 8 – a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reported Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York.
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CCNY Psychologist Offers Guide to Utilizing Projective Tests

“If I hold up a coffee mug and ask you to tell me what it is, it is easy for you to give me the correct answer, but you haven’t revealed anything about yourself,” says City College of New York Professor of Psychology Steven Tuber. “But if I ask you to describe something that is ambiguous I am giving you a problem, and how you make sense of it tells me something about yourself.”
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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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Concept Contest Spurs Renaissance in Affordable Housing

Via Verde, a new, 222-unit housing project in the South Bronx, is being hailed as a triumph of sustainability, affordability and beauty. “I don’t think there will be any housing studio (class) where students will not be looking at Via Verde as a case study,” says Lance Jay Brown, ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture in City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. “For the next five years it will be the go-to project for how to integrate principles of sustainability with design excellence.”
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CCNY Radio Station Health Initiative Garners Accolades

In a neighborhood where health issues are prevalent, Angela Harden, general manager of The City College of New York’s community radio station, WHCR 90.3 FM, has made spreading awareness and prevention to Harlem listeners one of her missions. Since 2006, the station has carried a weekly talk show, “Health in Harlem,” that offers practical information about medical problems that are prevalent in the community.
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