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Parallels Between Immunity and Cancer Reported

Tiny parasitoid wasps can play an important role in controlling the populations of other insect species by laying their eggs inside the larvae of these species. A newly hatched wasp gradually eats the host alive and takes over its body.
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Dr. Jeffrey Gordon Delivers 2010 Cosloy-Blank Lecture

Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., will deliver the 5th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Wednesday, December 8. His topic will be “The human gut microbiome: dining in with trillions of friends.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 250, Shepard Hall, and will be followed by a reception in Room 150, Shepard Hall.
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Professor Emeritus H. Jack Geiger Receives Schweitzer Prize

Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a founding faculty member of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York, who has focused his career on health, poverty and human rights, has been awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. He was honored at a dinner during The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) Conference, held October 16 in Baltimore, M.D.
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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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CCNY Professor Helps Document Obesity's Rising Impact on Longevity

San Diego, CA, August 3, 2010 – Although the prevalence of obesity and obesity-attributable deaths has steadily increased, the resultant burden of disease associated with obesity has not been well understood. A new study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine indicates that Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost to U.S. adults due to morbidity and mortality from obesity have more than doubled from 1993-2008 and the prevalence of obesity has increased 89.9% during the same period.
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Ten CCNY Students Named Sophie and Leonard Davis Scholars

Academic excellence, community service and a sense of compassion and empathy have earned ten fourth-year students in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York (CCNY) $30,000 scholarships for their medical studies.
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MIT Professor to Deliver Katz Chemical Engineering Lecture March 15

Dr. Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Annual Katz Lecture in Chemical Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) 2 p.m. Monday, March 15, in the Steinman Hall auditorium. His topic will be “Understanding Adaptive Immunity: A Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences.”
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Harlem is Focus of Health Commissioner’s Community Lecture February 17 at CCNY

Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Commissioner of Health, will deliver The President’s College and Community Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, in The Great Hall. His topic will be “Take Care New York 2012: Building a Healthier Harlem.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Sophie Davis PA Students Win Medical Jeopardy Championship

Miguel Santiago, Ifeanyi Nwobi and Patricia Nelson, students in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education Physician Assistant program, along with trainer David Lau, have won the New York State Medical Jeopardy Championship. A trophy for winning was presented to the team by the New York State Society of Physician Assistants (NYSSPA) at a December 4 reception on The City College campus.
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CCNY Student Engineers Discuss Water Projects At U.N.

Since 2005, the City College chapter of Engineers Without Borders (CCNY-EWB) has been working to bring fresh water to small villages in rural Honduras. Earlier this month, chapter leaders Svetlana Fisher and Joanna Bonfiglio gave a presentation on their efforts to a panel on water issues held at the United Nations as part of Rotary International Day. Later that day, CCNY-EWB was feted at a fundraiser cocktail party held by Rotaract at the United Nations, a young professionals division of Rotary.
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Cell Biologist Susan Lee Lindquist To Deliver Fourth Annual Cosloy-Blank Lecture

Biologist Susan Lee Lindquist will deliver the Fourth Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) 4 p.m. Thursday, November 19, in Room 95, Shepard Hall. The title of her talk will be “Engineering Simple Cells to Study Complex Human Diseases.” A reception will follow the lecture in Room 150, Shepard Hall.
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Lois Pope Presents Life Unsung Hero Scholarships To Four Sophie Davis Freshmen

Freshmen Daniel Asemota, Mohammad Sadat, Maha Salama and Chantal Strachan, all aspiring physicians in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York (CCNY), were chosen as 2009 recipients of the prestigious Lois Pope Annual LIFE Unsung Hero Scholarship Awards at CCNY.
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Children With Autism Need To Be Taught In Smaller Groups, Pilot Study Confirms

NEW YORK, July 1, 2009 – Since the 1970s, there has been much debate surrounding the fact that individuals with autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise.
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CCNY Grove School Engineers Use Remote Sensing Data To Combat Malaria Outbreaks In African Nation Of Namibia

NEW YORK, June 9, 2009 – A team of engineers with CCNY’s NOAA-CREST Center is applying remote sensing data to model outbreaks of malaria and help the southwest African nation of Namibia protect against them. Their efforts could help one of the world’s poorest nations more effectively allocate scarce resources to combat the deadly disease and save lives.
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CCNY Seniors Martin Detchkov, Mario A. Pinto Named 2009 Salk Scholars

NEW YORK, May 7, 2009--- Martin Detchkov and Mario A. Pinto, seniors at The City College of New York (CCNY) were awarded the 2009 Jonas E. Salk Award, which supports study at medical school. They were among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarships, which will be presented in a ceremony May 13 at Baruch College.
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NIH Awards CCNY Neuroscientists $2.8 Million To Study Multisensory Integration Deficits In Autism Patients

NEW YORK, April 13, 2009 – Drs. Sophie Molholm and John Foxe, neuroscientists at The City College of New York (CCNY), have been awarded $2.8 million over five years from the National Institute of Mental Heath of the National Institutes of Health to study whether and how multisensory integration – the nervous system’s integration of different sensory stimuli – is impaired in persons with autism.
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Team Led By CCNY Neuroscientist Tony Ro Demonstrates Link Between Brainwave Activity And Visual Perception

NEW YORK, April 2, 2009 – Can we always see what is in front of us? According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is “no.” New research published in “The Journal of Neuroscience” by Professor Ro and colleagues from the University of Illinois demonstrates that the brain cannot detect images when brainwave activity is in a trough.
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