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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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