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PhD Student Feng Miao Wins Intelligent Transportation Award
Feng Miao, a PhD candidate in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), has won the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York’s (ITS-NY) 2010 Student Award. She will attend ITS-NY’s 17th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition, June 10-11, in Saratoga Springs, to receive her award.
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CCNY Professor Brings Conservation Biology to Secondary Schools
As a middle school science teacher at Hunter High School, Yael Wyner wanted to integrate conservation biology, which is typically taught in college, into the environmental science curriculum. One of the drawbacks, she discovered, was that “students learned about ecology and human impact separately and couldn’t connect the two.”
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CCNY to Host Sustainable Transit Conference May 7
The City College of New York (CCNY) will host “Sustainable Transit: Developing an Action Agenda,” a day-long conference that will examine the role that public transportation can play in achieving sustainability and how transit agencies can reduce their environmental impact. The event will take place 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, May 7, in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building.
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IUSL Holds CUNY Laser Intellectual Property Event April 21
The year 2010 marks the 50th birthday of the laser and 40th year since the discovery of the supercontinuum, a light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth. These anniversaries will be observed at CUNY Laser Intellectual Property Day, an open house event for laser companies and scientists, to be held Wednesday, April 21, by the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York (CCNY).
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Professor Ina Saltz’ ‘Body Type’ Sequel Released
“My life is type,” says Ina Saltz, Associate Professor and Director of CCNY’s Electronic Design and Multimedia program. That’s not surprising, given that she has been an art director for some of America’s best-known magazines, including “Time” and “Golf.” Of late, her fascination with type has expanded beyond type on paper or the computer screen to type on skin.
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Honors Senior Sam Glickman Presents at Ornithology Meeting
Sam Glickman, a senior biology major in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York (CCNY), presented a poster at the joint meeting of the American Ornithologists Union, Cooper Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, held last month in San Diego. He was one of only eight undergraduates nationwide to win a travel award from the societies.
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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Announces 2010-2011 Fellows and Visiting Scholars
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at The City College of New York (CCNY) has announced 2010-2011 doctoral fellows and visiting scholars in Dominican Studies. Representing diverse academic disciplines, the fellows and scholars will advance a wide range of scholarly research projects, from the colonial history of the Dominican Republic to housing patterns of people of Dominican ancestry in New York City. They will work directly with CUNY DSI Director and Professor of Sociology Ramona Hernández.
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CCNY Biologists Identify New Spiny Pocket Mouse Species
Dr. Robert P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology at The City College of New York, and Ph.D. student Eliécer E. Gutiérrez have reported the existence of a new species of spiny pocket mouse, from Venezuela, Heteromys catopterius.
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Professor's Method Links Climate Change, Species Distribution
In 2006, Dr. Robert P. Anderson, CCNY Associate Professor of Biology, co-authored a paper that introduced a mathematically rigorous method for modeling species’ geographic distributions, based on known occurrences and environmental factors including climate. The paper, “Maximum Entropy Modeling of Species Geographic Distributions,” has become one of the most-referenced sources on the topic, being cited 192 times to date, according to Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch.com.
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