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CCNY Summer Programs Inspire City HS Students

Two summers ago, Philomina Kane, 16, and the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, was one of seven participants in The City College of New York’s annual IUSL Photonics Training Program. The program offers high school students an opportunity for applied research in photonic science and technology. This fall, Ms. Kane enters Princeton University grateful to her CCNY experience for setting her on a path that she hopes will lead to a career in biomedical engineering.
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Four CCNY Graduating Seniors Awarded Salk Scholarships

Alana Lewis, Susanna Nguy, Ivan Santiago and Emma Schatoff, members of The City College of New York Class of 2013, have been selected to receive the 2013 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship awarded by The City University of New York. All four students plan to apply the Scholarship’s $8,000 stipend toward medical school or PhD study.
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NASA Radar Mapping Mission Blankets The Americas

An aircraft-mounted, multipurpose NASA radar system has just returned loaded with data from a month-long trek over rainforests, plateaus, swamps and fault lines of South America. This forms part of an ambitious mission to study wetlands, agriculture, climate and biogeography across broad swaths of the United States and nine other countries pairing high-resolution radar imaging with ground data.
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Anniversary Conference Celebrates 30 Years of Cloud Research

More than 80 scientists, climatologists and weather experts from across the globe will descend on The City College of New York this month to take part in a conference celebrating the collection of three decades-worth of worldwide satellite observations of the properties, behavior and effects of clouds.
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‘Evo Devo’ Pioneer Sean Carroll to Speak at CCNY April 18

Dr. Sean B. Carroll, a pioneer of the field of evolutionary developmental biology who is widely considered to be its leading figure, will deliver the 2013 Louis Levine – Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 18.
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Two CCNY Scientists Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Two scientists from The City College of New York have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards to support their research, teaching and outreach over the next five years.
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Mathematician Arthur Szlam Named Sloan Research Fellow

Dr. Arthur Szlam, assistant professor of mathematics at The City College of New York, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013. Professor Szlam develops mathematics for cutting-edge applications in machine learning.
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CCNY Grad Students Create Tool to Measure a City’s Success

How does a city measure success? In the case of Newark, N.J., the city is a major employment, cultural and education center. However, limited education attainment and low incomes preclude many residents from taking advantage of opportunities right in their backyard.
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CCNY STEM Majors Scoop Up Record Five Wins at National Conference

City College of New York science students brought home a record five wins for research poster presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California.
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Warming Temperatures Will Change Greenland’s Face

Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, however, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences has made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.
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