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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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POSTPONED: Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to Give Inaugural Cummins Lecture Nov. 1

Physics Nobel Laureate Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle will deliver the Inaugural Cummins Lecture at the City College of New York 4 p.m. Thursday, November 1, 2012. Dr. Ketterle – whose research explores the bizarre world of ultracold matter – will discuss "Superfluid gases near absolute zero temperature." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in room 95, the recital hall, Shepard Hall. A reception will precede the event at 3:30 p.m.
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Molecular Biologist Susan Gottesman to Present Cosloy-Blank Lecture

Molecular biologist Dr. Susan Gottesman will deliver the 7th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Thursday, October 18. The topic of her talk will be “Bacterial Circuits with Small RNA Regulators.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 95, Shepard Hall, and will be followed by a reception in Room 150.
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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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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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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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Rewriting Quantum Chips with a Beam of Light

The promise of ultrafast quantum computing has moved a step closer to reality with a technique to create rewritable computer chips using a beam of light. Researchers from The City College of New York (CCNY) and the University of California Berkeley (UCB) used light to control the spin of an atom’s nucleus in order to encode information.
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Gene May Link Diabetes and Alzheimer’s, CCNY Researchers Find

In recent years it became clear that people with diabetes face an ominous prospect – a far greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Now researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) have shed light on one reason why. Biology Professor Chris Li and her colleagues have discovered that a single gene forms a common link between the two diseases.
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Environmental Factors Spread Obesity, CCNY-Led Team Reports

An international team of researchers’ study of the spatial patterns of the spread of obesity suggests America’s bulging waistlines may have more to do with collective behavior than genetics or individual choices. The team, led by City College of New York physicist Hernán Makse, found correlations between the epidemic’s geography and food marketing and distribution patterns.
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CCNY Announces Winner of $50,000 Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship

A hands-free system to help visually impaired people sense their surroundings won $50,000 for a team of five City College of New York students in the Second Annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship competition.
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Three CCNY Students Named 2012 Salk Scholars

Lisa Brandt and Julian Flores, members of The City College of New York Class of 2012, and Alexa Mieses, a 2011 graduate, have been selected to receive the 2012 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship awarded by The City University of New York.
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