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Carbonized Coffee Grounds Remove Foul Smells

For coffee lovers, the first cup of the morning is one of life’s best aromas. But did you know that the leftover grounds could eliminate one of the worst smells around – sewer gas?
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CCNY Film Grad Zachary Borst’s TV Spot to Air During Super Bowl

The day his father bought him his first car was one of the happiest of Zachary Borst’s teenage years. That joy provided the creative spark for a television commercial that will air during Super Bowl XLVI that the 2010 graduate of CCNY’s MFA program in media arts production wrote, directed, produced and edited. His spot bested 200 other entries in a competition sponsored by Chevrolet, earning him tremendous exposure and a $25,000 cash prize.
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Ben Vereen Headlines Black History Month at CCNY

The City College of New York will celebrate Black History Month 2012 with a rich array of cultural events throughout February that includes exhibits, film screenings, conferences, lectures, discussions and performances.
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CCNY Team Advances in ‘Parks for the People’ Competition

CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is one of nine institutions chosen from a field of 41 to advance to the second round of the “Parks for the People” design studio competition. Graduate landscape architecture students comprise the CCNY team, which will develop plans and designs for the Nicodemus National Historic Site in Nicodemus, Kan., a Reconstruction-era settlement of emancipated slaves, and participate in a jury review this summer.
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CCNY Students Lead Groundbreaking Internship Study

Every year, tens of thousands of college students descend on Washington, D.C., to work as interns en route to careers in politics, public policy and public service. However, until now, little has been known about the impact and quality of their experiences in the nation’s capital.
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Poorest Smokers Face Toughest Odds for Kicking the Habit

Quitting smoking is never easy. However, when you’re poor and uneducated, kicking the habit for good is doubly hard, according to a new study by a tobacco dependence researcher at The City College of New York (CCNY).
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Robert Alfano Wins Inaugural Biomedical Optics Award

A scientific innovator from The City College of New York (CCNY) whose research unites the divergent fields of medicine, biology and high speed laser physics will be honored this month for his pioneering work in biomedical optics by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
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