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City College of New York Chemistry Professor Mahesh Lakshman is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the world’s leading community of scientists in that field. His induction is part of the society’s long legacy of advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. Since his arrival at CCNY in 2000, Lakshman has continuously received notable accolades, including research grants from National Institutes of Health ( NCI, NIGMS, NIAID) and several NSF awards. In addition, he has made significant contributions to research infrastructure development with external funding. With over $3.5

City College remains one of the most ethnically diverse institutions The City College of New York is among the top 100 Best Regional Universities in the North and a Top Public School in the North, according to U.S. News & World Report 2017 rankings. City College also continues to be one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse institutions, ranked #2 among regional universities in the north. U.S. News factored in the proportion of minority students based on the 2015-2016 academic year student body to establish the diversity index, excluding international students. With 1.0 as the highest mark

A test screening of the documentary “500 Years,” about the 2013 genocide trial of a former Guatemalan president and its aftermath, marks the start of Latino Heritage Month at The City College of New York. The film premieres in CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) auditorium on September 14 at 6 p.m. Directed by Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis, “500 Years” chronicles the trial of President Efrain Rios Montt for the killing of 1,700 Mayans - the first trial ever in the Americas for the genocide of indigenous people. A talk with the

From a RoofPod garden atop the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building at The City College of New York comes a bumper harvest for the community to partake in. The garden is an extension of the Spitzer School’s student-designed, award-winning “ Solar Roofpod.” Its crop yield includes tomatoes, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumber, broccoli, eggplant, cauliflower, jalapenos and other vegetables planted by CCNY Green and students from the City College-based High School for Math, Science and Engineering (HSMSE). Members of the community can sample the delicious produce at events at the

The City College of New York’s M.F.A. in film graduate, Yvonne Ng, is the winner of this year’s Student Academy Awards ® competition for her short film, “Cloud Kumo.” As a winner, Ng’s short film is eligible to compete for the 2016 Oscars ® in either the Documentary Short Subject, Animated Short Film or Live Action Short Film categories. In addition, “Cloud Kumo,” has won the 59 th CINE Golden Eagle Award for Student Narrative. It is presented by the Council on International Non-Theatrical Events. “This award has opened many doors for me. CCNY really helped me in preparing for the outside

City College of New York transportation expert Candace Brakewood is listed in Mass Transit magazine’s 2016 Top 40 Under 40 national honors. The accolade recognizes individuals for their contributions and for showing a capacity for innovation, demonstrated leadership and a commitment to making an impact in transit. The only magazine exclusively dedicated to public transportation, Mass Transit cited Brakewood for being on the cutting edge of what’s happening in the public transit industry as an academic. “She is an industry and academic leader in innovative fare payment technologies and their

Lewis Tse, a City College of New York engineering major, was awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for fall 2016. Tse is spending the semester in Singapore’s Nanyang Technical University, which ranked as U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Global Universities 2016.” The competitive Gilman program provides students with limited financial means an opportunity to enhance their skills abroad so that they can apply their experience to future careers while embracing a new culture. Since the program’s inception in 2001, over 22,000 scholarships have been awarded—several to

Some of the most pertinent issues in education, society and health are the subject of discussion in the third series of The City College of New York’s Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement. “A Public Conversation about Testing and School Reform,” a panel discussion organized and moderated by City College education Professor Terri N. Watson, begins the series on Sept. 29. Panelists include: Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director for the Alliance for Quality Education; David Bloomfield, professor of Education Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY

The City College of New York’s output of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is set to increase with the receipt of a $15.5 million grant from NOAA’s Office of Education. The five-year award follows a national competition. “The grant is in recognition of the fact that in the last fifteen years City College has been outstanding in achieving the goals of NOAA,” said Reza Khanbilvardi, director of the NOAA-CREST Cooperative Science Center at CCNY. “And those goals have been to advance the sciences for NOAA’s operations and to

The BRODERICK PROBE® series of Nano biosensors, an invention of City College of New York Medical Professor Patricia A. Broderick, are closer to wide scale introduction thanks to a $300,000 award from the Indian Angel Network®. The funding will advance the development of the probe by Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc. in concert with CUNY’s Technology Commercialization Office. Smaller than a human hair, the Nano biosensors video track live neurotransmitter signals on line, in real time in the natural state as well as diseased state for direct comparison of probable causal issues for