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Understanding nanoscale heat flow is critical in the design of integrated electronic devices and in the development of materials for thermal insulation and thermoelectric energy recovery. While several techniques are currently available to observe heat transport over macroscopic distances, there is a need for new methods capable of revealing the dynamics of heat flow with nanometer resolution. A team led by Physics Professors Carlos Meriles of CCNY and Elisa Riedo of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center's Nanoscience Initiative report on a versatile platform for nanoscale thermal

Two NOAA-CREST graduate students have been cited for their research. Equisha Glenn, who recently won the NOAA STAR fellowship, published her article, “ Detection of recent regional sea surface temperature warming in the Caribbean and surrounding region,” in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. The article was also featured as a “ Research Spotlight” in Earth and Space Science News. Glenn, who earned her B.E. in Earth Systems Science and Environmental Engineering from CCNY, started her career with NOAA-CREST as an undergraduate. She has since obtained

For its first partnership with a higher education institution, the Roundabout Theatre Company chose the City College of New York’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre to create a new course for pre-service teachers and teaching artists. The course, “Fundamentals of Teaching Technical Theatre,” is currently being taken by 18 graduate students. This partnership offers the graduate students opportunities to take classes in the first half of the semester at Roundabout’s Education Studio, where they learn about the various technical aspects of theatre. In the second half, they move to P.S. 161

The 15th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Seattle is over with The City College of New York a big winner. Eight students from the Division of Science received awards in the poster presentation category. The winning students and their topics are: Rachel Hernandez, social and behavioral science; Melissa S. Evelyn, engineering, physics, and math; Christina Torres, developmental biology; Zhiying Zhu, oral presentation engineering, physics and math; Electra Nassis, cancer biology; Hazeezat Shittu, social and behavioral science; Shirley Mo, social and behavioral science

The City College of New York’s American Institute of Chemical Engineering chapter is back from the 2015 Annual Student Conference Chem-E-Car Competition® in Salt Lake City with the Spirit of Competition Award. In addition, two members of the City College team, seniors Sneha Gopal and Pavel Shapturenka, both received awards in AIChE’s national poster competition. In the Chem-E-Car performance competition, “RuSTi,” the CCNY entry, finished in 13th out of 34 finalists from top universities in the United States, Canada, the Middle East and Asia. CCNY qualified for the national finals after placing

Author Lori Marie Carlson Hijuelos delivers the 2015 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture at The City College of New York on Tuesday, Dec. 8. In a celebration of her late husband Oscar Hijuelos’s last novel, she engages in a panel discussion on “ Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise,” at 5:30 p.m. in the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. The event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. The panel comprises award winning novelist and City College alumnus Ernesto Quiñonez ’96BA, ’06MA; Carly Rubin, a CCNY MFA in creative writing student; and moderator David Unger

Registration for continuing students for the winter and spring semesters begins on Wednesday, Nov. 18 and ends on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Winter classes run from Monday, Jan. 4 to Monday, Jan. 25. Spring classes start on Friday, Jan. 29. A number of new courses, ranging from comic drawing to learning Spanish for the health professions, is being offered by the Division of Humanities and the Arts. Sample the whole range at https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/humanities/humanities-and-arts-spring-course-…. The current academic year offers a host of new courses, concentrations and programs introduced

Veterans Day, Nov. 11, has always been a solemn day. It took on greater significance on Wednesday morning, when the City College of New York’s Office of Veterans Affairs held its first Veterans Day ceremony in the quad. A color guard, consisting of four Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students from across CUNY, placed a flag at the base of the flagpole before two CCNY students, Collin Edouard and Charlotte Bennett, sang the Star-Spangled Banner a capella. The national anthem was then followed by short speeches from CCNY Director of Veterans Affairs Christopher Gorman, a U.S. Marine Corps

For City University of New York students interested in pursuing majors in STEM fields, The City College of New York is the place to be on Friday, Nov. 20 for the GlobalCUNY 2015 Conference. The one-day event is hosted by the NYC Louis Stokes Alliance at City College. It is expected to attract up to 120 participants from CCNY and CUNY-wide. The program in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering’s Steinman Hall includes: • A panel discussion on student experiences from 10:20 to 11:20 a.m.; • Global CUNY workshops from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and • A poster session and program exhibits by Grove

The neuroscience community is saluting the creation of a “Golden Window” for deep brain imaging by researchers at The City College of New York led by biomedical engineer Lingyan Shi. This is a first for brain imaging, said Shi, a research associate in City College’s Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, and the biology department. The breakthrough holds promise for the noninvasive study of the brain and breasts in greater detail than possible today. Working with Distinguished Professor of Physics Robert R. Alfano and Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, an assistant professor of biology, Shi