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The City College of New York has been selected as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review for the fourth consecutive year. The Princeton Review also rated City College as one of the northeast's best colleges, one of the country's greenest colleges, and one of the "colleges that pay you back." This ranking is the latest accolade that CCNY has received recently. Last week, CCNY was one of America's Top Colleges as ranked by Forbes. Last month, CCNY was recognized as one of the world's best institutions of higher education by the 2015 Center for

Kwangwoon “Jon” Lee, a student in the laboratory of Ronnie Ghose, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was just awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship. He is the first CUNY student to receive this highly competitive fellowship. The fellowship, which started on July 1 of this year and will continue until June 30, 2017, will allow Lee to continue his research into obtaining a better understanding of a cellular signaling pathway, the deregulation of which leads to hypertension. In particular, his research focuses on how this pathway that is regulated by the ubiquitous

The City College of New York rose significantly in Forbes magazine’s 2015 rankings of America’s Top Colleges, landing in the top 100 in the Northeast for the second consecutive year. CCNY also ranked in the top 200 overall for the first time. The only CUNY college to make the region’s top 100, CCNY jumped to #78 from #92. CCNY is also one of only two New York state public institutions to rank in the top 200 overall; CCNY climbed to #177, up from last year’s rank of #215. The Forbes rankings cap a particularly successful year for CCNY. Highlights of the past year include: the awarding of the

Gilda Barabino, dean of the Grove School of Engineering, was one of four experts invited to Washington on July 28 to brief the U.S. Congressional Sickle Cell and Research & Development Caucuses on promising new technologies to treat sickle cell disease. The briefing, “Gene Editing and the Path to a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease,” provided an opportunity for the researchers to discuss recent breakthroughs in gene-editing technology. Two such technologies are CRISPR/Cas-9 and TALENs, which have made gene editing faster and cheaper. “While sickle cell disease is the first molecular disease, having

Community leaders have hailed the establishment of the first public medical school in Harlem by The City College of New York in partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital. The CUNY School of Medicine at City College will accept its first intake in fall 2016. Lloyd A. Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) called the City College development "historic." "In light of all the health issues predominate in the upper Manhattan area, the fact that a medical school will open at the City College of New York is historic and of dramatic importance to the health and well

The City College of New York’s Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Bank are set to ramp up their partnership after a successful first semester of collaboration.The two announced the Standard Chartered Technology Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs program last December. The program supports greater diversity in gender representation within technology entrepreneurship. Since then, the Zahn Center has benefitted from a resource center for early-stage women entrepreneurs, and a $30,000 prize for student start-ups established by Standard Chartered. A highlight of the next stage is an

Five speakers are lined up for the year-long City College of New York "Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement," series that begins with a presentation by architectural historian Marta Gutman Thursday, November 13 at 4 p.m. in Shepard 95 on the CCNY campus. Professor Gutman will talk about her book, " A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950." The other speakers and their topics in the forum that features a City College faculty member in conversation with CCNY President Lisa S. Coico are (all discussions start at 4

In a major development in the institution’s 168-year history, The City College of New York announces the establishment of the CUNY School of Medicine at City College in partnership with Bronx-based St. Barnabas Hospital (which is part of the SBH Health System). The new Harlem-based medical school, whose first class is scheduled to begin fall 2016, will be an expansion of City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education . Established in 1973 on the City College campus, the Sophie Davis School currently offers a unique seven-year BS/MD program that integrates an undergraduate education

Eleven Mayan women have started a month-long leadership training course in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. All college graduates, they are the first cohort in a new exchange program between the Colin Powell School and Mexico’s Yucatan State. The program is designed to enrich and empower students in both countries. In addition to intensive English classes, the participants are required to explore solutions for socioeconomic problems that they have identified in their respective towns. For Desyi Guadalupe Colli Pinto, who holds a degree in

The first International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) in the United States in seven years brings nearly 300 participants from 18 countries to The City College of New York July 5 – 10. The event, in the Great Hall in Shepard Hall, is hosted by the NOAA-CREST center at City College. For nearly half a century, ILRC meetings have been the recognized international venue for reporting cutting edge research on LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) techniques, technologies and applications. It is also a venue for exchanging ideas, fostering collaborations and stimulating new and novel research