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Johnny Luo is youngest of 12 science leaders for project studying how convective clouds process and transport air pollutants Dr. Z. Johnny Luo, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and NOAA CREST Institute at The City College of New York, is one of 12 lead scientists on a NASA airborne mission to study how convective clouds help process and transport air pollutants, including those from wildfires. The mission, involving two aircraft that are crisscrossing the southwestern United States, began August 10. A NASA media day event for the mission will be held

Metal-catalyzed cross-couplings of carbon bonds could enable creation of libraries of drug candidates to accelerate drug discovery James Bond had his reasons for ordering his martinis “shaken, not stirred.” Similarly, drug manufacturers need to make sure the molecules in a new drug are arranged in an exact manner, lest there be dire consequences. Specifically, they need to be wary of enantiomers, mirror-image molecules composed of the same atoms, but arranged differently. “One mirror image could be therapeutic while another could be poisonous,” said Dr. Mark R. Biscoe, assistant professor of

Program for high school students aims to broaden participation in advertising and communications professions Eleven high school students from New York City and Long Island will be returning to school this fall with a new perspective on the opportunities awaiting them in the world of advertising and marketing. They participated in the first American Advertising Federation (AAF) summer AdCamp held in New York City. The program, which offers an intensive one-week industry immersion for students from diverse backgrounds, was held July 22 - 26 at The City College of New York. Edward Keller

Samuel Innocent, a senior at The City College of New York and U.S. Army veteran who was deployed in Afghanistan, is featured in the latest edition of Time magazine. Recently awarded a Tillman Military Scholarship by the Pat Tillman Foundation, Mr. Innocent and other scholars past and present attended a leadership summit in Chicago last week. Continued service was one of the themes at the gathering. Mr. Innocent, who is pursuing a double major in biology and political science and is a Fellow with CCNY’s Colin L. Powell Center for Leadership and Service, talks in the article about his

Shimoda Mayor Shunsuke Kusuyama will lead a 13-member delegation from that city to The City College of New York July 17 to honor City College founder Townsend Harris. The delegation, comprising civic officials, students and citizens of Shimoda, will be the 27th since 1986 to visit CCNY to pay homage to Harris, who founded what was known as The Free Academy in 1847 and later opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan. Because Harris was instrumental in opening trade between Japan and the West, he is revered there. The group will visit the Cohen Library Archives in the North Academic Center

Ethnographic Filmmaking course taught by CCNY anthropologist and filmmaker immerses students in American Indian culture The recent streak of killer tornadoes did not deter five City College of New York undergraduates from journeying to southwestern Oklahoma. Accompanied by Professor of Film Campbell Dalglish, MFA graduate Niav Conty, and consultant Robert Vetter, they traveled to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College (CATC) in Weatherford for a two-week intercultural exchange with Native American peers June 10 – 24. Associate Professor of Anthropology Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber, who

Khalil Kain’s directorial debut uses multiracial cast to reinterpret Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about troubled midwestern farm family Actor Khalil Kain, best known for edgy character roles in film and portraying Darnell Wilkes on the television series Girlfriends, makes his stage directing debut with an Equity LORT/LOA production of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," July 11 to August 3 at Aaron Davis Hall on the City College campus. The production uses a multiracial cast to reinterpret the underlying symbols of Shepard's Pulitzer prize-winning play about a dysfunctional mid-western farm family.

City College seminar on gender and architecture nominates 14 NYC sites for City Lore’s Census of Places That Matter The list of recognized places of significance in New York City identified with women’s history and gender is brief. For example, the New York State women’s history trail includes only three locations in the Big Apple. Now, students in a seminar on Gender and Architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture have identified 14 more. They range from a Harlem apartment building to a mural in Brooklyn to a 72 year-old bridal shop. All have been nominated for inclusion on

Dr. Daniel M. Greenberger, Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics at The City College of New York, has been appointed a CUNY Distinguished Professor. The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the appointment at its June 24 meeting. “Professor Greenberger has established himself as a leading physicist in his field. His presence at City College adds to the prestige of the University and College,” said Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, City College provost, in support of his nomination. The appointment, Provost Trevisan added, recognizes Professor Greenberger’s national and international stature in his field and

Civic education program empowering young people in stop-and-frisk encounters to be presented at Roosevelt Institute Policy Expo June 28 in Washington Walking home from school in fall 2011, Depak P. Borhara was stopped by police near his Elmhurst, Queens home. The City College of New York undergraduate's first experience with stop-and-frisk, the NYPD's contentious practice of random street interrogations, left him fearful. "At that time I thought it weird because I'd never been stopped before. I later realized that it was a pattern for young people to be stopped, so I thought that it had to be