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Robert Messinger

$450K grant to CCNY’s Robert Messinger to avert Fukushima-style nuclear disaster

The likelihood of a Fukushima-type nuclear meltdown in the United States could soon be radically reduced, thanks to a new nuclear safety program in development at The City College of New York by chemical engineer Robert J. Messinger. He’s the recipient of a $449,998 Faculty Development Grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for his research. The grant is one of 11 awarded nationally by the Washington, D.C.-based NRC. Other recipients include noted research institutions such as MIT, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Florida. Messinger will establish a nuclear safety
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Mathiu Perez Rodriguez

Top CCNY junior Mathiu Perez Rodriguez is ACS Scholar

Mathiu Perez Rodriguez, a biochemistry honors research student at The City College of New York on a summer internship at Harvard Medical School, can count another honor. The Ecuadorian immigrant joins a select number of minority undergraduates named American Chemical Society Scholars. The national program awards renewable scholarships to outstanding undergraduates from underrepresented minority groups majoring in chemistry-related disciplines. Recipients must be intending to pursue careers in chemistry-related fields. Each receives up to $5,000 per academic year. As an ACS Scholar, Mr. Perez
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CCNY student Monica Martinez-Raga is one of the CUNY Service Corps-PR students helping with hurricane recovery efforts.

CCNY students join Governor Cuomo in PR recovery efforts

Colin Powell School economics major Monica Martinez-Raga, at The City College of New York, knows first hand the devastation Hurricane Maria caused. As a Puerto Rican native, Martinez-Raga was on vacation visiting her boyfriend in New York when the hurricane hit the capital of San Juan. Now, the CUNY Service Corps-PR student joins Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for a NY Stands with Puerto Rico Recovery and Rebuilding Initiative trip to support ongoing recovery efforts. “In September 2017, I had to move to New York as a refugee from Hurricane Maria and City College was the institution that welcomed me
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MFA in Film Student award winners

CCNY MFA students win film awards

Eight current and recent students from the MFA Film Program at The City College of New York are recipients of awards and scholarships for their short documentary and fiction films. CCNY’s film program was founded in 1941 by Dada artist and filmmaker Hans Richter as the Institute for Film Techniques. Notable names in the film industry past and present to emerge from the program include Woody Allen, Judd Hirsch, Stanley Kubrick, Jackie Mason, Richard Schiff, Eli Wallach and Ben Gazzara. The students and their awards are: Rituparna Das Datta and Sarah Wemy each received a New York Women in Film &
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Japanese Official leads pilgrimage honoring CCNY founder

Seiji Takeuchi, Chair of the Shimoda City Assembly, joins the long list of Japanese pilgrims that have traveled to The City College of New York to pay homage to its founder Townsend Harris when he visits the institution for the second time on July 17. Since 1986, top civic officials from Shimoda have made annual pilgrimages to City College to honor Harris. After establishing what was then known as The Free Academy in 1847, Harris, a prominent New York merchant, went on to forge U.S.-Japan relations. He arrived in Shimoda on August 21, 1856 to open the first American consulate in Japan. “As the
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CCNY-based CUNY DSI fights gentrification in NYC

The latest study by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York on the effects of gentrification proposes new public policies to stop the displacement of Dominicans and other working class groups in Washington Heights and Inwood. Establishing a Tax-Increment Financing (TIF) area in the two communities and using the revenue to fund a Community Land Trust (CLT) is one recommendation in the study entitled: “ Restoring Housing Security and Stability in New York Neighborhoods.” Closing loopholes in New York State laws governing rent stabilized apartments and establishing
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Writing professor Salar Abdoh is included in MoMA retrospective of his brother's theatre work

CCNY English Professor Abdoh included in MoMA PS1 retrospective

The Museum of Modern Art’s PS1 location in Queens is host to a major retrospective of the work of the late Iranian-American theatre director/playwright Reza Abdoh, and includes the work of his brother, City College of New York writing professor Salar Abdoh. Salar, who teaches in the MFA in Writing program, was a member of Reza’s theatre company Dar A Luz and co-wrote Reza’s last play, Quotations from a Ruined City. The exhibition highlights Reza’s diverse video works and pioneering staging techniques, and incorporates materials reflecting the New York and Los Angeles club scenes, the culture
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Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber

More accolades for CCNY authors, Irina Silber & Hidetaka Hirota

Anthropologist Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber of The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the El Salvador-based UCA Editores’ “Author of the Month." The accolade is for the recent publication of the Spanish-language edition of her award-winning book “ Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador” (Rutgers University Press). UCA Editores, based at the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas (Central American University) in San Salvador, El Salvador is one of the region's leading university presses. There
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Grove School’s Dean Barabino receives presidential award for STEM mentors

Grove School’s Dean Barabino receives presidential award for STEM mentors

The City College of New York’s Gilda Barabino, dean and Berg professor at the Grove School of Engineering, is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The award, presented by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with the National Science Foundation, recognizes excellence in STEM teaching and mentoring. PAESMEM also recognizes the critical roles mentors play outside the traditional classroom in the academic and professional development of the future STEM workforce. Colleagues, administrators, and students nominate
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Hao Su

Exoskeleton designed by CCNY & partners vies for $4M mobility challenge prize

Buoyed by a $50,000 prize victory in the first round, a City College of New York-led team is forging ahead in its development of an Iron Man-like smart exoskeleton to overcome lower-limb paralysis in the $4 million Mobility Unlimited Challenge. Hao Su, an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering and director of the Grove School of Engineering’s Biomechatronics and Intelligent Robotics Lab, leads the interdisciplinary team that includes researchers from the University of Texas Medical School and TIRR Memorial Hermann, a top rehabilitation center in America. Their entry in
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