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Chemistry professor Maria Tamargo’s molecular beam epitaxy research at The City College of New York ranks among the most innovative in the field. The North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Advisory Board has just recognized her stature in the field by selecting Tamargo its 2017 MBE Innovator Award recipient. She will receive the honor at the North American MBE Conference (NAMBE) in Galveston, Texas, in October. Established in 2004, this international award recognizes individuals whose innovative work has significantly advanced the field of molecular beam epitaxy. Recipients are highly

Zadie Smith, the award-winning British-born novelist, is the recipient of this year’s City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal. She joins a list of literary luminaries, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Walter Mosley, who have received the honor. The award will be presented at City College’s annual Langston Hughes Festival on November 16. Smith is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been listed as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists. Her first novel, “ White Teeth”(Random House, 2000) was the winner of The Whitbread First Novel

The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has a new gift of $1,291,000 from the NoVo Foundation, which works to transform global societies from cultures of domination to ones of equality and partnership. Visiting Professor Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, a leading analyst and commentator on gender and violence, will be the head researcher and administrator of the grant. The Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative and the Colin Powell School, will collaborate on a new campus-wide initiative, Beyond Identity: A Gendered Platform for Scholar-Activists. The

City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won a National Science Foundation Growing Convergent Research award. Twenty-two other teams nationally are recipients of the NSF’s first grants to address societal challenges through scientific collaboration. Carnaval’s collaborators include: Robert Anderson, biology (CCNY); Michael Hickerson, biology (CCNY); Jeannine Cavender-Bares, biology (University of Minnesota); Renato J. Figueiredo, electrical and computer engineering (University of Florida); and Bette A. Loiselle, biology

After an inspiring 170 th Anniversary celebration, students and faculty are back on City College of New York’s historic grounds excited for the semester to begin. As the summer turns to fall, new programs are brightening the campus. There are programs focusing on both electrical engineering and computer science concepts as well as a program that incorporates identity-driven research from activist-scholars studying immigration, social movements, protest, gender and violence. Following is a list of the new offerings: Computer Engineering , a 30-credit program from the Grove School of Engineering

Historian and author Beth Baron is the latest CUNY Distinguished Professor at The City College of New York. She is the 15 th current faculty member at CCNY to earn that distinction. “Professor Baron is an internationally renowned scholar whose research is of the highest caliber,” said Mary Driscoll, interim provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs. “She is hailed by other distinguished scholars in her field for her ability to develop and sustain a powerful argument for the place of women and gender in Middle East Studies.” “Professor Beth Baron has conducted groundbreaking

From the lab of City College of New York chemical engineer and Fulbright Scholar Teresa J. Bandosz comes a groundbreaking development with the potential to thwart chemical warfare agents: smart textiles with the ability to rapidly detect and neutralize nerve gas. The fabric consists of a cotton support modified with Cu-BTC MOF/oxidized graphitic carbon nitride composites. The latter were developed in the lab previously and tested as nerve agent detoxification media and colorimetric detectors. Combining Cu-BTC and g-C3N4-ox resulted in a nanocomposite (MOFgCNox) of heterogeneous porosity and

Naresh Devineni, assistant professor in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and NOAA CREST, is one of 59 recipients nationwide of 2017 U.S. Department of Energy Early CAREER awards. He’ll receive a five-year $750,000 grant for his proposal “Multi-scale Modeling of Extreme Events and Impact Information,” selected by the DOE Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research Program. Devineni is the first City University of New York faculty to receive an Early CAREER Award from DOE since the honor was introduced eight years ago. The awards are based on peer review

The City College of New York’s casts of the Parthenon frieze, sometimes called the Elgin Marbles, are on display at the Graduate Center, CUNY. The casts were recently installed in the Graduate Center lobby and Mina Rees Library where they are visible to the public. The casts consist of 20 plus rectangular relief panels that were part of the Parthenon frieze; four metopes (square panels that were on the exterior of the Parthenon); a reclining figure of Dionysus; and a horse’s head from a pediment (the triangular roof). “The Elgin Marbles casts came to the U.S. during the nineteenth century

Genes for many may be widely associated with determining certain traits and characteristics. Now a study co-led by John H. Martin of The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York is demonstrating that they could also influence neural motor skills. This could lead to new insights in the treatment of motor skills impairments such as Cerebral Palsy. Martin and his collaborators from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Yutaka Yoshida and Zirong Gu, found that the lost function of two genes prevent infant laboratory mice from developing motor skills as they mature into