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Team CCNY, comprising undergraduates from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the 2017 AIChE Chem-E-Car finals’ Spirit of Competition Award winner for the third year running. In addition, “Sulfurious,” the CCNY entry, placed 11th out of 41 domestic and international qualifiers in the competition in Minneapolis. Sulfurious won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic competition last spring to advance to the AIChE finals. The objective of the Chem-E-Car competition is for students to build a car, the size of a shoebox, which runs and stops at a

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: City College of New York (CCNY), considered a top ten military friendly school, will acknowledge the men and women of the college community who have served WHO: Christopher Gorman, Director of Veteran Affairs Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Interim President, CCNY Student, Faculty and Staff Veterans WHERE: The City College of New York NAC Plaza (outdoors) Convent Avenue and 138th Street WHEN: 10 am, Friday, November 10, 2017 Program 10:00 am – Greeting 10:05 am – Posting of the Colors 10:10 am – National Anthem performed by the CCNY Gospel Choir 10:15 am – Speech 10:20 am – Closing

There’s no question that generations of university students want to change the world, starting with where they are. But how? Four undergraduates from The City College of New York are among 229 students from 10 countries named 2017 University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. The program empowers students to become agents of change at their schools. Fellows work to ensure that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. Selected from City College (the

The Harlem community spoke and the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York listened. Community members were asked if they’d like free health information sessions on topics of their choosing and the answer was a resounding YES! Thus the Mini-Medical school was born. 60 people showed up to the first Mini-Medical School event on Oct 18 th to talk about diet, physical activity and health. The presentations were engaging as was the Q & A. Afterward, many attendees said they’d be back for more. In fact, they promised to bring a friend or family member the next time. Which is why an

They call Patricia Broderick the “dynamite stick” because nothing stops her. She is the first person to marry the brain with sensors and has invented, patented and trademarked a revolutionary technology, THE BRODERICK PROBE® that some medical doctors say will change the face of science and medicine. Broderick is so dynamic that CUTV News Radio has asked her to talk about her work on air twice – on Monday Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. EDT and again Monday Nov 13 at 1 p.m. EDT. Broderick is a Medical Professor in Molecular Cellular and Biomedical science at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of

Eyewitness News co-anchors Bill Ritter and Sade Baderinwa are this year’s John H. Finley Award recipients. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York. In addition, the association has honored seven City College alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They received the Townsend Harris Medal at CCNY’s 137th annual alumni dinner in Manhattan. The seven are: Bernard S. Cohen, Esq. ’56B, the renowned lawyer who successfully argued the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia before the

Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Chemical Engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is the AIChE 2017 Shell Thomas Baron Award recipient. He received the award today at the organization’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he delivered the award’s eponymous lecture. His talk was entitled: “Exploring Complex Colloidal Dispersions by Simulation.” Also at the annual gathering, Rosemarie D. Wesson, associate dean for research and Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Grove School, was elected to a three-year term as AIChE treasurer. Her tenure begins in

Even before Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the Caribbean recently, experts at The City College of New York were gaining insight into how storms develop and intensify in the region. A $174,895 grant from the National Science Foundation promises to boost this research. The one-year funding to a team of NOAA CREST researchers in the Grove School of Engineering is entitled “RAPID: Impacts of Post-Hurricane Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective and Precipitation Processes in the Caribbean Region.” “The primary goal of this study is to improve our understanding of the role played by modified

The City College of New York sent students to three prestigious hackathons for developing innovative technologies in October, and CCNY participants were winners in all three. At hackNY’s fall 2017 Student Hackathon, students presented their technologies and built original applications. Kirstyn Natavio, a Computer Science sophomore, working with Computer Engineering juniors Dwayne Johnson and Amarou Bah, were awarded Best Hack using a NYC Application Programming Interface (API) for their Emergency 911 app that lets bystanders connect and stream data of an emergency to 911 and other help

Here’s a bit of surprising news. A closer look at how climate change could impact our power supply shows that America’s infrastructure might be more adaptable than scientists anticipated. The results appear in a paper published in Nature Climate Change by Ariel Miara, a PhD Candidate in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and Charles J. Vörösmarty, Presidential Professor of civil engineering in the Grove School. One of the study’s key findings: climate change will negatively affect U.S. power supply reliability. But maintenance and a commitment to cleaner, more efficient