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City College of New York transportation expert Candace Brakewood is listed in Mass Transit magazine’s 2016 Top 40 Under 40 national honors. The accolade recognizes individuals for their contributions and for showing a capacity for innovation, demonstrated leadership and a commitment to making an impact in transit. The only magazine exclusively dedicated to public transportation, Mass Transit cited Brakewood for being on the cutting edge of what’s happening in the public transit industry as an academic. “She is an industry and academic leader in innovative fare payment technologies and their

Lewis Tse, a City College of New York engineering major, was awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for fall 2016. Tse is spending the semester in Singapore’s Nanyang Technical University, which ranked as U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Global Universities 2016.” The competitive Gilman program provides students with limited financial means an opportunity to enhance their skills abroad so that they can apply their experience to future careers while embracing a new culture. Since the program’s inception in 2001, over 22,000 scholarships have been awarded—several to

Some of the most pertinent issues in education, society and health are the subject of discussion in the third series of The City College of New York’s Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement. “A Public Conversation about Testing and School Reform,” a panel discussion organized and moderated by City College education Professor Terri N. Watson, begins the series on Sept. 29. Panelists include: Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director for the Alliance for Quality Education; David Bloomfield, professor of Education Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY

The City College of New York’s output of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is set to increase with the receipt of a $15.5 million grant from NOAA’s Office of Education. The five-year award follows a national competition. “The grant is in recognition of the fact that in the last fifteen years City College has been outstanding in achieving the goals of NOAA,” said Reza Khanbilvardi, director of the NOAA-CREST Cooperative Science Center at CCNY. “And those goals have been to advance the sciences for NOAA’s operations and to

The BRODERICK PROBE® series of Nano biosensors, an invention of City College of New York Medical Professor Patricia A. Broderick, are closer to wide scale introduction thanks to a $300,000 award from the Indian Angel Network®. The funding will advance the development of the probe by Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc. in concert with CUNY’s Technology Commercialization Office. Smaller than a human hair, the Nano biosensors video track live neurotransmitter signals on line, in real time in the natural state as well as diseased state for direct comparison of probable causal issues for

At The City College of New York, students, faculty and staff foster an environment rich in community engagement. As part of Harlem Week 2016, CCNY’s commitment to improving and participating in community events shined at the Percy Sutton 5K Harlem Run and Walk. “Our participation in this event serves not only to strengthen our ties and participation in the community but also to solidify our commitment to the improvement and advancement of the Harlem community,” said Anthony Achille, team captain of CCNY. As a member of The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, CCNY is a sponsor of Harlem Week

A breakthrough experiment by a City College of New York team led by physicist Carlos Meriles could potentially lead to room-temperature quantum information processing in diamond s and optical data storage in three dimensions. Meriles and his researchers successfully demonstrated charge transport between Nitrogen-Vacancy color centers in diamond s. The team developed a novel multi-color scanning microscopy technique to visualize the charge transport. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center is an optically active defect in diamond s comprising a nitrogen atom and an adjacent vacancy, replacing carbon

The City College of New York continues to be one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to the 2017 Princeton Review rankings released today. Princeton also rates 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 information appears in the latest edition of “The Best 381 Colleges” published by The Princeton Review. It is based on data from surveys of 143,000 students at the 381 schools in the book. Students were asked 80 questions about: Their school's academics

Rafal Szczurowski, an adjunct instructor in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York is one of 24 recipients globally of 2016 United Nations Alliance of Civilization fellowships. The program promotes intercultural understanding by engaging emerging civil society leaders from Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa. Szczurowski and the other UNAOC fellows from Europe and North America will travel to Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Qatar in November to study the culture, politics, society, religion and media in those nations in order to

Remnants of summer remain in the minds of The City College of New York’s eager and brightest as fall classes begin. Students from different disciplines, each exposed to a unique experience, return wiser. Numerous City College students participated in service learning programs and internships at home and abroad, earning vital experience in their respective fields. A select list of programs and internships includes: Study Abroad Program at Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Aleksandra Aultman, Dalvin Delia, Kimberly Ortega, Catherine Lajara and Frank Vallone participated in a community service