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Maja Horn, women's history month speaker at cwe march 21_2015

Celebrating Women’s History Month at City College

Female empowerment, networking and book discussions highlight The City College of New York’s 2016 Women’s History Month observance. The schedule of events is as follows: Tuesday, March 1, Women’s History Month Kickoff. Guest speakers, networking and a free WHM appreciation lunch. 12 – 2 p.m., North Academic Center (NAC) ballroom. Thursday, March 3, “Contemporary Narratives: Gender and Resistance.” A discussion with Nimmi Gowrinathan, Visiting Professor, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership; Meena Kandasamy, poet, author, activist; and Rafia Zakaria, attorney, political
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Chemist Teresa Bandosz receives Fulbright Scholar Award

City College of New York chemistry Professor Teresa J. Bandosz’ pioneering research has earned her a 2016-2017 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. Bandosz, who also holds a professorship in chemical engineering at City College, will travel to the University of Malaga in Spain to conduct research that could help alleviate global warming and solve energy problems. An authority on the application of adsorption to environmental problems, she will develop new catalysts based on porous carbons and special photoactive polymers. These will be able to convert carbon dioxide to fuels and add-on chemicals
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2016 WISE Intern George Basaly

Engineering major George Basaly wins WISE fellowship

George Basaly, a senior in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of a 2016 WISE fellowship for outstanding undergraduates. Its goal is to prepare future leaders of the engineering profession in the United States. A chemical engineering major with minors in mathematics and economics, Basaly will spend nine weeks in Washington, D.C., this summer developing a public policy sponsored by AIChE. He hopes to combine his interests in engineering, finance and technology to pursue a policy related to the advancement of green energy storage. “This fellowship will
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Colin Powell School graduates at CCNY

CCNY’s Colin Powell School and CUNY Law launch joint degree

New program will enhance training of lawyers entering field The CUNY Board of Trustees has approved a new dual-degree program between The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the CUNY School of Law that will lead to a masters in international relations and a JD in law. The proposal is pending approval by the New York State Department of Education. The Colin Powell School and CUNY Law are particularly well positioned to offer this exceptional new opportunity. As an urban, public institution with tuition among the lowest in the U.S., CUNY has the
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Women's basketball Coach Jamie Angeli

CUNYAC honors for Coach Jamie Angeli, CCNY basketball

City College of New York women's basketball head coach, Jamie Angeli, headlined the CUNYAC Basketball Awards when he earned CUNYAC Women's Coach of the Year. Tiara Brown was named to the women’s First Team, while Khalil Hamer was named to the men’s Second Team. Marissa Olsen received the Sportsmanship award. In his second year as the head coach, Angeli, has completely turned around the women's basketball program. Last season, the team was 5-21 and 3-13 in conference play. This season he has set up a team that finished the regular season 16-9, which is the most wins since the 2002-03 season
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Candace Brakewood

Transportation expert Candace Brakewood named Rising Star Fellow

Dr. Candace Brakewood, assistant professor of civil engineering at The City College of New York, joins an elite group of academics this summer to explore the nexus of mobility and communications. She is one of seven transportation experts selected globally to participate in the 2016 Chan Wui and Yunyin Rising Star Workshop for Early Career Professionals aboard an England-bound cruise ship, July 6-13. Named along with her as Rising Star Fellows are Paleti Rajesh Paleti (Old Dominion University), Gregory D. Erhardt (University College of London), Ke Han (Imperial College of London) and Rolf
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Ellianna Schwab

CCNY junior wins national science award

For her research on star-like objects known as brown dwarfs, Ellianna Schwab earns the Chambliss Student Poster Award from the American Astronomy Society. “By calculating the space motions and positions of a sample of brown dwarfs, my collaborators and I successfully placed three brown dwarfs into moving groups, thus confirming that they were between the ages of 30 million and 257 million years old,” explains Schwab, a B.S. candidate in physics and mathematics at Macaulay Honors College at the City College of New York. Schwab conducts her research with Professors Emily Rice of the College of
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Lou Marinoff

South Korean students fly in for philosophy seminar

Twenty-one students from South Korea’s Kyungpook National University are spending Feb. 16-23 at The City College of New York for a week-long seminar on philosophical counseling led by noted CCNY philosopher and author Dr. Lou Marinoff. The founding president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, Marinoff has held similar seminars at institutions in Asia and other parts of the world. It is being offered at City College for the first time in conjunction with the school’s Continuing and Professional Studies program. “The students coming from Korea are very eager for this
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Architecture students design and build table for Solar Roof Pod

How many architecture students does it take to build a table? Six architecture students—Justyna Drodzd, Christina Bien-Aimé, Shereese Trumpet, Wei Zhang, Julian Usman and Jamie Huang—were charged with designing and building a collapsible table for the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Solar Roof Pod. Serving as a classroom and event table, the project had to be designed and built under onerous restrictions: it had to be collapsible with no single piece longer than 27 inches so that it could be taken apart and stored, and there was no money budgeted for it. Fortunately, Huang
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Engineers’ Activism is highlight of Presidential Conversations

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Beth Wittig presents her work with Engineers Without Borders in the fourth installment of The City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, Mar. 24, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium. The presentation, “Public Engagement through Engineers Without Borders: Rewards and Challenges,” is free and open to the public. Wittig examines the Engineers Without Borders projects in which the CCNY Chapter has been involved; how students and
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