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Less than two weeks before the start of the fall semester, Francesca Lingo put an impressive freshman year at City College behind her with a NASA presentation on "Earth's Past as a Window on Exoplanet Habitability." The prospective physics major was a participant in the Summer 2015 NASA New York City Research Initiative (NYCRI) Internship program at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in Manhattan. “I investigated the Neoproterozoic Era specifically the Sturtian ice age when scientists believe multicellular life came to rise. The idea was to understand the conditions Earth

The City College of New York Grove School of Engineering ’s Department of Biomedical Engineering has been chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award . The BMES chose City College for its “outstanding impact on diversity among their faculty and students and continued commitment to diversity efforts through their NIH Minority Scholars program.” CUNY and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering Mitchell B. Schaffler, chairman of the Grove School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, will accept the award on behalf of the

The City College of New York Grove School of Engineering’s Department of Biomedical Engineering has been chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity Award. The BMES chose City College for its “outstanding impact on diversity among their faculty and students and continued commitment to diversity efforts through their NIH Minority Scholars program.” CUNY and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering John M. Tarbell, former chairman of the Grove School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, will accept the award on behalf of the

Immigration is such a vital part of the history of this country and this city, and the City College of New York has traditionally been a pathway for immigrants to educational, personal and professional achievement. With this history in mind, Dean Vincent Boudreau of City College's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership – named for a famous son of Jamaican immigrants – created the Dean's Pro-Seminar on Immigration in American Life. Intended as an intensive exploration of the role that immigration has played in American life, the Dean’s Pro-Seminar will focus on three broad themes

Twenty students from Japan's Nagoya University of Foreign Studies arrived at the City College of New York earlier this week for a whirlwind two-week visit that includes a full program of educational and cultural activities. Coordinated by Associate Professor Catherine Franklin of the School of Education's Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, the visit is the first trip outside of Japan for some of the students, all of whom are undergraduates in the NUFS's Department of World Liberal Arts. Led by Professor Toshikazu Kikuchi, the group will visit a number of sites around the city

Sixteen mathematics education professors from the Dominican Republic recently completed a two-week program, co-sponsored by the City College of New York’s School of Education and the Study Abroad and International Programs , designed to improve the D.R.’s educational system. The visiting professors, accompanied by two administrators, were from Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña (Salome Urena Higher Teacher Training Institute), known informally as Isfodosu. The professors came to City College to strengthen their content knowledge and to learn new teaching strategies. Over the

The City College of New York has been selected as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review for the fourth consecutive year. The Princeton Review also rated 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 ranking is the latest accolade that CCNY has received recently. Last week, CCNY was one of America's Top Colleges as ranked by Forbes. Last month, CCNY was recognized as one of the world's best institutions of higher education by the 2015 Center for

Kwangwoon “Jon” Lee, a student in the laboratory of Ronnie Ghose, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was just awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship. He is the first CUNY student to receive this highly competitive fellowship. The fellowship, which started on July 1 of this year and will continue until June 30, 2017, will allow Lee to continue his research into obtaining a better understanding of a cellular signaling pathway, the deregulation of which leads to hypertension. In particular, his research focuses on how this pathway that is regulated by the ubiquitous

The City College of New York rose significantly in Forbes magazine’s 2015 rankings of America’s Top Colleges, landing in the top 100 in the Northeast for the second consecutive year. CCNY also ranked in the top 200 overall for the first time. The only CUNY college to make the region’s top 100, CCNY jumped to #78 from #92. CCNY is also one of only two New York state public institutions to rank in the top 200 overall; CCNY climbed to #177, up from last year’s rank of #215. The Forbes rankings cap a particularly successful year for CCNY. Highlights of the past year include: the awarding of the

Gilda Barabino, dean of the Grove School of Engineering, was one of four experts invited to Washington on July 28 to brief the U.S. Congressional Sickle Cell and Research & Development Caucuses on promising new technologies to treat sickle cell disease. The briefing, “Gene Editing and the Path to a Cure for Sickle Cell Disease,” provided an opportunity for the researchers to discuss recent breakthroughs in gene-editing technology. Two such technologies are CRISPR/Cas-9 and TALENs, which have made gene editing faster and cheaper. “While sickle cell disease is the first molecular disease, having