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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

The City College of New York’s Zahn Innovation Center and Standard Chartered Bank are set to ramp up their partnership after a successful first semester of collaboration.The two announced the Standard Chartered Technology Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs program last December. The program supports greater diversity in gender representation within technology entrepreneurship. Since then, the Zahn Center has benefitted from a resource center for early-stage women entrepreneurs, and a $30,000 prize for student start-ups established by Standard Chartered. A highlight of the next stage is an

Community leaders have hailed the establishment of the first public medical school in Harlem by The City College of New York in partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital. The CUNY School of Medicine at City College will accept its first intake in fall 2016. Lloyd A. Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce (GHCC) called the City College development "historic." "In light of all the health issues predominate in the upper Manhattan area, the fact that a medical school will open at the City College of New York is historic and of dramatic importance to the health and well

In a major development in the institution’s 168-year history, The City College of New York announces the establishment of the CUNY School of Medicine at City College in partnership with Bronx-based St. Barnabas Hospital (which is part of the SBH Health System). The new Harlem-based medical school, whose first class is scheduled to begin fall 2016, will be an expansion of City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education . Established in 1973 on the City College campus, the Sophie Davis School currently offers a unique seven-year BS/MD program that integrates an undergraduate education

Five speakers are lined up for the year-long City College of New York "Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement," series that begins with a presentation by architectural historian Marta Gutman Thursday, November 13 at 4 p.m. in Shepard 95 on the CCNY campus. Professor Gutman will talk about her book, " A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950." The other speakers and their topics in the forum that features a City College faculty member in conversation with CCNY President Lisa S. Coico are (all discussions start at 4

Eleven Mayan women have started a month-long leadership training course in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. All college graduates, they are the first cohort in a new exchange program between the Colin Powell School and Mexico’s Yucatan State. The program is designed to enrich and empower students in both countries. In addition to intensive English classes, the participants are required to explore solutions for socioeconomic problems that they have identified in their respective towns. For Desyi Guadalupe Colli Pinto, who holds a degree in

The first International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) in the United States in seven years brings nearly 300 participants from 18 countries to The City College of New York July 5 – 10. The event, in the Great Hall in Shepard Hall, is hosted by the NOAA-CREST center at City College. For nearly half a century, ILRC meetings have been the recognized international venue for reporting cutting edge research on LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) techniques, technologies and applications. It is also a venue for exchanging ideas, fostering collaborations and stimulating new and novel research

A study by City College of New York physicists Flaviano Morone and Hernán A. Makse suggests that “smaller is smarter” when it comes to influential superspreaders of information in social networks. This is a major shift from the widely held view that “bigger is better,” and could have important consequences for a broad range of social, natural and living networked systems. “The problem of identifying the minimal set of influential nodes in complex networks for maximizing viral marketing in social media, optimizing immunization campaigns and protecting networks under attack is one of the most

William Helmreich , professor of sociology in The City College of New York's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership , spent four years walking almost every street of New York City's five boroughs: 120,000 blocks, or about 6,000 miles. In walking through its neighborhoods and talking to its residents, the native New Yorker developed a complex understanding of the city. At the Museum of the City of New York , Wednesday, July 15 at 6:30 p.m., Helmreich and journalist Ariel Kaminer discuss how New York City has changed since the 1970s and the voices and stories of two prevailing

City College of New York researchers led by chemist George John have developed an eco-friendly biodegradable green “herding” agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water. Derived from the plant-based small molecule phytol abundant in the marine environment, the new substance would potentially replace chemical herders currently in use. According to John, professor of chemistry in City College’s Division of Science , “the best known chemical herders are chemically stable, non-biodegradable, and hence remain in the marine ecosystem for years.” “Our goal was to develop an eco