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Dr. Robert R. Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, was presented with the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize at the the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science and Optical Society of America (OSA) meeting, held last month in Orlando. The Schawlow prize “recognizes outstanding contributions to basic research that uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light.” Professor Alfano was recognized for his “pioneering contributions to the field of ultrafast laser

Classical pianist broke Madison Avenue’s color barrier in 1955 when hired by Y&R as copywriter and jingle composer Advertising hall of famer and renowned concert pianist Roy Eaton, ’50, returns to his alma mater, The City College of New York, Thursday, November 21, to present a “Lunch with Leaders” talk to advertising and public relations majors. His topic will be “Music: a Tool for Transformation.” The event takes place 12 noon – 1:45 p.m. in Room 95, Shepard Hall, on the City College campus, located at 160 Convent Ave., Manhattan. Trained as a classical pianist, with a degree from the

Professor Robert Alfano and colleagues devise approach for applying quantum and optical principles to cosmetic preparations How someone perceives color is determined by how the item they are looking at scatters and emits light. In August, three City College of New York physicists affiliated with the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) were awarded a patent for a method for changing perception of skin tone by applying quantum and optical principles to cosmetic preparations. IUSL Director Robert R. Alfano led the team. Research Associate Xiaohui Ni played a key role in

General Powell contributes $5 million to school at City College The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York announced its new board of visitors November 5. The board, consisting of 26 prominent Americans, will hold its inaugural meeting later this month. Chairing the board is General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret), CCNY ’58, who donated a lead gift of $5 million to the campaign for the Powell School, and has been the driving force behind the campaign, which has raised $44 million to date. The Powell School’s Board of Visitors will help support the

City College of New York biology senior Violeta Contreras Ramirez' study into visual cortex development has won her a FASEB MARC travel award to the 2013 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) meeting in Nashville, Tenn., November 13-16. At the conference she will make a poster presentation on the research she conducts under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Levitt, associate professor of biology. Her abstract is entitled "Postnatal refinement of cortical projections from ferret primary visual cortex." "My research field is neurobiology and I'm looking at how the

School places high among master’s universities for research, social mobility in magazine’s college rankings The City College of New York was ranked 43rd among the United States’ 684 master’s universities, according to the 2013 “Washington Monthly” College Rankings. The magazine rates schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories that receive equal weight: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)

Meeting November 7 – 8 in Detroit is first of its kind to bring together change agents from Southeast Michigan, Northeast Ohio and Upstate New York The Spitzer School of Architecture’s J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City (JMBC), in partnership with the American Assembly and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, is hosting the Bruner Loeb Forum on Legacy City Design. The two-day conference will be held, November 7 – 8 in Detroit. “The conference builds on our Legacy City Design Initiative launched last year in partnership with the American Assembly, which is based at Columbia

College’s entry in 2011 Solar Decathlon to become multi-purpose facility dedicated to sustainability A campaign is underway to install the Solar Roofpod atop the Spitzer School of Architecture building, where it will serve as a multi-purpose facility dedicated to sustainability. The installation is expected to begin in early 2014. The solar-powered house was The City College of New York entry in the U.S. Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon. “Placing the Solar Roofpod atop the Spitzer School of Architecture would allow it to function as originally intended, on top of a roof, tied into a

First event of its kind in New York lets clinicians, researchers and students hear from pioneers, learn about emerging innovations The 2013 NYC Neuromodulation Conference, the first meeting of its kind to be held in New York City, will take place November 22 – 23 at The City College of New York. The event will provide clinicians, researchers and students with opportunities to hear from pioneers and learn about emerging innovations in transcranial electrical stimulation, the application of low-voltage current to restore and improve brain function. Conference sessions will cover research

As postdoc at Columbia, CCNY physicist Cory Dean and colleagues devised new method that addresses graphene’s contamination problem Dr. Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at The City College of New York, is the lead author of a paper published November 1 in the journal “Science” that demonstrates it is possible for an atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) material to have electrical contact along its one-dimensional (1D) edge. The contact architecture offers a new assembly technique for layered materials that prevents contamination at interfaces. Professor Dean conducted the research as a