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Five undergraduates from The City College of New York were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference attracted more than 4,000 participants – including graduate students, researchers and scientists – in one of ABRCMS’s largest gatherings in its 24-year history. The students were supported by various programs including PURT (the CCNY-MSK partnership), headed by Karen Hubbard; U-RISE (Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement), led by Jonathan Levitt; CCAPP (City Academy for

The University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) at The City College of New York is partnering with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) on two transformative transportation initiatives supported by $16 million in federal funding. The cutting-edge projects promise to revolutionize urban mobility and infrastructure management through advanced artificial intelligence and smart technology solutions. NYC DOT is one of seven recipients nationwide to receive funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation's Congestion Relief Grant Program. Their $11.6m award will fund

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA), a landscape architecture firm, gifted $30,000 to the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York for establishment of The MVVA Fellowship Program for students in the Master of Landscape Architecture program. The MVVA Fellowship seeks to support rising individuals in the field of landscape architecture who come from backgrounds that are currently and have been historically underrepresented in the field. The goal of this fellowship is to strengthen the pool of resources for emerging design professionals and to

Before he became a New York City Park Ranger, Rafael Cruz knew that he wanted to be an environmental conservation educator, but was unsure how to channel that ambition when he first enrolled at The City College of New York as an undeclared major. Then, he had a chance encounter with Yael Wyner, an associate professor at the School of Education. The director of SoE’s science education program, Wyner suggested to Cruz that he consider enrolling in the School’s Science Learning and Public Education major, which was established in 2021 to prepare students for a range of STEM education careers. “I

Lynne Scott Jackson, distinguished lecturer and the director of Industry Relations, Internships and Professional Development in the Ad/PR Program at The City College of New York, is the recipient of the 2024 PRSA-NY Big Apple Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award honors individuals who continuously lead, guide and selflessly counsel and stimulate the careers of communications professionals at all career stages. The event, themed “Collaboration and Innovation,” is the premier networking event for the public relations industry and also recognizes the 2024 15 Under 35. She also received PRSA

The City University of New York - Initiative on Immigration and Education ( CUNY-IIE) at The City College of New York has released a policy brief that addresses the pertinent issue of Enhancing Educational Equity for Immigrant Students in New York State. Authored by CUNY-IIE team members Tamara Alsace and Rachel Duff, the brief outlines policy recommendations to achieve equitable access to education for immigrant and undocumented youth. Such access remains elusive for this group, despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Plyler v. Doe, which upheld the rights of undocumented

Marilyn Seskin, MD, a distinguished City College of New York alumna and retired anesthesiologist, spent the last few years of her life advancing research against gynecologic cancers. Five years after her passing, her legacy lives on at her alma mater with two new undergraduate scholarship programs and a science laboratory named in her memory. Thanks to a donation from the Marilyn W. Seskin Trust, The City College has established the Dr. Marilyn Seskin ('72, '79) Endowed Scholarship Fund, and the Dr. Marilyn Seskin ('72, '79) Annual Scholarship Fund. Both need-based and for high-achieving

“VitaVroom,” the latest incarnation of student-designed, chemically-powered shoebox sized-vehicles from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, placed fourth at AIChE's annual Chem-E-Car Competition® in San Diego, California, from a field of 51 foreign and domestic entries. The result maintains the Grove School’s reputation as a top performer in the international event. Student teams qualify for the finals by excelling in regional competitions. VitaVroom secured CCNY’s trip to the finals –- held at the San Diego Convention Center -- with a top four finish at the AIChE Mid

Pioneering microbiologist Jo Handelsman presents the Ninth Annual Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center located on the CCNY campus. Her talk, entitled, "Finding Thor's Hammer: Multiomics search for the driver of microbiome function,” is free and open to the public. Click here to register and for directions. Handelsman is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) and a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the

Water-responsive materials exist everywhere in nature, but transforming these natural materials into sustainably sourced high energy engineered materials requires a fundamental understanding of how they work. Now a groundbreaking discovery by City College of New York researchers from the Grove School of Engineering unravels the connection between water and surfaces to engineer water responsive properties. The experts, including chemical engineers Raymond Tu and Xi Chen, mechanical engineer Honghui Yu, and postdoctoral associate Darjan Podbevsek (power and process engineering), determined how