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An important contributor to T��ɫ��Ƶ's #1 national ranking for social mobility, CCNY’s School of Education (SOE) is earning additional recognition for its programs. In its 2020 rankings of Best Colleges for Earning Potential, GradReports places both SOE’s Special Education and Educational Leadership graduate offerings in the top 10 in the United States. Out of the best 24 colleges that offer a master’s degree in special education -- based on median salary one year after graduation -- CCNY is #6. This is based on SOE alumni earning a median salary of $64,000 once they leave

Ethan V. Bendau, a 2018 magna cum laude graduate of T��ɫ��Ƶ, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The award recognizes and supports exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. Fellows receive an annual stipend of $34,000 and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance for graduate study that leads to a research-based master's or doctoral degree in science or engineering. Bendau, who earned a B.S. in physics with Research Honors from City

City College of New York women's track & field star Avery Maillet (New York, N.Y.) has been named to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-America Team for the 2020 indoor season. She was honored in the 200 meters and long jump. Maillet qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in both events. Read Full Article

In a massive boost to its development of minority PhD students in biomedical disciplines, T��ɫ��Ƶ is the recipient of a new five-year $2,966,693 training grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award goes to 30 faculty members in four City College schools, led by CUNY Distinguished Professor Ruth E. Stark and Professor Mark Steinberg ( chemistry & biochemistry). It builds on the success of the NIH’s longstanding Research Initiative for Student Enhancement (RISE) program at CCNY. Fourteen trainees each year, all from underrepresented (UR) groups, will

Terri N. Watson, associate professor in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s School of Education, is one of several exceptional academics named to the University at Buffalo’s Center for Diversity Innovation as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the 2020-2021 academic year. Established with a $1 million annual commitment from UB, the Distinguished Visiting Scholars program is one of the largest and most comprehensive diversity-themed visiting faculty program in the United States. The new program will launch as the university finalizes plans for the fall semester in response to the evolving

Emily Raboteau, award-winning writer, climate activist and professor of English in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, is the 2020-21 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. Raboteau is the author of “The Professor’s Daughter” and “Searching for Zion,” winner of a 2014 American Book Award in nonfiction. She has been writing about the climate crisis since the publication of the fall 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel

The direction of ocean currents can determine the direction of gene flow in rafting species, but this depends on species traits that allow for rafting propensity. This is according to a City College of New York study focusing on seahorse and pipefish species. And it could explain how high genetic diversity can contribute to extinction in small populations. Published in the British-based journal “ Proceedings of the Royal Society B,” the paper by City College scientists led by Michael Hickerson and Laura Bertola is entitled: “ Asymmetrical gene flow in five co-distributed syngnathids explained

In physics, thermalization, or the trend of sub-systems within a whole to gain a common temperature, is typically the norm. There are situations, however, where thermalization is slowed down or virtually suppressed; examples are found when considering the dynamics of electron and nuclear spins in solids, where certain sub-groups behave as if isolated from the rest. Understanding why this happens and how it can be controlled is presently at the center of a broad effort, particularly for applications in the emerging field of quantum information technologies. Reporting in the latest issue of “

Daniel Hila, a member of T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Class of 2020, is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in security and diplomacy at Tel Aviv University in Israel. The program is scheduled to run from Oct. 2020 to Aug. 2021. Hila is graduating from City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership with a BA in political science. He took several graduate-level classes in the school’s MA program in international relations on nuclear security and non-proliferation; the UN and the practice of diplomacy, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. His

Defying humankind’s greatest health crisis in more than a century, T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Andrea Gomez used technology to defend her dissertation and became the first NOAA CESSRST Fellow to earn a PhD. She will receive her degree in earth and environmental science from the Graduate Center, CUNY. “Doing a remote thesis defense was an interesting experience,” said Gomez. “It felt like giving a webinar, and I had never given a virtual presentation before.It was very quiet. There were no coughs in the room. It went well, but I prefer giving live presentations, obviously.” Her thesis is