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News from the Office of Research at The City College of New York https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/research and sometimes the wider CUNY research community
Enjoyed the conversation between Nobel Prize-winning chemist & author of "Why We Die" Venkatraman Ramakrishnan + our own David Jeruzalmi on aging, life expectancy, & life/health span. Diet, sleep, & exercise are still primary factors in longevity. Photo: Michael Starnbach
October 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Enjoyed the conversation between Nobel Prize-winning chemist & author of "Why We Die" Venkatraman Ramakrishnan + our own David Jeruzalmi on aging, life expectancy, & life/health span. Diet, sleep, & exercise are still primary factors in longevity. Photo: Michael Starnbach
The National Science Foundation may have found its future-for-now home.
After learning it would be evicted from its current headquarters and left in limbo about its future home, the National Science Foundation appears headed to new digs just down the street—and soon. https://scim.ag/4p1zzto
NSF could be moving down the street
Government sets requirements for new space that sound like nearby patent office campus
www.science.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The National Science Foundation may have found its future-for-now home.
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Have you ever wanted to be an intern at the Museum? Now’s your chance: Our Museum Education Experience Program (MEEP) is looking for fall interns! Applications are open through August 24. Details: bit.ly/3Jc5XJv
Photos: A. Keding/ © AMNH
Photos: A. Keding/ © AMNH
August 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Have you ever wanted to be an intern at the Museum? Now’s your chance: Our Museum Education Experience Program (MEEP) is looking for fall interns! Applications are open through August 24. Details: bit.ly/3Jc5XJv
Photos: A. Keding/ © AMNH
Photos: A. Keding/ © AMNH
CCNY Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics Michael Lubell quoted in @nature.com article on the new Science Advisor who's not a scientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what's next?
US researchers were hopeful when Donald Trump appointed Michael Kratsios to a top science position, but many say he has contributed to the chaos. Can he turn things around?
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
CCNY Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics Michael Lubell quoted in @nature.com article on the new Science Advisor who's not a scientist www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In our July issue of The RICC, we profiled recent Ph.D graduates across the many disciplines at CCNY.
Learn more about Dr. Katherine Anderson, who recently earned her Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology: thericc.com/city-college...
Learn more about Dr. Katherine Anderson, who recently earned her Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology: thericc.com/city-college...
City College Ph.D. Graduate Shapes the Future of Brain Research—Dr. Katherine Anderson.
The ability of animals to tailor their communication to different social situations is more sophisticated and human-like than we often imagine. For Dr. Katherine Anderson, who recently earned her Ph.D...
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July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In our July issue of The RICC, we profiled recent Ph.D graduates across the many disciplines at CCNY.
Learn more about Dr. Katherine Anderson, who recently earned her Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology: thericc.com/city-college...
Learn more about Dr. Katherine Anderson, who recently earned her Ph.D. in molecular, cellular and developmental biology: thericc.com/city-college...
The National Science Foundation has awarded Professor of Chemistry @mklakshman.bsky.social a $600k grant to develop novel chemical methods for modification of nucleosides! www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-ch...
CCNY chemist Mahesh Lakshman receives $600k NSF award to continue research on nucleosides
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July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The National Science Foundation has awarded Professor of Chemistry @mklakshman.bsky.social a $600k grant to develop novel chemical methods for modification of nucleosides! www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-ch...
Dr. Maeva Coste @asrc-gc.bsky.social is an Activate Fellow!
Working across 14 industries, the 39 companies comprising Activate Cohort 2025 represent 29 cities in 9 US states. www.activate.org/biowraptor
Working across 14 industries, the 39 companies comprising Activate Cohort 2025 represent 29 cities in 9 US states. www.activate.org/biowraptor
BioWraptor — Activate
BioWraptor packages fragile biomolecules into robust microparticles, enabling storage without refrigeration, cutting costs and emissions, and expanding access to essential biologics.
www.activate.org
July 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Dr. Maeva Coste @asrc-gc.bsky.social is an Activate Fellow!
Working across 14 industries, the 39 companies comprising Activate Cohort 2025 represent 29 cities in 9 US states. www.activate.org/biowraptor
Working across 14 industries, the 39 companies comprising Activate Cohort 2025 represent 29 cities in 9 US states. www.activate.org/biowraptor
Rein Ulijn @asrc-gc.bsky.social is one of only 29 semifinalists in the NSF RIE competition! www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-adv...
NSF advances 29 semifinalists in the second NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition
The U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program announced the 29 semifinalists advancing to the next stage of the second…
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July 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rein Ulijn @asrc-gc.bsky.social is one of only 29 semifinalists in the NSF RIE competition! www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-adv...
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Academic writers often revise existing work to produce articles, a task that means asking challenging questions about structure and content. Join us next week for a workshop @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social that will help get you started! Use the QR code below or go to our website: buff.ly/AU3u8Re
July 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Academic writers often revise existing work to produce articles, a task that means asking challenging questions about structure and content. Join us next week for a workshop @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social that will help get you started! Use the QR code below or go to our website: buff.ly/AU3u8Re
Nine @cuny.edu faculty-led research projects addressing emerging challenges & opportunities in cybersecurity are newly Google-funded! For 2025, 12 faculty members from six CUNY campuses and two CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc...
Announcing the CUNY Winners of the 2025 Google Cybersecurity Grants
Faculty at the Graduate Center and throughout CUNY receive support for innovative work in AI, autonomous vehicle technology, smartphones, and wearable devices.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nine @cuny.edu faculty-led research projects addressing emerging challenges & opportunities in cybersecurity are newly Google-funded! For 2025, 12 faculty members from six CUNY campuses and two CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc...
Check out the latest issue of The RICC, where we highlight The Spitzer School of Architecture faculty who are recipient of the Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Read about the details of Dr. Zihao Zhang project below:
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Read about the details of Dr. Zihao Zhang project below:
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From Flushing to Long Island City: Mapping Chinese Diasporic Urbanism in Queens — Zihao Zhang
What do malls in Flushing, food courts in Long Island City and a viral TikTok meme all have in common? For a team of designers and researchers at City College, they’re clues to a deeper story about sp...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Check out the latest issue of The RICC, where we highlight The Spitzer School of Architecture faculty who are recipient of the Independent Projects grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Read about the details of Dr. Zihao Zhang project below:
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Read about the details of Dr. Zihao Zhang project below:
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The People fund the science! Students are driving a renewed effort to share publicly funded research and humanize scientists #SciComm www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Researchers have a radical plan to thwart Trump's war on science: Talking to people
Faced with federal funding cuts, scientists are learning to communicate about what they do — and why it matters.
www.nbcnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The People fund the science! Students are driving a renewed effort to share publicly funded research and humanize scientists #SciComm www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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“The ASRC is a structural biologist’s dream,” says alumna Danielle Swingle. “I had access to every major instrument and training from associated experts.” Learn about her latest research www.gc.cuny.edu/news/bacteri... @asrc-gc.bsky.social @ccnyresearch.bsky.social @gc-biochemphd.bsky.social
Bacteria Use Light in Surprising Ways to Handle Stress
Alumna Danielle Swingle’s research shows that some bacteria follow different rules when reacting to light and stress.
www.gc.cuny.edu
May 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“The ASRC is a structural biologist’s dream,” says alumna Danielle Swingle. “I had access to every major instrument and training from associated experts.” Learn about her latest research www.gc.cuny.edu/news/bacteri... @asrc-gc.bsky.social @ccnyresearch.bsky.social @gc-biochemphd.bsky.social
Termination of @cuny.edu NIH U-RISE programs cuts off aspiring biomedical scientists from research experiences that solidifies interests and develops key research skills. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/14/c...
Trump Cuts Off Budding CUNY Scientists From Mentorship and Aid
www.thecity.nyc
May 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Termination of @cuny.edu NIH U-RISE programs cuts off aspiring biomedical scientists from research experiences that solidifies interests and develops key research skills. www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/14/c...
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Our recent research published in PNAS is featured today in the Research and Innovation at City College (RICC) Newsletter. Thanks so much to the CCNY Office of Research @ccnyresearch.bsky.social for your support and interest!
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Exploring Emotion Through Visual Perception—Dr. Edward A. Vessel
What if the way we feel about an image, whether it is outdoor scenery, a city skyline, or a childhood photo, wasn't just about memory or mood but something deeper in how we see? For Dr. Edward A. Vess...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Our recent research published in PNAS is featured today in the Research and Innovation at City College (RICC) Newsletter. Thanks so much to the CCNY Office of Research @ccnyresearch.bsky.social for your support and interest!
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@ccnyscience.bsky.social @nature.com CCNY Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics Fellow Michael Lubell frames the long-term costs of cutting research funding to US universities.
There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way, says Michael S. Lubell, former director of public affairs at the American Physical Society.
https://go.nature.com/3GIZ40Z
https://go.nature.com/3GIZ40Z
Cuts to US science will take a generation to repair — leaders must speak up now
There’s no mystery to innovation and economic growth; the US must nurture its scientists or find out the hard way.
go.nature.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@ccnyscience.bsky.social @nature.com CCNY Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics Fellow Michael Lubell frames the long-term costs of cutting research funding to US universities.
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Huge congrats to Hunter College and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Professor and pioneering marine biochemist Mandë Holford who has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! #HunterPride
More: hunter.cuny.edu/news/hunter-...
More: hunter.cuny.edu/news/hunter-...
March 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Huge congrats to Hunter College and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Professor and pioneering marine biochemist Mandë Holford who has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! #HunterPride
More: hunter.cuny.edu/news/hunter-...
More: hunter.cuny.edu/news/hunter-...
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So honoured to have our ornamental-bat-trade work included in Earth Day coverage of how CUNY Graduate Centre researchers contribute to safeguarding the environment.
I will always #DefendNature as if our lives depend on it.
I will always #DefendNature as if our lives depend on it.
This Earth Day, discover how Graduate Center scholars are driving change — from protecting the world’s most endangered marine mammal to rethinking how we define climate resilience www.gc.cuny.edu/news/safegua... #EarthDay @biologygccuny.bsky.social @eesgccuny.bsky.social @djlohman.bsky.social
Safeguarding the Planet on Earth Day and Every Day
Graduate Center scholars are contributing to a greener future by studying and standing up for wildlife conservation, climate resilience, and environmental justice.
www.gc.cuny.edu
April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
So honoured to have our ornamental-bat-trade work included in Earth Day coverage of how CUNY Graduate Centre researchers contribute to safeguarding the environment.
I will always #DefendNature as if our lives depend on it.
I will always #DefendNature as if our lives depend on it.
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Congratulations to Prof. Karen Strassler, who won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her upcoming book on how images shared by people with breast cancer shape perceptions of the illness and of women’s bodies www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Karen Strassler, who won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her upcoming book on how images shared by people with breast cancer shape perceptions of the illness and of women’s bodies www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
See GORGONA at the CCNY Documentary Forum with a talk by Director Antonio Tibaldi, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video! #GuggFellows2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/gorgona-fi...
GORGONA - Film and Talk with Antonio Tibaldi
Life in the last agricultural penal colony in Europe - and talk with the director.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
See GORGONA at the CCNY Documentary Forum with a talk by Director Antonio Tibaldi, 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video! #GuggFellows2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/gorgona-fi...
Congratulations to Antonio Tibaldi, Professor at City College of New York @cuny.edu & now a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video! #GuggFellows2025
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Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
www.gf.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Congratulations to Antonio Tibaldi, Professor at City College of New York @cuny.edu & now a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video! #GuggFellows2025
www.gf.org/stories/anno...
www.gf.org/stories/anno...
In our latest issue of The RICC, Research and Innovation at City College, we highlighted Dr. Alexandra Stern, assistant professor of history, who specializes in 19th-century U.S. history.
Read more: thericc.com/understandin...
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Understanding the Past and Shaping the Future — Dr. Alexandra Stern
In a time marked by political polarization and competing narratives, the study of history has never been more urgent. For Dr. Alexandra Stern, assistant professor of history at CCNY, the power of hist...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In our latest issue of The RICC, Research and Innovation at City College, we highlighted Dr. Alexandra Stern, assistant professor of history, who specializes in 19th-century U.S. history.
Read more: thericc.com/understandin...
Read more: thericc.com/understandin...
CCNY physicist @optikalphysicist.bsky.social & colleagues make breakthrough in interactions between electronic excitations, with implications for quantum computing. Published 2025 in @naturematerials.bsky.social scitechdaily.com/tiny-magnets...
Tiny Magnets, Big Potential: How Spin Waves Let Particles “Talk” in 2D Materials
Physicists have discovered that electronic excitations in 2D magnets can interact through spin waves – ripples in a material’s magnetic structure. This breakthrough allows excitons (electron-hole pair...
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April 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
CCNY physicist @optikalphysicist.bsky.social & colleagues make breakthrough in interactions between electronic excitations, with implications for quantum computing. Published 2025 in @naturematerials.bsky.social scitechdaily.com/tiny-magnets...
Read more about the groundbreaking research from CCNY's physicists!
CCNY physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves – CUNY Newswire
Groundbreaking research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding by the Lab...
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April 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Read more about the groundbreaking research from CCNY's physicists!