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Four City College of New York scholar-athletes have been named 2014 CUNYAC/US Army cross country All-Stars. Sophomore Bianca Johnson (early childhood biology) and freshmen Samuel Gotts (history), Thomas Sullivan (mechanical engineering) and Joseph Benson (electrical engineering) earned the honors after the CUNYAC championships in Van Cortlandt Park. In addition, Mr. Benson, an electrical engineering major, was voted the Men’s Cross Country Sportsmanship Award recipient by CUNAC coaches. That is a rare feat for a freshman in the conference. Dr. Kevin H. Abdur-Rahman, City College’s director of

Researchers led by Dr. Debra Auguste, associate professor, biomedical engineering, in the Grove School of Engineering at ��������, have identified a molecule that could lead to developing treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer. Triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs) have a high mortality rate owing to aggressive proliferation and metastasis and a lack of effective therapeutic options. However, Professor Auguste's team, discovered the overexpression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) in human TNBC cell lines and tissues, and demonstrated

On his return to �������� Friday, November 21, to receive the Langston Hughes Medal, author Walter Mosley , '91MA, will reunite with one of his enduring contributions to his alma mater: CCNY's Publishing Certificate Program (PCP). Mr. Mosley inspired the creation of the program in 1997 to help address the lack of diversity in the book publishing industry. Headed by award-winning author David Unger, it offers courses and seminars to both undergraduates and non-matriculated students to prepare them for careers in publishing. Nearly 300 students have graduated from the program

Dr. Amita Gupta , professor, early childhood education, in ��������'s School of Education , will speak at the 2014 World Innovation Summit on Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, November 5. The Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and author will contribute to the debate, "How Do We Best Prepare the Youngest Ones for School and Life?" Since 2009, WISE has brought together decision makers, influential experts and practitioners from around the world to Doha to explore innovations and take steps to significantly improve education globally. This year's theme is: "Imagine –

Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan will make history when he delivers the 2014 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture at ��������, Monday, November 10, at 5:30 p.m. His lecture in the Great Hall, entitled "My Story," will be entirely in Mandarin Chinese with simultaneous translation in English. It will be the first Rudin Lecture in a foreign language since the program began, in 1996. Mo Yan will receive an honorary degree from City College before his talk, which is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. To

Dr. H. Jack Geiger , a founding faculty member of ��������’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education , received the Frank A. Calderone Prize, October 28, in Manhattan. The award ceremony at the Paley Center for Media included his lecture entitled, "The Political Future of Public Health in a Time of Demographic Change." Administered by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the Calderone Prize has been awarded to public health luminaries since 1992. Dr. Geiger, The Arthur C. Logan Professor of Community Medicine Emeritus at Sophie Davis, designed the

Over the past two semesters during his sabbatical, City College of New York Earth and Atmospheric Science Associate Professor Z. Johnny Luo spent hundreds of hours on scientific flights studying cloud dynamics. On Thursday, October 30, photo images from his airborne missions go on display in the exhibit “Flying into the Hurricane: Science in Action” in the Marshak Café at CCNY. It runs through fall 2015. Professor Luo’s first flight last fall took him through Hurricane Ingrid over the Gulf of Mexico in a NASA plane. He was a science leader of a NASA mission looking at how convective clouds

Associate Professor Maria Tzortziou of the earth and atmospheric science (EAS) department and NOAA CREST has received two three-year research grants from NASA for research on Carbon Dynamics along Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces. Dr. Kyle McDonald , Terry Elkes Professor in EAS, is a co-PI. The projects will integrate advanced remote sensing observations of wetlands and coastal ocean color with novel mechanistic carbon cycling modeling to improve understanding of tidal wetlands as sources and sinks of carbon in a changing world. The projects involve collaborations with various academic and

Townsend Harris Medals for seven alumni at annual dinner, November 6 Former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and the famed Friars Club will receive the 67th John H. Finley Award from The Alumni Association of ��������at the New York Hilton Thursday, November 6. In addition, seven City College alumni will receive Townsend Harris Medals. The awards will be presented at the association's 134th Annual Dinner. The Finley Award is given out in recognition of exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York. Ms. Fields, who is currently President and CEO of the

Class of ’63 graduate talks to his alma mater on major honor ��������'s latest Nobel Laureate is Harlem-born and grew up in the South Bronx. John O'Keefe, the son of Irish immigrant parents and a 1963 City College graduate, won the Nobel Prize for medicine last week. He is the tenth City College alumni to receive the prestigious award. A neuroscientist, who earned a psychology degree from CCNY, Dr. O'Keefe was honored for his discovery of the cells "that constitute a positioning system in the brain." It has been dubbed an "inner GPS" in the brain and could it could play a