In 2010, Dr. Heng Ji was awarded a $527,134 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to support her innovative interdisciplinary research on Natural Language Processing (NLP)and Information Extraction (IE). Dr. Ji is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Queens College and a member of the doctoral faculty of both Computer Science and Linguistics [...]
2012 Community College Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (C3IRG) Winners
December 11, 2012 | Awards, Faculty, Funding, Programs
An Investigation of Prior Experience and Course Type as Factors Affecting Online Stem Student Retention and Success Katherine M. Conway, Borough of Manhattan Community College Claire W. Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College Alyse C. Hachey, Borough of Manhattan Community College A Cross CUNY Collaboration to Assess the Impact of Service-Learning on Community College Students [...]
2012 Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CIRG) Winners
December 11, 2012 | Awards, Faculty, Funding, Programs
Building Nanoscale Epitaxial Heterostructures of Topological Superconductors Lia Krusin, City College of New York Maria Tamargo, City College of New York Aidong Shen, City College of New York Deciphering the Nutritional Goals of Baboons across Africa: Unraveling the Roles of Phylogeny and Ecology Jessica Rothman, Hunter College Larissa Swedell, Queens College A Multi-Sensor / Multi-Frequency [...]
Research Spotlight: Queensborough Community College Team Receive NSF TUES Award
March 7, 2012 | Awards, Faculty, Funding, News
In August 2011 Queensborough Community College professors, Roland Scal (Geology), Cheryl Bluestone (Psychology), and Hugh Rance (Geology) were awarded a National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES) grant. The title of their multi-year pedagogical research project is Development of an Active Learning Gemology Studio Course: Introducing Nonscience Majors to [...]
Announcing the Winners of the Innaugural CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering
March 7, 2012 | Announcements, Awards, Faculty, Funding, News, Programs, Vice Chancellor for Research
Introducing the 2012 winners of the CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering. This award, supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,is designed to advance the research programs of research-intensive, early career, science and engineering faculty at CUNY through boosting their research productivity and accelerating their ability to attract significant [...]
2012 NSF CAREER Award Winners
March 7, 2012 | Announcements, Awards, Faculty, Funding, News, Vice Chancellor for Research
Congratulations to the 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award winners! In addition to the NSF monetary award, the winners will receive a 10% supplement (up to $50,000) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. In total, 28 proposals were submitted from 10 CUNY colleges. The following faculty [...]
Nucleosides Help Functionalize Themselves
March 7, 2012 | Faculty
CCNY Professor of Chemistry Dr. Mahesh Lakshman has had his work selected for feature in the high-impact international chemistry journal.
Baruch Professor Exhibits at AMNH
March 6, 2012 | Events, Faculty, News, Uncategorized
David Gruber, Assistant Professor Biology and Environmental Science at Baruch College has images from his research on display in current and upcoming exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). His images of marine fluorescent corals are currently on display in the exhibition Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies. He also co-curated with [...]
Celebrating the Centenary of Marie Curie’s Chemistry Nobel
March 6, 2012 | Events, Faculty, Uncategorized
Edyta Greer, an Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry at Baruch College, recently co-authored “Marie Curie: Pioneering Discoveries and Humanitarianism” in Helvetica Chimica Acta (2011 Nov; 94(11):1893-1907). Dr. Greer’s article is a tribute to the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in different scientific disciplines. Her achievements are unparallelled. With her colleague, David Gruber, an [...]