Professor of Chemistry Dr. Mahesh Lakshman (CCNY) is the recent recipient of a National Institutes of Health exploratory grant for his work with novel anti-viral agents.
The City University of New York has received a three-year, $1,075,968 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to encourage and support promising early-career scientists through CUNY’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (C-SURP) and a new Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering.
CUNY’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (C-SURP) placed students in research laboratories across the CUNY system. This was the program’s second year.
Dr. John Waldman (Queens) spent part of his summer on a research expedition to Mongolia in search of a rare and primitive fish, the taimen. During the trip, Dr. Waldman kept a blog documenting his experiences.
Grove School of Engineering Assistant Professor Dr. Sihong Wang has been awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER grant to develop a promising cancer drug screening device.
