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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
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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
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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
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
www.ccny.cuny.edu
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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
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.
www.gc.cuny.edu
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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
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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
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
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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-...
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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.
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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