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Robert MacDougall (Social Science) is giving a book talk on Friday 9/19 at 3:00 pm at the CUNY Grad Center, Room 9207. His book, Righting Health Policy, critically evaluates mainstream bioethics approaches to health law and policy and uses Kantian moral and political philosophy to explain why the field should change these approaches and how it could.
Caroline Chamberlin Hellman (English) calls for unified action to safeguard and invest in the future of public higher education in her opinion piece, “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: The Need for A United Front in the Attacks on Higher Education” in Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Read it here.
Samaneh Gholitabar (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) with co-PIs Samsur Rahman and Muhammad Moniruzzaman (both of Mechanical Engineering Technology) have been awarded a NASA MUREP HeroX Award (MPLAN 2025) for their project, Microgravity for Lunar In-Situ Build. Read about the program here. Professor Gholitabar was also selected to collaborate with a researcher from Columbia University on a health impact assessment project led by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Alyssa Adomaitis (Business) and Anita Giraldo (Communication Design) have been selected 2025-2026 CUNY Career Success Fellows. Read about the program here.
Viviana Acquaviva (Physics) received a large 1.78M, single-PI, 5-year grant award from the Simons Foundation for her project “From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond” that will allow her to build a research group in climate data science, and to support a graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher. It’s the first ever full PIVOT research award made by the Simons Foundation. Read about it here.
Johann Thiel (Mathematics) has been appointed the college’s new Academic Integrity Officer. Professor Thiel replaces the founding AIO, Professor Kyle Cuordileone (Social Science), who has retired.
Ashwin Satyanarayana (Computer Systems Technology), along with Interim President Milton Santiago and a group of City Tech students and an alumnus, participated in the Next Gen India Dialogue event hosted by India’s Secretary of Youth Affairs at the Consulate General of India in New York, on Friday, Sept. 26. Read more about it here.
Juan Rivera-Correa (Biological Sciences) published two publications and presented original research at a national research conference: a co-authored article reporting novel blood biomarkers for human malaria in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Publication link); a co-authored editorial in mBio (Publication link); and a poster presentation and 5-minute oral pitch, “Autoimmunity during Tropical Infectious Diseases: Human Malaria and Canine Heartworm Disease” at the 2025 New England Association of Parasitologists (NEAP).
