The NanoBioNYC research traineeship program is set to officially launch during Earth Week on April 18th, 2023. Funded by a $3 million dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in partnership with CUNY, it aims to give students the tools to succeed in careers in bio-nanoscience research by offering internships with industry or academic labs, professional […]
From a young age, most of us are taken to the doctor’s office. Whether it be for a cold, cough, fever or the flu, we have all been treated by a physician. Unfortunately, it gets harder to seek the same level of treatment as the years pass by due to our existing physician shortage problem. […]
Cassava Sciences touted the drug simuphilam as a cure to Alzheimer’s Disease. Now, the core science behind the drug that was partially pioneered by a CUNY professor is being questioned by scientists and regulators alike. The scientific journal PLoS One retracted five studies co-authored by Dr. Hoau-Yan Wang, an associate medical professor at the CUNY […]
Imagine waking up 30 minutes before your 8:30 a.m. class. After rushing onto the train, it runs into a delay. There is no possible way for you to get to your class on time. This is all too familiar to the majority of CUNY students who commute to college. Now picture the same scenario, but […]
There were 1.4 million reports of identity theft reported last year, and it is estimated that by 2025, cybersecurity will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually. While conventional methods (i.e: public key encryption, private key encryption) of cybersecurity are becoming obsolete, quantum cryptography may be the key to a more secure digital world. Quantum cryptography […]
People building tolerance to prescribed antibiotics can make way for “superbugs” more harmful than COVID-19 in the future. More than 35,000 people in the United States have died due to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections in 2019. The cost to treat these antibiotic-resistant infections is estimated to be more than $4.6 billion. Yet, the bigger challenge may […]
Conducting research, which is considered a key component of one’s undergraduate career and one way to fulfill the experiential learning requirement for graduation, is no easy process. Throw a mid-semester global pandemic into the mix, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for disaster. But disaster it was not for many Macaulay students, taking advantage of […]
By Ryan Wu In a few months, COVID-19 has effectively eliminated or stalled more than 20 million jobs created since the Great Recession. An oil crisis is playing out in the middle of one of the world’s most tumultuous economic times, and in an economy already beginning to show cracks in loan volume. Yet, the […]
By Saifa Khan Essential worker—a phrase we’ve heard innumerable times in the past few weeks. As defined by the 2013 Essential Services Act, this is “an employee that performs work involving the safety of human life or the protection of property.” Amid this global pandemic, essential workers are quite literally risking their wellbeing for everyone […]
By Gennady Vulakh While many of us were scared of getting our shots and blood tests as children (or remain scared as adults—no judgment here), some of us had no such fear and moved on to donating blood and saving lives. For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the local government and organizations […]
