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The mission of the Department of Physics of the City College of New York is to combine research, teaching, and service in order to inspire, educate and prepare our students to be leaders in their chosen field of physics. In addition, our mission is to inculcate in students the culture of a rational approach and analysis to any problem or situation; to provide high-quality and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate educational programs that help students acquire an appreciation of the physical world as understandable and explainable in a logical way in terms of the laws of physics; to advance the frontiers of knowledge in physics through the creative research of faculty and students; to provide educational and scientific resources to the larger community.
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SPIE NAMES ROBERT ALFANO RECIPIENT OF INAUGURAL AWARD IN BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

     SPIE has named Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano the inaugural recipient of the Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award.  The Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award recognizes outstanding contributions to biomedical optics through development of innovative, high impact technologies.  It honors pioneering contributions to optical methods and devices that facilitate discoveries in biology or medicine.  The SPIE Awards Committee named Distinguished Professor Alfano in recognition of his development of biomedical instruments, especially supercontinuum and broadband laser sources. 
    

     Distinguished Professor Robert Alfano is the Director of the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, and holds joint appointments in the Groves School of Engineering and in the Division of Science, Physics Department.

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CITY COLLEGE 2012 SEED GRANTS ANNOUNCED

City College President Lisa S. Coico has announced the winners of the FY 2012 City SEED Grants.  These grants are designed to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship among City College's outstanding faculty and provide $50,000 in "seed money" to ten projects each year.

Among the ten winning proposals for this year are collaborations in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Earth and Atmospheric Science and Microbiology and Immunology:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Topological Insulators and Heterostructores:  Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Physics, and Aldong Shen, Electrical Engineering

Nanoliter NMR Spectroscopy of Fluids Using Chip-Integrated Photonic Microresonators: Carlos Meriles, Physics, and Sang-Woo Seo, Electrical Engineering

Virus Interactions in Geobiological Systems: Karin Block and Jeffrey Steiner, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Paul Gottlieb, Microbiology and Immunology, and Al Katz, Physics.

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