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Research with Local, National, and Global Impact at CCNY |
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A Message From Andrew Rich
Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean,
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
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Dear Colleagues,
It has been more than eight years since we brought the social science units at CCNY together with the College’s public service and leadership development programs to create the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. We are grateful to be featured in this month’s RICC.
Many in our community may be unaware of our school’s full name, as we rarely use the words “for Civic and Global Leadership” on-campus. When the school’s full name comes up off-campus, I am in the habit of providing instant clarification, “We are CCNY’s school of social sciences,” and then people nod in recognition.
It is an unusual name, but one that does a better job of capturing our essence than many first suspected would be possible.
Our faculty study power, wealth, cognition, culture, justice, and our connections to one another and to the larger communities that make up our world. That’s the project of knowledge creation in the social sciences. Yet at the Colin Powell School, much of the work of our faculty addresses the problems of this community—Harlem and New York City—and much of it has practical implication for local, national, and global public affairs. In short, we care about this place and its people, and we are concerned with the world around us. That’s a big part of what is special about this school of social sciences, which is also a school for “Civic and Global Leadership.”
In today’s RICC, we share examples of projects underway by faculty from across the Colin Powell School. There’s so much more we could have highlighted. Over the past year, researchers from every one of our departments—Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies; Economics and Business; Political Science; Psychology; and Sociology—have pivoted to study the impact of the pandemic—on our students, for housing, here in Harlem, on the environment, for health care, on immigrants, for our politics, on Black and Latinx Americans. The list goes on.
Our faculty are studying everything from international trade to the impact of the opioid crisis on Harlem, from inequality in the juvenile justice system to the intersections of race and masculinity in sports. We are home to the Latin American and Latino Studies program and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. The latter is the first—and the premier—university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent in the United States and other parts of the world.
Within the Colin Powell School, our faculty frequently collaborate. Their work is often supported by external grants. Much of it requires intensive, original data collection. And all of it reflects a well-honed methodological and theoretical sophistication. We have a world-class faculty of social scientists whose work matters, in this moment and in the path we’re forging for the future.
Andy Rich
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Developing Interventions For Harlem And A Worsening Opioid Overdose Emergency In The Bronx
Teresa Lopez-Castro
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CCNY’s Translational Research on Emotion, Addiction and Trauma (TREAT) lab utilizes electroencephalogram (EEG) methods in part with larger scaled, health services—based analyses to inform the design and implementation of community mental health interventions. The lab focuses at the intersection of addictive disorders, mental health, and the impacts of trauma, to bridge one of the fundamental gaps that exist in healthcare
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Using An Interdisciplinary And Multi-level Approach To Nip Health And Social Inequality In The Bud
Adriana Espinosa
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By facilitating interdisciplinary crosstalk, the Applied Research in the Health and Adaptation of Minority Populations (ARHAMP) lab attempts to bridge the knowledge gap at the intersection of psychology, biology, sociology and economics, with the long-term goal of generating evidence-based interventions that decrease inequality in health and in social outcomes among multiple health disparity populations.
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Intersecting Disciplines And Promoting Student Civic Engagement At The Colin Powell School
Andrew Rich
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Formed eight years ago by the fusion of The Colin Powell Center and the Division of Social Sciences, the amalgam known today as The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has expanded City College’s impact at the local, national and international levels.
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Utilizing Population Dynamics And Data Science To Inform Effective Policy Change
Marta Bengoa
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Dr. Bengoa has built endogenous growth models to predict how foreign investment and innovation leads to domestic economic growth. She additionally employs regression analysis, other sophisticated statistical methodologies – econometrics techniques – to help paint a more finely detailed picture of empirical economic reality. |
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Awards
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CCNY Research Awards (March 2021)
Alexander Gilerson, Electrical Engineering “Retrieval of water parameters from hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging" NASA, 3 years, $675,488
Taehun Lee, Mechanical Engineering “An ECP ProxyApp for a Lattice Boltzmann Solver: IMEXLB” Argonne National Laboratory, 2 years, $112,472 |
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