Convening meetings, workshops, seminars, and public programs is a key part of the mission at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center promoting collaboration between campus-based faculty, ASRC faculty, theorists, and experimentalists across New York City.
The ASRC offers event and meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 100 guests for your next conference, reception, meeting, workshop, film shoot, or private event.
Please join us May 6th for the Defense and Intelligence Research Forum hosted by The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY).
Join the Neuroscience Initiative for another exciting Mini Symposium on Metabolism: Function & Imaging with a reception in the cafe to follow!
Campus Safety - General Information and Situational Awareness Training hosted by CCNY Public Safety.
This event is part of the 2022 Professional Development Seminar Series hosted by the CUNY Office of Research, in partnership with the Velay Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
This event is part of Communicating Your Science, a series of talks and workshops aimed at helping STEM professionals publish and communicate their research.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
Join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk from Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, on June 14th, at 12pm.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one-hour talk from Qitong Li, titled: Improved Light-Field Control and Light-Matter Interaction via Optically Resonant Nanostructures for Device Applications Abstract – The Starting from the 1970s, great efforts have been made to miniaturize bulky optical devices. This progress accelerated significantly over the last decade due to the emerging
Join us for the next speaker in this series, Juan Pablo Giraldo, University of California, Riverside.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
This seminar will include a talk from Eta A. Isiorho, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, Structural Biology Initiative, with time for a Q&A to follow.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
These are zoom trainings, provided by Tom Dickson with Environmental Health and Occupational Safety, to ensure that all researchers and guests of the ASRC meet safety and regulatory requirements before working in labs/ the building.
This seminar will include a talk from Patrizia Casaccia, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Neuroscience Initiative, with time for a Q&A to follow.
Please join us on July 12th for a talk from Jason Patterson, Assistant Director of Admissions at the CUNY Graduate Center & Joshua Brumberg, Interim Director of the Advanced Science Research Center and Dean for the Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Faculty, staff, students, visitors and more- you're invited to join us on the ASRC's north terrace for an ice cream social from 12pm-3pm.
This seminar will include a talk from Charles Vorosmarty, Ph.D., Director of the Environmental Sciences Initiative, with time for a Q&A to follow.
This seminar will include a talk from Rein Ulijn, Ph.D., Director of the Nanoscience Initiative, with time for a Q&A to follow.
This seminar will include a talk from Andrea Alu, Ph.D., Director of the Photonics Initiative, with time for a Q and A to follow.
This event is part of the Velay Professional Development Webinar Series 2022 and will be hosted by Jessica Fields, Associate Director, NSF I-Corps Hub: NY Region & NYC Regional
Innovation Network.
These are Zoom trainings. The login and Pass Code information are located on the schedule and registration is not required.
This pop-up booth in the park is hosted by the ASRC's STEM Outreach and Education Manager, Kendra Krueger, along with volunteers to bring those interested in STEM ages 5 and up for activities including: Test tube lava lamps Virtual reality tours Bio-bracelets with pipe-cleaners Science zine making Please see the attached flyer for further info.
Join us for an interactive tour of the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY and its uniquely laid out design. Meet scientists and industry researchers that are working together in this collaborative space for innovation.
These are Zoom trainings. The login and Pass Code information are located on the schedule and registration is not required.
The ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign is back for the fall semester! To start off this weekly seminar series, the Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Professor Paul Lombroso from Yale University School of Medicine.
The ASRC-CCNY Seminar Series in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biodesign is back for the fall semester! To continue this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Assistant Professor Amedee des Georges from the ASRC/GC, CUNY.
The CUNY ASRC will host a day-long press briefing exploring what the greater New York City area has learned, where we are, and where we need to be 10 years after Superstorm Sandy.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Associate Professor Qing R. Fan, from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY.
Please join the CCNY Division of Science for The 7th Annual Sharon Cosloy - Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lecture with Dr. Titia de Lange.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Alexey Silakov from Pennsylvania State University.
Join us on September 30, 2022, at 2 p.m. for a session with the CUNY Graduate Center's Science Librarian Mason Brown, who will be discussing how to access and discover STEM research materials from off campus. Conducting science research remotely can be done successfully with a few simple but critical tools. In this session, Mason will
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk presented by Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh.
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk presented by Dennis Prather, University of Delaware.
In this fall seminar series, the Photonics Initiative will be hosting Andrea Ferrari, University of Cambridge, for a one hour talk in the ASRC auditorium/ via Zoom.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Professor Andrei A. Korostelev from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.
Please join the ASRC Photonics Initiative for a one-hour seminar from Aashish Clerk, University of Chicago on Oct. 12th at 2pm.
Please join us October 17th, for a one-hour talk from Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva.
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk presented by Julian Patrick Klein, MIT.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Margaret McFall-Ngai from the Carnegie Institution for Science, California Institute of Technology.
Please join us October 24th, for a one-hour talk from Yuri Kivshar, Australian National University.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Carrie Partch from the University of California at Santa Cruz, CA.
We are excited to announce Dr. Dennis C. Liotta, a Graduate Center alum, will be presenting a talk titled: “Novel Therapeutics for Treating Cancers, Neurological Disorders and Viral Diseases,” at the ASRC on Friday Oct. 28th.
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk presented by Vladislav Yakovlev.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Alexander Shekhtman from SUNY at Albany, NY.
Please join us for a one-hour talk, as part of the ASRC's Converge to Transform: Interdisciplinary STEM Seminar Series, from Professor Ting Xu, University of California, Berkeley.
Please join the Photonics Initiative for a one- hour talk presented by Graeme Milton, University of Utah.
Please join us November 4th, for talks presented by Lee Swindlehurst, Zhu Han, and Marco Di Renzo from10:30am- 1:00pm.
Public access to current scientific research is becoming more critical every day. Learn how to use CUNY Academic Works to further distribute your work and help the general public understand your research better. Join us on November 4, 2022, at 2 p.m. for a session with Megan Wacha, CUNY University Scholarly Communications Librarian, and Jill Cirasella, the
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Lars Konermann from the University of Western Ontario.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Shohei Koide from NYU Langone Health, NY.
Please join us November 17th, for a one-hour talk from Aditya Mohite, Rice University, hosted by Matthew Sfeir, Photonics Initiative, CUNY ASRC.
Do you know how to write papers with references embedded? How about sharing your ‘citation libraries’ with collaborators?
Join to learn from GC’s science librarian Mason Brown – set it up properly now using Zotero and save yourself hours of tedious editing!
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Scott Prosser from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Start career mapping now with experts from GC’s Office of Career Planning and Professional Development (CP&PD), Jennifer Furlong, Emily Seamone, and Donald Goldstein, who will help you map your way to the career of your dreams. Find out which careers are aligned with your values, skills, interests, and personality traits!
Join us on December 2, 2022 at 2 p.m. for a special "Communicating Your Science" event with Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times best-selling author, social commentator and host of the podcast Revisionist History, where he’ll discuss the role that public higher education institutions can play in communicating science and ensuring that STEM education and research data
Join this Lunch and Learn info. session to hear from Sabrina Ladarola, Inotiv Sales Director, on how laboratory animal diet ingredients can affect brain function, tumor growth, estrogen receptor binding, and so much more.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Tristan Bepler from the NYSBC, NY.
Join to learn the principles of science communication with GC’s Director of Science Media Relations, Shawn Rhea!
In this one-hour seminar, Andrea Cavalleri, Oxford University, will be presenting a talk titled: "New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials."
Join us on January 27, 2023 at 2 p.m. for a special Communicating Your Science event with science filmmaker Tom McNamara. During this interactive talk, Tom will: Breakdown his strategies in visualizing and communicating science. Outline a practical media kit students and scientists can use in the lab and field to document their work. Highlight scientists who are currently
ZOOM EHOS Safety Training Schedule for February 2023. J Topic Date Time Meeting ID/Pass Code Cryogenic Safety Thursday 2-02-23 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 861 8303 3722/080382 Laser Safety Training Thursday 2-02-23 1:00PM – 2:00 PM 827 5462 4355/738777 C14 FDNY Fire Safety Tuesday 2-07-23 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM 857 6453 0185/850508 Lab Safety
Inaugural speakers of this spring seminar series with the ASRC's Environmental Science Initiative will include Anthony Cak, PhD, Hussain Bokhari, and Nicolas Maxfield, from the ASRC Environmental Science Initiative.
In this one-hour seminar, Yonatan Sivan, Ben-Gurion University, will be presenting a talk titled: “Hot" carriers in metal nanostructures –
when they matter, and when they do not...
Join us in welcoming the first speaker in this spring seminar series, Pilar Cossio, Flatiron Institute, for a one-hour talk in the ASRC Auditorium on February 8th.
In this one-hour seminar, Albert Polman, Center for Nanophotonics, NWO Institute, AMOLF, will be presenting a talk titled: Optical metasurface performing mathematical operations and making better solar cells.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Tanja Mittag, Member of the St. Jude Faculty, Structural Biology Department at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN.
Continuing this spring seminar series, the ASRC's Environmental Science Initiative is excited to host Maria Diuk-Wasser, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University, presenting a talk on: Tick-Bone Zoonoses in the New York Metropolitan area: A Coupled Natural-Human System.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Giovanna Ghirlanda from Arizona State University.
Join this weekly seminar series to hear Professor Petra Levin, Washington University in St. Louis, present a talk titled: "Bacteria vs Environment: How very small organisms survive and thrive in a very big world."
The ASRC Environmental Science Initiative is excited to have Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer and Research Assistant Professor at Biotia, Inc., SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, present a talk titled: “Genomics-Based Approaches for Precision Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Future Pandemic Preparedness.”
Join this one-hour seminar to learn about new 3D visualization and augmented reality tools for your research! Summer opportunities are also available for undergraduate students.
This CUNY-wide radiation safety training will take place in-person at the ASRC Auditorium from 10am-3pm, with a midday break from 12-1pm.
An Immersive and interactive virtual experience for anyone young or old!
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Anna-Lena Steckelberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, Irving Medical Center, New York, to present a one-hour talk titled: "Viral RNA structures as master manipulators of the cellular RNA decay machinery."
The ASRC Environmental Science Initiative is excited to have Barbara Han, PhD, Disease Ecologist for the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, present a talk on: Ecology of Infectious Disease (Machine Learning).
The topic of the upcoming 2023 World Water Day, which coincides with the UN 2023 Water Conference, will be on “Partnerships”; what better moment is there to increase the awareness of the value of water and explore innovative ways through which this partnership can contribute to further improve this?
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Joshua Levitz from Weill Cornell Medicine.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Nicholas Polizzi, Harvard Medical School, for a one-hour talk titled, “Designing ligand-binding proteins from scratch.”
In this weekly seminar series, Dianne Greenfield, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative Earth and Environmental Sciences at the ASRC-Environmental Sciences Initiative and CUNY-Queens College, will present a talk titled: "Recent Insights to the Ecology and Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms in NY and CT Waterways."
In honor of Women's History Month, we invite you to a group-led discussion and lunch highlighting Baruch professor and author, Julie Des Jardins, and her book, "The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science," on March 31st at 1:30pm!
Join us on March 31, 2023, at 2 p.m. for a special "Communicating Your Science" event with Sean Patrick Farrell, a video producer who has worked for WIRED, The New York Times and others. During this workshop, Patrick will: Explain how he works with scientists to explain complex research findings into simple soundbites and explanations.
Join us for The Mark W. Zemansky Lecture April 3, 2023, 4:00 to 5:00 PM with guest speaker Clifford V Johnson.
Join BrainE Hour and CUNYSciCom, in partnership with the ASRC Neuroscience Initiative, to talk about science outreach and science storytelling on April 5th at the ASRC!
All CUNY STEM graduate students and faculty interested in Bio-inspired Nanoscience are invited to attend and hear talks from current NanoBioNYC mentors and fellows, and learn how to participate in future programming such as industry internship opportunities, technical training certificates, science outreach, and more.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Babis Kalodimos, St Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Join us for the 2nd Annual Sensor CAT Symposium, showcasing CUNY-wide academic-industry research and workforce development partnerships that further innovation and entrepreneurship in New York State.
Join us for this year's Bio-Inspired Green (BIG) Science & Technology symposium at the ASRC, where we'll highlight advances in science, engineering, and policy that push us closer to sustainable living.
Join us on Friday, April 21, 2023 at 2 p.m. for a media-skills building session that includes an opportunity to talk about your research with working science reporters from Scientific American, Science Friday, PBS and more. Now more than ever it’s critical for science to be accessible and understandable to the public. In this Communicating
In this one-hour seminar, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative, in partnership with CCNY, will be hosting: Fernando Luίs Barroso da Silva, University of São Paulo.
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Catherine L. Drennan, MIT for a talk titled: "Capturing Snapshots of Metalloenzymes in Action."
It is with great pleasure that we announce the upcoming Henry Semat Lecture, which will be given by renowned physicist Professor Luis Alvarez Gaume. The lecture is scheduled for April 26 at 4PM in the ASRC Auditorium, located at 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY 10031. Prof. Alvarez Gaume currently serves as the Director of the
In this weekly seminar series, Shannon LaDeau, PhD,
Disease Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, will present a one- hour talk titled: Racial Legacies, Mosquito Ecology, and Human Exposure Risk in a Temperate City.
Help us make CUNY an even better place to work by voicing your thoughts this Thursday April 27th in the ASRC Cafe!
In this weekly seminar series, the ASRC Structural Biology Initiative will be hosting Yingkai Zhang, NYU, for a one-hour talk on, "Integrating Machine Learning and Molecular Modeling for Drug Design."
In this final ASRC-CCNY Spring 2023 biochem seminar, we are happy to have May Khanna from NYU College of Dentistry join us at the ASRC for a talk on, "Chemical biology, structure-based approach to targeting protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions for AD/ADRD therapeutics."
In this one- hour seminar Beizhan Yan, PhD, Lamont Associate Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University wil present a one-hour talk titled: “Microplastic Distribution and Associated Pathogens and Pollutants in NYC Waterways.”
In this one-hour seminar, Rohit Chikkaraddy, University of Birmingham , will be presenting a talk titled: "Single-molecule mid-infrared vibrational spectroscopy and detection in plasmonic nanogaps."
In this one-hour seminar, Yandong Li, Cornell University, will be presenting a talk titled: "Topological Directional Coupler Based on a Designer Domain Wall."