Congratulations to the 2021 winners of the Junior Faculty Research Awards in Science and Engineering (JFRASE)!

The JFRASE program aims to cultivate excellence and ensure the promise of research-intensive, early career science and engineering faculty at CUNY. The award is given to CUNY tenure-track, junior faculty with the potential to make a significant contribution to the university, society, their academic field. Each recipient will be awarded $50,000 as an early career opportunity to advance their research. This award is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Shana Elbaum
Structural Biology Initiative
Advanced Science Research Center and The Graduate Center
Project: Uncovering the fundamental principles governing phase separation of biomolecules

Dr. Rupal Gupta
Chemistry
College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center
Project: A Correspondence between Antimicrobial and Inflammatory Processes in the Human Innate Immune response: Role of Calgranulins

Dr. Jack Hanson
Mathematics
The City College of New York
Project: Geodesics and Fluctuations in First-Passage Percolation: The paths of fluid flow and the variation of the flow rate​

Dr. Bohdan Kukharskyy
Economics and Finance
Baruch College
Project: Elucidating the economic effects of global value chain disruptions caused by pandemics or natural disasters

Elizabeth Gorodetsky, Sage Honors Scholar, in a new research lab facility, an aspect of a new partnership between Hunter College and Weill Cornell Medical College
Marshall Scholarship winner Faiza Masood
student in the library, BOOKWORM, taken by Josue Mendez, Baruch College
Faculty group discussion at science fair