City College of New York

The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is an extremely prestigious seven-year medical program that was established at The City College of... the City University of New York in New York City. It offers an integrated baccalaureate education with preclinical medical education and has a twofold mission: to expand access to medical careers among inner-city youths, particularly among underrepresented minorities, and to encourage the pursuit of primary care specialties among its graduates. Entrance to the prestigious Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is highly competitive, with acceptance rates rivaling the Ivy League. Students complete their undergraduate work and the first two years of medical school at Sophie Davis after which students transfer to one of the accompanying medical schools to finish their final two years of medical school which are primarily medical rotations earning their M.D. Currently, Dartmouth Medical School, NYU School of Medicine, New York Medical College, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Albany Medical College and SUNY Downstate Medical Center are match schools for Sophie Davis graduates.
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Julian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics , in... particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, responsible for much of modern quantum field theory, including a variational approach, and the equations of motion for quantum fields. He developed the first electroweak model, and the first example of confinement in 1+1 dimensions. He is responsible for the theory of multiple neutrinos, Schwinger terms, and the theory of the spin 3/2 field. Julian Seymour Schwinger was born in New York City, to a Polish Jewish family, who had immigrated to America. Both his father and his mother's parents were prosperous clothing manufacturers, although the family business declined after the 1929 Wall Street Crash. The family followed the Orthodox Jewish tradition.
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Arno joined NEA in 1997 as a Venture Partner from Bell Labs where he headed its research organization and served as its Chief Scientist. He currently... focuses on novel ways of addressing the world’s energy needs. A long-time skeptic  on the commercial viability of "alternative energy" technologies, Arno now finds his earlier conclusions outdated by the advances made by a small handful of entrepreneurs, and earnestly hopes to find—and help finance—more of these opportunities. His present board memberships include BloomEnergy, Glacier Bay and Konarka. In addition to helping NEA portfolio companies on an as-needed basis, in areas such as technology, strategy, and intellectual property, Arno serves on—and frequently chairs—Technical Advisory Boards for a number of NEA companies, including: Alien Technology; Hillcrest Communications; Heliovolt; Konarka; Luxtera; Motion Computing; SolFocus, Spreadtrum, Telegent Systems; and Teneros;. He has written two books and a number of articles on modern technology, especially its impact on business and society. A member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, he received a BS from City College of New York and a PhD from Columbia University. His awards include a number of honorary degrees, as well as other awards, for his contributions to science, R&D management and public service—most notably the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in radio astronomy.
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Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron... scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons." Hofstadter was born in New York City on Feb. 5, 1915, to Louis Hofstadter, a salesman, and the former Henrietta Koenigsberg. He attended elementary and high schools in New York City and entered City College of New York, graduating with a B.S. degree magna cum laude in 1935 at the age of 20, and was awarded the Kenyon Prize in Mathematics and Physics. He also received a Charles A. Coffin Foundation Fellowship from the General Electric Company, which enabled him to attend graduate school at Princeton University, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1938. He did his post-doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania before joining Stanford University. Hofstadter taught at Stanford University from 1950 to 1985. In 1942 he married Nancy Givan, a native of Baltimore.
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Kenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the... youngest person to have received this award, at 51. In economics, he is considered an important figure in post-World War II neo-classical economic theory. Many of his former graduate students have gone on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize themselves. Arrow's impact on the economics profession has been tremendous. For more than fifty years he has been one of the most influential of all practising economists. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. He has also provided foundational work in many other areas of economics, including endogenous growth theory and the economics of information. Arrow was born on August 23, 1921, in New York City to parents of Romanian Jewish origins. His family was very supportive of his education.
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