��ɫ��Ƶ

T��ɫ��Ƶ received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Program to create a CCNY-based program to guide CUNY community college students to CUNY STEM graduate education. The program will be known as “CUNY STEM And Research Scholars Bridge Program,” or CUNY STARS. The brainchild of Karin A. Block-Cora, professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science in CCNY’s Division of Science, CUNY STARS will be incorporated under the City College Fellowships Program, which is directed by Professor of Iberian and Latin American

Award-winning poet Hadara Bar-Nadav is the featured poet at the 53rd annual City College Poetry Festival on May 2 in CCNY’s Marian Anderson Theater, in Aaron Davis Hall. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” says Pamela Laskin, retired lecturer in CCNY’s English department and former director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which produces the festival. “Its assumption is that there are many poets, and they all have

Eilyn Zuniga Marquez, a Salvadoran immigrant who graduated summa cum laude in January with dual BA and MA degrees in psychology from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Class of 2025 Valedictorian. Andrew Williams, who also completed his coursework for a BS in psychology summa cum laude in the Colin Powell School’s Macaulay Honors Program, is the Salutatorian. CCNY’s 172nd Commencement is scheduled for Friday, May 30. About Eilyn Zuniga Marquez The Bronx resident arrived in the U.S. as a teenager in 2018 with knowledge of English grammar

Seven-time GRAMMY-winner Randy Brecker is the guest artist at the 25th annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 8 – 9 in Aaron Davis Hall Theatre B at T��ɫ��Ƶ. The legendary trumpet player and composer will perform with his quintet. The festival also features acclaimed pianist and composer Helen Sung. The festival brings together on one stage performing ensembles from The City College and other CUNY institutions – including Hunter College and Queens College. Student groups perform 12 – 6 p.m. both days and admission is free and open to the public. The festival starts at Noon on

Kathryn Gioiosa, a political science major in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, has been named a 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 54 exceptional students from 49 U.S. colleges and universities selected by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation’s Board of Trustees. The highly competitive Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the nation. Selection is based on a combination of career and graduate study interests, community service and academic achievement. “Resourceful

Antonio Tibaldi, professor of film and video at T��ɫ��Ƶ, is one of 198 distinguished individuals across 53 disciplines in the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. Chosen by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the Class of 2025 was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise. Each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under "the freest possible conditions.” The 100th class of Fellows is part of the

T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Homecoming Day takes place on Saturday, May 3 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the North Campus’s Beaver Quad. Alumni and friends of the college will reunite for a fun-filled day of activities, games, campus tours, live music, performances, an art exhibition and more, including special appearances by alumni members of the New York Giants. The free events kick off with Lavender Fever Homecoming Week, which runs from April 28 through May 9. Follow CCNY Student Life on Instagram for upcoming events and activities happening during Lavender Fever Homecoming Week. On

Sydney Roy, of the Macaulay Honors School at T��ɫ��Ƶ, and fellow CCNY freshman Deven Morales are among 15 undergraduates from 12 New York colleges selected Jeannette K. Watson Fellows by the Watson Foundation. The highly competitive three-year fellowships accord recipients unprecedented personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. At the center of the program are fully-funded summer experiences with leading organizations in New York City and around the world. Combined with close mentoring, Watson Fellows expand their vision, develop their

Groundbreaking research by physicists at T��ɫ��Ƶ is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding by the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) team headed by physicist Vinod Menon could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as optical modulators, all-optical logic gates, and quantum transducers. The work is reported in the journal Nature Materials. The researchers showed the emergence of interaction between electronic excitations (excitons – electron hole pairs)

Professor and architect Jerome Haferd of T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is the recipient of two honors, a fellowship from United States Artists and selection by the 2025 U.S. Pavilion to participate in the upcoming Venice Biennale. Fifty artists and collectives make up the 2025 USA Fellow cohort. The national award chose awardees based on their groundbreaking artistic visions and unique perspectives within their field. The fellowship is awarded through a year-long peer-led selection process in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Craft