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Matthew Romano, an honors student who’s overcome the stigma of autism to excel academically, is T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Class of 2021 Valedictorian. The 22-year-old Bronx resident of Caribbean heritage is graduating summa cum laude with a 3.99 GPA. He’ll receive a BA degree in English with a minor in education. Shilpa Ann Shaju from the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, is the Salutatorian. A political science and international studies double major minoring in legal studies, she’s graduating with a BA degree. Talking of overcoming his challenges, Romano said: “It was only

T��ɫ��Ƶ is mourning Vartan Gregorian, a distinguished member of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Board of Visitors, noted scholar, philanthropic leader, and president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He died last Thursday aged 87. “Vartan Gregorian was the consummate humanitarian and a great friend to the College,” said City College President Vincent Boudreau. “His staunch advocacy for the rights and interests of immigrants in society, in particular, struck a strong and resonant chord with our own mission.” Of Gregorian’s support for the

Nija Daniels and Kimberly Pereyra Monero, both sophomores in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are T��ɫ��Ƶ’s 2021 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship recipients. They are among 15 promising undergraduates from New York City colleges and universities selected for the highly competitive awards. Created in 1999 and supported by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation, the program provides fellows with three years of personal, professional and cultural immersions in the United States and abroad. Fellows are provided with annual funding of $6,000, $7,500 and $8,500

City College of New York junior Angelina Coronado, an English Literature major with multilingual skills, is celebrating two major language scholarships tenable this summer. The Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, resident has won a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the U.S. Department of State to study Portuguese in Brazil. She’s also been chosen to attend the highly competitive Middlebury Language Schools' Immersion Program in Spanish. Because the two scholarships overlap, Coronado, whose grandparents emigrated from the Dominican Republic, has opted for the intensive seven-week Middlebury

Dee Dee Mozeleski, vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement and Communications, executive director of the Foundation for City College and senior advisor to the president, is a CASE District II Professional of the Year and a Crain’s New York Business 2021 Notable in Nonprofits and Philanthropy. The Professional of the Year award recognizes a District II institutional advancement professional who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in the development of an institutional advancement program or innovative execution of programs within an area of advancement; contributed to the

T��ɫ��Ƶ is pleased to announce a charitable donation from the Thomas J. Fararo Revocable Trust to fund the Stuyvesant-CCNY Initiative. The Initiative enables City College to expand its recruitment and retention of talented graduates of Stuyvesant High School. The scholarships funded by the Initiative can be used to support any major, and may be used for tuition, books, conferences and pre-professional development. Thomas J. Fararo (1933-2020) grew up in East Harlem and graduated from Stuyvesant in 1950. After four years in the U.S. Air Force, during which he served as a

The Zahn Innovation Center at T��ɫ��Ƶ in collaboration with the International Innovators Initiative (IN2NYC)—the first municipal program in the nation designed to help international entrepreneurs access visas to create jobs in the United States—hosts Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Ellie Li, co-founder of Projections.io, a viral consumer product that lets users clip moments from any video and was acquired by AppMonet in 2019. Li will be a resource for students, faculty and staff who are interested in commercializing innovation projects. IN2NYC is a partnership between the

T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Grove School of Engineering is now ranked #127 among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools. The only public school of engineering in the metropolitan area climbs two places this year on the list of 221 elite graduate engineering programs on the 2022 U.S. News rankings released today. U.S. News also ranks five other City College programs among the best nationally. The physician assistant program in the CUNY School of Medicine at City College remains at #46; fine arts in the Division of Humanities and the Arts is [#64]; and the Colin Powell School for

There have been five mass extinctions during the last 500 million years of Earth’s history. The most recent, the End-Cretaceous extinction event, or Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, occurred approximately 66 million years ago. It is most commonly associated with the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Numerous other land- and sea- dwelling species disappeared as well. Voluminous volcanism in the Deccan Traps in India occurred at the same time as the Chicxulub asteroid impact, and the contributions of both impact and volcanism to changes in climate around the time of the mass extinction have long

City College of New York alumnus Peter J. Delfyett, Jr., a pre-eminent ultrafast photonics researcher from the Class of 1981, is one of 106 new members and 23 international members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,355 and the number of international members to 298, NAE President John L. Anderson announced. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including