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High School Alma Mater Honors CCNY Historian

When the University School of Nashville (USN) needed an alumnus on an “upward trajectory” to inspire its senior class this year, Dr. Gregory Downs, Assistant Professor of History at The City College of New York (CCNY) and award-winning author, got the nod.
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CCNY Grad Takes Silver at Academy Award Ceremony

Rediscovering Pape,” the MFA thesis film by City College of New York (CCNY) alumna Maria Royo, ’09, won a silver medal at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 37th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony June 12 in Beverly Hills. The medal came with a $3,000 prize.
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CCNY Radio’s $1.7m Facelift

WHCR 90.3 FM, The City College of New York’s community radio station, unveils its new studios at CCNY 10 a.m., Wednesday, June 16 after a $1.7m facelift designed to boost service to listeners in upper Manhattan.
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CCNY Art Exhibit Opens in St. Nicholas Park, June 16

St. Nicholas Park on the slopes of The City College of New York (CCNY) in uptown Manhattan will morph into an open air art space this summer, thanks to a collaboration between CCNY, the West Harlem Art Fund, Inc., and other community partners.
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CCNY Theatre Professor Makes Cinematic Directing Debut

Dr. David Willinger, stage director, playwright and Professor in the Department of Theatre and Speech at The City College of New York (CCNY), is making his cinematic directorial debut. His first film, “Lunatics, Lovers and Actors,” which will have its world premiere Tuesday, June 22, at the New Hope Film Festival in New Hope, PA.
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CCNY Art Professor Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Hajoe Moderegger, associate professor of electronic design & multimedia in The City College of New York (CCNY) art department, has been named a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. He will share the fellowship with his artist wife, Franziska Lamprecht, with whom he collaborates under the name “eteam.”
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CCNY Senior Maurice Selby Awarded 2010 Salk Scholarship

Maurice Selby, a senior at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the 2010 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship to study medicine. He is among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarship, which was presented in a ceremony May 12 at Baruch College.
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CCNY Film Professor’s Documentary to Debut on PBS May 24

From 1866 to 1955, the Bordentown School in Bordentown, NJ, was an educational utopia for African-Americans, who were largely disenfranchised by the American education system. Known as “The Tuskegee of the North,” the school was an incubator of black pride and intellect where generations of children learned values, discipline and life skills.
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Emmy-Winning CCNY Student Film Picked as Oscar Finalist

For her thesis project, Maria Royo, ’09 MFA, a graduate film student who attended The City College of New York (CCNY) on a Fulbright Scholarship, turned the camera on her family. The resulting film, “Rediscovering Pape,” won for Best Documentary at the 31st College Television Awards and is a finalist for a student Oscar.
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Tenth Annual CUNY Jazz Festival to Run May 6 - 7

The City College of New York (CCNY) will host the 10th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, May 6 and 12 noon to 10 p.m. Friday, May 7 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B. Besides CCNY, ensembles from four other CUNY colleges and LaGuardia High School will participate in the event, which will feature saxophonist Billy Drewes as guest artist.
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CCNY Wins Outstanding Delegation at National Model UN

The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Model United Nations team won Outstanding Delegation in the 2010 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference at the United Nations and the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan, held March 28 through April 3. CCNY was one of 17 institutions to receive an “Outstanding Delegation” award in the 2010 competition, which attracted over 300 colleges and universities from five continents.
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