https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/ en https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccnys-cwe-student-lucero-saavedra-huerta-womens-forum-education-fund-scholar Lucero Saavedra Huerta, a City College of New York student in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, is a recipient of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award. The Women’s Forum of New York created the award in 1987 to recognize and support women over the age of 35 who have overcome extreme adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grant helps Huerta pay for her classes, expenses and course books, which helped relieve her stress and focus on classes. She’s an early childhood education major and will graduate in the fall of 2024. She came to New York as a teenager from Mexico and continued to pursue her studies while raising her two children. She graduated high school and several years later obtained her associate’s degree. While at CCNY CWE she also obtained a Dreamers Scholarship and is currently working as a paraprofessional in New York City’s Department of Education. Her goal is to become a special education teacher. “I love working with children, and for me it is very important and rewarding to give back to my community […] to make the world a better place,” she said.   Thu, 16 May 2024 10:15:07 -0400 Ashley Arocho /news/ccnys-cwe-student-lucero-saavedra-huerta-womens-forum-education-fund-scholar https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-professor-sriram-ganeshan-feliks-gross-awardee-oustanding-research Dr. Sriram Ganeshan, assistant professor of physics in The City College of New York’s Division of Science is a recipient of the Feliks Gross Award for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors in the City University of New York (CUNY).   Each awardee will present their research in a talk alongside other awardees, as part of the Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser lecture series, when the award will also be officially conferred. This will take place during the upcoming academic year 2024-25. The award is accompanied by a small stipend that will be transferred to CCNY to be distributed to Ganeshan, and an awards plaque that will be provided to him once he’s given his talk.   Ganeshan came to CCNY in Spring 2018 after three years at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University. He studies condensed matter physics which he describes as, “The study of collective behavior within many degrees of freedom. For example, how a flock of birds move together as opposed to the movement of an individual entity.” Ganeshan explains that electrons behave in similar ways, their collective movement through a material, such as Graphene, mathematically resembles the movement of water in a pipe.   Although trained as a theoretical physicist, Ganeshan is interested in unlikely connections between elements on an astronomical/planetary scales and those occurring at the microscopic or atomic scale, underpinned by a common hydrodynamical framework.   Ganeshan’s most recent work connects the occurrence of Kelvin waves closely related to the El Niño event mathematically, and relating it to the study of quantum systems, where such equations arise again albeit constrained by the quantum rules.   “In quantum Hall systems, the physics happens at a micron scale. The equatorial Kelvin system happens at a planetary scale. So, the physical systems are totally disconnected, but the mathematical model is very similar,” he said. “It’s not like one explains the other, it’s like an analogy to help understand the mathematical language of both systems.”   One of Ganeshan’s goals is to make complex systems simpler to understand. “I like to write papers in a self-contained way so you don’t have to refer to 10 papers in order to understand the basic message,” he said.   In 2020, Ganesham received a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, which provided more than $500,000 for his research project: “Quantum Hydrodynamics: From Electron Fluids to Active Matter,” which could help develop new technologies based on the collective behavior of quantum systems.   Ganeshan teaches courses in mathematical methods for physicists from undergraduate to graduate level.   The Feliks Gross Endowment Awards are named after two of the CUNY Academy’s founding members, Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser. Every year awardees are selected from a large group of highly qualified, academically impressive assistant professors across CUNY campuses. The awards are partially supported by the Feliks Gross memorial fund and sponsored by the University Faculty Senate and the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. The awards are named after two founders of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.   Wed, 15 May 2024 17:07:50 -0400 Thea Klapwald /news/ccny-professor-sriram-ganeshan-feliks-gross-awardee-oustanding-research https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-among-top-2-schools-globally-according-2024-cwur-rankings The City College of New York maintains its lofty position among the top 2% out of 20,966 universities worldwide. This is according to the 2024 edition of the outcome-based Global 2000 list published today by the Center for World University Rankings.  The City College is #412 among the 20,966 degree-granting institutions of higher education analyzed by CWUR, #112 in the United States and #127 regionally (USA and Canada). Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, in that order, occupy the first three places on the rankings. CCNY’s other placings on the CWUR list this year include: #22 for Quality of Education, #528 for Alumni Employment, and #872 for Research Performance. These amounted to an overall score of 75.3.  CWUR publishes the largest academic rankings of global universities. The rankings are unique in that: Objective indicators are used for all four key pillars underlying the methodology of the ranking (education, employability, faculty, and research) with no reliance on surveys and university data submissions; Equal emphasis is put on student-related and faculty-related indicators; 62 million outcome-based data points are used for this year’s rankings; and 20,966 universities are ranked according to their academic performance. About the Methodology CWUR uses seven objective and robust outcome-based indicators grouped into four areas to rank the world’s universities:  Education - based on the academic success of a university’s alumni, measured relative to the university's size (25%); Employability - based on the professional success of a university’s alumni, measured relative to the university's size (25%); Faculty - measured by the number of faculty members who have received top academic distinctions (10%); Research output - measured by the total number of research articles (10%); High-quality publications - measured by the number of research articles appearing in top-tier journals (10%); Influence - measured by the number of research articles appearing in highly-influential journals (10%); and Citations - measured by the number of highly-cited research articles (10%). About the Center for World University Rankings The CWUR is a leading consulting organization providing policy advice, strategic insights, and consulting services to governments and universities to improve educational and research outcomes. CWUR publishes authoritative global university rankings, known for objectivity, transparency, and consistency, which are trusted by students, academics, university administrators, and governments from around the world. Mon, 13 May 2024 00:31:42 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccny-among-top-2-schools-globally-according-2024-cwur-rankings https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-trio-wins-salk-scholarships-med-school Jalen Crespo, Fabliha Hussain and Ekene Onwubiko, recent graduates of The City College of New York,  are recipients of Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by the City University of New York. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, Crespo, Hussain and Onwubiko will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be allocated over three or four years of medical studies. Following are brief bios of The City College’s three Scholars: Jalen Crespo  From CCNY’s Class of 2022, Crespo graduated magna cum laude with a BS in biology from the Division of Science. His other honors included making the Dean's List four times; receiving the Associated Medical Schools of New York Scholarship twice; and earning the inaugural American Heart Association’s Hispanic Serving Institute Scholarship. Crespo also credits the Olivia McKenna Research Award and serving as president of the Latino Medical Student Association Plus Chapter as helping shape him. He aspires to be a surgeon and researcher and is considering specialties such as neuroscience, internal medicine, global medicine, general surgery, and aerospace medicine. “I want to become a physician that performs research and surgery operations. I am also planning to study the effect of spaceflight on the human microbiome and blood cells on astronauts,” he said. The Brooklynite will attend the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Fabliha Hussain Also from the Class of 2022, Hussain graduated summa cum laude with a BS in biology.  She was awarded the Ira & Cecile Weber Scholarship, the Dr. Leonard & Barbara Steinfeld Scholarship, the City College Academy for Professional Preparation (CCAPP) Service Award, the Peter F. Vallone Academic Scholarship and the S Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders. She also made the Dean's List. Born and raised in Queens, Hussain’s goal is to become a pediatrician for underserved populations. “My passion lies in addressing the needs of the underserved and doing so by focusing on the pediatric population,” she said. Hussain plans to attend Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ekene Onwubiko Nigerian-born and residing in Harlem, Onwubiko is from the Class of 2023. She graduated summa cum laude with honors in biology and as Division of Science Valedictorian. Among her other honors were the CCAPP service award; the Sharon Cosloy Scholarship; and the William Stratford Prize. Onwubiko was also an ABRCMS award winner for research poster presentation at the organization’s national conference in 2021. Her career goal is to become an oncologist involved in medical innovation and policy work. “I pursued a master’s in law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law between my graduation last year 2023 and medical school matriculation this year to help me achieve this,” she said. Onwubiko will attend Weill Cornell Medical School in Manhattan. About the Salk Scholarship Program The Salk Scholarship is named for Dr. Jonas Salk, a 1934 graduate of City College, who developed the first polio vaccine in 1955. Dr. Salk turned down a tickertape parade in honor of his discovery, and asked that the money be used for scholarships instead. New York City provided initial funding for the scholarships that year. The Jonas Salk Scholarships are awarded annually to eight graduates of CUNY senior colleges who have been accepted by, and plan to attend, U.S. medical or graduate schools.   Thu, 09 May 2024 10:54:49 -0400 Jay Mwamba /news/ccny-trio-wins-salk-scholarships-med-school https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/colin-powell-school-receives-major-gift-support-new-program-neuroscience The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has established the Eugene J. Surowitz and Helen M. Teclaw Program in Neuroscience, made possible with a generous gift from Eugene J. Surowitz ‘68. This major long-term research and training initiative aims to understand the basic structure and function of the brain by focusing on the interconnectedness within it and the abstract functions of the mind. The advancement of new knowledge and understanding in this research field portends implications for a range of disciplines from analytic intelligence to computer science to psychology to physics. This gift will enable the creation of the Eugene J. Surowitz and Helen M. Teclaw Professorship of Neuroscience. This position is to be filled by a world-class neuroscientist to lead theoretical and empirical research efforts among scientists at CCNY to investigate neural structure and function. Two faculty positions at the rank of assistant professor will be filled by neuroscientists who use innovative techniques to research and understand how the brain gives rise to cognitive phenomena. One of these positions is currently being funded by the donor, with the other to be supported by this initiative. Along with the faculty positions, one Eugene J. Surowitz and Helen M. Teclaw post-doctoral fellow is to be recruited. The fellowship will be filled by a neuroscientist to work alongside the faculty members in their quest to understand these phenomena. In addition, a speaker series will invite nationally and internationally recognized researchers to present their research on functional brain organization.  The gift also provides for: a research fund to provide materials and supplies to faculty members who mentor graduate and undergraduate students involved in their laboratory research; and an internship fund to provide stipends and research support, including professional development, to students pursuing research careers in neuroscience and analytic intelligence. Eugene J. Surowitz spent almost three decades at IBM, where his work in algebraic computation for general relativity led to an interest in artificial intelligence technologies. He has published seven research works with 37 citations and 225 reads, and is the co-author, with Englebert L. Schucking, his Ph.D. advisor at New York University, of Einstein's Apple: Homogeneous Einstein Fields (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2015).  “City College provided me with the opportunity to get an excellent education, which has served me well all my life,” he said. “As a neuroscience researcher myself, I am grateful for the scholarly opportunities this generous gift affords the College,” said Robert Melara, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, where the initiative is to reside. “I look forward to welcoming more faculty to our community of scholars.” “Gene Surowitz is a visionary who cares deeply about science and his alma mater. I am grateful that he brings the two together in supporting this major new initiative to understand the brain at CCNY,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School. About the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Established in April 2013, the Colin Powell School is home to the social science departments at CCNY as well as the core leadership development and public service programs of the College. With almost 4,000 students, and graduating the most CCNY students annually, the Colin Powell School mission is to transform the nation’s most diverse student body into tomorrow’s global leaders. Half of our students are immigrants; most come from lower income backgrounds. More than seventy percent are first-generation college students, and eighty percent are people of color. The Colin Powell School and City College remain among the most effective engines of economic and social mobility in the United States. The School is led by a faculty dedicated to the highest standards of research and to the university’s democratic and public obligations. Read more about the Colin Powell School. Thu, 09 May 2024 09:25:04 -0400 /news/colin-powell-school-receives-major-gift-support-new-program-neuroscience https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/colin-powell-schools-moynihan-center-introduces-2024-25-public-service-fellows The Moynihan Center at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has introduced its second cohort of the Moynihan Public Service Fellowship, which supports promising undergraduate students pursuing innovative careers in public service. Moynihan Public Service Fellows receive awards totaling $10,000, take two elective courses dedicated to professional development and public service, and participate in a paid summer internship in city government or in another public service institution. Fellows become members of a dynamic intellectual and civic community that includes: guest visits by active leaders in civic affairs; regular interaction with yearly cohorts of Moynihan senior fellows and affiliated CCNY faculty; and opportunities for mentorship by a growing network that includes former staffers of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and will, in the future, include alumni of the Moynihan Public Service Fellowship. Each contest for the Moynihan Public Service Fellowship has been highly competitive. The 22 Fellows chosen in 2024 were selected from a pool of more than 100 applicants who represent a wide range of diversity across several indicators. “At a time when we need young, diverse leaders in public service, the Moynihan Center is producing them. These 22 new Fellows are extraordinary and will be deeply supported as a cohort as they explore their own paths to public service leadership,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School. “The Fellows are some of the best and brightest minds here on the campus with an ambition for public service and intellectual leadership,” said Professor of Political Science Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, the Moynihan Center’s executive director. “Our hope is that the Moynihans of the future will be forged out of the interaction between our two fellowship programs, as well as the broader ecosystem of leadership development and public discussion that they will help to forge on campus.” “In its brief history, the Moynihan Public Service Fellowship has demonstrated that combining academic rigor with practical experience can pave the way for rewarding careers in public service. We are excited to welcome this new cohort of bright and driven fellows who exemplify the spirit of service that defined Senator Moynihan's legacy,” said Michael Miller, the managing director of the Moynihan Center. “I have had the distinct privilege of working closely with our Moynihan Fellows and witnessing their growth firsthand,” said Layana Abu Touq, senior program manager of the Moynihan Center. “This year's cohort arrives brimming with passion, curiosity, and a steadfast commitment to creating positive change. We are eager to equip them with the tools to turn their ambitions into impactful leadership in public service roles.” The Moynihan Public Service Fellowship is made possible with generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Teagle Foundation, the Charles H. Revson Foundation, and the Achelis & Bodman Foundation. About the Moynihan Center The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center at The City College of New York advances the twin goals of public scholarship and public service. Taking inspiration from Senator Moynihan’s celebrated career, the Center cultivates leaders who cross the boundaries between critical thinking, public service practice, and popular communication. Through signature fellowship programs and a rich slate of public events, the Center works to ensure that the next generation of public scholars and public servants reflects the diversity of viewpoints and lived experiences represented at City College and beyond. About the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Established in 2013, the Colin Powell School is home to the social science departments at CCNY as well as the core leadership development and public service programs of the College. With almost 4,000 students, and graduating the most CCNY students annually, the Colin Powell School mission is to transform the nation’s most diverse student body into tomorrow’s global leaders. Half of our students are immigrants; more than seventy percent are first-generation college students. Eighty percent are people of color. Most come from lower income backgrounds. The Colin Powell School and City College remain among the most effective engines of economic and social mobility in the United States. The School is led by a faculty dedicated to the highest standards of research and to the university’s democratic and public obligations. Read more about the Colin Powell School. Thu, 09 May 2024 09:10:14 -0400 /news/colin-powell-schools-moynihan-center-introduces-2024-25-public-service-fellows https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/colin-powell-schools-moynihan-center-introduces-2024-25-public-scholars-fellows The Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its second cohort of the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship, which supports academic researchers, public service practitioners, or journalists committed to interrogating ideas in service of the public good. The nine 2024–25 Moynihan Public Scholars and their projects are: Emefa Addo Agawu, an independent writer and editor, who will work on AT/TENSION, a book-length series of essays about the unusual choices people make with their attention in an age of hyper-connectedness; Michael Beckley, associate professor of political science at Tufts University, who explores how the two imminent trends of rapid automation and population aging are likely to decrease the United States’ strategic dependence on the rest of the world in Rogue Superpower: An Illiberal American Century; Stephen Eide, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, whose research into comparative mental health policy will interrogate whether European mental health systems are more accountable with respect to serious mental illness than their American counterparts; Nicolas Guilhot, professor of intellectual history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, whose A Story One Tells: Conspiracy Theories, Liberalism, and the End of History considers the idea of conspiracy as a symptom of liberal culture’s current malaise; Roya Hakakian, an independent journalist, who will tell the story of Hajj Sayyah (The Traveler), the first Iranian to become a naturalized US citizen and how he became deeply transformed in the process; Clara Mattei, professor of economics at the University of Tulsa, who will work on her book, The Golden Hour: Booming Markets, False Narratives, and the Decades That Made Modern Society; Angela Saini, journalist and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose book project, OTHER: Sex, Race, and Why Putting People in Boxes Doesn’t Work, seeks to understand and interrogate the act of human classification; Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University, whose Impossible Peace, Improbable War: Raymond Aron and World Order, will offer the first account of the origins and evolution of the French sociologist and public intellectual's thinking on World Order; and Mark Vandevelde, the US private capital correspondent at the Financial Times, who will write the definitive work about private equity, “the business of buying and selling entire companies using other people’s money.” Each Moynihan Public Scholar will receive robust unrestricted awards and will spend up to one year at CCNY writing, teaching, and engaging in public conversations on critical issues in public affairs. The Fellowship is administered by the Moynihan Center, which was established in 2023 with the purpose of supporting new leaders to make a difference in public affairs. “The inaugural Moynihan Public Scholars brought the Moynihan Center to life, and these nine scholars will bring new intellectual and instructional energy to the Colin Powell School. Their depth and breadth of experiences are sure to energize our students as they explore their own paths to public service leadership,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of the Colin Powell School. “This cohort expands upon the Moynihan Center’s established commitment to bold ideas, open debate, and scholarship that serves the public interest,” said the program’s executive director, Professor of Political Science Carlo Invernizzi Accetti. “The Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship has demonstrated, in its brief history, that rigorous research, public service, and popular communication can and must go hand in hand, and that will continue as we welcome this year’s class of scholars,” said Michael Miller, the managing director of the Moynihan Center. The Moynihan Public Scholars program is made possible with generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Achelis & Bodman Foundation. About the Moynihan Center The Moynihan Center at The City College of New York (CCNY) advances the twin goals of public scholarship and public service. Taking inspiration from Senator Moynihan’s celebrated career, the Center cultivates leaders who cross the boundaries between critical thinking, public service practice, and popular communication. Through signature fellowship programs and a rich slate of public events, the Center works to ensure that the next generation of public scholars and public servants reflects the diversity of viewpoints and lived experiences represented at City College and beyond. About the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Established in 2013, the Colin Powell School is home to the social science departments at CCNY as well as the core leadership development and public service programs of the College. With almost 4,000 students, and graduating the most CCNY students annually, the Colin Powell School mission is to transform the nation’s most diverse student body into tomorrow’s global leaders. Half of our students are immigrants; more than seventy percent are first-generation college students. Eighty percent are people of color. Most come from lower income backgrounds. The Colin Powell School and City College remain among the most effective engines of economic and social mobility in the United States. The School is led by a faculty dedicated to the highest standards of research and to the university’s democratic and public obligations. Read more about the Colin Powell School. Wed, 01 May 2024 17:59:50 -0400 /news/colin-powell-schools-moynihan-center-introduces-2024-25-public-scholars-fellows https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/stonewall-museum-exhibit-standing-shoulders-heroes-comes-ccny-apr-29-lgbtq-activist-laverne “Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes,” an exhibition of LGBTQ+ stories from the Stonewall National Museum & Archives Photography Exhibit, comes to The City College of New York at the May 7 screening of “There are Things to Do.” The event will take place at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies from 5-7 p.m. followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and special guest LGBTQ+ activist and actress Laverne Cox.   Cox will be the newest addition to the "Standing on the Shoulders of Heroes" exhibit, and her panel will be unveiled at the May 7 event where documentary filmmaker Mike Syers’ short film "There are Things to Do," about Indian-born American LGBTQ+ activist, writer and author Urvashi Vaid, will be shown.   Cox rose to prominence on the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for “Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word,” making her the first trans woman to win the award.   Following the film, Syers will take the stage with CCNY’s inaugural Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership Urvashi Vaid Award for LGBTQ+ Advocacy winners Shantal Rodriguez, a CCNY student, and Blaze Levario, a CCNY alum. There will be special remarks by Robert Kesten, executive director of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives, and Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean of CCNY’s Colin Powell School.   The exhibition will be on display for pre-registered guests at 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, on May 7. For more information, please email: events@ccny.cuny.edu .   The exhibit and event are co-sponsored by CCNY, CCNY’s LGBTQ+ Student Center, the Stonewall National Museum Archives & Library, The Foundation for City College, the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications & External Relations, the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and the Colin Powell School.   Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:09:20 -0400 Ashley Arocho /news/stonewall-museum-exhibit-standing-shoulders-heroes-comes-ccny-apr-29-lgbtq-activist-laverne https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-student-publication-harlem-view-wins-society-professional-journalists-award-again “Harlem View” online publication at the City University of New York is the winner of the News Videography category of the 2023 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for the best collegiate journalism in the northeast region. Comparative Literature student and graduating senior Rhiannon Rashidi is the winner for her story “Coney Island residents oppose Casino.” This is the fourth year that CCNY dominated in the online videography category, having won 2020, 2021 and 2022.   Othniel Cassie, Jr., a junior, is a finalist in the Arts/Entertainment/Fashion Journalism category for his story “Jah Fiinesse goes lyrical.” Students from Harvard are the category winner and a finalist.   Rashidi and Cassie have minors in Journalism in the Media and Communication Arts Department in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts.    CCNY alumni Astra Montanez, Class of ‘23, who is now studying at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY, is a finalist in the General News Reporting (Large, 10k+ students) category for her story “New wave of asylum seekers needs bilingual education.” The winner is from Harvard University and a second finalist is from Columbia University.   Winners will compete at the national level against the 11 other SPJ regions, and the national winners will be announced in June.   About “Harlem View” “Harlem View,” originally titled “Harlem Focus” when it launched in 2015, highlights often under-reported community issues in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and communities throughout the city where the City College of New York students live, work and play. Most of the content is reported and created by students in CCNY’s Journalism Program. Conceived as a project for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, on the content platform Medium, it was quickly recognized by the Online News Association as one of the Top 20 innovative journalism education ideas. “Harlem Focus” re-launched as “Harlem View” in Spring 2019.     Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:59:52 -0400 Thea Klapwald /news/ccny-student-publication-harlem-view-wins-society-professional-journalists-award-again https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/2024-cuny-jazz-festival-features-tenor-saxophonistcomposer-dayna-stephens-pianist-helen-sung An update regarding the 24th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, a gathering of bands and ensembles from across the CUNY system. The event takes place May 8 at the Harlem School for the Arts — Dorothy Maynor Hall at 645 Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York, NY 10030 (141st) Tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens, one of the jazz scene’s most unique and influential voices will be the festival’s headline guest artist. The festival is free and open to the public. The schedule is as follows: 1p.m.  the CCNY Faculty Jazz Ensemble, comprising internationally acclaimed jazz artists.  1:50 p.m. Graduate Ensemble, the 12 p.m. group, directed by Steve Wilson. 2:30 p.m. Undergraduate Small Ensembles directed by Ray Gallon. 4:00 p.m. the Dayna Stephens Master Class and Jam Session. 6:00 p.m. Graduate Ensemble, the 10 a.m. group, directed by Steve Wilson 8 p.m. the Dayna Stephens Quartet. In its 24th year, the festival is presented by CCNY’s Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts, and music department, with assistance from the City College Center for the Arts. Check Instagram @ccnygradstudies for updates or contact Mike Holober at  mholober@ccny.cuny.edu . Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:44:34 -0400 Thea Klapwald /news/2024-cuny-jazz-festival-features-tenor-saxophonistcomposer-dayna-stephens-pianist-helen-sung