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The David Aronow Foundation is partnering, once again, with The City College of New York for a fellowship named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow. The David Aronow Fellowship at City College will provide a $3000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. Aronow was the youngest of five surviving children in an immigrant family, and the only member of his generation to have the chance to go to college: City College. He founded his foundation in 1947, and it has contributed to educational, humanitarian, cultural and scientific causes for over seven decades "We at The David Aronow

City College of New York physics senior Refath Bari has published his first academic paper, " Simulating the Action Principle in Optics," in the peer-reviewed journal, The Physics Teacher. An undergraduate publishing a paper in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal is a rarity. "We see light reflecting off mirrored surfaces, and it always appears to move in a straight line," said Bari. "But put a pencil in a glass of water, and the pencil appears to be bent," said Bari. Light appears to obey one law at one moment and a different law at another. The Principle of Least Action, (PLA) is the single

Three City College of New York students are recipients of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award, which supports women over the age of 35 who have overcome adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grants are awarded directly to the recipient for any costs associated with advancing her education. The winners and their bios are listed below. Doreen Ahumah is a double major in childhood education at the School of Education and psychology at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and she will graduate in the fall of 2023. As a single parent, who lost her

Randy E. Garcia, an anthropology undergraduate from The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and Division of the Humanities and Arts BA/MA history student, is headed to Japan after winning scholarships to attend the highly competitive Middlebury Language School Japanese Immersion Program, and the inaugural Japan-United States Friendship Commission Summer Institute (JUSFC). The young Dominican immigrant’s Asian study tour begins with participation in the new JUSFC Summer Institute, an immersive two-week program designed to promote diversity and

City College of New York political science major Gilles Seulio has been accepted to the Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute at the University of Washington for the summer of 2023. PPIA is a not-for-profit organization supporting efforts to increase diversity in graduate studies in public policy and international affairs. Originally from Cameroon, Seulio is a junior in CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. He became interested in public service in 2008 while attending high school in Douala, when violent protests broke out

A three-member team from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering emerged US-Canada region winners in New York University’s global CSAW ’22 AI vs. Humans Challenge at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. The Grove team comprised electrical engineering (EE) PhD candidate Vedika Saravanan, EE PhD student Mohammad Walid Charrwi; and computer engineering graduate student Facundo Aguirre. Samah M. Saeed, assistant professor, electrical engineering, was the faculty advisor. Making its debut in the CSAW games, CCNY was nominated to the final phase where it competed against the

The CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York’s Pathways to Careers in Medicine and Research Program receives increased funding due to Governor Kathy Hochul and the state’s commitment of more than $2.4 million to diversity programs managed by the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY), which is funded in part by the state Department of Health. This funding is expected to reach more than 800 students through new and existing diversity initiatives, including Bridges to Medicine, AMSNY's successful post-baccalaureate program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences

The City College of New York and The Foundation for City College are pleased to announce a major gift to establish The Ella Fitzgerald Memorial Scholarship. Recipients of this award, endowed by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, can major in two subjects, as long as one of them is jazz studies with a vocal concentration, and must maintain a grade point average of 3.0. “City College has a great music program and it provides access to students from diverse backgrounds,” said Randal Rosman, the Foundation’s vice president of programs. While scouting for potential beneficiaries, he was

Ewelina A. Randall, a senior in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the winner of an internationally contested undergraduate award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The honor is presented to top junior or senior undergraduate students globally in recognition of outstanding research in the area of spectroscopy. Randall, a Polish-born mechanical engineering major residing in Brooklyn, was nominated for the award by her research advisor Dr. Daniel Heller at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “This is for my work in the construction of hyperspectral

United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has lauded The City College of New York’s designation as a 2022 Fulbright Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leader. “As one of 43 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) honored for demonstrating noteworthy engagement with the Fulbright Program by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), City College of New York exemplifies a deep commitment to international exchange and to building lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,” Blinken said in letter to