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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 The City College of New York’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 The City College of New York. 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 The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, has been named a 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholar and a 2025 Udall Scholar. She is the first CCNY student to receive both of these scholarships. 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, and one of 55 exceptional students from 45 colleges and universities selected by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation. The highly competitive Truman Scholarship

Antonio Tibaldi, professor of film and video at The City College of New York, 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

The City College of New York’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 The City College of New York, 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 The City College of New York 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 The City College of New York’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

The family of William F. Konig, Jr. (1934 – 2018), an outstanding scholar-athlete from The City College of New York’s Class of 1955 who went on to pursue a successful career as an engineer and inventor, announces an endowed scholarship in his memory in the Grove School of Engineering. The William F. Konig, Jr. Scholarship, will support a student in the Grove School’s Department of Electrical Engineering. A standout pitcher and the 1954 Frederic Kramer Baseball Award MVP at CCNY, Konig had been offered three contracts by minor-league clubs before earning his B.S. in EE from the Grove School. He

The City College of New York-based CUNY-Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY-IIE) released its PK-12 Immigration Literature Guide, a selection of 100 recently published PreK-12 books that showcase the transformative power of immigration-centered stories. The guide is organized into four sections based on age range: early childhood and elementary picture books; upper elementary chapter books; middle school; and high school. Each sub-section presents brief summaries of 25 books and highlights five authors to show the people behind the stories. “This collection offers an entry point into