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The 22 undergraduates selected to be this year's cohort of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York's Moynihan Public Service Fellowship represent a wide range of experiences and aspirations. This Fellowship supports promising undergraduate students pursuing innovative careers in 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

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

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

“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

“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

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

Students will have the opportunity to enroll in new concentrations of Journalism or Advertising and Public Relations towards a B.A. in Communications in the Fall 2024 semester at The City College of New York. The new B.A. is housed in the Media and Communications Arts Department, in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, which also offers a BFA in Film and Video, an MFA in Film, and an MPS in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC). Both majors consist of 42 credits and begin with the Introduction to Media Studies course. For journalism, the major begins with MCA 2300 Introduction to

Robert P. Anderson and Jeff Morris, faculty members at The City College of New York, have been elected 2023 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the “Science” family of journals. Anderson is professor of biology and member of the biodiversity group in the Division of Science, and Morris, professor and director of the Levich Institute in CCNY’s Grove School of

The City College of New York is the recipient of a $5 million grant from The Mellon Foundation to establish paid internship programs for students in the Division of Humanities and the Arts. The funding is part of Mellon’s ongoing commitment to expanding access to humanities-based learning and a renewed effort to raise awareness of the employability of humanities majors among undergraduates. Despite reports from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences that show both the employment and compensation rates of humanities bachelor’s degree holders as competitive with their counterparts in the

Eight years in the making, The City College of New York’s Immigrant Student Center for Resources and Research officially opened on April 15, making it the third CUNY campus, after Brooklyn and John Jay Colleges, to have a dedicated immigrant student center. Located in NAC 6/204, where it shares space with the CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education and the CCNY Dream Team, the Center supports and guides immigrant students by providing them with the necessary resources to enroll in and to navigate college, and to complete their degrees. It serves students who are undocumented, have