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At age 55, John Kopyta, a soft-spoken 6-foot-four former Marine, can proudly claim another battle. He graduates from The City College of New York on June 1 with a 4.00 GPA, more than 30 years after leaving the University of South Florida as a sophomore and later overcoming homelessness. Kopyta is one of 3,996 members of City College’s Class of 2018 (1,077 of whom will receive graduate degrees) marching in the institution’s 172nd Commencement Exercises, at 9:30 a.m. on the South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. His stellar academics have earned him a BA in

Amman, Jordan, and Changchun, China, are the summer destinations for City College of New York’s Critical Language Scholarship recipients Atsuko Sakurai and Libby Ho. The competitive national award will take Sakurai, a sophomore majoring in computer engineering, to the Jordan Language Academy in the Jordanian capital. She’ll spend eight weeks there studying Arabic, her minor. A Japanese immigrant who’s served in the U.S. Coast Guard, Sakurai said her pursuit of Arabic suits her career goal perfectly. “I want to do something that combines international diplomacy and computer science,” said the

Anna Indych-López, an expert in Latin American modern art, is The City College of New York’s 2018-2019 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate. As Katz Professor, Indych-López will work on her fourth book, “Imágenes de la ciudad: Mexico City and The Aesthetics of Public Space.” It will explore the intersections of art and activism, public spaces and historical memorialization in the Mexican capital. According to Indych-López, “Imágenes de la

Marta Gutman, an award-winning author and historian in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, is the recipient of a new honor: Distinguished CUNY Fellow. As a Fellow, she takes up a semester-long appointment at the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC), a program of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in the fall. ARC promotes interdisciplinary scholarship among Fellows who are selected for their outstanding published research and scholarship. At ARC, Gutman will collaborate with scholars researching inequality in all of its manifestations. She’ll also continue

Many parents are concerned their children’s school doesn’t have an emphasis on science. Or that the way science is taught is too boring to engage their kids. One way to get kids interested in science is to show them experiments that make them ask “how did you do that”? This Sunday, May 20, from 12-5pm, kids from the Harlem community (and their parents) can get psyched about science at the STEM Expo Plaza party at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York at 259 Convent Avenue and 140 th Street. CCNY engineering and computer science student clubs will showcase some of the

Engineering students are used to solving tough problems. But building a canoe made of concrete that’s capable of winning a race – that’s quite an accomplishment! On May 7, a team of Grove School of Engineering students made The City College of New York proud by finishing first in the Men’s Sprint, second in the Women’s Sprint, and by taking third place overall in the 2018 Concrete Canoe Metropolitan Conference Competition. The team also won first place for their report paper. Here’s a list of how CCNY ranked in each of the competition categories: Design Paper - 1st Place Oral Presentation -

Gerald Eskenazi, '59, the acclaimed sportswriter who had a distinguished 47-year career at The New York Times and has authored 16 books, is among the honorees at The City College of New York’s Alumni Varsity Association’s 52nd Annual Hall of Fame Reunion Dinner on May 24. Eskenazi, who generated more than 8,000 bylines at the Times, will receive the Mark Asa Abbott Award at The National Arts Club in Manhattan for service to the AVA. Victor Calise, commissioner, New York City Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, will receive the AVA’s New York Sports Legend. AVA Hall of Fame inductees

Anan Kazi and Kevin Gonzalez, two members of The City College of New York’s Class of 2018, 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, Kazi, from Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, and Gonzalez 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 two Scholars: Anan Kazi Born in Houston, Texas, of Bangladeshi immigrant parents, Kazi is graduating from

NSF-Sponsored Hispanic Student Achievement Conference, May 23 through May 25 The HSI:URBANO Conference, an exploration of the issues affecting Hispanic and underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), will take place from May 23, 2018, through May 25. The conference, funded by the National Science Foundation and focused on Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), will be held in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Advanced Science Research Center on the campus of the City College of New York. Registration is currently underway and is accessible at the HSI

The City College of New York is pleased to announce a major gift from the Moxie Foundation that will strengthen the College’s capacity to prepare students for creative problem solving in the 21 st century. The $2.73 Million gift will launch the Moxie Initiative, designed to support outside of the box thinking, experiential learning, and academic innovation throughout every discipline at the College. The gift’s vision is that every student in every major will realize her or his capability to create significant, positive change in the world. “One of my fondest ambitions for CCNY is for our work