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The Division of Humanities and the Arts presents the 54th Annual City College of New York Poetry Festival on Fri., May 1 at Aaron Davis Hall’s Theatre B black box space. Kay Poema, Bronx poet laureate emerita and City College alumna, will be this year’s featured guest poet. Poema is an interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose work bridges language and image to explore themes of memory, identity, and transformation. The author of “ Diary of Intercessor” (Finishing Line Press, 2021), she served as the Bronx poet laureate from 2023 to 2025, and was recently the artist in residence at the Bx

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant-General Russel L. Honoré, who gained national renown in 2005 for his command of Joint Task Force-Katrina, and physicist Daniel Berg, a 1950 alumnus widely recognized for his work in the management of technology and innovation, will receive honorary doctoral degrees from The City College of New York’s 173rd Commencement exercises on Friday, May 29. Lt.-Gen. Honoré will also deliver the keynote address. Also at the ceremony, Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the City

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the launch of the Evelyn Linares Legacy Scholarship, a new $50,000 fund housed at The City College of New York, to support New York students entering the teaching profession. This initiative is a direct continuation and expansion of the Carol Robles-Román Excellence Award at CUNY John Jay College announced during last year’s Somos Conference in Albany. By adding this new fund at CCNY, the Governor is building a comprehensive scholarship portfolio for New York students. “By investing in our young educators, we are investing in New York’s future,” Gov

Five City College of New York undergraduates have won prestigious scholarships and fellowships that enable them to pursue their academic research this coming summer. They are: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education freshman Moyosola Adedoyin, who is a Fulbright U.K. Summer Institute selection; Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership senior Alison Holst, a political science major, who is a Hudson Institute Political Studies summer Fellow in political theory and practice; Division of Science junior Marina Milea, a biology major and chemistry minor, who is a Goldwater Scholar

Eagles invaded The City College of New York just before spring break, when students, faculty and staff from nearby Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem held its CCNY Takeover Day on the campus for the first time. More than 100 students from the public high school hiked up the hill from the school at 6 Edgecombe Ave. for a regular day of classes, interspersed with discussions and tours of the School of Education and various academic departments, including Black Studies, WHCR and the CUNY School of Medicine. Hosted by the School of Education, the day was an initiative of CCNY’s Liberty

New Taipei City, Taiwan, is Thayer J. Grimes’s destination this summer. The City College of New York sophomore is the recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship, a competitive national award administered by the United States Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. A political science major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Grimes will study intermediate Chinese at Tamkang University during his eight-week stint in Taiwan between June and August. The upstate Utica native is a fellow in the Colin Powell Fellowship for Leadership and Public

Shabnam Pahrand, the daughter of Afghan immigrants who is graduating summa cum laude from the Macaulay Honors College at CCNY with double majors in philosophy and political science, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2026 Valedictorian. Sayyid Yobhel Vasquez Rodriguez, a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy Reserve who completed his BS in biology also with summa cum laude honors, is the Salutatorian. The City College will hold its 173rd Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m., Friday, May 29, on the South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. The Class of 2026 comprises 3,542

U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) praised The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (DSI) as a “perfect example of how you can strengthen a community by giving dollars for research and other types of programs.” He said this as he presented a ceremonial check for $3.15 million in federal funding that will enable the Institute to renovate and expand its facility. Espaillat highlighted recent work of the DSI in researching and preserving the story of Dominican-born 2nd Lt. Esteban Hotesse, the only known Afro-Latino member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during

“ HENRY DAVID THOREAU,” a PBS series executive produced by Ken Burns and musician Don Henley, narrated by George Clooney and featuring the voices of Meryl Streep, Jeff Goldblum, Ted Danson and other acting legends, premieres at 9 p.m. ET on March 30, with music scored by City College of New York Adjunct Professor and master composer David Cieri. Click here to watch the trailer. A member of CCNY’s music faculty for 16 years, Cieri currently teaches courses on music and film, and film scoring in Professor Paul Kozel’s renowned Sonic Arts Center (SAC). His work on “THOREAU,” a three-part, three

Three City College of New York faculty members -- Kevin H. Gardner, David J. Lohman and Vinod M. Menon -- have been elected 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among the nearly 500 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals. A tradition dating back to 1874, election as an AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor, and all Fellows are expected to meet the commonly held