Viren S. Sehgal, a CUNY School of Medicine student who completed his undergraduate degree in biomedical science with a 4.0 GPA, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2024 Valedictorian. Hannah Khanshali, who’s graduating with a BS in biology and 4.0 GPA from the Macaulay Honors College in the Division of Science, is the Salutatorian. Both were members of The City College’s first COVID-19 pandemic-era freshman class. CCNY’s 171st Commencement is scheduled for May 31. About Viren Sehgal Born in Queens of Indian immigrant parents, Sehgal had been a CCNY student for two and half years before
The work of students at The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture comprises part of a traveling exhibition co-curated by Professor Lindsay Harkema entitled “ Spatializing Reproductive Justice” from May 2, 2024 - September 3, 2024. The traveling exhibition explores the spatial, legal, and social logistics of reproductive healthcare access in the U.S. after Roe v. Wade opens at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. Expanding the discourse across institutions, the exhibition will travel to safe and restrictive states, fostering dialogue between designers
Pamela L. Laskin, the award-winning poet, children’s book author, and English lecturer at CCNY, is the guest poet at CCNY’s 52nd annual Poetry Festival 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. May 10 in the Aaron Davis Hall’s Marian Anderson Theater. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Laskin, who is also the long serving director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center, which produces the festival. “Its assumption is that there are many poets, and
In another massive boost to The City College of New York-based Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI), U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) has secured $4,116,279 in Fiscal Year 2024 Federal funding to establish a headquarters for the program and further address the lack of modern infrastructure jobs in the city. The money comes on the heels of the $1.5 million delivered to RIWI by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand last week to expand skills-based training at CCNY for low-income New Yorkers. Rep. Espaillat provided a
Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce, is the 2024 recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, bestowed by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. The award recognizes individuals who have reached the highest level in their fields, and who embody the leadership values that Gen. Powell, a 1958 graduate of City College, demonstrated throughout his career: integrity, humility, humor, pragmatism, and common sense. These values were articulated most famously in Powell’s Thirteen Rules of Leadership, which culminate with
New research led by City College of New York English professor Keith Gandal reveals that road fatalities spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic despite a significant decrease in driving due to lockdowns. Gandal, in the Division of Humanities and the Arts, and his brother Neil Gandal, professor of economics at Tel Aviv University, along with Maya Fuks, an MA student at Tel Aviv, investigated the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. and fatal car crashes. Road fatalities were a lesser-known category of excess deaths during the pandemic, going up despite a significant decrease in
Parts of Washington Heights – in what’s still the most populous Dominican neighborhood in the nation – are on the path to recognition as historic areas by the National Register of Historic Places. The City College of New York-based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) proposed the designation, which is now backed by the Heights’ inclusion by the Historic Districts Council (HDC) in its annual “ Six to Celebrate” program, a listing of historic New York City neighborhoods that merit preservation attention. The other five neighborhoods to make HDC’s “Six to Celebrate” lineup, New York’s
Continuing to place at rates higher than the national average, students at The City College of New York-based CUNY School of Medicine have earned residency placements at medical institutions in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio, South Carolina and Florida. On Match Day 2024, CUNY Medicine students had a 96.5% match, which this year was higher than the U.S. average of 93.5%. The 55 future physicians from CCNY will be training in 13 specialty areas. The specialty areas and number of student matches are: Internal Medicine (14); Pediatrics (11); Emergency Medicine (6)
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have secured $1.5 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package to boost skills-based workforce development at The City College of New York situated Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative (RIWI). The funding will support The City College as it seeks to expand skills-based training on campus for low-income New Yorkers in the form of increased access to computer labs, instruments, trainers, and career opportunities. “I’m proud to deliver $1.5 million for CCNY’s Rangel Infrastructure Workforce
New works celebrating literary giant James Baldwin’s centennial, evoking Walt Whitman’s poetic genius, and highlighting The City College of New York’s “Harlem as Muse” storytelling project for emerging fiction writers are in production, thanks to a two-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce Foundation’s $55,000 award to The Foundation for City College, Inc. is supporting the three projects curated by The City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. Notable alumni of the MFA program include New York Times Bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners such as Walter Mosley, Oscar