Thanks to the generosity of long-time CUNY BA donors Mary Beth and Richard Ketchum, CUNY BA is able to support two students with scholarships for study abroad this year.  We are pleased to announce them here:  Recipients of the 2011 Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad Immacolata Mazzone ($6,000 Award Winner) Area of Concentration:  Comparative Religions [...]

The Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowships are funded through a donation by Mr. Thomas W. Smith to recognize academic excellence. Awards are disbursed in October and February. Subject to maintenance of good academic standing, awards are renewable until the recipient completes all degree contract credits and graduates from the program. [...]

We are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the $1,000 Daniel E. Smith Scholarship for a Returning Woman Student.  This scholarship was initiated by Daniel Smith to honor his wife’s completion of her CUNY Baccalaureate degree and to encourage and support female students who have returned to college despite personal and financial challenges. Victoria [...]

Nine CUNY Baccalaureate Students have been chosen this spring as the recipients of the 2011 Memorial Scholarships, given to students who are pursuing careers in Education or Human Services.  These $1,000 scholarships are generously funded by Richard and Mary Beth Ketchum in honor of their parents.  The recipients are: Rebekah Ambjor Areas of Concentration:  Health [...]

Five CUNY BA students have been selected this spring for the Harriet Brows Scholarship for Social Change, a $600 award made possible by alumna Diane Brows in memory of her mother.  They are: Eric Carlsen, a senior at Brooklyn College with Areas of Concentration in “The Economics of Slow Food” and “The Power of Slow [...]

Winston Scarlett is a CUNY Baccalaureate student with areas of concentration in Twentieth Century Literature of the African Diaspora Studies and Publishing. He is a Mellon Mays Fellow, a Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellow, and a recipient of the CUNY BA Memorial Scholarship whose home college is CCNY.

Looking back, this reaction should not have come as a surprise. After all, the image of an American student spending six months in Paris does not exactly come across as a hardship, or any sort of challenging endeavor. My friend could not imagine why I would choose to go to Paris when my interests and [...]

As of today, climate change has become a serious and growing threat that is not leaving any country immune from extreme weather events. Consequently, the increases in temperature, the changes in precipitation patterns, and more floods or droughts that were – and are still- occurring frequently…

You probably remember me. I have been writing you from San Ignacio Belize where I was attending a study abroad at Galen University during the spring09 semester. Well this time, I would like to share with you my new experience of the fall09. I am actually in Copenhagen Denmark on another study abroad semester at [...]

25 Years: Photography and Sculpture Alike Staten Island, New York: August 3, 2009 – Papouli’s, (9 Hyatt Street), is pleased to present Stephen Barnett’s quarter-century culminated thesis works of, Photographic Sculpture; which are manifestations of the symbiotic relationship between realism and formalism. These works play with the three-dimensional quality of a twodimensional world. The exhibition [...]