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Hammond organ guru Dr. Lonnie Smith plays two concerts at the CUNY Jazz Festival May 4 -5 at The City College Center for the Arts. The two-day festival includes free master classes with saxophonist Jon Gordon and vocalist René Marie, and performances by student ensembles from CUNY schools. Smith will share the stage at City College’s Aaron Davis Hall with the ����Ӱҵ Jazz Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 4. The festival culminates with a gala concert featuring the ����Ӱҵ Student Jazz All-Stars opening for Smith and his Trio, 7:30 p.m. on May 5. ����Ӱҵ music professor Mike Holober will direct

Stephana Eghan, a junior in ����Ӱҵ's media and communication arts department, is the winner of a New York Women in Communications Scholarship for 2017. The advertising and public relations major is one of 19 recipients of the highly competitive award. The award is open to residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Winners are selected on the basis of academic excellence, need and a demonstrated commitment to the field of communications. Eghan is City College’s fourth NYWICI Scholar after Joanne Ventour (2015), Kar Ye Au (2014) and Stephanie Guzman

Renowned restoration architect Carl Stein FAIA’s work includes the protection and preservation of ����Ӱҵ campus and its historic architecture. For this, he will receive the President’s Leadership Award at the Presidential Awards Gala on May 2 in The Great Hall. The gala celebrates City College’s 170 th anniversary. Stein, who studied architecture at The Cooper Union and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, taught at City College’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture for five years. He completed a two-decade restoration of the upper part of the Shepard

����Ӱҵ’s Grove School of Engineering students Isamar Garrido Rodriguez and Patrick Tuttle are 2017 Society of Chemical Industry Scholars. The SCI Program provides each chemical engineering major with industry experience through a 10-week summer internship and a work stipend. “Being introduced to the SCI Program provided me with the opportunity to apply to companies I would not have direct access to. Like most degrees, internships are a mandatory requirement for most jobs nowadays; gaining industry experience, especially at a Fortune 500 company, is invaluable for future

For generations, Washington, D.C., has attracted an endless stream of civic-minded citizens keen on public service careers. Eight City College of New York undergraduates are the latest to feel the lure of D.C. where they are gaining new insights, networking and connecting with ����Ӱҵ alumni there. Thanks to a semester-long program in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership supported by the MCJ Amelior Foundation, students like Corrin Chow are in the nation’s capital learning how the legislative branch works. The political science and international studies double major is

For the second year running, ����Ӱҵ is the recipient of four of the eight Jonas E. Salk Scholarships awarded by The City University of New York this year. The scholarships recognize exceptional students who plan careers in medicine and the biological sciences. As Salk Scholars, Marisol Cortés, Anika Nabila, Christopher Reid and Violeta Contreras Ramirez will each receive a stipend of $8,000 to be appropriated over three or four years of medical studies. Cortés, who is Mexican-born, is graduating with a BS in biochemistry. The Mount Vernon resident will attend the Johns

A green project by an interdisciplinary team of City College of New York students is the winner of The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s fifth annual Campus RainWorks Challenge. Tasked with designing an innovative green infrastructure project that effectively manages stormwater runoff while benefitting the campus community and environment, the five-member City College team devised the “Castor Project.” The project got its name from the scientific term for the beaver (Castor canadesis), ����Ӱҵ’s mascot. Taking a cue from the beaver’s role as a natural water manager, the team

The Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at ����Ӱҵ presents the seventh annual Harlem Children’s Festival, Saturday, May 6 at Aaron Davis Hall. Activities include dramatic performances and a raffle. The festival is free and open to the public. “Our goal is for our candidates to present their artistic work to an audience of captivated and inquisitive young people and their families. There is no better community to share their work with than the Harlem community,” said Jennifer Katona, program director, Educational Theatre Program. Following is the schedule of events: 10

Research led by electrical engineering professor Ahmed Mohamed at ����Ӱҵ could lead to a more energy efficient rail transit system as his group explores how to capture regenerative braking energy. Mohamed is the recipient of a $200,000 year-long grant from ConEd for the project whose other outcomes could be: Financial savings on energy by the New York City Transit system; and A reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in line with New York State requirements. His research group in City College’s Grove School of Engineering, comprising PhD, graduate and

In a talk rescheduled from February, Marco Castaldi, associate professor of chemical engineering at ����Ӱҵ, presents Sustainable Waste Management: Impacts of Our Trash on Society. Castaldi’s presentation is part of the “ Conversations in Engaged Scholarship” series. The forum features City College faculty members sharing research and creative scholarship that impact public policy, reform, and the civic, social, political or environmental landscape. Castaldi’s presentation will discuss the consequences of the amount of waste or garbage that the United States generates per