All CUNY Colleges  | College: Lehman College
$100,000 Math Teaching Award
Ann Marie Alcocer, a Lehman College senior, is one of two CUNY seniors to win a 2011 $100,000 Math for America Fellowship to pursue a career teaching math in New York City’s public schools.
Math for America (MfA) is a privately funded nonprofit organization whose generous stipends and continuing support separate it from other organizations that encourage people to go into public school teaching. In New York City, MfA teachers receive a $30,000 stipend plus full-tuition scholarship for a maste...>> |
 | College: Macaulay Honors College | College of Staten Island
Biomedical Magic
Mark Barahman, of the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island, is one of four CUNY juniors in 2011 to win highly competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the premier federally funded undergraduate scholarship to encourage graduate study in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, established by Congress, awarded 275 scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year to U.S. sophomores and juniors...>> |
 | College: Macaulay Honors College | Hunter College
Making a Synthetic Biologist
Joseph Cammarata, of the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, is one of four CUNY juniors in 2011 to win highly competitive, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the premier federally funded undergraduate scholarship to encourage graduate study in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, established by Congress, in awarded 275 scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year to U.S. sophomores and juniors. They ...>> |
 | College: Hunter College
Site-Specific Drug Delivery
Lina Mercedes Gonzalez (Hunter College, 2009, who is earning a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of five CUNY students to win 2011 awards under the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. It is geared to assuring the vitality and diversity of America’s scientific and engineering workforce.
Her research is part of a broad quest to deliver drugs to the specific site where they’re needed. The NSF granted her $90,000 over three years to...>> |
 | College: Baruch College | Borough of Manhattan Community College
Can Cash End Poverty in Peru?
Although born in the United States, Miguel Guzman was raised in the Dominican Republic until he was 8, and those circumstances may have set him on his career path.
"Coming to this country was a culture shock, but as you adapt to cultures and languages, your mindset becomes more international,” he says. “It’s not just your block or your neighborhood you know, but your world."
Starting in 2011, Guzman will direct his global gaze toward an attempt to alleviate poverty in rural Peru, thanks to a...>> |
 | College: New York City College of Technology
Hard Work Pays Off
From the moment he and his family immigrated to New York from tropical Guyana, arriving in a blizzard in 1994, Ryan Jaipaul – New York City College of Technology’s 2011 salutatorian, or student with the second highest grade point average – knew he had to work.
“Growing up I didn’t see my parents,” he says. “One worked in the afternoons, one at night. Everyone was busy. My family instilled in me that hard work, determination and making education a top priority were the keys to becoming success...>> |
 | College: Macaulay Honors College | Hunter College
Focus on Neuroscience
Celine Joiris, of the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, is one of four CUNY juniors in 2011 to win highly competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the premier federally funded undergraduate scholarship to encourage graduate study in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, established by Congress, in awarded 275 scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year to U.S. sophomores and juniors. They were...>> |
 | College: The City College of New York
$100K for Future Math Teacher
Jian Liu, a senior at The City College of New York, is one of two CUNY seniors to win a $100,000 Math for America Fellowship to pursue a career teaching math in New York City’s public schools.
Math for America (MfA) is a privately funded nonprofit organization whose generous stipends and continuing support separate it from other organizations that encourage people to go into public school teaching. In New York City, MfA teachers receive a $30,000 stipend plus full-tuition scholarship for a ma...>> |
 | College: Macaulay Honors College | | The City College of New York
Learning About Sustainablity
Ayodele Oti, of Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York and the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, CUNY’s individualized degree, is one of two CUNY juniors in 2011 to win a highly competitive, $30,000 Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study leading to careers in government or public service. The other is Gareth Rhodes, of The City College of New York and the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, like her an honors student, Colin Powell Fellow and New York Life Scholar.
Each year the Harr...>> |
 | College: CUNY Graduate Center
Quantum Field Theorist
Mathematician Arthur Jacob Parzygnat (Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, 2010), now exploring topological quantum field theory at the CUNY Graduate Center, is one of five CUNY students to win 2011 awards under the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. It is geared to assuring the vitality and diversity of America’s scientific and engineering workforce.
Parzygnat, who describes himself as a mathematical physicist, received a $30,000 NSF grant payable over thr...>> |
 | College: The City College of New York |
Heading into Public Service
Gareth Rhodes, of The City College of New York and the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, CUNY’s individualized degree, is one of two CUNY students in 2011 to win a highly competitive, $30,000 Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study leading to careers in government or public service. The other is junior Ayodele Oti, of Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York and the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, like him an honors student, Colin Powell Fellow and New York Life Scholar.
Each year ...>> |
 | College: Macaulay Honors College | Brooklyn College
Science, Politics and Pakistan
Zujaja Taqeer, a senior at Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College, is one of only two students from New York State to receive a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship in the fall of 2011. The Rhodes, first awarded in 1902, is considered the premiere academic award in the world. It covers all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
Tauqeer, who fled Pakistan with her parents to escape persecution, will study for a master’s degree in the history of medic...>> |
 | College: Bronx Community College | | The City College of New York
Grad Wins Fulbright-Hays Grant
As an undergraduate at Bronx Community College (A.A. in psychology, valedictorian, 2006) and City College (CUNY B.A. 2008), Funlayo Easter Wood explored the African diaspora. As her studies progressed with a magna cum laude master’s in history (City College, 2010) and a graduate fellowship at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College, so did her search for spiritual expression.
“I was brought up religious and spiritual,” she says. “My family is Christian, mainly. My mother [...>> |
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