Barack Obama Returns to CCNY
Invited by the City College Center for the Arts to the premiere taping of David Letterman's new Netflix show "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction," CCNY students were taken by surprise when Letterman's top-secret guest, President Barack Obama, strode on stage. Now streaming on Netflix, the program includes the 44th President sharing memories of CCNY dating back to 1985.
I Am CCNY: Roberto Nasr, Class of 2019 Major:Architecture, because I want to make an impact on the built environment. Especially in a city like New York, where we spend most of our time in buildings, it's very important that the spaces that we live and work in are spaces that we want to be in. Why CCNY: It has an excellent faculty and excellent facilities. Takeaway: CCNY has been a rewarding experience for me because of the relationships I've formed with my professors and with other architecture students. I'm going to leave the school very ready for the architecture profession.
Alumnus Celebrates 50 Years with $1M Gift
City College's Grove School of Engineering is the recipient of a new $1 million gift. Creating a permanent endowed fund to provide scholarships and other support for Grove School students, this generous donation will "ensure that CCNY continues to provide access to excellence for remarkable students from a diversity of backgrounds and to produce the engineering innovators of tomorrow," notes Dean and Berg Professor Gilda A. Barabino.
Culture and Community
CCNY Welcomes Siri Hustvedt
The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts at CCNY presents the award-winning author Siri Hustvedt on Feb. 13. All are welcome for a discussion titled "Thinking Plural," on Hustvedt's long-standing interest in the relations between the humanities and the sciences.