Macaulay Honors College Announces 2008 Chancellor’s Awards
The Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excellence and The Chancellor’s Awards for Student Leadership and Community Service were presented on April 28 by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein at a ceremony for students, faculty and parents at the CUNY Graduate Center.
    The Chancellor’s Awards are awarded to each junior in the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY who has earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.9 by the end of the fall term of their junior year.
    Nominations for the Chancellor’s Awards for Student Leadership and Community Service are solicited from each participating CUNY College. The Chancellor’s Awards Committee evaluates each nomination and chooses one award winner from each of Macaulay’s seven partner colleges — Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, Lehman, Queens and Staten Island. Eligible students are those juniors at Macaulay who have exhibited outstanding student leadership and/or engaged in outstanding community service.
    The seven winners of the Chancellor’s Award for Student Leadership and Community Service are: Keiko Akashi (Marketing/Management major, Baruch College), Nicole Lebenson (English major, Brooklyn College), Nandini Shroff (Economics major, City College), Jessica Mulligan (Science, Letters and Society major, College of Staten Island), Olivia Lin (Media Studies major, Hunter College), Kunchok Dolma (English Literature major, Lehman College), and Kate Schnur (English major, Queens College).
    The Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excellence recipients at Brooklyn College are William Aibinder (Creative Writing major), Ying Chan (Health and Nutritional Science major), Mariya Deykute (Anthropology major), Amit Kapoor (Biology major), Nicole Lebenson (English major), Francesco Peluso (Classics major), Natalie Raffaele (History major), Melissa Sanders (Business Management & Finance major), Diana Shapiro (Finance/Investments major), Aimee Sidavi (Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, Speech and Hearing Science major), and Boris Sinayuk (Economics major).
    Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York offers an exceptional academic and co-curricular environment for engaged and motivated students, who come from all parts of New York and around the world. Macaulay students enroll in one of seven CUNY colleges (Baruch, Brooklyn, City, Hunter, Lehman, Queens and Staten Island). Through the unique Macaulay advising program (MAP) each student develops a coordinated, individualized academic program that includes research, global learning, graduate and professional mentoring, community engagement, and close faculty-student collaboration.