Student Stories
Kareem Douglas ’08 (Chemical Engineering and Pre-Med major, City College) A leader in science research and teaching, Kareem has served as a Chemistry workshop discussion leader and math tutor since sophomore year. He maintains a 3.93 average with the most difficult of course loads. He is currently part of a research team working with soft nanomaterials.
Amanda Perez ’05 (Television and Radio and History double major and Speech minor, Brooklyn College, currently pursuing graduate studies in History) received an Emmy for a short segment, “Following Washington’s Trail,” that she reported and produced for Transit Transit News Magazine, the television program of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. While a Macaulay student, she interned at WB-11 and WNYC-TV.
Nataliya Binshteyn, a January 2008 graduate of the Macaulay Honors
College at Hunter College, has been awarded a 2008 Merage American Dream
Fellowship, which recognizes students who have demonstrated academic
excellence, leadership skills, creativity and initiative. Binshteyn is
one of 12 students selected from colleges across the country.
Applicants, who must be immigrants, were asked to describe their goals,
their American dream – with respect to achieving leadership positions in
an area of business, culture and the arts, science or education, or
public service. The award is a stipend of $10,000 per year for two
years of post-graduate study, travel or research.
Binshteyn emigrated with her family from the Ukraine in 1993. She
graduated from Hunter with majors in political science, Spanish and
Special Honors. While at Hunter, she interned in the office of Senator
Hillary Clinton and in the Americas Society/Council of the Americas.
Binshteyn is currently interning at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires and
plans to attend a joint degree program in law and international affairs
in the fall.