The Horace W. Goldsmith Scholars Program identifies and supports future leaders for whom graduate education is an essential foundation of their aspirations.

These high achieving students are then guided through their application process, with special emphasis on applying for national scholarships and fellowships to pursue graduate studies. 

Macaulay’s latest winners include:

• Nabila Akthar ’18 (City)
• Heather Alper ’18 (Brooklyn)
• Rebecca Baron ’18 (Brooklyn)
• Francisco Barros ’18 (City)
• Anika Czander ’18 (Brooklyn)
• Pooja Dutta ’18 (City)
• Luis Feliciano ’18 (Hunter)
• Yocheved Friedman ’19 (Queens)
• Niven Hemraj ’18 (John Jay)
• Libby Ho ’18 (City)
• Marie Mazzeo ’18 (Hunter)
• Eli McClain ’19 (Hunter)
• Kaitlin McDermott ’19 (Queens)
• Alexander Robateau ’18 (City)
• Sharon Shaji ’17 (City)
• Saim Siddiqui ’18 (Hunter)
• Megan Wong ’18 (Hunter)
• Saifeldeen Zihiri ’19 (Hunter)

See past winners

Alumni of Macaulay Honors College  present a panel discussion on how students can land a job in communications. The event takes place on February 8, 2017 at 6pm at Macaulay. Students will receive advice from members currently working in the media about what to expect as they begin their job hunt, as well as tips on resume writing, and the key to getting your foot in the door. The guest speaker for the evening is NY1 anchor and author Cheryl Wills.

Wills is an award winning reporter at NY1 News and a longtime local news anchor.  She started at NY1 in 1992, even before the station went on the air. Wills is also a published author, having written Die Free: A Heroic Family History, as well as a children’s book. Wills will discuss her experience in the news industry and will also share broadcasting tips and resume advice.  Here is a link to Cheryl’s YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHLkx0ktEo

Other panelists for the evening are:

• Lorna Graham is currently a writer for Dateline NBC. Graham also worked at ABC’s Good Morning America.  She has written several documentaries, including Auchwitz, a short documentary, which was produced by Steven Spielberg. Graham is also a published author.
• Beryl Holness is an award-winning television producer with extensive experience in news and talk formats.Holness is currently a producer for MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. She also worked for several years at Good Morning America, and began her career at WPIX in New York.

Macaulay alumni and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster Amanda Perez ’05 (Brooklyn College) is the moderator for the event.  Perez is a producer for CBS Network News Service and has extensive experience both in front of as well as behind the camera.  Perez also recently started her own production company called Straight A Media.

Macaulay Honors College congratulates Nabil Ahmed Khatri ’17 (City College) and Michelle Sheu ’18 (Baruch College and CUNY BA) for winning the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for the Spring 2017 semester. They join Devin Lee ’17 (Queens College) and Winnie Shen ’18 (Hunter College) who received the Gilman Scholarship for the Fall 2016 semester. The Gilman Scholarship Program goal is to diversify the kinds of students who study and intern abroad by offering awards to U.S. undergraduates who might otherwise not participate due to financial constraints. It is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

Nabil Khatri is a Computer Science major at the Grove School of Engineering at City College. Nabil is one of three siblings to attend Macaulay; a fourth sibling is in the CUNY family at Queens College. Nabil is studying abroad for the first time and will be attending the VU Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit) in the Netherlands.

Michelle Sheu is pursuing her self-directed CUNY BA in Design and Storytelling to explore the intersections of tech and visual communication as a medium to address social issues. Michelle will be studying abroad in Costa Rica at the Universidad Veritas.   In the Fall of 2015, Michelle was named a Thomas W. Smith Fellow with CUNY BA; she is also a William R. Kenan Scholar at Macaulay. 

The Gilman Program aims to encourage students to choose non-traditional study and intern destinations, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and must use the award to defray eligible study or intern abroad costs. Over 2,700 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year for U.S. citizen undergraduates to study or intern abroad.