Professor Arturo O’Farrill (Music) won a Grammy, Professor Jerry Carlson (MCA) won an Emmy, and student Jeremy Joffee (MCA) won an Oscar.  Alumnus Darko Lungalov (MCA) won Best Narrative Film at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

Graduating senior Kyle Meyer (Art) was awarded a Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Fellowship, and graduating senior Kimberly Young (English) was awarded a Javits Fellowship.  She and Professor Joshua Wilner (English) received the college’s Mentoring Award.

Professor Linsey Abrams (English) was commissioned to write a critical introduction to the commemorative re-release of Marilyn French’s landmark 1977 novel The Women’s Room.  For the fifth time in four years, Professor Abrams and Dean Fred Reynolds took ten CCNY graduate students in fiction writing on a weeklong workshop/retreat in Archer City, Texas, home of Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize- winning writer Larry McMurtry.

Professor Keith Grant (Theatre) directed the national touring company production of The Color of Justice, about the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Professor Marilyn Hacker (English) won the PEN Translation Prize and was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.  Professor Andrea Weiss (MCA) won the 2009 Publishing Triangle Award.  Graduate student Amy Veach (English) won the Doris Lippman Prize.

CCNY President Gregory H. Williams was awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for his many distinguished contributions to the arts and humanities, including his award-winning autobiography, Life on the Color Line.

Professor Myrah Brown Green (Art) was one of forty master quilters whose work was featured in a National Historical Society exhibition during the Obama inauguration.  Hajoe Moderegger (also Art) won an Emerging Fields Award from Creative Capital.

Professor Jonathan Pieslak (Music) published the highly acclaimed book Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War (Indiana UP).  Professor Elizabeth Mazzola (English) published her newest book, Women’s Wealth and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England (Ashgate).

Ten new full-time faculty—in Art, French, History, Music, English, and Philosophy—were hired for 2009-10.  The Philosophy search alone drew 659 applicants.