Anthony Fauci [left] and Stanley Nelson, CCNY's 2022 honorary degree recipients.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief Medical Advisor to the President, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 169th Commencement 10 a.m. on June 3. He will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Science.
City College will also honor Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, a 1976 CCNY alumnus, with the honorary degree Doctor of Fine Arts. Both awards to Fauci and Nelson are pending full CUNY Board of Trustees confirmation.
The commencement exercises return to in-person format at CCNY’s South Campus Great Lawn after two years of virtual salutes because of the Covid pandemic. It will also be webcast.
Following are brief bios of the honorees.
Anthony S. Fauci:
As NIAID director at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Fauci oversees an extensive research portfolio focused on infectious and immune-mediated diseases. As the long-time chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, he has made many seminal contributions in basic and clinical research and is one of the world’s most-cited biomedical scientists. He was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for his PEPFAR work. At the start of the Biden administration, Fauci began serving as one of the lead members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and as President Biden's Chief Medical Advisor. Click here to read more.
Stanley Nelson:
The leading contemporary documentarian of the African American experience, Nelson’s films combine compelling narratives with rich historical detail to illuminate the under-explored American past. His latest documentary film is “Attica,” with Traci A. Curry, on the 1971 prison uprising, which received an Oscar nomination. Other recent films include the Emmy-nominated “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre,” with Marco Williams, “Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy,” and “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” which was Grammy-nominated for Best Music Film in 2020. In addition, Nelson’s “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” is the first comprehensive feature-length historical documentary portrait of that organization, as well as a timely look at an earlier phase of Black activism around police violence in African American communities. Nelson is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and received the National Humanities Medals from President Obama in 2013. Click here to read more.
About the City College of New York
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