Discimus ut serviamus: We learn so that we may serve. | | October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month—and the Student Association marked it on Monday, October 5, by hosting a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk on the Quad during free hour. Coming together as a campus community, students created signs and cards in support of those affected by the disease and participated in a walk around the Quad. | | Dija Vij, commissioner of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, visited the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona on October 5. She took a seat at Satchmo’s original desk and joined LAHM Director Regina Bain in the blue kitchen created by Lucille Armstrong. | | Aymette "Amy" Medina Jorge touched down at QC on October 5 to give a talk, followed by a Q&A session. A STEM educator at the Odyssey Academy in Galveston, Texas, Jorge flew on Blue Origin's NS-32 Mission in May 2025. | | QC Men’s Tennis Players Win ITA Singles and Doubles Championship | | |
The Queens College men’s tennis team swept the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) East Regional Championships last weekend. Tim Andersson captured the singles championship, while the doubles squad of Diego Calvo and Adam Laur claimed the doubles crown.
This was the first time in school history that the Queens College men’s tennis team won both the singles and doubles championship, and it’s the first ITA championship of any kind for the QC men since 2023.
Andersson came in as the #4 seed in the tournament and won five matches, upsetting the top-seeded player in the championship match. Calvo and Laur were ranked #2 in the tournament. They dominated the field until the championship match, prevailing in a tiebreaker to claim the title.
The women’s tennis team also made a strong showing at the ITA East Regional Championships. Sixtine Goubet and Lilie Bizouerne advanced to the semifinal found before falling to a higher seed.
In other athletics news, the men’s soccer team went 1-1 last week, losing a match to St. Thomas Aquinas last Wednesday before rebounding to edge Daemen University, 2-1 last Saturday. The women’s soccer team earned a 2-2 draw against Daemen in their only match last week.
Additionally, the cross country team competed at the NJIT XC Invitational last Saturday. Carly Koprowski paced the women’s team with a 21st-place finish.
Coming up this week:
The women’s tennis team will compete at the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Championships. The pairings for the championship will be announced this week.
Women’s soccer hosts American International College on Wednesday and the College of Staten Island on Saturday. Both matches start at 5 pm.
Men’s soccer welcomes Adelphi University on Wednesday at 7 pm and hosts Molloy University on Saturday at 7:30 pm.
Women’s volleyball will be at home on Thursday to take on Mercy University at 7 pm. They visit Roberts Wesleyan University on Saturday at noon.
| For the latest Knights news, scores, schedules, and more, visit queensknights.com | | Graduate student Eleni Douvou’s MFA thesis exhibition of sculpture and paintings, Integration of form and color, will open in Klapper Hall’s fourth floor gallery with a reception on October 20 at 6 pm. Douvou is a contemporary abstract artist whose work has been included in recent shows in Astoria and Long Island City. Her Klapper Hall show will run through October 26. | |
Students Win Internships at QC Psychological Center | | |
Three psychology majors have won prizes that include $500 stipends and internships at the Queens College Psychological Center (QCPC) a community mental health service that also serves as a training and research center.
Mariya Rakhminova and Nicole Ellerbrock have been awarded the Lakowitz Clinical Psychology Prize & QCPC Undergraduate Internship; Marc Cortez has been awarded the Queens College Psychological Center (QCPC) Clinical Psychology Prize & Undergraduate Internship.
Undergraduate psychology majors interested in the activities at the Department of Psychology’s training clinic are urged to look out for Fieldwork in Community Mental Health at QCPC and Advanced Fieldwork in Community Mental Health at QCPC.
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Students can earn up to four credits in Winter Session, taking place January 4-25, 2027.
More than 70 undergraduate and graduate courses will be offered, in online or hybrid formats. Make progress toward your degree without heading out into the cold!
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Donna Doyle, a member of the Aaron Copland School of Music faculty for approximately 25 years, passed away earlier this year.
A prize-winning pianist and orchestral violinist in childhood, Doyle left her native Illinois when her mother insisted she confine herself to becoming a housewife. After attending the Juilliard School for two years while working nights as a waitress, she earned her BS from Hunter College. Subsequently she went to France on a scholarship to study theory and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and solfege with Boulanger’s assistant, Annette Dieudonne. Returning to New York, Doyle completed her MM at the Manhattan School of Music, supporting herself as a freelance pianist and coach. Additionally, she received training in Dalcroze Eurythmics from Robert Abramson and in jazz arranging from John Carisi and Don Sebesky. Her compositions and arrangements have been performed in the United States and France.
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Aaron Copland School of Music Professor Emeritus David Gagné passed away in June 2026. He was 76.
Gagné, who earned his PhD from CUNY, joined the Queens College faculty in 1988. He also taught at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mannes College of Music, New York University, and Columbia University.
Renowned for his work in Schenkerian theory and analysis, Gagné was the co-author of Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach and the co-editor of Structure and Meaning in Tonal Music: Festschrift in Honor of Carl Schachter. His articles and reviews appeared in journals and books including The Music Forum, Music Theory Spectrum, Indiana Theory Review, Intégral, Schenker Studies 2, Trends in Schenkerian Research and Selected Essays from the Third Schenker Symposium. He served as the president of the Music Theory Society of New York State and, during the 1970s, as associate music director at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Predeceased by his wife, Gagné is survived by his daughter.
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Carl Schachter, distinguished professor in the Aaron Copland School of Music, passed away in May 2026. He was 93.
After graduating from high school in his native Chicago at the age of 16, Schacter headed east for his education. He earned a BS from the Mannes School of Music, an MA in musicology from New York University, and a DM from the Mannes College of Music, where he chaired the theory department and served as dean. A world-renowned music theorist and the world’s leading authority on the theory of Heinrich Schenker, Schacter joined the Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center faculties in 1972 and was named a distinguished professor 21 years later. He retired from the college in 1996 but continued to teach seminars for another 16 years. He also taught at Juilliard. Admired for his sense of humor as well as his scholarship, he was known to play the piano backwards in class. His books include Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis, and Tonal Analysis: Twelve Lessons in Schenkerian Theory.
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Joseph Sciorra, director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute for over a quarter-century, died on October 5. He was 71.
Sciorra held a BA in anthropology from Brooklyn College, an MA in performance studies from New York University, and a doctorate in folklore and folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation focused on the annual Brooklyn Giglio feast in which more than a hundred men haul an ornamented several-ton tower along Williamsburg streets to honor Saint Paulinus.
Sciorra’s multidisciplinary background enabled him to make a career out of documenting Italian American cultural productions, such as yard shrines, graffiti memorials, and Italian American doo-wop and rap. Positions at the Ethnic Folk Arts Center, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, City Lore, the National Audubon Society, and Art Reach New Jersey equipped him to join Calandra in 1999. His impact on the institute was vast. He organized its annual conference; created a reading and a film and video series; curated or co-curated multiple exhibitions; and edited the Italian American Review. A scholar, poet, and creative writer, he wrote Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City and R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art and was published in titles ranging from the New York Times and the Journal of American Folklore to Voices in Italian Americana, the Paterson Literary Review, and The Inquisitive Eater.
Advancing research even in death, Sciorra left his remains to the Forensic Anthropology Center (The Body Farm) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is survived by his wife and their two children. His extensive papers and fieldwork collections are divided up among the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University, and the Special Collections at San Diego State University.
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Sebastian Alvarado (Biology) talks about his research into color-changing fish in the Graduate Center’s Science Spotlight: Blue Fish Rewrite the Rules . . . . Africana Studies Director Natanya Duncan discusses historical writing as Black study, the place of gender in African American and diasporic history, and the obligations and imperatives for Black Studies in the contemporary moment in a new episode of the Black Studies Podcast, published on October 9. Earlier this year, she spoke to the podcast Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture about “Recovering Architects of the UNIA.” The conversation was split into Episode 126 and Episode 127. . . . QC served as a voting site for Brazilian citizens casting ballots in their country’s presidential election on Sunday, October 4. A runoff between the top two candidates is scheduled for October 25 . . . .
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Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Daniel Weinstein spoke to the QC Academic Senate on October 8. Weinstein, who also serves as the college’s dean of research, was joined by Interim President Elizabeth Hendrey. Both answered questions about academic and student attendance policies and planning processes underway . . . .
| Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke at the accountability assembly Metro IAF held in Colden Auditorium on Sunday, October 11. Topics included public safety, mental health services, and affordable housing. | |
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