Research
Research at Brooklyn College extends far beyond the laboratories and offices of our professors. It is an intrinsic part of the college’s mission to involve you in assisting with the faculty’s research and to start you on the path toward your own.
Our faculty research a vast array of topics, from the potential curative qualities of gold for leukemia patients to political satire in America. They invite postdoctoral, graduate, undergraduate and even motivated high school students from the neighborhood to work alongside them, regardless of their field, whether it’s the natural or social sciences, the liberal or performing arts.
We encourage all our students to participate in our wide-ranging research opportunities, a scholarly endeavor that allows you to grow, expand your horizons, meet new challenges, acquire critical skills, and pose new questions that will define and shape our faculty and students as scholars of the future.
Faculty Research
In 2010–11, our faculty secured more than $10 million in external funding for research and program implementation from such prestigious organizations as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Their research has resulted in Pulitzer Prizes, award-winning books and films, breakthroughs in the fields of science and medicine, and articles in journals worldwide.
Student Research
Every year our students garner an average of 10 fellowships and scholarships of national prestige. In addition, thanks to an endowment by alumna Florence Rosen ’59, 10 new fellowships of $5,000 each were established in 2011. These fellowships allow you to execute projects that intrigue you and are the first step in positioning you as a leading authority in your chosen field. Our students have also won fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Fulbright grants and Beinecke scholarships, and three of our students have won perhaps the most prestigious honor of all to continue their research — the Rhodes Scholarship.
