Shirley Chisholm '46 was honored by the U.S. Postal Service on a stamp in its Black Heritage series in 2014.

There are more than 38,000 Brooklyn College alumni households in Brooklyn.

Adolph S. Clausi '43 was part of development teams that created Tang, Shake 'n Bake, Jell-O instant pudding, Country Time lemonade, and Cool Whip.

During World War II, Brooklyn College students could work for $1.60 per day at our own farm-labor camp in Dutchess County.

Patrice Rankine '92 is the dean of the University of Richmond's School of Arts and Science.

Julia Glawe '89 is the executive director of the Milwaukee Ballet.

More than 300 students studied abroad in 2015–16.

The Brooklyn College cheerleaders won their third consecutive—and ninth overall—CUNYAC Championship in 2015.

Pianist Mike Garson '70 has worked with David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Our Graduate School of Cinema is the only one in the United States located on a working film lot.

Edith Luchins '42 was the first female professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Since 2006, Brooklyn College has hired more than 200 new faculty members.

About 40 students and recent graduates were hired at KPMG and Ernst & Young in 2015.

Students who successfully complete our Coordinated B.A.-M.D. Program automatically continue their medical education at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, one of the nation's leading urban medical centers.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a member of the Class of 1951.

The movie "Serpico" is based on the biography of Frank Serpico '36, an NYPD officer who testified against police corruption in 1971.

Maynard Solomon '50 was a co-founder of Vanguard Records.

In 2016, Assistant Professor William Esber of the Department of Psychology was awarded $249,000 from the National Institutes of Health to research how the brain processes changes in stimulus salience.

The Brooklyn College Conservatory Choir performed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Conservatory of Music students can enroll in an internship whereby they perform for ailing and recovering patients in New York Methodist Hospital.