Barbara Aronstein Black, the first woman to head an Ivy League law school (Columbia), was a member of the Class of 1953.

Our recent Rosen Fellowship winners have conducted research on adolescent HIV patients in India, educated midwives in rural Nigeria, and studied with a renowned composer in Argentina.

For more than 30 years, our Film Department has been showcasing our students' works at an annual film festival.

We have an active Greek life on campus, with nearly 20 fraternities and sororities.

The shovel used by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to break ground on our campus in 1935 is housed in our library's archives.

Brooklyn College is one of only 33 U.S. colleges and universities that receive support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.

Students produce and host their own programs on our campus radio station.

Our Diana Rogovin Davidow Speech Language Hearing Center is a clinical education site for CUNY doctoral audiology students.

Benjamin Ward '60 was the first black New York City Police Commissioner.

The Brooklyn College Library holds a collection of more than 5,000 rare books and journals about Ethiopia and the horn of Africa.

Diverse magazine has ranked Brooklyn College one of the 100 most diverse academic institutions in the United States.

The bell of the USS Brooklyn, the light cruiser that served during World War II, can be found in our library.

Brooklyn College is the host of the newly created Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, a top-tier research center.

In 2013, the Brooklyn College cheerleaders brought home their seventh City University of New York Athletic Conference Championship.

Oscar Handlin '34 won the Pulitzer Prize for History when he was only 37 years old.

Scholars Program students receive up to $4,000 per year for their undergraduate study as well as a laptop.

The women's soccer team racked up 10 shutouts against their competition in 2013.

In 1991, Brooklyn College established "sociology of children" as a new field within the American Sociological Association.

Our Lee Silverman Voice Treatment program aims to improve the voice and speech of individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Obba Babatundé '74 was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in Miss Evers' Boys.