Our alumni include actors James Franco and Jimmy Smits, California Senator Barbara Boxer, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Brooklyn College has produced three Rhodes Scholars, two in the past six years.

The men’s basketball team won back-to-back CUNYAC championships in 2009 and 2010.

Our campus is home to one of the largest flocks of monk parakeets in the city.

Brooklyn College is one of the only CUNY campuses with year-round flowers.

There are 16 elm trees on campus that are more than 70 years old.

Brooklyn College owns the earliest known painting of Walt Whitman.

Our Department of Anthropology and Archaeology is currently working in Barbuda, Iceland, Israel and Serbia.

The widely praised literary journal Electric Literature was founded by two of our M.F.A. graduates.

Former President Bill Clinton visited the campus in 1994 to announce the formation of his social program, AmeriCorps.

Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in the U.S. Congress, graduated from Brooklyn College in 1946.

In 2003, the Princeton Review ranked Brooklyn College as having the most beautiful campus in the country.

We use only certified “green” products and materials on campus.

Brooklyn College was the first coeducational public liberal arts institution in New York City.

Our campus often doubles as a set for such productions as Rescue Me and The Good Wife.

Brooklyn College ranks 19th nationally in the number of undergraduates who have gone on to receive a Ph.D.

Eighty-nine students received their diplomas at the college’s first Commencement Exercises.

Acclaimed author Gloria Naylor graduated from Brooklyn College in 1981.

Secretary of State and former First Lady Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address in 1995.

Two hundred fish from the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center made national history when they spent five days on the space station Mir.