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• Professional Development Series: Goals and Growth, December 11, 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

  November 24, 2019 | Events | Professional Development

  Brooklyn College cares about the success and growth of its team. That is why the senior vice president for finance and administration has launched a new professional development program.

  The first event is "Goals and Growth," an interactive lecture by Doris Bien-Aime '13 in which you are the focus for a change. As a brand and educational strategist, Bien-Aime will share her well-received approach to all things: "Our goals are attached to our understanding of ourselves in relation to the world around us. Lead a more purpose-driven career and life."

  Wednesday, December 11, 2019
  11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
  Location: TBD

  Register for the Event

   

• Brooklyn's Best Sushi Sampling, November 13, 11 a.m.–2 p.m.

  November 13, 2019 | Events | Sushi Tasting, Metropolitan Café

  

  Brooklyn’s Best Sushi Sampling

  Join us on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to sample some of Brooklyn's best sushi, presented by Sushi Zan.

  Sushi Zan prepares sushi fresh daily at the Boylan Hall Cafe. Try on eof our specialty rolls or ask Sushi Zan for a custom roll made fresh to order.
• Graduate Student Glennon Bythrow Receives Provost’s Alfred W. Alberts Award in Biochemistry

  October 14, 2019 | Student Success | Biochemistry, Graduate Student, Scholarships

  Graduate student Glennon Bythrow received the provost's Alfred W. Alberts Award in Biochemistry. Alberts '53 discovered lovastatin, the first of the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. Each year the award goes to an outstanding graduate student in biology, chemistry, or biochemistry.

• Biology Professor Juergen Polle Featured at Annual Algae Conference

  October 13, 2019 | Faculty and Staff News | Biology, Biomass, Algae

  Biology professor Juergen Polle moderated and spoke in the session "Genetic Modification: A Key to Improving Algae Feasibility?" at the 13th annual Algae Biomass Summit in Orlando, Florida, in September. The summit has become the go-to conference for commercial algae producers, the scientific community, and algae product developers that are unlocking the potential of algae.

• Graduate Student Avdar San Receives Provost’s Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences

  October 12, 2019 | Student Success | Biology, RNA, Graduate Student, Scholarships

  Graduate student Avdar San received the Early Research Initiative Provost's Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Sciences. The $5,000 award recognizes academic interests and achievement and is intended to help support research activities. Avdar, a Ph.D. student in biology, is studying the interaction of RNA with the RNA binding protein, Nucleolin.

• Biology Graduate Student Manal Farhat Receives Provost’s Estelle and James T. Ramey Scholarship

  October 10, 2019 | Student Success | Biology, Graduate Student, Scholarships

  Biology graduate student Manal Farhat received the provost's Estelle and James T. Ramey Scholarship.

• HNS Professor Gets NIH Grant

  October 9, 2019 | Faculty and Staff News | Health, Nutrition, NIH, Cardiovascular, Latinx

  Melissa Fuster Rivera, assistant professor in the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department, was awarded an NIH mentored research grant to help fund her research on interventions to improve cardiovascular health in Latinx communities through restaurants.

• Biology Chair to Moderate Panel at American Society of Microbiology Conference

  October 6, 2019 | Faculty and Staff News | Biology, Microbiology, Pipeline

  Peter Lipke, chair of the Biology Department, will moderate a session at the American Society of Microbiology's annual microbe conference in Chicago next June. The session is titled "The Leaks in the Pipeline: Where Are the 'Qualified Candidates'?"

• Three Literary Alums Shortlisted for the National Book Award

  October 3, 2019 | Alumni Achievement | Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction, Author, Poetry

  Greg Grandin '92, along with M.F.A. in creative writing alumni Helen Phillips '07, and Ocean Vuong '12, and are all shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards—Phillips for her novel The Need; Vuong for On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous; and Grandin for The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.

• Political Science Professor Pens Forthcoming Book on Vietnam and the Third Indochina War

  September 30, 2019 | Faculty and Staff News | Vietnam, Cambodia, Indochina, Soviet Union, Cold War, World History, Political Science, Foreign Policy

  Assistant Professor Kosal Path, of the Political Science Department, has a new book out in February: Vietnam's Strategic Thinking During the Third Indochina War (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). The book explores why the nation's leadership first decided to invade Cambodia in 1978, then shifted its approach from military confrontation to economic reform in the 1980s.