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• Brooklyn College Mourns the Passing of Professor Moshe Augenstein

  April 6, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | Computer Information Science

  The Brooklyn College community mourns the passing of Moshe Augenstein, a professor and undergraduate deputy chair in the Computer and Information Science department, who has passed away due to complications from COVIID-19. He had been at the college for 45 years. He joined the Department of Computer and Information Science while completing his Ph.D. Afterward, he became an assistant professor. He wrote several texts on data structures in various languages. He also consulted with various companies involved in sales, manufacturing and importing. 

• RESPOND BC Exhibit Requests Art Submissions by March 20

  March 2, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | RESPOND BC, Art, Culture, Politics, Tow Center, Brooklyn College Library, Art Department, Exhibit

  The Brooklyn College Library and Art Department are asking students, faculty, and staff to submit art—in any media, including performance—that conveys personal, social, cultural, or political positions for the RESPOND BC exhibit, which will run at the Brooklyn College Library and the Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts from April 17 through 30. The submission deadline is March 20. To be considered, please e-mail respondbc@brooklyn.cuny.edu and cc professordadams@gmail.com with your name, title, a brief statement about the work, the media, and dimensions/duration, and include either a jpg, pdf, doc, mp3 file, or video link of your submission. 

• Faculty and Staff Reading Group Spring 2020 Schedule

  February 13, 2020 | Events | Faculty, Staff, Reading Group, Winona LaDuke, Wolfe Institute

  All faculty and staff are invited to selected readings of Winona LaDuke's Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005), performed by Brooklyn College Professor Conor Tomás Reed. LaDuke is the Hess Scholar in Residence.

  The reading group will meet from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in 283 Library on the following Thursdays: February 27, March 19, and April 23.

  Members can pick up a free copy of Recovering the Sacred from the Wolfe offices in 2231 Boylan Hall. Participants are encouraged to attend the Hess events during March 16–20 for the opportunity to discuss LaDuke's work with the author herself.

  RSVP at wolfeinstitute@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

• Celebrating Black History Month/Kickoff, February 6, noon

  January 21, 2020 | Events | Black History Month

  The Office of Diversity and Equity Programs invites you to help kick off Black History Month! Join President Michelle J. Anderson and Chief Diversity Officer Anthony Brown in the Tow Center for a program highlighted by remarks from Prudence Cumberbatch, associate professor and chair of Africana Studies; a poetry reading by Rosamond King, associate professor of English and director of the Wolfe Institute; and a performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Assistant Professor and Director of Choruses Malcolm Merriweather and students from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.

  Thursday, February 6, 2020
  Noon
  Grand Lobby, Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

• Brooklyn College Mourns the Passing of Robert Viscusi, Professor Emeritus

  January 21, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | English Department, Wolfe Institute

  Robert Viscusi, a professor emeritus who also served as the executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities from 1980 to 2016, died on Sunday, January 19, after a battle with cancer.

  Viscusi, who taught in the English Department, co-founded the Italian American Writers Association in 1991 and was known as a great advocate of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College (CUNY). He published widely, including a collection of sonnets, Ellis Island (Bordighera Press, 2012), Astoria: A Novel (Guernica Editions, 1995) which won a 1996 American Book Award, and a critical magnum opus, Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006).

  He earned a bachelor's degree from Fordham College, a master's degree from Cornell University, and a doctorate from New York University.

   

• 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.