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Conservatory of Music Associate Professor Johanna Devaney Awarded Computer Science Directorate Grant.

November 22, 2022 | | Music, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning

This project is motivated by the idea that humans are able to learn with greater efficiency than machine learning models, in large part because they learn not just from exposure, but also from domain knowledge, which includes guided practice and codified knowledge. For example, in music, people learn by both playing their instruments and classroom study of music theory. This work will develop new approaches for integrating domain knowledge into deep learning models. It will create models that can be trained with less data as well as mitigate data biases.

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228910

Tammie Cumming Interviews Dr. R. Todd Benson, Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the COACHE Survey at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

November 22, 2022 | | Education

As part of the Next Generation Series, Brooklyn College's Dr. Tammie Cumming,

Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President Institutional Effectiveness, interviewed Dr. R. Todd Benson, Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the COACHE Survey at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Web Bites video series, which provides a platform for discussion of timely topics, best practices, and new approaches to emerging challenges in higher education assessment, accreditation, and policy. Each moderated video discussion features assessment specialists, educators, and higher education leaders.

For over ten years, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) has surveyed full-time faculty at over 250 colleges and universities, providing unique insights into the faculty experience and job satisfaction. Dr. Benson leads this national effort. In this lively discussion of the COACHE survey, Dr. Benson sheds light on gaining faculty buy-in for survey participation, the importance of transparency and follow-through in establishing this buy-in, and the changes in the working environment in higher education due to the pandemic.

“It was an honor to have Dr. Benson as our guest for this Web Bites episode. COACHE has made significant contributions in assessing faculty experience and faculty campus climate,” said M. David Miller, professor of research and evaluation methodology at the University of Florida and cohost of the NGA Web Bites. “This work has allowed for many institutions to identify focus areas and make marked improvements in their faculty’s professional lives.”

“Dr. Benson has seen firsthand that it is well worth the effort to administer a survey in such a manner that results in a respondent pool that is representative of the faculty population. This helps faculty realize the value of taking the COACHE survey with results that are actionable,” said Tammie Cumming, associate provost for institutional effectiveness at Brooklyn College and NGA Web Bite cohost. “His recommendation for communicating the results, action plans, and progress is helpful in ensuring that the data were used to prioritize efforts to improve faculty satisfaction and support for professional advancement.”

The NGA Web Bites video series explores accreditation, assessment, research, policy, and other important topics of interest in higher education. For more, visit www.nextgenerationassessment.com.

For more information regarding COACHE, visit https://coache.gse.harvard.edu/.

Assistant Professor of Marketing Ngoc Cindy Pham Publishes Article on U.S. Midterm Elections From the Perspective of a Vietnamese American

Nov. 18, 2022 | | US Midterms, US Elections, Immigrant Perspective

Assistant Professor of Marketing Ngoc Cindy Pham wrote a first-person perspective on the U.S. midterm elections where she offers her thoughts on how the election played out for the Brooklyn College campus. “There are two distinct camps: The group of professors and staff who support the Democrats and their candidates for their pro-Union policies…[and] other school officials…[who] announced they would vote for Mr. Zeldin of the Republican Party.” The original article is written in Vietnamese.

Professor of English & American Studies Joseph Entin and Alumni Clare Callahan (09’) Co-Edit “How American Literature Understands Poverty”

November 16, 2022 | | American Literature, Poverty

Education Policy Expert David Bloomfield Weighs in on K-12 Education Controversies on the CUNY Graduate Center’s The Thought Project Podcast

November 9, 2022 | | Education, Policy, CUNY Graduate Center

Professor David Bloomfield, a professor of education leadership, law, and policy at Brooklyn College and a member of the Urban Education faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center, joins The Thought Project podcast to discuss what’s ahead for K-12 education in a time of deep political division.

Schools have long been places for students to learn and to learn how to become citizens. What happens, though, when parents and lawmakers on the right and left disagree about fundamental rights and freedoms and what it means to be a citizen?

Recently, the Burbank Unified School District banned the novels To Kill a Mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, from school reading lists. Approximately 33 states have introduced anti-transgender legislation that disproportionately targets transgender youth and restricts their access to sports, health care, even bathrooms. Bloomfield asserts that the attacks on LGBTQ youth could be curbed by the application of Title IX, which the Biden administration is currently rewriting.

Education has made headlines in New York, too. A New York Times investigative story sparked a recent ruling from the state department of education ordering the city to work with a large yeshiva in Brooklyn to ensure that it introduced secular instruction and complied with state standards, which it was failing to meet. Bloomfield has commented on the issue over the past several years, calling it a classic case of “education rights.”

Bloomfield also weighs in on the contentious reductions of the New York City Department of Education budget. He calls the cuts a “green eyeshade decision” that essentially ignored schools as community hubs that served multiple purposes during the height of the pandemic.

Listen in on this timely and informative conversation.

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/professor-david-bloomfield-education-political-football

Anthony Brown and Tammie Cumming to Present on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Middle States Commission on Higher Education Annual Conference

November 3, 2022 | | Middle States, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Anthony Brown, Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President, and Tammie Cumming, Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, will present at a pre-conference workshop, “A Multilayered Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education 2022 Annual Conference: Empowering Higher Education from December 7-9, in Philadelphia, PA.

https://web.cvent.com/event/31e1fcf4-d510-4f3a-b868-0c68151d8632/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce

Associate Provost Tammie Cumming Interviews Linda Suskie as Part of Next Generation Assessment Series

November 2, 2022 | | Higher Education, Assessment

Linda Suskie, higher education assessment consultant and a pillar of the assessment community, was interviewed for November's Next Generation Assessment Series by Tammie Cumming, associate provost and assistant vice president for institutional effectiveness at Brooklyn College and M. David Miller (University of Florida). You can watch the interview here; https://youtu.be/dP22JfuzZEk).

LGBTQ+ Resource Center Resource Center Awarded $40,000 for Programing

October 26, 2022 | | LGBTQ+, Resource Center, Trans Awareness

The CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium has awarded the Brooklyn College’s LGBTQ+ Resource Center $40,000 for the 2022-23 academic year for events and other support programing initiatives.

The funding has already helped support several events this year and will fund many others, including Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil for Trans Awareness Week to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lily Pond at the East Campus Quad. This vigil brings awareness to the hate and violence perpetrated against trans individuals, both historically and currently. A vigil will be held on campus and a guest speaker will remember those lost and provide context during the post-Roe v. Wade era with new threats to gender-affirming health care.

To learn more about the Center, go here: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/lgbtqcenter.php?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=LGBTQ&utm_campaign=LGBTQResourceCenter

Professor of Screenwriting Debra Kirschner's film 'The Tollbooth' is now streaming on Tubi.

October 26, 2022 | | Film, Screenwriting, Cinema

School of Education’s Sonia Murrow’s Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond Wins Critics Choice Book Award

October 19, 2022 | | Education, American History

Professor of Sociology Carolina Bank Muñoz Co-Authors A People's Guide to New York City

October 18, 2022 | | Sociology, New York City, Social Movements

Professor of History Brigid O’Keeffe Publishes New Book ‘The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise’ (Bloomsbury, 2022)

October 18, 2022 | | Soviet Union, Ethnicity, Empire, History

In her new work, 'The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise' (Bloomsbury, 2022), Professor O’Keeffe is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. With a focus on individual life stories, it explores how the diverse peoples of the Soviet Union experienced the potential advantages and disadvantages of Soviet ethnic politics. It also explains how and why the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 along markedly national lines, leading to the birth of a variety of new nation-states – including Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

Political Science Professor Janet Elise Johnson an Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) 2022 Heldt Prize Winner

October 13, 2022 | | Gender Studies, awards

Political Science Professor Janet Elise Johnson, a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia along with Katalin Fábiá and Mara Lazda, won an AWSS 2022 Heldt Prize for best book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian women’s and gender studies.

AWSS said about the work: “Unparalleled in its usefulness for the fields of study indicated in the title of this prize, the Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia assembles a dazzling collection of high-level articles into a coherent and well-formulated whole. Excellent editing permits the enormous breadth of topics introduced here to work both individually and in concert. Readers are treated to sensitive and eye-opening discussions of differences and similarities across a region which features not only different landscapes and languages, but also widely diverse imperial histories and religious traditions. A powerhouse of research on important topics, this volume will be a tremendous resource for years to come.”

You can learn more about Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia here:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Gender-in-Central-Eastern-Europe-and-Eurasia/Fabian-Johnson-Lazda/p/book/9781138347755

You can learn more about the awards here: https://awsshome.org/awards/heldt-prizes/

Professor Alexandra Juhasz Coauthors “We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production” (Duke University Press) the History, Present, and Future of AIDS Through Thirteen Short Conversations

Sept. 28, 2022 | | AIDS, History

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses. They establish multiple timelines of the epidemic, offering six foundational periodizations of AIDS culture, tracing how attention to the crisis has waxed and waned from the 1980s to the present.

Business Management Professor Robert Bell Published Article on Biden's Energy Law

Sept. 22, 2022 | | Energy, Climate, Business Management

Robert Bell published an article about President Biden's energy transformation law, the Inflation Reduction Act titled “Why Biden’s Renewable Energy Law Just Might Save All Of Us From Global Warming” in Le Monde, the French newspaper of record on September 17, 2022. Bell gave a presentation on the same subject at the E5T Summer Conference at La Rochelle, France, on August 31. Here is a link to his presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rUQE3qXsk4&t=15s

Brooklyn College Associate Professor, Helen Georgas, Contributes to "Theater in a Post-Truth World: Text, Politics, and Performance" (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Sept. 21, 2022 | | Is This A Room, Theater, Post-Truth

In the recently published book "Theater in a Post-Truth World: Text, Politics, and Performance" (Bloomsbury, 2022) that examines how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance. Associate professor Helen Georgas has contributed a chapter that closely examines of reality and "truth" in Brooklyn College alum Tina Satter's verbatim staging of an FBI transcript in "Is This A Room."

Brooklyn College Faculty Present at "Are We Ready? NYC Resilience and Sustainability a Decade After Superstorm Sandy" Event at Graduate Center

Sept. 21, 2022 | | Sustainability, Graduate Center

Tammy Lewis and Brooklyn College professors Brett Branco, Jennifer Cherrier, Peter Groffman, and Mike Menser presented at CUNY's Media Conference, "Are We Ready? NYC Resilience and Sustainability a Decade After Superstorm Sandy" on September 16th at the Advanced Science Research Center. The day-long press briefing explored what the greater NYC area has learned, where we are, and where we need to be 10 years after Superstorm Sandy.

https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/event/are-we-ready-nyc-resilience-and-sustainability-a-decade-after-superstorm-sandy/

Katie Rose Hejtmanek's Work on Anxiety Featured in Anthropology News

Sept. 20, 2022 | | Anthropology, CrossFit, Anxiety, Ethnography

Associate Provost Tammie Cumming teams with a colleague to interview Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, President of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities for the Next Generation Assessment Web Bites series.

Sept. 14, 2022 | | Education, Accreditation

Next Generation Assessment (NGA) Web Bites co-hosts Dr. Tammie Cumming and Dr. M. David Miller interview Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, President of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) as part of a special Web Bites series on accreditors and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

In a timely conversation about NWCCU’s role in emphasizing DEI for its accredited institutions, Dr. Ramaswamy reflects on the discussions that NWCCU has had with its accredited institutions to address DEI and highlights the resources and partnerships NWCCU has developed to support these DEI efforts. Dr. Ramaswamy has given his "sincere thanks to Tammie and David for hosting this important conversation".

To watch please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op0SeTcaeXI

Brooklyn College Professor Viraht Sahni Celebrates the Release of Her New Book, Schrödinger Theory of Electrons: Complementary Perspectives (Springer International Publishing)

Sept. 14, 2022 | | New Publication, Physics, Schrodinger

Biology Professor Luis Quadri Co-Authors New Article and Earns Research Grant for Work on “Mycobacterium abscessus”

Sept. 7, 2022 | | Biology, Grant, Research

Brooklyn College Biology Professor Luis Quadri co-athured a research article on “Mycobacterium abscessus,” an environmental mycobacterial Pathogen Causing Chronic Pulmonary Disease. Several Ph.D. students are also co-authors of the article. You can read it here https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/11/9/953. Quadri was also awarded a $20,000 CUNY-ASRC Seed Program 2022 Grant to continue the research reported in the article. To learn about the Quadri research, visit:

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/luis-quadri.

Assistant Professor of Marketing Business Management Ngoc Cindy Ph Presents at Two Summer Events

Sept. 7, 2022 | | Marketing, Russia, Ukraine, Crypto

Ngoc Cindy Pham and her student won a $2000 grant from BC Mentoring and Research program for their project “The negative Impacts of Russian – Ukraine war on their citizens,” which was presented at the Brooklyn College Undergrad Research Summer 2022 Exhibition on August 4, 2022. Professor Pham and her co-author also presented separate research titled “Crypto Marketing: What are NFTs? Classification of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in marketing applications” at the American Marketing Association (AMA) Summer Conference from August 12-14 in Chicago.

Koppelman Faculty Published in Journal of Intercultural Management & Ethics and Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics

Sept. 7, 2022 | | Business, Shareholder, Ethics

Clifton Clarke had his research article titled “Protecting Shareholder Value: Unethical Corporate Leadership Threatens the American Dream” published in the Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics by the Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism. Hershey Friedman and Clifton Clarke had their research article titled "Deadly consequences of emphasizing profits over human life: How corporate greed has caused the death of millions" accepted for publication in the Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics by the Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism.

Economics Professor Nadia Doytch Publishes Two Articles

Sept. 7, 2022 | | Economics, Finance, Ecology

Nadia Doytch and her co-authors have their research article titled "The impact of financial development on ecological footprints of nations" published in the Journal of Environmental Management by Elsevier. Doytch and her co-author also had another research article titled "Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Innovation Efforts: Evidence from India" accepted for publication at the Journal of Economics and Business by Elsevier.

Brooklyn College's Professor Emerita Sara Reguer Celebrates the Release of Her New Book, Onto Center Stage: The Biblical Woman (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022).

Sept. 6, 2022 | | Religion, Biblical Text, Women

On the heels of her well-received book Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922 (Academic Studies Press, 2020). Professor Emerita for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sara Reguer turns her focus to biblical women, bringing them imaginatively from the background to the forefront with Onto Center Stage: The Biblical Woman (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022).

Visiting Scholar Joins the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay

Sep. 1, 2022 | | Jamaica Bay Project, Science, New Faculty

Jonathan Hallemeier is a visiting scholar who joined the Jamaica Bay Project last spring. He earned a Ph.D. in integrative conservation and anthropology in 2021 from the University of Georgia. He then relocated to New York City where he works as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) postdoctoral researcher with the Engineer Research and Development Center of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

https://www.heclab.org/jonathan-hallemeier.html

Viraht Sahni, Professor of Physics, Publishes New Book “Schrödinger Theory of Electrons: Complementary Perspectives”

Aug. 24, 2022 | | Physics, Quantum Theory, Electronic Structure

Professor Sahni presents a complementary perspective to Schrödinger theory of electrons in an electromagnetic field, one that does not appear in any text on quantum mechanics. Schrödinger Theory of Electrons: Complementary Perspectives (Springer Tracts on Modern Physics 285) presents ideas that reach beyond the traditional understanding of quantum theory. The book is written in a pedagogical style accessible to senior undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in the area of electronic structure.

Sandra Kingan, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Releases New Book that Uniquely Blends Graph Theory and Network Science for Mathematicians and Data Science Professionals

Aug. 18, 2022 | | Books, Mathematics, Data Science, Graph Theory, Social Network Analysis, Mathematical Biology

Graphs and Networks contains modern applications for graph theorists and a host of useful theorems for network scientists. The volume begins with applications to biology and the social and political sciences and gradually takes a more theoretical direction toward graph structure theory and combinatorial optimization. A background in linear algebra, probability, and statistics provides the proper frame of reference. Topics include minors, connectomes, trees, distance, spectral graph theory, similarity, centrality, small-world networks, scale-free networks, graph algorithms, Eulerian circuits, Hamiltonian cycles, coloring, higher connectivity, planar graphs, flows, matchings, and coverings.

School of Education Faculty Present at American Education Research Association Conference

April 29, 2022 | | AERA, Bilingual Education, Teacher Prep, Educator Activism, Pedagogy

Several professors from the School of Education presented at the annual American Education Research Association conference, the largest gathering of education researchers, in late April. Associate Professor and Chair Laura Ascenzi-Moreno discussed bilingual education and teacher preparation. Associate Professor Beth Ferholt discussed her research on historical and cultural perspectives on care and compassionate in educational settings. Associate Professor of Sonia Murrow presented her work on the historical contexts of educator activism and educational development. And Professor Deborah Shanley and adjuncts Malgorzata Powietrzynska and Linda Noble presented research on well-being and equity and the importance of valuing humanity as education.

History Professor Brigid O’Keeffe Wins Best Book Award for Publication on Esperanto Language

April 22, 2022 | | Esperanto, Russia, Ab Imperio, Revolutionary Russia

Hitchcock Institute to Honor Distinguished Professor Emeritus Tania León at Graduate Center

April 8, 2022 | | Tania León, Pulitzer Prize, Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music

The Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music will host a two-day symposium celebrating her 2021 Pulitzer Prize win for "Stride" and her recent retirement from Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. The events, sponsored by the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund, will include a screening of archival footage of Leon at work, panels featuring her colleagues and former students, as well as performances of her pieces. The symposium on April 14 and 15, will be live-streamed. Register on Eventbrite.

Shemeka Brathwaite, Head of NYC Men Teach program, Receives Scholarships for Work with Students, Community

March 18, 2022 | | NYC Men Teach, Talent Development, Philanthropy, Diversity, Education

The NYC Men Teach Director, Shemeka Brathwaite, has received two scholarships for her work with students and in the community. A doctoral student in the Community-Based Leadership program at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, Brathwaite received the 2022 ATD Student Scholarship: John Coné Membership Scholarship. She will receive one full year of Associate Professional in Talent Development Professional-Plus membership and is welcomed as a member of the association’s higher-education community. The scholarship is awarded to students with dedication to talent development. Brathwaite also received the 2021 National Speakers Association Foundation Nido Qubein Scholarship, for students committed to philanthropy, education, entrepreneurial spirit and diversity, for which she was awarded $5,000.

Feirstein Welcomes Second Filmmaker-in-Residence

March 18, 2022 | | Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Stuart Dryburgh, Cinematography

Professor of Finance Sunil Mohanty’s Article on Trading Disasters Named ‘Most Downloaded in Last 90 Days’ on Journal of Commodity Markets

March 7, 2022 | | Trading, Commodity, Disasters

Professor of Economics Nadia Doytch Moderated Roundtable Discussion on Imports

March 7, 2022 | | Trade, Import Reporting, Philippines, Statistics

Associate Professor of Business Management Toby Birnbaum and Professor Hershey Friedman’s Research on Diversity and Leadership Featured in Science Conference

March 7, 2022 | | Gender, Leadership, Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (SEDSI) Conference

Professor of Business Management Hershey Friedman and Adjunct Lecturer Murray Mizrachi Publish Research on Leadership

March 4, 2022 | | Business, Humanity-Centered Leadership, Conscious Leadership

Associate Professor John Paul Publishes on Global Courts and Corruption

March 4, 2022 | | Global Courts, Corruption, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

History Professor Michael Rawson Publishes Book on Western Growth and Environmental Crisis

Feb. 18, 2022 | | Climate Change, Western Grown, Environmental Crisis, Expansion

Assistant Health and Nutrition Sciences Professor Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky Receives CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant

February 10, 2022 | | Diabetes, Public Health, Caribbean Community, Black Community, New York City, Health Disparities

Assistant Professor Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky of the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences is the recipient of a 2022 CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant for her proposal of a community-based participatory diabetes prevention program for Black Caribbean communities in New York City. Horlyck-Romanovsky is a public health nutrition professional who is committed to addressing intra-ethnic health disparities among populations of African descent. The one-year grant provides nearly $40,000 for the project.

Art Professor Jennifer McCoy’s NFT Game Premiered at Sundance

Jan. 21, 2022 | | NFTs, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Sundance Film Festival, The Inside World

Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul Interviewed by Library of Congress on Reimagining Haiti

Jan. 21, 2022 | | Haiti, Blackness, Politics, Freedom, Human Dignity, Anti-Imperialism, Saint Paul

Professor Emerita Sara Reguer’s Churchill Book Discussed by Jewish Historical Society of England

Jan. 21, 2022 | | Churchill, Middle East

Professor Nadia Doytch Publishes on Renewable Energy, Consumption, and Foreign Direct Investments

December 17, 2021 | | Renewable Energy, Consumption, Foreign Direct Investments

Assistant Professor of Economics Nadia Doytch co-authored a research article titled “Economic Growth and Renewable and Non-Renewable Consumption: Evidence from the U.S. States” published in Renewable Energy in November. She also co-authored a research article titled “Does Transitioning towards Renewable Energy Accelerate Economic Growth? An Analysis of Sectoral Growth for a Dynamic Panel of Countries” published in Energy in November. Additionally, she co-authored a research article titled “Tracking Greenfield FDI During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis by Sectors” published in Foreign Trade Review in November.

History Professor Michael Rawson Publishes Book on Western Growth and the Climate Crisis

December 10 2021 | | Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Western Growth

Art Exhibition Honors Assistant Professor of Marketing Ngoc (Cindy) Pham

December 2, 2021 | | Ngoc (Cindy) Pham, Joseph R. Fraia, Time Art, Vietnam

Assistant Professor of Marketing Ngoc (Cindy) Pham is being honored in an art exhibition on display at the prestigious West Village gallery Time Art. The exhibit, “Strength and Grace - A Tale of Two Worlds,” is a tale about the meaning of the American dream. The artist, Joseph R. Fraia, calls the project a visual representation of a contemporary heroine’s journey from the cradle of tradition and family in the Far East, through the challenges of becoming aware of herself in the West and the final manifestation of her true nature. Pham is a native of Vietnam. The exhibit is on display December 9 - 12.

Assistant Professor of Business Management Laura Rifkin Publishes Research on Social Connectedness

December 2, 2021 | | Social Connectedness, Psychological Distance, Contagion Threat, Psychological Connectedness

Jason Moore, Assistant Professor of Television, Radio and Emerging Media Wins Best Multiplayer Experience at Raindance Immersive Festival

Nov. 24, 2021 | | Metaverse, MetaMovie, Virtual Reality, Cinema, Video Games, Immersive Theatre

Assistant Professor of Finance Monsoo Kang Publishes Research on Corporate Investment and Market Frictions

Nov. 24, 2021 | | Finance, Corporate Investment, Market Frictions

Women’s Basketball Coach Alex Lang Scores 300th Career Win

November 12, 2021 | | Women’s Basketball, CUNYAC

Director of Student Activities Earns Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership

November 12, 2021 | | Higher Education Leadership, HBCUs, Black Male Students

Sociology Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul Spoke at Harvard University on U.S. Immigration Policy Towards Haitians

October 29, 2021 | | Haiti, Immigration, Immigration Policy

Assistant Professor of Accounting Min Liu Pens Research on Equity Investments and Audit Quality

October 22, 2021 | | Risk, Equity Investment, Audits, Engagement Partner

Min Liu has her research article titled " What Information in Financial Statements Could be Used to Predict the Risk of Equity Investment?” accepted for publication in Journal of Risk and Financial Management. She co-authored a research article titled " Does Disclosure of Audit Engagement Partner’s Name Improve Audit Quality? A Difference-in-Difference Analysis,” also accepted for publication in Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Assistant Professor of Accounting Yoshie Lord Has R&D Paper Accepted for Publication

October 22, 2021 | | Research and Development, Firm Efficiency

Assistant Professor of Finance Mina Glambosky Pens Piece on CEO Salaries and Operating Performance

October 15, 2021 | | CEO Nominal Salary, Firm Operating Performance, Corporate Governance

Associate Professor of Accounting John Paul Has Research on Global Corruption and the Courts Accepted for Publication

October 15, 2021 | | Global Corruption, Courts

CIS Professor Neng-Fa Zhou Leads Team to Win Programming Contest

October 5, 2021 | | Picat, Programming Contest, Computer Sciences

Associate Professor of Business Management Viju Raghupathi Publishes on Healthcare Resource Allocation

September 30, 2021 | | Healthcare Resource Allocation, Health Status

Assistant Professor of Accounting Yoshie Lord Publishes on Short-Lived Firms

September 30, 2021 | | Accounting, Accounting Firms

Associate Professor Sandra Kingan, of the Mathematics Department, Publishes Three Research Papers

September 30, 2021 | | Matroids, Monarchs, Three-Connected Graphs, Graph Theory

Mathematics Associate Professor Sandra Kingan has published three research papers: Finding monarchs in excluded minor classes of matroids in the Australasian Journal of Mathematics; H-Critical Matroids in the Journal Graphs and Combinatorics; and Constructing minimally 3-connected graphs in the Journal Algorithms. She also co-edited a book, Research Trends in Graph Theory (SpringerNature, 2021).

Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education Xia Li Hosts Conference on Mathematics Education

September 30, 2021 | | Mathematics Education, Early Childhood Education

Associate Professor Xia Li, of the Early Childhood/Art Education (ECAE) department, with full support from Professor Jacqueline Shannon, hosted a conference on “Math through Storytelling: Engage the Whole Child in Math Learning through Wonders.” Four ECAE graduate students presented their use of oral stories teaching math concepts to young children. More than 80 Brooklyn College students, alumni, and other educators from New York City and other countries attended the conference.

Associate Professor of Business Management Barbara Lewis Publishes on the Clinician/Physician COVID-19 Wars

September 24, 2021 | | COVID-19, Public Health

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics Ka Wai Terence Fung Publishes on Stock and Bond Joint Pricing and More

September 24, 2021 | |

Associate Professor of Finance Stanley Peterburgsky Publishes Article on Portfolio Performance

September 24, 2021 | | ETF Pairs, Portfolio Performance, Finance Leveraged ETF Pairs, Portfoliio Performance, Finance

Adjunct Political Science Professor Anthony Gronowicz Pens Book on History of U.S. Foreign Policy

September 24, 2021 | | Political Science, US Foreign Policy

Sociology Professors Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis Pen Article on Gentrification and Environmental Privilege

September 17, 2021 | | Climate change, Gentrification, Urban Sustainability, Coastal Resilience, Climate Justice, Environmental Privilege

Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Kenneth Gould Publishes Article on Link Between Pandemics and Climate Change

| | Climate Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Globalization, Anthropocene

Sociology Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul Publishes Article on Haiti’s History of Political Turmoil

September 17, 2021 | | Haiti, Haitian Politics, World Politics, Haitian History, Caribbean, United States History, French History

History Professor Brigid O’Keeffe Publishes Article on the Cold War

September 17, 2021 | | Cold War, Huldah Clark, Soviet History

Spanish Professor Bernardita Llanos Elected Co-Chair of Latin American Studies Association Section

September 10, 2021 | | LASA, Southern Cone, International Conference, Latin America

Spanish Professor Bernardita Llanos, also Endowed Chair of Women and Gender Studies, was elected co-chair of the Southern Cone Section of the Latin American Studies Association. In the role, she will lead 250 active members in organizing featured panels, workshops, round tables, and special events to be part of the association’s international conference for the next two years.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Christian Benes Earns Research Grant from Simons Foundation

September 10, 2021 | | Mathematics, Simons Foundation, Walk Green’s Function, Harmonic Measure Convergence Rates

Feirstein Executive Director Richard Gladstein to Teach Master Class at Astoria Film Festival

Sept. 7, 2021 | | Richard Gladstein; Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema Astoria Film Festival; Cinematic Storytelling;

PRLS Chair Professor Alan Aja coauthors Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy

Aug. 27, 2021 | | Afro-Latinos, U.S. Economy

Assistant Professor of Sonic Arts Johanna Devaney Awarded a $100,000 NEH Digital Humanities Grant

Aug. 27, 2021 | | Sonic Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, NEH Grants, Music Performance Analysis, Communication Disorders

Assistant Professor of Sonic Arts Johanna Devaney was awarded a $100,000 NEH Digital Humanities Grant for AMPACT: Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit, a suite of tools to enable the computational analysis of musical performances. She is also participating in a project funded by a partnership grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. This project focuses on how group singing can help people with communication disorders. Devaney will be using her music performance analysis tools to help in the computational analysis component of the project.

Associate Professor Christian Benes Awarded Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians by the Simons Foundation

Aug. 23, 2021 | | Mathematics, Simons Foundation, Green’s Function, Random Walks, Harmonic Measure

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Heidi Goodson Publishes on Crime Hotspot Models

August 5, 2021 | | Published Research, Applied Mathematics, Systemic Racism

Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson and her coauthor had their paper titled "Examining the Modeling Framework of Crime Hotspot Models in Predictive Policing" published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in July. The scholars give an example of what goes into mathematical crime hotspot modeling and show that the modeling assumptions perpetuate systemic racism in policing. The goal of the paper is to raise objections to this field of research, not on its mathematical merit, but on the scope of the problem formation.

Associate Professor of History Brigid O'Keeffe Publishes Book on The Esperanto Language in Revolutionary Russia

July 27, 2021 | | History, Revolutionary Russia, Soviet Union, Language, Politics

Art Professor Pat Cronin’s Sculptural Installation “Shrine For Girls” Travels to The Netherlands

July 27, 2021 | | Mary Magdalene, Magdalene Laundries, International Museum Exhibition

Art Professor Patricia Cronin's acclaimed "Shrine For Girls" sculptural installation that debuted at the 56th Venice Biennale (the Olympics of the Art World) traveled to it's 4th stop on an international tour in "Mary Magdalene, The Exhibition," at the Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, The Netherlands. The exhibit began June 25 and will be on display through January 9, 2022. The exhibition focuses on the most intriguing female figures in the bible and explores the many, sometimes contradictory stories from the Middle Ages to today.

Annette Danto, Undergraduate Film Chair, Takes on Same Role at Feirstein

July 15, 2021 | | Film, Feirstein, Graduate Film School, Cinema

Associate Professors William Hampton-Sosa and Holly Chiu Present Research on Working from Home

June 14, 2021 | | Working From Home, Technology, Faculty

Assistant Professor Ngoc Cindy Pham Publishes on Augmented Reality in the Online Footwear Market

June 14, 2021 | | Augmented Reality, Online Footwear

Associate Professor Hyuna Park Presents at Research Seminar Series

May 24, 2021 | | Digital Economy, Retail, Investments

English and American Studies Professor James Davis is New Professional Staff Congress President

May 24, 2021 | | Professional Staff Congress, Teachers Unions, Union Leadership

James Davis, a professor of English and American Studies who has been at the college for nearly 20 years, has become the new president of the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents 30,000 faculty and staff members at CUNY. He will succeed outgoing President Barbara Bowen, who has led the PSC for more than two decades. Davis has been Brooklyn College’s union chapter chair since 2015, a position he used to broaden the base of member involvement and developed effective campaigns to enforce the contract and amplify the voices of faculty, staff, and students.

Associate Professor of Economics Nadia Doytch Earns PSC-CUNY Research Award

May 8, 2021 | | Automation, PSC-CUNY Grant

Associate Professor of Accounting John Paul Wins Journal's Best Paper Award

May 8, 2021 | | Taxes, Cloning

School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences Announces Winners of 30th Annual Science Research Day

May 8, 2021 | | Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Scientific Research, Science Day, Student Research

The School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences recently held their 30th annual Brooklyn College Science Research Day, the first that was held virtually, after having to cancel last year’s program due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organized by the college’s Center for Achievement in Science Education, this year’s event featured 57 student posters from 41 undergraduate and 16 graduate students. Each poster was considered by two judges who first viewed a virtual poster described by the students in a video and then met with the students online or by telephone to ask questions and give feedback. The results were announced at a virtual award ceremony on May 7 with nearly 100 attendees. The winning research covered a diverse range of fields and inquiries, from a mouse with fatty liver disease to the role of religious experiences in interpersonal relationships.

For the undergraduate division, the winners were: In first place, Roberto DeGregorio, a chemistry student whose paper was titled Towards Gold-Based Targeted Theranostic Agents: Synthesis and Characterization of Cationic Au(Iii)-Nhc Iodo Complexes; In second place, Claudia Melo, a biology student whose paper was titled Antioxidant, Antibacterial, and Anti-Sars-Cov Activity of Commercial Products Of Xylopia (Xylopia Aethiopica) tied with Dobrushe Denburg, a chemistry student whose paper was titled Photochemical and Photophysical Study of Bis-Alkylated Lumazine and Pterin Photosynthesizers; In third place, Ominakhon Nazarzoda, a biology student whose paper was titled Trafficking Monocytes Into the Ischemic Brain And Mapping Cell Subtypes.

For the graduate division, the winners were: In first place, Eliza Altvater, a Health and Nutrition Science student whose paper was titled The Role Of Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation Via Tlr4 In Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis-Induced Fibrosis; In second place, Kristy St. Rose and Jasmine Williams, Health and Nutrition Science students whose paper was titled Mouse Fed A Western Diet Develop Obesity And Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; In third place, Jaclyn K. Doherty, a Psychology student whose paper was titled Disclosure Of Meaningful Religious Experiences In Interpersonal Relationships.

Associate Professor of Business Management Viju Raghupathi Publishes on Litigation Crowdfunding and Its Implications for Social Justice

April 26, 2021 | | Crowdfunding, Social Justice

Business Management Professors’ Article Accepted in Forthcoming Work From Home Book

April 12, 2021 | | Work From Home, Pandemic, New Normal, COVID-19

Distinguished Professor Alexandra Juhasz Served as Herb Alpert Award Panelist

March 22, 2021 | | Herb Alpert Awards, The Arts, Film

Associate Professor Nadia Doytch to Publish Article on Foreign Direct Investment

March 10, 2021 | | Foreign Direct Investment, Economy, World Economy

Associate Professor Brigid O’Keeffe Publishes Chapter in European History Book

March 10, 2021 | | History, Revolutionary Russia, Comintern, Language Politics

Assistant Professor Seungho Baek Pens Article on Leveraged Stock Buyback

March 10, 2021 | | Leveraged Stock, Profitability

Assistant Professor Ana Gantman Wins Psychology Society’s Young Scholar Award

February 23, 2021 | | Psychology, Young Scholar Award

Koppelman Professor Yehuda Klein Wins $40,000 Interdisciplinary Research Grant

February 23, 2021 | | Interdisciplinary Research, Research Grant, Geovisualization, Community Planning

Robin Hood Provides Brooklyn College Another Round of Emergency Assistance Grants

February 16, 2020 | | Robin Hood, Emergency Grants, COVID-19, Immigrant Students

Poverty-fighting organization Robin Hood has awarded Brooklyn College a second grant of $150,000 to provide emergency relief support to immigrant students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is in addition to an initial $150,000 grant given last year. The grant will be administered by the Immigrant Student Success Office and will provide emergency assistance to students who have lost wages or had other COVID 19-related emergency expenses, such as food, housing, and technology for remote learning. Eligible students can apply online.

Professor Deborah Shanley Writes Chapter in Book on Using National Parks as a Classroom

February 8, 2021 | | National Parks, Place-Based Education, School-University Partnerships

Professor Merih Uctum Featured in WalletHub on Pros and Cons of Using a Visa Card

February 4, 2021 | | Visa, Personal Finance, Consumer Tools, Credit Score

Business Management Professor Hershey Friedman Publishes Talmudic Guide to Prosperity

February 4, 2021 | | Ethical Wealth, The Talmud, Prosperity

Associate Professor Darline Augustine Publishes Research on Minority-Owned Community Financial Institutions

February 4, 2021 | | Capital-Raising, CDFIs, Minority-Owned

Assistant Professor Fujiao Xie Publishes Article on Audit Theory and Policy Implications

February 4, 2021 | | Audits, Audit Quality, Market Competition

Associate Professor Viju Raghupathi Publishes Research on Crowd Wisdom and Asset Sharing

February 4, 2021 | | Crowd Wisdom, Asset Sharing, Hospitality Management

Associate Professor Darlene Augustine Recognized for Being in Top Ten Percent of Authors in Public Database

January 28, 2021 | | Business Management, SSRN, Scholarship

Professor of Economics Robert Bell Cited in French Publication

January 28, 2021 | | Finance, Economics

Associate Professor Hong-Jen Lin Presents Paper on International Trade

January 28, 2021 | | Finance, Economics

Economics Student Jacqueline Gilman Has Paper Published in Accounting and Finance Journal

January 28, 2021 | | Accounting, Finance, Economics

Associate Professor Nadia Doytch Pens Pieces on International Business for Several Publications

January 28, 2021 | | tobacco, journal, economics

Associate Professor of Economics Nadia Doytch Publishes Research in Three Publications and presents her work to the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets

Professor Doytch and her co-authors have their article titled “Analyzing the Trend of Illicit Tobacco in the Philippines from 1998 – 2018" accepted for publication in the Journal of Tobacco Control, by the BMJ Publishing Group.

Professor Doytch and her co-authors have their article titled “Do Institutions and Technologies Matter for Trade Openness? Evidence of African Countries" accepted for publication in the International Trade Journal, by Taylor & Francis.

Professor Doytch has her so-authored article titled “Do FDI inflows to Eastern Europe and Central Asia Respond to the Business Cycle? A Sector Level Analysis" accepted for publication by the Journal of Economic Asymmetries, by Elsevier.

Professor Doytch presented her research titled “The Environmental Impact of Industry-level Greenfield FDI: Evidence from 30 Chinese Provinces and 32 Economic Sectors” at the virtual conference hosted by the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets, Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) on Jan. 3-5, 2021.

Associate Professor Christopher Ebert Presents at Second American Studies Conference

January 6, 2021 | | American Studies Conference

History Professor Karen Stern-Gabbay Earns Curatorial Fellowship

December 28, 2020 | | Curatorship, Museum, Exhibit, Graffiti, Jewish History

History Professor Karen Stern-Gabbay has been awarded the Sid Lapidus Curatorial Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, three-month fellowship for curators to support their original research and conceptualization of an exhibition. Stern-Gabbay will use the fellowship to develop an exhibition that takes a diachronic and cross-cultural approach to Jewish graffiti and street art.

Judaic Studies Professor Robert Shapiro Publishes Translation of Polish Holocaust Survivor’s Yiddish Memoir

December 16, 2020 | | Holocaust, Survivor, Poland, Soviets, Borderlands, Refugees, Displaced Persons, Immigrants, Memoir.

History Prodessor Karen B. Stern Gabbay Wins Book Award from Association for Jewish Studies

December 2, 2020 | | Jewish Studies, Antiquity, Ancient Jews, Graffiti

Professor Emeritus Publishes Book on Bereavement

December 2, 2020 | | Thanatology, Death and Dying, Bereavement, Grief, Oral History

Professor Sara Regeur Publishes Book on Winston Churchill

December 2, 2020 | | Winston Churchill, Middle East, World History

Business Management Professor Joshua Fogel Publishes Paper on Information Marketing Campaign

December 2, 2020 | | Information Marketing, Political Action Committee

Assistant Professor of Finance Published in Applied Economics on COVID and the US Stock Market

November 17, 2020 | | COVID-19, Stock Market, Economy

Business Management Professor Published in Organizational Dynamics

November 17, 2020 | | COVID-19, Recession

Business Management Professor Gives Talk on Renewable Energy

November 4, 2020 | | Renewable Energy, COVID-19, Investments

Koppelman Professors Make Presentation at Conference on Sustainable Development

November 4, 2020 | | Sustainable Development, Business Education

Yehuda Klein, a professor and chair of the Economics Department, and John Paul, graduate deputy chair in the Accounting Department, made a presentation titled “An Accountant and an Ecologist Walk Into a Bar” at the Fifth PRME Northeast Virtual Conference on “Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Business Education and Practice.” This conference was hosted by the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation at Rutgers Business School.

Accounting Graduate Deputy Has Article Published on Virtual Currencies

November 4, 2020 | | Virtual Currency, Taxes, Clones

Economics Professor Has Article Published in Environmental Publication

November 4, 2020 | | Sustainability, Foreign Investment, Ecological Footprint

Two Students Win Belle Zeller Scholarship

November 4, 2020 | | Belle Zeller, PSC/CUNY, Scholarship

Two students, junior Mic Braun and senior Marwa Elraey, have been awarded The Belle Zeller Scholarship, an award given by the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the university’s faculty and staff union. Braun is a student in the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies program and Elraey is a senior with a double major in Linguistics and Communications Sciences and Disorders. The scholarship gives awardees a stipend of $2,500 each semester they remain full-time and in good academic standing. The scholarship honors Brooklyn College Professor Emeritus of Political Science Belle Zeller, who also was the founding president of the PSC. Full-time CUNY students with at least a 3.75 GPA are eligible to apply. The award is intended to honor the unique qualities of Zeller, with winners chosen based on a commitment to scholarship and to social issues.

Three Professors Named to Lead the Brooklyn College Cancer Center

October 21, 2020 | | Cancer, Brooklyn, Cancer Center, Cancer Research, Research Center

Professors Maria Contel, Jennifer Basil, and Brian R. Gibney will head the Brooklyn College Cancer Center (CommUnity Outreach, Research and Education) BCCC-CURE, which was established this year with a mission to enhance the lives of patients affected by cancer with a special focus on Brooklyn residents. Through this center, Brooklyn College seeks to expand its research on cancer and to combine research forces with local cancer treatment centers, hospitals, and Brooklyn communities, while delivering first-class educational opportunities to our students.

Contel, the director of BCCC-CURE, is an organometallic chemist and former chair of the Chemistry Department who holds two patents and has been testing compound metals to combat breast cancer for the better part of her career. Basil, a professor and former chair of the Biology Department, is serving as associate director of community outreach. She is a breast cancer survivor who has been involved in outreach and advocacy since 2004. Her scholarship focuses on the evolution of behavioral and brain complexity. Gibney, an associate professor in the Chemistry Department, is the associate director of education. His laboratory focuses on the role of zinc in controlling gene expression in cancer as well as other research on heart disease.

Professor Sunil Mohanty Named Alternate Fulbright U.S. Scholar

October 19, 2020 | | Fulbright Program, Norway

Library Professors Lee Ann Fullington and Frans Albarillo Co-Edit Book on the Research Process

October 19, 2020 | | Practitioner Research, Library Research, Information Professionals

Business Management Associate Professor Mitchell Langbert Published in the Econ Journal Watch

October 9, 2020 | | Republican, Political Bias, American Economic Association

Accounting Assistant Professor John Paul Published in the Arizona State Corporate and Business Law Journal

October 9, 2020 | | Business, Data Analytics, Fraud

Television, Radio and Emerging Media Professors Film Part of International Venice Film Festival

October 8, 2020 | | Venice Film Festival, Virtual Reality

Business Management Professor Joshua Fogel Co-Authors Article in Journal of Consumer Marketing

October 8, 2020 | | Social Media, Advertising, Gyms, Fitness Clubs

Koppelan Dean Surpasses 10,000 Citations in Google Scholar

September 23, 2020 | | Murray Koppelman School of Business, Google Scholar

Business Management Professor Publishes Paper on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Statistics

September 23, 2020 | | Business Management, Statistics

Accounting Professor Co-Authors Paper in Publication for Emerging Technologies in Accounting

September 23, 2020 | | Accounting, Accounting Applications

Environmental Sciences Professor and Doctoral Student Publish Paper on Russian Soils

September 4, 2020 | | Environment, Soil science, Russia

Koppelman Professors’ Article to be Included as Chapter in Accounting Ethics Handbook

September 4, 2020 | | Talmud, Accounting Ethics

Finance Professor Co-Authors Paper on Foreign Bank Lending During U.S. Recessions

September 4, 2020 | | Lending, Recession, Foreign Banks

Health and Nutrition Sciences Professor Receives Prestigious NIH Award

September 4, 2020 | | Diet, Latinx community, Cardiovascular Disease, Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants

Business Management Professor Recognized for Most-Read Contributions from ResearchGate

September 4, 2020 | | ResearchGate, Scholarly Articles

Business Management Professors Team Up on Paper on Vietnamese Business

September 4, 2020 | | Vietnamese Business, Bribery, International Business

Finance Professors Pen Forthcoming Paper on COVID-19 and Stock Market Volatility

September 4, 2020 | | Covid-19, Stock Market

Associate Professor of Economics Co-Authors Paper on Financial Development

September 4, 2020 | | Financial Development

Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives Marcus Richardson Joins National Business Officers Group on Student Success Effort

August 26, 2020 | | Student Success, NACUBO

Marcus Richardson, the executive director of strategic initiatives, has been asked to join a panel assembled by the National Association of College Business Officers to think tank ideas on ways college business officers can implement strategies that improve student success while also creating revenue for their institutions. Richardson is one of roughly a dozen college officials from across the country selected as a HUB Leader for the project.

Emeritus Professor Jerry Krase, Judith N. DeSena ‘78 Publish Two Edited Volumes on Gentrification

August 26, 2020 | | Gentrification

Emeritus Professor Jerry Krase and Judith N. DeSena ’78, who received her bachelor of arts in Sociology, recently published two edited volumes: Gentrification around the World, Volume I: Gentrifiers and the Displaced (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020)
and Gentrification around the World, Volume II: Innovative Approaches (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020). The books cover more than a dozen cities on six continents and offers intimate perspectives on how gentrification is affecting ordinary people.

Women’s Center Program Coordinator Nava Renek Receives Grant to Translate Portuguese Writer’s Novel

August 26, 2020 | | Portuguese Literature, Nuno Júdice

Koppelman School of Business Seniors Reach Semi-Finals in Prestigious Marketing and Advertising Competition

August 12, 2020 | | Koppelman School of Business, Effie Collegiate Competition, Marketing, Advertising, IBM, The Weather Channel

Brooklyn College Koppelman School of Business seniors Andrew Okun and Rahel Shamailova joined a York College student to becoming one of only seven teams to advance to the semi-finals in the Effie Collegiate Challenge, the pre-eminent awards in marketing and advertising worldwide. They competed against hundreds of teams to develop a non-traditional integrated marketing campaign focused on IBM and The Weather Channel app.

Koppelman School of Business Professors Publish Article in Sustainability

August 12, 2020 | | Koppelman School of Business, Machine Learning, ETF-Investments, Sustainability

Koppelman School of Business Professors Publish #MeToo Article in New Academic Journal

July 22, 2020 | | #MeToo, Family Business, The Murray Koppelman School of Business, Scholarly Journal

Professor Dov Fischer of the Accounting Department and Professor Hershey Friedman of the Business Department in The Koppelman School of Business co-authored an article about #MeToo and family businesses, which was accepted to the Humanistic Management Journal, a new publication that has attracted some of the top authors in business ethics and economics. The article, Family Business in the #MeToo Era: Lessons from Ruth on Tone at the Top, was published in March.

Graduate Students from The Koppelman School of Business Have Paper Accepted by Academic Journal

July 22, 2020 | | The Koppelman School of Bustiness, International Tax Law, Accounting, Student Research

Jacquelyne Gilman and Leslie Anandane, both students in the MS in Accounting program in The Koppelman School of Business, have written an academic research article that has been accepted in Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. Professor Dov Fischer supervised their work on “What are the Ramifications and/or Impacts of the U.S. Switching to a Territorial Tax System?,” a topic that has implications for large technology companies that are accused of tax avoidance. The article originated as a joint project for their class, Internatoinal Tax.

Sutherland-Cohen Honored with Stage Manager's Association Award

July 22, 2020 | | Theater, Theater Department, Stage Managers Association

Brooklyn College Mourns the Passing of Professor Moshe Augenstein

April 6, 2020 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | Biochemistry, Graduate Student, Scholarships

Biology Professor Juergen Polle Featured at Annual Algae Conference

October 13, 2019 | | 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 | | Biology, RNA, Graduate Student, Scholarships

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

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

HNS Professor Gets NIH Grant

October 9, 2019 | | Health, Nutrition, NIH, Cardiovascular, Latinx

Biology Chair to Moderate Panel at American Society of Microbiology Conference

October 6, 2019 | | Biology, Microbiology, Pipeline

Three Literary Alums Shortlisted for the National Book Award

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

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

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