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

    Associate Professors Holly Chiu and William Hampton-Sosa, and Professor Tomas Lopez-Pumarejo have their research article, “Working from home: College professors’ perspective” accepted for publication in Work from Home: Multi-level Perspectives on the New Normal (Emerald Publishing), a forthcoming academic book. 

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

    Distinguished Professor Alexandra Juhasz, of the Film Department, served as a panelist to help chose the recipients of 2021 Herp Alpert Award in the Arts. She was part of a three-member panel that selected the winners in their film/video category. The winners will be announced in May. 

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

    Nadia Doytch has had her research article titled "Who Gains from Services FDI- Host or Home Economies? An Analysis of Disaggregated Services FDI Inflows and Outflows of twenty-four European Economies" accepted for publication in the journal Foreign Trade Review. 

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

    Associate Professor of History Brigid O'Keeffe published a chapter in Internationalists in European History: Rethinking the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her chapter is titled "Building a Communist Tower of Babel: Esperanto and the Language Politics of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia." 

  • March 10, 2021 | | Leveraged Stock, Profitability

    Assistant Professor of Finance Seungho Baek has a research article titled "Does leveraged stock buyback improve firms' profitability?" accepted for publication in Applied Economics Letters. 

  • February 23, 2021 | | Psychology, Young Scholar Award

    Assistant Professor Ana Gantman was recently awarded the SAGE Young Scholar Award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, which recognizes outstanding achievements by young scholars who are early in their research careers. 

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

    Professor Yehuda Klein and CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor James Biles won a $40,000 CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant entitled "Using Systems Modeling, Optimization and Geovisualization Tools to Inform Community Planning and Policymaking in Response to Climate Change."

  • 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.  

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

    Secondary Education Professor Deborah Shanley co-wrote a chapter in America's Largest Classroom: What We Learn from Our National Parks (University of California Press, 2020). The chapter is titled "What Really ‘Matters’ at Stephen T. Mather Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School." 

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

    Professor of Economics Merih Uctum was recently featured in an interview with WalletHub—a personal finance website that provides users free consumer tools, credit reports, and scores—on the pros and cons of using a Visa card. 

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

    Business Management Professor Hershey Friedman has his research article titled “Ethical Wealth is not a Paradox: The Talmudic Guide to Prosperity" published in the Journal of Intercultural Management and Ethics. 

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

    Associate Professor of Business Management Darline Augustine and her co-authors published their article titled titled “Capital-Raising Among Depository Minority-Owned CDFIs Before the Covid-19 Pandemic” in Community Development Innovation Review, by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. 

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

    Assistant Professor of Accounting Fujiao Xie published her research article titled “Audit Market Competition, Audit Independence, and Audit Quality: A Theoretical Model and Policy Implications,” in the journal Accountancy Business and the Public Interest. 

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

    Associate Professor Viju Raghupathi and her co-authors published their research on “Effect of Crowd Wisdom and Pricing in the Asset-Based Sharing Platform: An Attribute Substitution Perspective” in the International Journal of Hospitality Management.


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

    Darline Augustine, an associate professor of business management, is recognized by SSRN, a public database for sharing research manuscripts, for being in the top 10 percent of authors by total new downloads within the last 12 months.

  • January 28, 2021 | | Finance, Economics

    Professor Robert Bell is cited by the French publication devoted to offshore wind energy, Energies de la mer about his interview at the e5t international renewable energy conference in La Rochelle last fall.  

  • January 28, 2021 | | Finance, Economics

    Associate Professor Hong-Jen Lin presented a paper, co-authored with Sunil K. Mohanty, titled "International Trades, Capital Requirement and Banking Efficiency: A Case of China of the Pre- Trade War Era" at the 28th SFM Conference on Theories and Practices of Security and Financial Markets, co-authored with Professor Sunil K. Mohanty. 

  • January 28, 2021 | | Accounting, Finance, Economics

    Jacqueline Gilman, an economics student supervised by Manny Thorne, has her term paper titled “Negative Interest Rates: How do they work? Case Studies in Japan, Europe, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark” accepted for publication in the Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance. 

  • 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.

  • January 6, 2021 | | American Studies Conference

    Christopher Ebert, an associate professor of history, presented at the Second American Studies Conference.

  • 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.

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

    Judaic Studies Professor Robert Shapiro translated A Rejected Stone: My Life (MDX Publishing, 2020), a Yiddish-language memoir by a Holocaust survivor from eastern Poland who rebuilt his life in America, first in Brooklyn and then in Baltimore.

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

    The Association for Jewish Studies has announced that Prof. Stern has won the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and the Forgotten Jews of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2018). 

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

    Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, David Balk published his two-volume book, Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement: Conversations with Thanatologists (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). 

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

    Professor Sara Regeur of the History Department recently published her book, Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922 (Academic Studies Press, 2020). 

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

    Joshua Fogel co-authored an article, “An Information Marketing Campaign Promotes Physician Donation to a Radiology Political Action Committee” accepted for publication in the journal Health Policy and Technology. 

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

    Seungho Baek had his research article titled "The Risk Transmission of COVID-19 In the US Stock Market" accepted for publication in Applied Economics. 

  • November 17, 2020 | | COVID-19, Recession

    Management Professor Carol Connell co-authored a paper on her research titled "The Persistent Link between Growing Talent and Growing the Top Line: Lessons from Fast-Growing Firms in the COVID-19 Recession." The paper has been accepted for publication in Organizational Dynamics. 

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

    Robert Bell, a professor in the Business Management Department, gave a talk titled “Renewable Energy: Covid 19 Triggers Investment Race” as a panelist at the Summer University Conference at La Rochelle, in France, on New Winds, New Horizons to Construct the Post-Carbon World. 

  • 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. 

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

    John Paul, the graduate deputy chair in the Accounting Department, had his article, "Exploring Virtual Currencies: How Do You Tax the Clones in the Clouds?," accepted for publication in the North East Journal of Legal Studies. 

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

    Nadia Doytch, an assistant professor of economics, had her article, "The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the Ecological Footprints of Nations," accepted for publication in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • October 19, 2020 | | Fulbright Program, Norway

    Professor Sunil Mohanty of the Finance department has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Alternate for 2020-2021 for Norway. 

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

    Professors Lee Ann Fullington and Frans Albarillo of the library have co-edited the book Reflections on Practitioner Research: A Practical Guide for Information Professionals (ACRL Publications, 2020). 

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

    Associate Professor Mitchell Langbert had his article, “Republicans Need Not Apply: An Investigation of the American Economic Association Using Voter Registration and Political Contributions” published in the Econ Journal Watch. 

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

    Assistant Professor of Business Management John Paul had his article, "When Justice is Served, Using Data Analytics to Examine How Fraud-Based Legal Actions Affect Earnings Management," accepted for publication in the Arizona State Corporate and Business Law Journal. 

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

    Assistant Professor Jason Moore, of the Television, Radio and Emerging Media department, was invited to the Venice Bieannle, part of the 77th Venice International Film Festival last month. Moore won a Special Mention at the festival’s FanHeart Awards, for his virtual reality piece, Alien Rescue.  

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

    Business Management Professor Joshua Fogel co-authored an article titled “Social Media Advertisements with Deposit Contracts and Fitness Club/Gym Membership: Are Consumers Persuaded?” which was accepted in the Journal of Consumer Marketing. 

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

    Qing Hu, dean of the Murray Koppelman School of Business, reached a major milestone in his academic career when his Google Scholar Citations surpassed 10,000. 

  • September 23, 2020 | | Business Management, Statistics 

    Professor Joshua Fogel of the Business Management department has co-authored a paper titled “Correlates of exam performance in an undergraduate statistics course: Basic math skills along with self-reported psychological/behavioral and demographic variables” accepted for publication in Statistics Education Research Journal. 

  • September 23, 2020 | | Accounting, Accounting Applications

    Professor Dan Tinkelman of the Accounting department has co-authored a paper on calibrating graphics for financial accounting applications that has been accepted for publication in Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting. 

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

    Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng and doctoral student Anna A. Paltseva co-author paper on anthropogenic soils and landscapes of European Russia in the Journal of Environmental Quality. 

  • September 4, 2020 | | Talmud, Accounting Ethics

    Professor Hershey Friedman, of the Business Management department and Dov Fischer, of Accounting, have their article titled "Use of Stories in the Jewish Talmud to Emphasize Substance over Form" accepted for publication as a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Ethics.

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

    Professor Sunil Mohanty, of the Finance department, co-authored an article titled “Foreign bank lending in the U.S. during three U.S. recessions” accepted for publication in the Global Finance Journal.

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

    Assistant Professor Melissa Fuster, of the Health and Nutrition Sciences department, received Loan Repayment Program award from the National Institutes of Health, in which she will work with a mentor on her research project on improving diet quality and cardiovascular health in New York City’s Latinx community, while the institute makes repayments to student loans. 

  • September 4, 2020 | | ResearchGate, Scholarly Articles

    Hershey Friedman received a recognition from ResearchGate, a public database for posting scholarly articles, for having the most read contributions from Brooklyn College with 2,836 “new reads.”

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

    Assistant Professor Ngoc Cindy Pham and Professor Joshua Fogel have their paper titled "Bribery in Vietnamese Business: Historical and Current Approaches" accepted for publication in Asia Pacific Business Review. 

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

    Assistant Professor Seungho Baek, Professor Sunil Mohanty, and Assistant Professor Mina Glambosky, all of the Finance department, have their paper titled "COVID-19 and Stock Market Volatility: An Industry Level Analysis" accepted for publication in Finance Research Letters. 

  • September 4, 2020 | | Financial Development

    Nadia Doytch, an assistant professor in the Economics department, and co-authors have their paper titled “The drivers of financial development: Global evidence from internet and mobile usage" accepted for publication in Information Economics and Policy. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • August 26, 2020 | | Portuguese Literature, Nuno Júdice

    Nava Renek, the program coordinator in the Women's Center, received a translation grant from Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas. She will translate and publish an English edition of Portuguese writer Nuno Júdice's short novel, A Manta Religiosa. 

  • 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. 

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

    Assistant Professor Seungho Baek of the Finance department and Professor Merih Uctum from Economics had their article, "Robo-Advisors: Machine Learning in Trend-Following ETF Investments" accepted for publication in Sustainability. 

  • 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.

     

  • 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. 

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

    Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen, an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Theater, is being honored by the Stage Manager's Association with their Founders Award, in recognition of his teaching, writing, and service to the organization. He will receive the award at a virtual ceremony in September. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

     

  • 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

     

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

    Brooklyn’s Best Sushi Sampling

    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.

  • October 14, 2019 | | 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.

  • 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.

  • October 12, 2019 | | 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.

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

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

  • October 9, 2019 | | 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.

  • October 6, 2019 | | 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'?"

  • October 3, 2019 | | 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.

  • September 30, 2019 | | 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.

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