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• Art Professor Jennifer McCoy’s NFT Game Premiered at Sundance

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

  Art Professor Jennifer McCoy and her husband artist Kevin McCoy had their science fiction mystery thriller NFT game The Inside World premier at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January. 

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

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

  Sociology Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul was interviewed by the Library of Congress and served as an expert who contributed to the Libguide, “Ayiti Reimagined: The First Black Sovereign Nation,” an initiative of the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division of the Library of Congress. 

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

  Jan. 21, 2022 | Faculty and Staff News | Churchill, Middle East

  Professor Emerita Sara Reguer's newest book, Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922 (Academic Studies Press) was discussed via Zoom by the Jewish Historical Society of England in January. 

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

  December 17, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Western Growth

  History Professor Michael Rawson published a new book The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future (New Have: Yale University Press, 2021), an examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis. 

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

  December 2, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Social Connectedness, Psychological Distance, Contagion Threat, Psychological Connectedness

  Assistant Professor of Business Management Laura Rifkin co-authored a research article titled “When physical closeness induces psychological distance: The effects of psychological ownership and contagion threat on social connectedness” published in the Journal of Consumer Behavior.

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

  Nov. 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Metaverse, MetaMovie, Virtual Reality, Cinema, Video Games, Immersive Theatre

  Assistant Professor Jason Moore won the Best Multiplayer Experience for The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue at the 2021 Raindance Immersive Festival. The MetaMovie combines virtual reality with elements of cinema, video games, role playing, and immersive theater to create a new way of storytelling. Alien Rescue also won an honorable mention for Best Immersive Game. 

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

  Nov. 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Finance, Corporate Investment, Market Frictions

  Assistant Professor of Finance Monsoo Kang presented his research titled "The Effect of Corporate Investment on Market Frictions: Implication for the Stock Price Delay Premium” at the 2021 FMA Annual Meeting in late October 2021. 

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

  November 12, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Women’s Basketball, CUNYAC

  Alex Lang, assistant athletics director and head coach of the women’s basketball team, earned his 300th career win in a game at the West Quad Center. 

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

  November 12, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Higher Education Leadership, HBCUs, Black Male Students

  Hamilton Raymond, director of student activities, recently earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Management from Walden University. His doctoral thesis was titled, Academic Agenda and Goal Setting and African American Male Student Persistence at a Predominantly Black Institution. Raymond has been at the college for three years. 

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

  October 29, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Haiti, Immigration, Immigration Policy

  Sociology Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul, the founding director of the CUNY Haitian Studies Institute, spoke at Harvard University’s Afro-Latin American Research Center on October 22 about U.S. immigration Policy Toward Haitians. 

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

  October 22, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Research and Development, Firm Efficiency

  Assistant Professor of Accounting Yoshie Lord has had her research article titled "R&D Reporting Rule and Firm Efficiency" accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. 

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

  October 15, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | CEO Nominal Salary, Firm Operating Performance, Corporate Governance

  Assistant Professor of Finance Mina Glambosky has her research article titled " The Relationship between CEO Nominal Salary and Firm Operating Performance" accepted for publication the International Journal of Corporate Governance. 

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

  October 15, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Global Corruption, Courts

  Associate Professor of Accounting John Paul has his research article titled "Global Corruption and the Courts: Ending the FCPA Free-Riding" accepted for publication in the North East Journal of Legal Studies. 

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

  October 5, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Picat, Programming Contest, Computer Sciences

  Professor Neng-Fa Zhou, of the Computer and Information Sciences department, led a team of computer scientists that won the 2021 LP/CP Programming Contest. The team won for coming up with smart solutions in Picat, a programming language that Zhou created.

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

  September 30, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Healthcare Resource Allocation, Health Status

  Associate Professor of Business Management Viju Raghupathi has her research article titled “The Association between Healthcare Resource Allocation and Health Status: An Empirical Insight with Visual Analytics” accepted for publication in Journal of Public Health. 

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

  September 30, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Accounting, Accounting Firms

  Yoshie Lord has her research article titled " Valuation of short-lived firms following waves of new listings" accepted for publication in International Journal of Managerial Finance. 

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

  September 30, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | COVID-19, Public Health

  Associate Professor of Business Management Barbara Lewis has her research article titled “The COVID-19 Wars: Physician vs. Clinician” published in Academia Letters. 

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

  September 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News |

  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics Ka Wai Terence Fung and his co-authors have their research article titled “Stock and bond joint pricing, consumption surplus, and inflation news” published in Research in International Business and Finance. 

• Associate Professor of Finance Stanley Peterburgsky Publishes Article on Portfolio Performance

  September 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | ETF Pairs, Portfolio Performance, Finance Leveraged ETF Pairs, Portfoliio Performance, Finance

  Associate Professor of Finance Stanley Peterburgsky has his research article titled " Leveraged ETF Pairs: An Empirical Evaluation of Portfolio Performance” accepted for publication in The Journal of Investing. 

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

  September 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Political Science, US Foreign Policy

  Adjunct Political Science Professor Anthony Gronowicz authored the book, Last Western Empire: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy (Koba Books, 2021). 

• 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

  Sociology Professors Kenneth Gould and Tammy Lewis have published an article, "Resilience Gentrification: Environmental Privilege in an Age of Coastal Climate Disasters" in the August issue of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 

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

  | Faculty and Staff News | Climate Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Globalization, Anthropocene

  Dean Kennth Gould, of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, also a Sociology professor, published an article, “Scientists need to better communicate the links between pandemics and Global Environmental Change,” in September’s Nature, Ecology & Evolution. 

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

  September 17, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Haiti, Haitian Politics, World Politics, Haitian History, Caribbean, United States History, French History

  Sociology Professor Jean Eddy Saint Paul, the founding and former director of the Haitian Studies Institute, published an article, “Assassinations and invasions – how the US and France shaped Haiti’s long history of political turmoil,” in the August 27 issue of The Conversation. The article is republished in Encyclopedia Britannica. 

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

  September 17, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Cold War, Huldah Clark, Soviet History

  History Professor Brigid O’Keeffe has published an article “A Cold War Case: What Huldah Clark Can Teach Us About Teaching Soviet History” in the summer 2021 issue of the journal Slavic Review. 

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

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

  Associate Professor of Mathematics Christian Benes was awarded a Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians by the Simons Foundation. The five-year grant, in the amount of $42,000, will support his research on "Random Walk Green’s Function and Harmonic Measure Convergence Rates.” 

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

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

  Richard Gladstein, film producer and executive director at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, will be teaching a Master Class in the Art of Cinematic Storytelling at the Astoria Film Festival, October 2 from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Zukor Theater at Kaufman Astoria Studios.

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

  Aug. 27, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Afro-Latinos, U.S. Economy

  Professor Alan Aja, chair of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latinos Studies, coauthored Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy (Lexington Books, 2021) with Michelle Holder, associate professor of economics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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

  Aug. 27, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Mathematics, Simons Foundation, Green’s Function, Random Walks, Harmonic Measure

  Christian Benes, associate professor of mathematics, was awarded a Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians by the Simons Foundation. The grant, in the amount of $42,000, will support research on “Random Walk Green’s Function and Harmonic Measure Convergence Rates” over a five-year period beginning September 2021. 

• Assistant Professor of Mathematics Heidi Goodson Publishes on Crime Hotspot Models

  August 5, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | History, Revolutionary Russia, Soviet Union, Language, Politics

  Associate Professor of History Brigid O'Keeffe published a book, Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomsbury, 2021). 

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

  July 27, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Film, Feirstein, Graduate Film School, Cinema

  Starting Fall 2021, Annette Danto will be joining The Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema as its new chair. Danto is currently professor and chair of the undergraduate Film Department and will continue on in that role. Danto is an accomplished filmmaker, experienced educator, and author. She has been a professor at the college for more than 20 years. 

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

  June 14, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Working From Home, Technology, Faculty

  William Hampton-Sosa and Holly Chiu presented their research titled "Impact of technology quality on the working from home experience: The faculty's perspective" at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management in May. The virtual conference theme was "Responsible Management: Challenges and Opportunities." 

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

  June 14, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Augmented Reality, Online Footwear

  Ngoc Cindy Pham and her co-authors have their research article titled “Are consumers ready for Augmented Reality? Factors influencing online footwear purchasing intentions using AR technology” accepted for publication in Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness. 

• Associate Professor Hyuna Park Presents at Research Seminar Series

  May 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Digital Economy, Retail, Investments

  Hyuna Park, an associate professor in the Finance Department and the Herb Kurz Chair in Finance and Risk Management, presented her research titled "Investments in the Digital Economy: A Textual Analysis of Retailers" at a KSB research seminar series held earlier this month. 

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

  May 24, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Automation, PSC-CUNY Grant

  Associate Professor of Economics Nadia Doytch was awarded a PSC CUNY Traditional A Research Award in the amount of $3,500 for a research project titled “Automation and Industry Performance." 

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

  May 8, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | Taxes, Cloning

  Associate Professor of Accounting John Paul’s research paper titled "How Do You Tax the Hard Forks that were Cloned in the Clouds?" won the Best Paper Award from the Western Academy of Legal Studies in Business in March. 

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

  May 8, 2021 | Student Success | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | Crowdfunding, Social Justice

  Viju Raghupathi and her co-authors have their research article titled, "Exploring the Factors that Determine the Success of Litigation Crowdfunding: Implications for Social Justice" accepted for publication in Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 

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

  April 12, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Distinguished Professor Alexandra Juhasz Served as Herb Alpert Award Panelist

  March 22, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Associate Professor Nadia Doytch to Publish Article on Foreign Direct Investment

  March 10, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  March 10, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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." 

• Assistant Professor Seungho Baek Pens Article on Leveraged Stock Buyback

  March 10, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  February 23, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  February 23, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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."

• Robin Hood Provides Brooklyn College Another Round of Emergency Assistance Grants

  February 16, 2020 | Headline News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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." 

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

  February 4, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Business Management Professor Hershey Friedman Publishes Talmudic Guide to Prosperity

  February 4, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  February 4, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  February 4, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  February 4, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.


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

  January 28, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.

• Professor of Economics Robert Bell Cited in French Publication

  January 28, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.  

• Associate Professor Hong-Jen Lin Presents Paper on International Trade

  January 28, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  January 28, 2021 | Student Success | 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. 

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

  January 28, 2021 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | American Studies Conference

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

• History Professor Karen Stern-Gabbay Earns Curatorial Fellowship

  December 28, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.

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

  December 2, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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). 

• Professor Emeritus Publishes Book on Bereavement

  December 2, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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). 

• Professor Sara Regeur Publishes Book on Winston Churchill

  December 2, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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). 

• Business Management Professor Joshua Fogel Publishes Paper on Information Marketing Campaign

  December 2, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  November 17, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Business Management Professor Published in Organizational Dynamics

  November 17, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Business Management Professor Gives Talk on Renewable Energy

  November 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Koppelman Professors Make Presentation at Conference on Sustainable Development

  November 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Economics Professor Has Article Published in Environmental Publication

  November 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Two Students Win Belle Zeller Scholarship

  November 4, 2020 | Student Success | 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 | Headline News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  October 19, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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). 

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

  October 9, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  October 9, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  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.  

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

  October 8, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Koppelan Dean Surpasses 10,000 Citations in Google Scholar

  September 23, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Business Management Professor Publishes Paper on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Statistics

  September 23, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  September 23, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Environmental Sciences Professor and Doctoral Student Publish Paper on Russian Soils

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.

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

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.

• Health and Nutrition Sciences Professor Receives Prestigious NIH Award

  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. 

• Business Management Professor Recognized for Most-Read Contributions from ResearchGate

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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.”

• Business Management Professors Team Up on Paper on Vietnamese Business

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  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. 

• Associate Professor of Economics Co-Authors Paper on Financial Development

  September 4, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  August 26, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  August 12, 2020 | Student Success | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

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

  July 22, 2020 | Faculty and Staff News | #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 | Student Success | 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 | Faculty and Staff News | 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. 

• Brooklyn College Mourns the Passing of Professor Moshe Augenstein

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

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

• RESPOND BC Exhibit Requests Art Submissions by March 20

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

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

• Faculty and Staff Reading Group Spring 2020 Schedule

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

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

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

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

  RSVP at wolfeinstitute@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

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

  January 21, 2020 | Events | Black History Month

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   

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

  November 24, 2019 | Events | Professional Development

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

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

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

  Register for the Event

   

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

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

  

  Brooklyn’s Best Sushi Sampling

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

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

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

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

• Biology Professor Juergen Polle Featured at Annual Algae Conference

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• HNS Professor Gets NIH Grant

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

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

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

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

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

• Three Literary Alums Shortlisted for the National Book Award

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

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

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

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

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