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
Read MoreBiology 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.
Read MoreGraduate 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
Read MoreBiology graduate student Manal Farhat received the provost’s Estelle and James T. Ramey Scholarship.
Read MoreMelissa 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
Read MorePeter 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
Read MoreGreg 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
Read MoreAssistant 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
Read MoreAREAC was the subject of an Excelsior feature on March 21, 2018, entitled “Brooklyn College in the Know: Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center,” by Sandy Mui.
Read MoreBrooklyn College Magazine (Spring 2009) has a feature article, “Fish and Other Aquatic Life Forms,” about AREAC, and mentions Jennifer Basil, Brett Branco, Rob Dickie, John Marra and Martin Schreibman.
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