Brooklyn College Authors Make 2019 Best Books Lists

Novels by Ben Lerner, Helen Phillips, and Ocean Vuong are the critics’ choice.

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester Part of Team That Unearths Rise of Mammals in Groundbreaking Discovery

Research chronicling one-million-year fossil-rich timeline with Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers to appear in Science magazine and highlighted on PBS’ NOVA.

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Research Chronicling One-Million Year Fossil-Rich Timeline with Denver Museum of Nature & Science Researchers to Appear in Science Magazine and Highlighted on PBS’ NOVA

Stephen Chester, an assistant professor of anthropology and paleontologist from Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center from The City University of New York, was a key collaborator in a groundbreaking

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Biology Professor Juergen Polle Featured at Annual Algae Conference

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.

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HNS Professor Gets NIH Grant

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

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Biology Chair to Moderate Panel at American Society of Microbiology Conference

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

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Fighting Cancer by Awakening Our Immune Systems

Biology Professor Anjana Saxena’s research explores whether antibiotics might be the cure.

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Three Literary Alums Shortlisted for the National Book Award

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

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

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

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Can Animals Read Minds? Research by Brooklyn College Philosophy Professor Robert Lurz Says Perhaps

His work with chimpanzees and their cognitive abilities may reveal the evolutionary origins of what make humans exceptionally social animals.

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09.26.2019
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