Why She Is Happy Helen Phillips is a quirky talent with a knack for writing tales that are oddly original and breathtakingly bizarre. Read More
SEEK Professor Wins Fulbright-Hays Award to Study in North Africa Judith Corbett Carter, an assistant professor in the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program, wants to help the Brooklyn College community celebrate its religious diversity. After a trip to Morocco and Read More
Historian’s First Book Wins a Place on the Pulitzer Prize Finalists List Michael Rawson is a realist. When Harvard University Press submitted his first book, Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, to the Pulitzer Prize board, the assistant professor of Read More
School of Education Professor Takes On the Headlines Public schools, their teachers and the unions that represent them have recently come under fire across the country. Stephan F. Brumberg, a professor in the School of Education and head Read More
Library Celebrates Campus Page Turners It was an event that even President Karen L. Gould couldn’t keep herself from cheering about. “Bravo! Brava!” she said to all the faculty authors celebrated at the Annual Book Read More
Two Faculty Members Receive Fellowship to Complete Research Assistant Professors Rosamond S. King and Sophia N. Suarez have been awarded the Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, an award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation that comes Read More
Teaching Police to Work With Demonstrators Associate Professor of Sociology Alex Vitale believes police should help people exercise their right to demonstrate, perhaps even do it more efficiently and effectively. That’s why the Korean National Police Read More
Philosophy Professor’s Animal Attraction Leads to Intriguing Experiments Robert Lurz, an associate professor in the Philosophy Department, wants to get into the minds of chimpanzees. He wants to know what they know and how they know it. His Read More
M.F.A. Faculty Members Exhibit in New York-Area Show The works of three Brooklyn College M.F.A. art professors are part of Put Up or Shut Up, an exhibition at the New York Academy of Art in SoHo, while further Read More
Polymath in Residence at Brooklyn College Forget the which-came-first puzzle — the chicken or the egg. A more interesting question is: Do chickens prefer attractive people? The answer is yes, according to Stefano Ghirlanda, the new Read More
