Since 2005, more than 430 students at Brooklyn College, and 6,000 in the larger CUNY system, have been helped through Petrie Student Emergency Grants (PSEGs). “These are students who have real emergencies, and yet they stay, which is why we do this,” says Beth J. Lief, executive director of the Petrie Foundation.
Read MoreStudent-led interviews contribute to the college-wide, interdisciplinary oral history project and public archive.
Read MoreMed-school-bound Aakaash Varma conducted interviews in his ancestral village, and neighboring communities, to learn more about the 1947 split of these two nations, as well as the details of his own family’s experiences.
Read MoreSenior Edwin Done discusses how study abroad in China proved a transformative experience and inspired his desire to become an engaged global citizen.
Read MoreJournalist Abdalla Hassan ’94 talks about his experience on the ground since the early days of the Arab Spring.
Read MoreProfessor Karen B. Stern’s research helps historians paint a more complete picture of the ancient world.
Read MoreFor his latest book, Professor Phillip F. Napoli spent nearly a decade speaking with Vietnam veterans in an effort to paint a more complete picture of those who served.
Read MoreJoining Brooklyn College’s full-time faculty are a medieval historian who specializes in eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic devotion; Professor of English who conducts research that uses magnetic resonance imaging to capture
Read MoreBrigid O’Keeffe’s first book, New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union, will be released this summer.
Read MoreSeveral weeks since the encampment in Zuccotti Park was dismantled, Occupy Wall Street is still struggling to find its footing. Demonstrations continue around the country; on Dec. 12, protesters up
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