Rhodes Scholar Zujaja Tauqeer Will Address Baccalaureate Commencement Rhodes Scholar Zujaja Tauqeer has garnered yet another honor: As the 2011 undergraduate class representative, the Pakistan-born student will address her fellow graduates at the June 2 Commencement Exercises. As Read More
Students Earn Credit by Teaching English and Civic Lessons to Immigrants Nadine Alexander, a senior health and nutrition sciences student who has been accepted to Johns Hopkins, recently accomplished something that took her outside the realm of her major: She taught Read More
‘Great Minds’ Gather for Fiftieth Anniversary Fete of Brooklyn College’s Scholars Program “Great minds think alike” may not always be true. But at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Scholars Program, it certainly was. Great minds past and present all agreed that 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
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
Italian Diplomat Talks of the Strengths of U.S.-Italy Links Italy’s ambassador to the United States, Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, came to Brooklyn College recently to talk about the relationship between his native land and the United States, and to Read More
Senior Scores Selective Fellowship to Work With City Agencies Graduating senior Matthew Vann will get an intimate tour of city agencies this summer when he participates in the New York City Urban Fellowship, a nine-month program that will allow 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
