Alumna Leads Second Annual Celebration of Caribbean Cinema

Shelley Worrell ’00 does more with less to present the annual weeklong festival celebrating Caribbean culture.

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The End of Occupy Wall Street, or Just the Beginning?

Several 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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Why She Is Happy

Helen Phillips is a quirky talent with a knack for writing tales that are oddly original and breathtakingly bizarre.

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Brooklyn College Establishes Four New Schools

As the new academic year gets under way, President Karen L. Gould officially welcomed the founding deans of four new schools, completing the final stage of an ambitious academic reorganization

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50th Anniversary Class Reflects on How It Was, and How It Has Changed

It was a year when egg creams with Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup and hot salted pretzels were all the rage among the college set in Brooklyn. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was

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The Class of 1961 Received More Than an Education…

Love was in the air at Brooklyn College in 1961. At the same time that they returned to campus for the 2011 Commencement Exercises as members of the Golden Anniversary

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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05.9.2011
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Susan Landers