A Reading With a Rising Star A two-time alumnus and new literary darling returned to Brooklyn College in the spring semester to discuss the groundbreaking novel he first workshopped in the M.F.A. program. Read More
Being a Public Scholar Professor Merih Uctum believes that one of the main goals of an economist is to help the general public understand what happens when economies are impacted by world events on a global level. Read More
Brooklyn College Professor Tackling Toxic Algae Blooms Professor Jennifer Cherrier’s all-natural ecoWEIR system is being tested at Prospect Park. Read More
Native Tongues A Brooklyn College professor explores African-American English, and finds a campus where the cultural and linguistic diversity speaks her language. Read More
A Fortuitous Find Numismatist and historiographer Liv Yarrow tells how images struck on a coin helped her advance her research on the Roman Republic. Read More
Telling History Through Coins Classics Professor Liv Yarrow has been co-directing a project that will allow numismatists, historians, and the like to access a giant database of coin die to expand their scholarship on the Roman Republic. Read More
A “Career” of Giving Back Teanu Reid ’16 began supporting her school and fellow students shortly after she arrived at Brooklyn College. She has continued giving back and engaging with her alma mater as she works on her Ph.D. at Yale. Read More
A Family Legacy Hyman Zimmerberg ’41 won a prestigious math contest and went on to champion education and social justice, along with his wife Helen Yarmush Zimmerberg ’44. Today his children are honoring their father’s wish to give back to his alma mater’s Math Department with a generous gift. Read More
Creating an Army of Educators With New-School Rules In a year that has seen a focus on the underpinnings of racial and social equity issues, concurrent with alarming learning loss in schoolchildren, the Brooklyn College School of Education faculty and alumni—in research and in practice—are stepping up to meet the moment. Read More
A Stellar Board Meet the experts dedicated to cancer research, education, outreach, and removing health disparities who compose the BCCC-CURE advisory board. Read More
