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 MoreBrooklyn College Professor Tackling Toxic Algae Blooms
Professor Jennifer Cherrier’s all-natural ecoWEIR system is being tested at Prospect Park.
Read MoreNative Tongues
A Brooklyn College professor explores African-American English, and finds a campus where the cultural and linguistic diversity speaks her language.
Read MoreA Fortuitous Find
Numismatist and historiographer Liv Yarrow tells how images struck on a coin helped her advance her research on the Roman Republic.
Read MoreTelling 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 MoreA “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 MoreA 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 MoreCreating 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 MoreA Stellar Board
Meet the experts dedicated to cancer research, education, outreach, and removing health disparities who compose the BCCC-CURE advisory board.
Read MoreReaching (Out) for a Cure
The newly opened Brooklyn College Cancer Center is looking to build on the school’s already robust reputation for cancer research and expand educational opportunities for students who are choosing careers in the field of oncology. But there is an equally important third goal: outreach to its surrounding community to help address disparities in cancer studies, treatment, and education.
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05.12.2021
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Susan Landers