CIS Assistant Professor Rivka Levitan Awarded $500,000 NSF CAREER Award to Study Entrainment The grant will support Levitan’s entrainment research for the next five years and fund the collection of a new corpus of task-oriented speech to enable the analysis of important questions about entrainment. Read More
How to Have a Good Death: David Balk Recognized for his Scholarship on Death and Grieving The Association for Death Education and Counseling recently awarded the health and nutrition sciences professor the Academic Educator Award for excellence in the field of thanatology. Read More
Elena Felder’s Google Search Yields Terrific Results The computer and information science alumna says her education exceptionally prepared her for her current position at the tech giant. Read More
Trials and Interventions Psychology Professor Angelo DiBello scores multiple grants to document drinking patterns and test interventions for college students. Read More
Award-winning Poet Sonia Sanchez Examines the Power of Black Women’s Politics at Brooklyn College’s Shirley Chisholm Day Celebration The event, which commemorated the 50th Anniversary of alumna Shirley Chisholm’s historic election to the U.S. Congress, also featured other preeminent scholars in the world of black women’s politics. Read More
Brooklyn College Global Medical Brigades Focuses on Sustainable Health in Central Panama With the generous support of Bernard H. ’62 and Ethel B. Garil, Brooklyn College Global Medical Brigades students got the opportunity to work with indigenous communities in a manner that prioritized holistic prevention and empowerment. Read More
What Alumni Mentorship Means for Student Success Renee Blumenfrucht ’15 was prepared to give up on securing a dream job—until Leonardo Rizzi ’93 and the Brooklyn College Magner Career Center intervened. Read More
CIS Professor Michael Mandel Awarded $500,000 NSF Grant to Explore How Manmade Sounds and Climate Change Affect Animal Migration Mandel’s research aims to help computers better understand sound. Read More
Sign Up for CS Club Students and professors can sign up to be notified when a CS Club event is upcoming. We will be promoting events hosted by companies like Bloomberg and IBM, doing technical interview prep and workshops this year. Read More
