A Matter of Taste Bitter or sweet? More than just a preference on our palate, they can dramatically alter our moral judgments. Read More
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 Read More
A Trip to Honduras on Medical Brigade Changes Lives for Both Students and Locals For most people, a trip to Honduras revolves around reef diving, Mayan ruins and visits to biological reserves. For a group of 23 Brooklyn College students, however, it involved something Read More
Annual Science Research Day Draws Record Number of Entries When some 300 students, faculty and staff participated in this spring’s 21st Science Research Day at Brooklyn College, they set a new record for the annual event: They presented 137 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
Debate Team Concludes Another Successful Season Brooklyn College’s industrious speech and debate team have wrapped up another winning season highlighted by a trip to Budapest, Hungary in March to take part in the International Forensics Association Read More
Senior to Receive Certificate for Stellar Performance at Prestigious Mathematics Competition Stan Kats, a senior mathematics major who topped all other entrants in the annual CUNY Math Challenge last spring, will receive a certificate in May honoring him for recording the 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
Polymath in Residence at Brooklyn College Forget the which-came-first puzzle — the chicken or the egg. A more interesting question is: Do chickens prefer attractive people? The answer is yes, according to Stefano Ghirlanda, the new Read More
