A Lifeline From the Petrie Foundation: Helping Students Cope With Unexpected Hardship Since 2005, more than 430 students at Brooklyn College, and 6,000 in the larger CUNY system, have been helped through Petrie Student Emergency Grants (PSEGs). “These are students who have real emergencies, and yet they stay, which is why we do this,” says Beth J. Lief, executive director of the Petrie Foundation. Read More
New Book Sheds a Different Light on Nobel Prize Winner Wangari Maathai Professor Namulundah Florence explores the educational leadership of the founder of Kenya’s Greenbelt Movement. Read More
Senior Scores Multiple Prestigious Teaching Fellowships The Coney Island native will be able to fulfill his dream of helping others. Read More
Students, Professors Win Significant Awards From the Brooklyn College Foundation’s Rosen Fellowship program to prestigious Guggenheims and Fulbrights, our students and faculty are honored and supported for their creative, scientific, and academic endeavors. Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes New Faculty (Part 3) Joining Brooklyn College’s full-time faculty are a medieval historian who specializes in eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic devotion; Professor of English who conducts research that uses magnetic resonance imaging to capture Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes New Faculty (Part 2) The 2013/2014 academic year is off to a strong start with faculty members from a wide range of disciplines and a growing enrollment. Read More
New York Needs You Fellowships Bolster First-in-Family College Students Fellowship experience enhances education for business major Loney Isaacs. Read More
Another Brooklyn College Senior Wins Fulbright Award This Year Graduating senior Adriana Caruso has just added some credence to the old saw that good things come in threes: She won a Fulbright award to teach English in Spain, making Read More
