Peter Carey, the executive director of Hunter’s MFA program in creative writing, is already a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world – one of only three writers who have won the Man Booker Prize twice. He now could become the only person to win one of the most prestigious awards in the English-language literary world three times. His latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, is one of 13 books nominated for this year’s prize.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, along with the Office of the Manhattan District Attorney and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, co-hosted “Communities & Justice: Partnerships & Challenges for the 21st Century,” a two-day criminal justice symposium.
Novelist Gary Shteyngart (Hunter MFA ’02) has won a rave review from The New York Times for his latest book, Super Sad True Love Story
Professor Alfred Rosenberger, a biological anthropologist at Brooklyn College, and Curt Bowen and Walter Picket, two professional underwater cave divers of the ADM Foundation, uncovered a rare fossil of a small monkey that inhabited the Caribbean centuries ago.
Professor Margaret J Reilly and Professor Patricia Burke of the Department of Nursing at Queensborough Community College (QCC) have been selected as Health Information Technology Scholars (HITS).
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), and The State University of New York (SUNY) Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) received a $3 million U.S. Department of Labor, Community-Based Job Training Grant (CBJTG) to prepare individuals for employment in four high-growth health care jobs.
Barry McKernan and Saavik Ford, both assistant professors in the BMCC Science Department, have long been fascinated by black holes, those mysterious regions in deep space from which nothing—not even light—can escape. But, like other astronomers, they have been stymied in their efforts to study “supermassive black holes,” which throw off enough light to drown out neighboring bodies.
Data collected by City College’s New York City Meteorological Network (NYCMetNet), indicate that during the first July heat wave overnight low temperatures ran 10 to 15 degrees (Fahrenheit) higher in Manhattan than in Long Island or in western New Jersey, while daytime highs were roughly the same. NYCMetNet is a networked system of several hundred ground-based sensors throughout metropolitan New York that gather weather and climate data.
The inaugural swim at the new swimming pool in the West Quad Center on July 12 was made by some of the best swimmers Brooklyn College ever fielded. Hall of Famer and CUNY Champion relayer Jim “Zozo” Spellman, ’74, along with Sean Keller, ’76 (CUNY Champion backstroke), and Rich McCluskey, ’76, took to the lanes as if they had never left.
“Funny.”
“Sincere.”
“Enthusiastic.”
These are just some of the adjectives students used to describe adjunct speech professor Sam Blank on the popular Web site “Rate My Professors.”
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