Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. recently awarded a major grant to the Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) at York College. The program’s mission is to increase the participation and retention of historically underserved and underrepresented youth in grades 2-9 from Queens County, New York in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering [...]
By the time they’ve reached their final semester before graduating, Business Management majors have absorbed an enormous amount of knowledge from their coursework. Joel Evans’ goal is to help those students use their knowledge to make sound decisions.
That is the objective of “Managerial Decision-Making,” a capstone course that synthesizes virtually everything Business Management students have [...]
For another year, Brooklyn College has been ranked among the best colleges in the United States.
The 2010 edition of the Princeton Review’s The Best 371 Colleges makes note of Brooklyn College’s fantastic library, academically challenging curriculum, and diverse and hard-working student body. The college ratings giant points out that students here represent more than 100 [...]
Brooklyn, NY—Brooklyn College senior Karine Fleurima is gearing up for fall elections. The performance and interactive media arts student in the CUNY Baccalaureate Program is working as an intern on a video voter guide for the 2009 municipal elections at the NBC studios with two other CUNY students.
A joint project sponsored by City Hall, CUNY-TV [...]
The Fine Art of Medicinal Chemistry, a feature story in the spring issue of Brooklyn College Magazine (page 13), was the subject of the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC on Monday, July 27, 2009.
BC Chemistry professors María Contel, Roberto Sánchez-Delgado, and Richard Magliozzo talked about the balance scientists must strike among the human, technical, and [...]
Brooklyn, NY—By his own admission, Frank McCourt complained that the hours he devoted to teaching high school kept him from his writing. But by all accounts, it was also what helped him nourish, shape and hone the voice he would later use to narrate Angela’s Ashes (Scribner, 1996), the book for which he received the [...]
Brooklyn, NY—More than 200 members of the Brooklyn College SEEK Department’s freshmen students ran a successful summer food drive to help community food pantries that provide assistance to people in critical need.
Zoya Khalfin, the coordinator and a counselor for the SEEK Scholars Program, explains that the food drive, part of a statewide initiative of Opportunity [...]
Brooklyn, NY—More than 60 students and faculty from Brooklyn College, CUNY and private colleges visited China this summer with the Study Abroad in China program—the largest group since the program started in 2003. By all accounts, participants were awestruck by what they saw and learned during the month long trip that took them to six [...]
Brooklyn, NY—Athletes and rock icons aren’t the only ones who get some special backstage treatment at Madison Square Garden. On June 11, more than a dozen Brooklyn College students interested in careers in television, sports management, entertainment or related industries took an hour-long, top-to-bottom guided tour of the “most famous arena in the world.” The [...]
Brooklyn, NY—Community Board 14, which represents Flatbush, Midwood and Kensington, bestowed a certificate of appreciation to Brooklyn College’s Nicole Hosten-Haas, director of the Office of College and Community Relations, and Bonnie Implagliazzo, director of the Office of Government and External Affairs, in recognition of their outstanding service to the community.
“We are honored to receive this [...]
