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Two Brooklyn College students have been accepted to the prestigious Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship Program, which will give them the opportunity to participate in summer internships for the next three years and receive a stipend totaling $17,000.

Matt Vann ’11 is about to finish his nine-month stint in the prestigious NYC Urban Fellowship program, where he works at the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

Major League Baseball has been absent from Brooklyn for 55 years. That was how long ago it was when Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley unceremoniously uprooted the beloved team from its Ebbets Field home in Flatbush and transplanted “dem Bums” to the dusty environs of Chavez Ravine outside Los Angeles. The move left Brooklyn Dodger fans with the bitter taste of betrayal in their mouths and earned the O’Malley family a seemingly unending stream of heated invective to this day.

Whitman Theater will rock on Friday, April 27, when the Lt. Dan Band, featuring actor Gary Sinise and his fellow bandmates, takes the stage at 7 p.m. for a live benefit concert.

Sabia Akbar’s hands trembled as she wrapped the blood pressure cuff around her patient’s arm. It was her first day serving in a rural clinic in Honduras as a member of Brooklyn College’s Global Medical Brigades. Along with the club’s 24 other members, Akbar was just beginning a four-week journey to bring health care and medical supplies to a needy outpost in a Third World country.

Sabia Akbar’s hands trembled as she wrapped the blood pressure cuff around her patient’s arm. It was her first day serving in a rural clinic in Honduras as a member of Brooklyn College’s Global Medical Brigades. Along with the club’s 24 other members, Akbar was just beginning a four-week journey to bring health care and medical supplies to a needy outpost in a Third World country.

Square or round, plain or stuffed with different fillings, served with or without mustard, the humble knish has been intriguing Laura Silver for years. Silver, who earned an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1998, recently brought her interest in the potato pocket to campus when she hosted a talk about the history of the knish and her personal connections to the food. “Knish Parmigiana: Jews, Italians, and an Appetite for Survival” was a preshow event for the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts’ presentation of Steve Solomon’s off-Broadway comedy My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy.

Jennifer Basil, associate professor of biology, is among the 300 best professors in the country, according to the newest book from The Princeton Review.

In his dark New York tale of love, murder, revenge and prostitution, Eddie Bernard displays all the skills he has learned at Brooklyn College that are helping him fuel his filmmaking career.

Four Brooklyn College graduate programs garnered national attention when U.S. News & World Report selected them for its newly released annual rankings of the best graduate school programs in the country.

Benjamin Rudshteyn, a junior in the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College who is majoring in chemistry, made campus history when he won a Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious and competitive awards for undergraduate students who plan to pursue careers in science, mathematics or engineering.

Hundreds of species call Jamaica Bay home, but decades of development in the surrounding area are threatening their habitat. Although much work has been done to restore its natural state, there is much yet to be accomplished. Scientists from Brooklyn College are seeking solutions.

Brooklyn College is an academic powerhouse when it comes to preparing women for leadership, and National Women’s History Month provided multiple opportunities to celebrate this legacy.

Two decades after becoming Brooklyn College’s first Rhodes Scholar, Lisette Nieves ’92 has returned to her alma mater as a member of the faculty.

Ned Sublette, an adjunct instructor in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, will be traveling to Angola and Haiti starting this summer to report on how indigenous religions are reflected in music, thanks to a fellowship he received from the University of Southern California – Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

If the global society views women differently, from a more enlightened perspective, much of the credit can be assigned to Marge Magner ‘69 and Associate Professor Barbara Winslow, two of 30 leaders who were honored by the National Council for Research on Women. The distinction put them in the company of luminaries like CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien and law professor Anita Hill.

The development of nonmetal, environmentally friendly catalysts is a relatively new area of chemical research, and with a major grant from the National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Stacey E. Brenner-Moyer can make some critical advancements in this emerging field.

They have an app for where you’re at — a smartphone application that packages storytelling, history and technology by pinning stories to physical locations on a map, from Australia to New Orleans and everywhere in between.

Four Brooklyn College alumnae, all prominent members of New York’s experimental theater scene, recently participated in a panel on that discussed female theater artists — and their consistent underrepresentation on American stages.

In its long list of accomplishments, Brooklyn College just added another historical milestone when it became the first higher education institution in the United States to implement a participatory budgeting project, which will enable all students to determine how to spend a portion of the funds allocated to the student government — at least $20,000.