Hess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith to Lecture on “Defending the Humanities” Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida and will serve as Brooklyn College’s Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence for 2024. Read More
Fluent in Any Culture Dean Foster ’69 recognized that cultural competency would be a crucial skill in an increasingly globalized world, so he built a business to teach it. Read More
Global Ambitions Army veteran and graduate student Gerard Placide has already traveled the world through his singing. Now he wants to change the world through diplomacy. Read More
Mentoring Is in Our DNA Powered by a grant from The Tow Foundation, mentoring has become a transformative force on campus. Read More
Professor Liv Mariah Yarrow on “Finding Graduate Funding to Study Antiquity” Professor and Chair Liv Mariah Yarrow from the Department of Classics published a piece in the educational blog Past Imperfect titled, “Finding Graduate Funding to Study Antiquity,” which touched on what makes Brooklyn College Read More
New Grant Will Help Brooklyn College Better Serve AAPI Students Women’s Center Director Sau-fong Au and Associate Professor Yung-Yi Diana Pan will serve as principals for programing to support mentoring, mental health, curriculum development, and other initiatives. Read More
Professor Benjamin Carp on Supporting Graduate Students The article discusses how “networking won’t save us, but we should endeavor to clear pathways instead of pulling up ladders or staying in our bubbles.” Read More
A Global Change-Maker Sophomore and Watson Fellow Ricky Costas-Hernandez aims to make worldwide change with food security. Read More
Faculty Publish Book on Gender Issues in Strength Sports Cultural Anthropology Professor and Children and Youth Studies Director Katie Rose Hejtmanek from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Natural and Behavioral Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Melissa Forbis Read More
Brooklyn College Launches Book Event Series to Highlight Faculty Authors To help celebrate and share the news about recent Brooklyn College faculty book projects, the college’s Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities has launched the “New Books by BC Faculty Event Read More
