Johanna Fernández in The NY Times

Professor of English Johanna Fernández is quoted in the August, 24th issue of the New York Times. Thanks to her career-long archival practice, Brown University has acquired Mumia Abu-Jamal’s personal papers — 60 boxes of letters, notebooks, manuscripts, pamphlets, artifacts, books and other materials that were stored by Fernández in her apartment for a decade.

Read the article here, and a more detailed account from Brown University here.

Andrea Gabor in The Washington Post

Bloomberg Chair of Business Journalism Professor Andrea Gabor critiques the new prevalence of online schooling in an article published by the Washington Post

David Gruber in Smithsonian

Prof. David Gruber has discovered that the variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus, pictured here under white light) contains more antifreeze proteins than observed in any other polar marine animal.

This Arctic Snailfish Is Loaded With Antifreeze Proteins

Debra Caplan on NPR

Professor of Theater Debra Caplan is interviewed on Jefferson Public Radio for "COVID through the lens of previous plagues: are we forgetting?" A fascinating look at the lack of literature surrounding the 1918-1920 flu epidemic.

Listen in!

David Jones Explores Public Opinion around Gun Control in The Conversation

In the wake of the latest school shooting in Uvalde, Political Science Professor David Jones offers some reasons why gun control laws don't pass in congress despite the feelings of the American majority, and explores four factors that led to Biden's signing of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” on June 25th, 2022.

Read the articles here and here.

Ted Henken on ABC 7's Tiempo

The Biden administration recently reversed several policies put in place by former President Donald Trump concerning the US' diplomatic relationship to Cuba. Professor Henken gives us insight into all the impacts.

Yochi Cohen-Charash in VOX and On The Air

In "It’s okay to be envious. It can even be a good thing," Psychology Professor Cohen-Charash reminds us that even those emotions that seem most negative, might serve a productive purpose in our psychic lives.

She was also interviewed on "The Morning Beat" on Channel Q in LA. Listen in!

Christina Christoforatou Reviews Thirteenth Century Romance and Joins BSANA

Professor of English Christina Christoforatou was invited to review the first critical edition and translation of a thirteenth century romance for the Medieval Academy of America. The review is forthcoming in the Academy’s journal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 97, no 4. 

Additionally, she was elected to the governing board of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America for a four-year term. She was also appointed co-chair of Graduate Student Programming for the BSC-Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture after completing a two-year term as member of the Programming Committee for the International Congress on Medieval Studies.  

Till Weber in Polity

Professor Till Weber published in this July's issue of Polity. In addition to authoring the article, "Quantitative Populism: Of Shapes and Shades," he edited a symposium which focuses on the ongoing wave of populist politics around the globe. The symposium proposes a ground-breaking model that helps us understand and explain the many varieties of populist phenomena in a systematic way.

Rafael Walker in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Weissman's Professor of English penned, and was quoted in, a series of persuasive articles on race, twitter, and the state of the academy for the Chronicle this summer. Check them all out below.

Who Gets to Write About Whom?

Race on Campus: Should the 'B' in 'Black' Be Capitalized?

Is Twitter Making Academe Stupid and Mean?

Elyse Mendel, Director of Weissman Graduate Career Services, Wins Big

On May 20, 2022, Mendel attended the annual conference for the Career Services Association of CUNY (CSAC), where she presented a workshop on “Developing Your Interview Skills with Improv” and received a Second Place Award For Innovative CUNY Career Services Programs in Campus Community Engagement.

In addition, she came in third place as part of a collaborative effort with the CUNY Graduate Center, the Baruch Marxe School, and the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for Innovative CUNY Career Services Programs in Virtual Employer Engagement and Partnerships for our “CUNY Public / Private Impact Career Days.”

Natural Sciences Alumna, Necrisha Roach, Adds an MA from Harvard to her CV

"Last year I decided I wanted to get more involved in quality improvement and understanding how health systems work. So, I enrolled in Harvard's Masters in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Program. With God's grace and unwavering support from family and friends, I completed a 2 year program in 10 months while working full time. This week, I became a Harvard Alum and at graduation my COVID vaccination leadership project was voted number #1 and I was the recipient of the Student Leadership Award." 

Ellen Chan wins LAGRANT Scholarship

Chan is working on her MA in Corporate Communication at Weissman. The LAGRANT Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase the number of ethnic minorities in the fields of advertising, marketing and public relations by providing scholarships, career & professional development workshops, and internships/entry-level positions

Political Reporting Class Takes on Arizona

Students in Baruch’s Journalism Department’s Spring '22 political reporting class, co-taught by professors Andrea Gabor and Vera Haller, traveled to the Phoenix area over this past spring break and produced a package of news stories about the political situation in Arizona ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Their stories have been published in Dollars & Sense and can be read here on a remarkable website they created. 

Two Undergraduates Publish on Quantum Tunneling

Ayelet Segal (left, soon to attend Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Victor Siev (soon to attend Long Island University College of Veterinary Medicine) in Professor Greer’s research group in the Department of Natural Sciences, co-authored a paper on quantum tunneling in the biosynthesis of the natural product tetrahydrocannabinol. The paper was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.