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A Library Card with a Baruch Connection
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A Weissman student's design for a library card celebrating Black history beat out more than 400 entries in a Brooklyn Public Library contest.
Jneyde Williams won the contest with her colorful illustration of subway riders on a C train looking on as a girl reads a book about African American history.
"The young brown girl is me; since elementary school, I could never keep my head out of a book," she said.
The other riders include historic figures like Jackie Robinson in a baseball uniform, astronaut Mae Jemison in her spacesuit, and Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman elected to Congress (and a CUNY alumna), wearing a VOTE button. Warm, bright colors evocative of African art infuse the design.
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Williams, 21, who uses the name Nehemiah for her work as an artist, starts at Baruch Weissman this fall as an English major transferring in from Borough of Manhattan Community College. "The inspiration behind my design is to show that the key to success is through education and to encourage access to literature for those of impoverished Black communities," she said. Read more from her artist's statement here and follow her on Instagram: @theoneandonlynehemiah.
The library card contest was conceptualized as a way to celebrate and raise awareness of the newly renovated African American Heritage Center at Macon Library in Bed-Stuy.
GET THE CARD: Apply for a BPL card online and you'll be sent the card with Nehemiah's design. If you already have a BPL card, you can switch to the Black American heritage card in person at a local branch.
ONLINE LIBRARY EVENT WITH NEHEMIAH: July 8, 7 p.m. Register here.
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Marlow Prize Winners Announced for MAAA Theses |
Thomas Kapusta (pictured on the left) is the winner of this year's Marlow Prize in Arts Administration for his thesis "Bringing a Programmatic Budget to Bedlam, Inc." Kapusta's research and analysis, written in a compelling and engaging style, applied sound financial and budgeting practices to the goals of the Bedlam off-Broadway theater company.
Honorable mention for the Marlow Prize went to Višnja Begović (pictured on the right) for her thesis "Reaching Teenage Readers: Creative Strategies for Marketing and Selling Teenage Fiction." Begović's consultancy was with Kreativni Centar, a Serbian publishing company specializing in children’s books. Begović offered strategies in an area where there has been little specific research.
Kapusta and Begović are graduates of Weissman's Master of Arts in Arts Administration program. Every student in the program completes a professional consultancy at an arts organization, analyzing an issue for the organization and presenting their findings as a final thesis for their degree. Often, these findings are applicable to an entire field beyond the organization they worked with.
The Marlow Prize is funded by Journalism Professor Eugene Marlow.
Other capstone projects in this year's MAAA program ranged from branding for Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx to inclusive audience strategies for a Cleveland theater.
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Faculty Publications, Grants, and Opportunities |
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BOOK ON WAR BY GLENN PETERSEN: Weissman Anthropology Professor Glenn Petersen is the author of a new book, War and the Arc of Human Experience. "It’s an anthropologist’s attempt to put his professional skills and knowledge, gained in fifty years of work as an ethnographer, to analyzing his own version of the war: what led me to fight in Vietnam, how the reasons I served shaped the way I experienced the fighting, and how those experiences shaped the rest of my life," Petersen said.
Petersen will speak about the book at a Weissman event on veterans' experiences being planned for the fall. Stay tuned for details.
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ARTICLES BY FACULTY AND MEDIA MENTIONS
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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
CON ED GAS SAFETY RESEARCH: The CUNY Office of K-16 Initiatives is requesting proposals from social and behavioral research projects in support of Con Edison’s goal of increasing public awareness of gas safety and of the importance of reporting natural gas odors. DEADLINE: July 12, 5 p.m. Full-time faculty researchers in the areas of public health, human and social behavior, and public affairs or any other relevant fields are encouraged to apply. Up to eight projects will receive $25,000-$35,000 in 2021. Awardees will be notified by Sept. 1. Apply here.
NASA STEM ENGAGEMENT FOR MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS: NASA is committed to finding innovative ways to deliver content and engage students in STEM learning. The NASA Office of STEM Engagement announces a nationwide search for STEM or Education faculty or staff from minority-serving institutions to join NASA’s OSTEM team on a two-year temporary assignment. Applications for the cohort starting January 2022 are due July 20, 2021. Applications for the cohort starting September 2022 are due March 22, 2022. Apply here.
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50 BLACK WOMEN HAVE BEEN KILLED BY POLICE SINCE 2015. GUESS HOW MANY OFFICERS WERE CONVICTED?
"Over the course of two arduous months, I led a team of reporters, researchers, fellows, and graphic designers to create this database, which identifies dozens of officers by name and specifies what happened to them after their involvement in the fatal shootings," she said. "The biggest takeaway? Only 14 officers were fired or charged. Zero of the 100 officers we identified were convicted. I filed dozens of FOIA requests, dug through endless court records, and spoke with activists and family members to dig up and unearth all this information. Police officers went to hell and back to try to stop me and the team from collecting and securing this information."
WSAS Journalism Professor Joshua Mills called it a "powerful and important piece of work."
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BARUCH ALUMNAE IN THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
Between working from home and 24/7 emails, it can be hard to separate our personal and professional lives. How do you refocus on home, family, or leisure activities when work keeps popping up? Angela R. Grotto, who earned her Ph.D. in industrial organizational psychology from Baruch and The Graduate Center, specializes in work-life research. Her paper titled, "Switching Gears: A Self-Regulatory Approach and Measure of Nonwork Role Re-Engagement Following After-Hours Work Intrusions," appears in the Journal of Business and Psychology. One of her co-authors was Erin Eatough, a former Baruch psychology professor.
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