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Weissman Brings Home the Trophies:
NSF, Fulbright, NEH, Salk
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Professor Louis-Pierre Arguin (Mathematics) has won a $278,839 grant from the National Science Foundation to study extreme value statistics in probabilistic number theory.

The funding will be disbursed from 2022 to 2024 and will support Arguin's research, travel, and conference and workshop participation. The grant will also provide funding for two PhD students and two Baruch undergraduate research assistants. The undergrads will work on codes of numerical experiments.

Arguin's research interests are number theory, probability, and statistical mechanics. He recently published a textbook, A First Course in Stochastic Calculus, and he is the recipient of the André Aisenstadt Prize for outstanding research achievement by a young Canadian mathematician.
FULBRIGHT: Professor Mark Rice (History) has received a fellowship from the Fulbright US Scholar Program to conduct research in Peru. His project, “Seeking Roads to Progress: Highway Construction and Social Change in Peru, 1920-1960,” investigates the social and political consequences of road construction and infrastructure development in 20th century Peru.

Rice’s field is Latin America and Caribbean history, with a focus on the Andean region and modern Peru. His book Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru examines the transformation of Machu Picchu into a global tourist attraction.

He was recently quoted by The New York Times for his expertise on Machu Picchu for a story about new research on the site’s name. The new findings “dispel the myth that Machu Picchu was an eternal lost city,” Rice told the Times. “Like most of the Andes, the site was, and continues to be, a dynamic place with a shifting history.”
NEH FELLOWSHIP: Professor Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies) has been selected as a 2022 Summer Faculty Fellow for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for Higher Education. He will be participating in a professional development program titled, “Concepts of Black Diaspora in the United States: Identity and Connections among African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American Communities.”
 
Along with teaching, researching, and writing, Robles has substantial work as a fiction writer, playwright, and filmmaker. His research interests are located at the intersection of Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Film and Afro-Latinx Cultural Studies. With his BLS colleague Professor Rebecca Salois, he co-hosts a podcast called Latinx Visions. He is working on a book about Boricua out-of-the-page poetics and dispersed archives of dissent. He is also developing a series of articles about cinegraphic and intermedial literature in Puerto Rico, Latin America, and US Latinx communities.​
 
Robles' recent articles include "NYC Salsa Locus: Víctor Hernández Cruz’s Poetic Steps" and "El laboratorio cinegráfico de Pedro Pietri," about the Nuyorican writer Pedro Pietri's story "Lost in the Museum of Natural History."
SALK AWARD: Baruch College alumna Katsiaryna (Kate) Milashevich ’21 is among eight CUNY students to win 2022 Jonas E. Salk Scholarships for their research. Her work on "Mitochondrial Distribution of Glycine Receptors in Motor Neuron Cell Lines" was done under the mentorship of Professor Pablo Peixoto (Natural Sciences).

Noting her "brilliance, drive, scientific curiosity, independent thinking, and integrity," Peixoto said his former student "embodies the qualities of a promising future medical student and professional. Kate’s track record of excellence in the classroom, the research laboratory and in clinical volunteering certainly catalyzed her acceptance into medical school." Milashevich is Peixoto's third student to win a Salk.

Milashevich was drawn to medicine as a career path after her younger brother was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. "I began to explore a multitude of contemporary studies to understand his diagnosis," she said. She's now on a gap year working with patients at CityMD as a medical scribe while deciding which medical school to attend.

Milashevich credited the family-like atmosphere in the Department of Natural Sciences with nurturing her interests. She said the students all know each other and the professors know every student, adding: "They reach out to you with your best interests in mind, to ensure no opportunity evades you ... No matter my future ambitions, I still have a family at Baruch."

Salk winners get $8,000 over four years toward medical school or science PhDs. The award honors City College alumnus Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine.
Faculty Publications and Media Mentions
Black and Latino Studies Interim Chair Professor Shelly Eversley was quoted at length in a story by The Associated Press about the Will Smith controversy. The story was published in several dozen media outlets around the world.
 
Journalism adjunct Eisa Nefertari Ulen wrote about the Will Smith controversy for The Hollywood Reporter  and was interviewed by PBS Newshour.

Professor Glenn Albright (Psychology) co-authored an article in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Sciences called “High School Educator Training by Simulation to Address Emotional and Behavioral Concerns in School Settings: A Randomized Study.” The study, which had 31,144 participants in 43 states and five American Territories, is designed to help teachers support at-risk students.

Professor Els de Graauw (Political Science) co-authored an article titled "Between a rock and a hard place: mayors, migration challenges and multilevel political dynamics," published in Territory, Politics, Governance.
Events
CUBA'S FREE PRESS: Talk by Professor Ted Henken (Sociology) hosted by George Mason University. "Independent Journalism, Digital Technology, and Resistance to 'la Revolucion': the Two Waves of Rebirth of Cuba’s Free Press." Wednesday, April 13, 1:30 pm. Details here.
WHITING AWARD WINNER: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Whiting Award winner for her book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, will hold a conversation led by students from the Black and Latino Studies capstone course “Climate Justice is Racial Justice.” This event is presented by the Department of Black and Latino Studies, the Department of English via Globus Lectures, and the Weissman Dean’s Office. Thursday, April 14, 1 pm. Register here.

BLACK STUDIES COLLOQUIUM: "'Such is Aunt Nancy': Gender, Scavenging, and Racial Capitalism on the Harlem Renaissance Stage," a works-in-progress presentation by Professor Erica Richardson (English), April 28, 6 pm. Register here.


HAPPY HOUR: End-of-year celebratory Happy Hour for Weissman faculty and staff. Co-sponsored by the WSAS Dean’s Office and the WSAS DEI Alliance. May 3, 5 pm-7 pm. Room 750, Baruch Library Building.
Meet the Poets of Baruch
April is poetry month, and a good excuse for celebrating some of Baruch's poets. The name of each writer listed links to one of their poems.

Several lecturers in the English Department are published poets, including Jimin Seo, Evan Gill Smith, Caitlin McDonnell, Chris Campanioni, and Safia Jama. Perhaps Baruch's best-known poet is Distinguished Professor Grace Schulman. From Black and Latino Studies, we have Tonia Leon, who writes poetry in English and Spanish. From the Physics Department, we have Sultan Catto, who won the European Medal of Poetry and Art.
Students and Alumni
CUNY Graduate Center Psychology PhD student Jonas Sutphin, who is mentored by Baruch faculty, was one of two industrial-organizational psychology students in the nation to win a highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
 
Lauren Weber, MABJ ‘02, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was honored for her coverage of management and workplace issues with a Best in Business award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), the nation’s largest organization of business journalism.

Journalism grad Yelena Dzhanova, now a reporter for Insider, won a prestigious Gwen Ifill Fellowship from the International Women's Media Foundation. Dzhanova is also pursuing a master's degree in women's and gender studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Read more here about her work here. Another journalism alumnus, Angel Torres, is now an editor at Politico.

News from the Arts Administration MA program: Student Brianna Anderson applied for an internship with Jacob's Pillow, the Berkshires dance program, but instead they offered her a job to be the institutional support coordinator (and she accepted). Samantha Shokin, a grant writer, was featured by The Wall Street Journal for her activism on behalf of Ukraine, where her family is from.
 
Among Corporate Communications MA alumni, Marquis Green was promoted to senior manager, marketing strategy, accounts-based marketing at the London Stock Exchange Group, and Stacy Aguilar was promoted to US Latin manager for artist and label partnerships at Spotify.
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