Watch (13.25) CUNY BA alumna (B.A. 2013) and Teach for America corps member Hogai Aryoubi in a skit on The Late Show with David Letterman. It’s about top ten reasons why one becomes a teacher. Hogai delivers reason number three. It’s very funny! http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/W0psFIezQ0UfzGKOmNdTQuvtY4GeLDMj/the-late-show-5-9-2013/
Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Baruch College and on the doctoral faculty in public health and sociology at the Graduate Center is a faculty mentor for Lyric Croy, who is pursuing a CUNY BA degree in “Women’s Health.” Professor Rothman is the perfect mentor for this concentration because [...]
From the Big Screen to the Soccer Field Nov. 30, 2012 Petcu is one of the captains of the Brooklyn College women’s soccer team. You would never guess it from watching the Brooklyn College women’s soccer captain lead her teammates this season, but Florina Petcu was once called a “shameless, cigarette-waving, Albanian floozy” by The [...]
Faculty Mentor Kenneth A. Gould, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brooklyn College and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center recently co-edited (with Tammy L. Lewis) Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology. The book is organized around four themes commonly examined in introductory courses: What is sociology? What unites society? What [...]
Cannes, France–Judianny Compres (Tower Heist, NYC 22) stars in Happy New Year! a Harlem drama premiering at the Cannes Film Festival—Court Metrage—John Mancini, Executive Producer. Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Bedroom” and set in New York, Happy New Year! tells the story of Soledad, a Harlem poet who amidst the crowd and holiday [...]
They Come in PEACE May 21, 2012 Ben Wasserman at the East New York Family Academy. On a breezy spring morning, four Brooklyn College students huddle inside a tomato-red trailer on a gated campus at the corner of Linden Boulevard and Van Siclen Avenue. Soon, roughly 15 high school students will file into this makeshift [...]
Kayhan Irani Making Her Mark on the World’s Stage When she was in fourth grade, Kayhan Irani (CUNY BA, 2008) wrote her first full-length play. “It was about a woman suffragette who was fighting for women’s right to vote and was in an abusive relationship,” she says. “A wonderful teacher let me put it on [...]
Eric Carlsen is a CUNY Baccalaureate student pursuing dual Areas of Concentration in Sustainability Modeling: (1) Business Organization and (2) Food Systems. Most recently, Eric was awarded with the CUNY Baccalaureate 2012 Thomas Smith Fellowship. He has also been profiled in an article on Brooklyn College’s website: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_120216.php
Recent alumna Drea Bernardi beat the 50,000-to-one odds and scored a plum job with the renowned chef.
Most recently Raja was again on The Takeaway with Professor Nancy Yousef providing commentary on the Arab Spring: http://www.thetakeaway.org/2011/dec/29/look-back-arab-spring/ Earlier post: Among the three laureates of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is Tawakkul Karman, a young Yemeni woman who led protests against the regime of President Ali Adbullah Saleh. CUNY BA student, Raja Althaibani, marched along [...]
