Sara Gómez Woolley (Communication Design) was interviewed for the PW podcast, More to Come, where she discussed ‘Comics As a Second Language’, an anthology of student work that came out of a course she developed and taught last fall at the CUNY Graduate Center, The Art of Visual Memory: Exploring and Creating Biography and Memoir…
Christopher Swift Wins Bevington Prize for Book on Medieval Theatre
Christopher Swift (Humanities) has won this year’s Bevington Prize from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) for his book, Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. The committee of judges wrote, “Swift’s impressive monograph brings Iberian theater out of the blind-spot of the field of early drama studies and teaches us…
Sarah Ann Standing Publishes Two New Books in Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance Series
Sarah Ann Standing (Humanities) has issued two new books in her book series, Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance (STEP) for Routledge Press, for AY 2023-2024: Angenette Spalink, Choreographing Dirt: Movement, Performance, and Ecology in the Anthropocene (2023) and Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley (eds.) Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages (2024)….
Faculty Trio Receives NEH Grant for Humanities Curriculum Enrichment Project
Diana Samaroo (Chemistry), David Sanchez-Jimenez (Humanities), and Melanie Villatoro (Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology) recently received a three-year award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project on “Enriching the Humanities Curriculum to Embrace Cultural Relevance.” Read more . . ….
Akm Rahman and Ozlem Yasar Awarded NASA Grant for Microgreens in Space Research
Akm Rahman and Ozlem Yasar (Mechanical Engineering Technology) were awarded a grant from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) for a research project, “Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate for Seed Growth: Microgreens in Space,” to address the challenges of microgreen cultivation using a minimum amount of water in space, thereby…
Robert Polchinski Featured in The Guardian Article on Window Air Conditioners
Robert Polchinski (Environmental Control Technology) was interviewed for an August article in the Guardian “From A to C: how to get the most out of your window air conditioner.”…
Paul King Appointed Director of Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center
Paul King (Architectural Technology) has been appointed Director of the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center following Richard Hanley’s retirement from the position this past spring….
Reginald Blake Honored with The Charles E. Anderson Award by AMS
Reginald Blake (Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research) has been honored by the Council of the American Meteorological Society with a vote to receive The Charles E. Anderson Award. The citation reads: “For being a selfless champion of BIPoC students, an inspiring mentor, and a treasured colleague who enriches DEIJ efforts in the…
Nina Bannett Publishes New Poetry Collection, Motion Photos, Exploring Loss and PSP
Nina Bannett (English) dissects the connection between physical and emotional loss in her new Poetry collection, Motion Photos. Written as a response to her father’s passing following a battle with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare and incurable neurological disease, the book is both an expression of grief for Bannett and an opportunity to highlight…
Illya Azaroff Elected 2025 President-elect of AIA’s Board of Directors
Illya Azaroff (Architectural Technology) has been elected President of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors, as 2025 President-elect/2026 President. Read more . . . Professor Azaroff was profiled in June as “a visionary architect dedicated to disaster mitigation, adaptation, and regenerative design” in the online newsletter, Disrupt. Read the full article….