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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 in the Graphic Novel Format.
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 something new about medieval theatrical traditions that have gone overlooked and understudied while also making important and exciting contributions to current theories of performance and performativity. The committee found Swift’s book innovative, engaging, and beautifully expressed.”
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). Four additional books are in contract with the series at this time.
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 (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 providing vital nutrition to astronauts. Read more . . .
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 (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 (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 atmospheric sciences.” The formal presentation of the award will occur in conjunction with the 105th AMS Annual Meeting to be held 12-16 January 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
