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Monica Berger recently published a chapter entitled “Teaching Authors about Predatory Journals in the One-on-One Consultation” in the Scholarly Communications Cookbook, edited by Brianna Buljung and Emily Bongiovanni, published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Her chapter is open access and available via Academic Works. View the chapter at https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/783/.
Biology professor Michael Gotesman published two discrete chapters in Methods in Molecular Biology Book called Cytoskeleton. Chapter 12: Purification of Cytoskeletal Proteins by Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC) Using an ÄKTA Start System which was partially funded by a grant I received in 2020 from 2020 PSC-CUNY Adjunct/CET Professional Development Fund Award. Chapter 18: Using a Hand-Held Gene Gun for Genetic Transformation of Tetrahymena thermophila was based on my PhD Dissertation research conducted at Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Pirate Queens the Dauntless Women who Dared to rule the High Seas, published by National Geographic for Kids, will be released this January 11th, 2022.
By Leigh Lewis and Sara Gómez Woolley, Pirate Queens is a lushly illustrated non-fiction book for middle-grade readers. It was extensively researched in collaboration with the National Geographic team to provide visual reconstructions which are both realistic and artistic, of six different women from six different cultures and time periods, who turned to piracy and ruled their day. Each pirate profile includes a dramatic original poem presented against a backdrop of full-color art. Each profile is followed by fascinating information about the real-life and times of these daring (and dangerous!) women.
Los Pirineos, the mostly true memoirs of Esperancita Gomez, is a fictionalized graphic memoir chronicling a young girl’s upbringing in and eventual exile from 1940’s Colombia, told through the lens of childhood imagination, and is the collaborative product of mother/daughter team, Leila and Sara Gómez Woolley. This book was researched on location in Colombia with the help of a PSC-CUNY award, and the manuscript was edited with the support of the CUNY FFPP program. As of July of 2021, this book has been acquired for publication by Lee & Low Books, the largest multicultural children’s book publisher in the United States.
There are some things they just don’t teach you in design school. Creative leadership, decision-making, and the new systems design needed to navigate a global pandemic are just a few things. Enter Douglas Davis, strategist, author, professor, and now the host of the 5-minute Creative Mentor Series. Douglas will host the first three videos in this personality-driven series aimed at offering focused, bites of thought leadership on specific creative issues important in 2021. Each short video offers a new insight for navigating work as a creative leader and Davis gives an example of what the series seeks to address, “oftentimes, creatives get promoted for doing their job well. What isn’t obvious is that transitioning from creative to leader requires a different skill set.” Developed for creatives who are short on time, the series will be interview style with B-roll and graphics, the series is a creative advice column for the digital age.
Episode 1 focuses on The Creative Strategy Framework, Douglas’ methodology for organizing the chaos in the creative process.
Episode 2 is centered around questioning the answers that may have worked in the past and writing — or rewriting — the creative brief.
Episode 3 is aimed at pitching to decision-makers when they don’t want what they need. The series will include a standalone article, Business skills for creative leaders, that will explore ways to apply the creative strategy framework mentioned in the first video, by going deeper into several scenarios.
In May of 2021, Prof George Garrastegui curated, moderated, and chaired the 2021 AIGA Design + Business Conference. (https://aiga.swoogo.com/business2021/speakers) A 4-day design conference focused on the collaboration and relationship of creative agency and client. It uncovered insights into what drove successful collaboration and communication and explored the decisions that informed the final product—the “how’s” and “why’s” behind the “what.”
In 2022, George will continue as Chair and Moderator of the next AIGA Design + Business Conference and host a monthly creative business webinar series with Branding expert Nakita M. Pope of Branding Chicks.
Renata Ferdinand’s book, An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood: Things I Tell My Daughter, is available for pre-order and is scheduled to be released in November.
Dr. Effinger-Crichlow is a 2021 Cucalorus Works-in-Progress Lab Recipient, which is a residency that allows her to continue work on her documentary film, Little Sallie Walker.
