Volume 8 | Number 1
The Resilience Issue
Features
Teaching in the Pandemic
With a lot of patience, creativity, and a tenacity matched by that of their students, many professors made it through the spring semester. Over the summer, they upped their game and came back this fall with some new skills.
A Broader Narrative
Often against convention, Brooklyn College’s artists of color are known for turning typical notions of Black art on its end. Today they are encouraging the next generation of artists and art lovers to forge ahead in this tradition, but with the added role of crashing the gates of a long-established institution to become stewards of the American art scene.
Keeping It Reel
Faculty and alumni mentors, internship programs, and a new executive director at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema are helping students to polish their soft skills for careers in a notoriously tough industry.
Bright Lights
Junior racquetball champ Akul Ramayani begins his freshman year at Brooklyn College with star-athlete determination and plans for a career in medicine.
After directing a video for Grammy Award–winning artist Ciara, senior film student Annie Bercy is on a path to follow her dreams.
In This Issue
Professor David Aulicino and two colleagues answer questions about the 12-sided dodecahedron, a shape mathematicians have been studying for two millennia.
Faculty members join forces to create an archive for the college community’s tales from the pandemic.
Reflections on transitioning many of the college’s services to the virtual environment.
Newsmakers
Health and Nutrition Sciences Professor Melissa Fuster wants to help restaurants get healthy.
Ocean Vuong ’12 and De’Shawn Charles Winslow ’11 ’13 M.F.A. Recognized for Their Contributions to Multicultural Literature
His lighting designs for two smash Broadway musicals make theater world’s most prestigious shortlist.
Alumni News
Don’t call him “the RBG artist,” but Jac Lahav ’08 has a body of work, a fundraiser, and some family lore that inextricably bind him to the late Supreme Court Justice.
The 1982 Final Four Men’s Basketball Team to Be Inducted to Hall of Fame
Class Notes is an excellent way for alumni to keep up-to-date with news about the progress of classmates and peers.
Final Thoughts
Before CUNY athletic events were suspended because of COVID-19, Brooklyn College sports celebrated some historic wins.
After a painstaking restoration and upgrade, the clocktower and cupola on the Brooklyn College Library building will be as good as new and better.