St. Joseph College’s newest member is Dr. IAN BECKFORD, who is a former senior evaluation officer with the Academy for Educational Development (AED). He will be the director of Institutional Research and Assessment at the college, which has a campus in Clinton Hill. An esteemed researcher with two masters degrees in addition to his doctorate..
Jane E. BrodyPhoto courtesy of LICH Looking ahead, Long Island College Hospital (LICH) hosts its annual BREAST HEALTH AWARENESS luncheon on Friday, Oct. 27. Held at the Palm House at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the luncheon will honor New York Times health columnist (and Brooklynite) JANE E. BRODY and ANTONIO E. ALFONSO, M.D., chairman of the department of..
Derek Bermel (center) and the band Peace by Piece Photo by Naomi Ben-Shahar And finally music lovers — you haven’t been forgotten — save Friday night, Oct. 27, for the Brooklyn band PEACE BY PIECE, performing at BAMcafe. Led by DEREK BERMEL, a clarinetist, composer, pop singer, and xylophone player (to mention just a few),..
One of our favorite people was featured in the Times City section Sunday. Brooklyn Navy Yard archivist DANIELLA ROMANO talked about her role as chief curator of the some 32,000 engineering and architectural drawings — many of them over 200 years old — that are crucial to the Navy Yard’s current $100-million renovation. “I like projects..
Photogenic brides, wicked hot chocolate and delectable ice cream are just some of the usual fair under the Brooklyn bridge these days, but this weekend DUMBO’s 10th annual art under the bridge festival is taking over the neighborhood. Created in 1997 by d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) founder JOY GLIDDEN, the three-day festival now draws as..
James McBride NYU’s Distinguished Writer-In-Residence and Red Hook native JAMES MCBRIDE will travel to Clinton Hill on Thursday, October 19, to be the featured speaker at St. Joseph’s College’s annual Founders Day event. The free lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Brooklyn College. McBride is the author of The Color of..
Alison JaggarPhoto courtesy of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus As an incredibly diverse college that also has a majority of women students, Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus is an ideal platform for guest speaker ALISON JAGGAR. A professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Jaggar is a leading feminist philosopher who will give an..
Allen Burdowski Congrats to ALLEN BURDOWSKI, the new associate dean for Graduate and Professional Studies at St. Francis College in the Heights. At the self-professed “small college of big dreams” since 2001, Dr. Burdowski is leaving big shoes to fill since he is currently chairman of the Biology Department and the IT Department as well..
Peter NeufeldPhoto courtesy of Daylife.com Heights resident PETER NEUFELD testified Tuesday in Manhattan at a public hearing of the Assembly Committee on Codes. Neufeld is co-founder and co-director of The Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that only handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence. The purpose of..
Canoers at Gowanus Dredgers’ Blues Cruise earlier this month. Photo by Jonathan Barkey (c)2006 If you don’t want to be in DUMBO this weekend, a different waterfront experience can be had on the shore of the Gowanus Canal. Ellie Hanlon, Erik Baard, Owen Foote and the rest of the GOWANUS DREDGERS invite you to Oktoberfest..