Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Message Archive

Thursday, April 18, 2019

This email is being sent to all members of the Baruch College faculty.

For an archive of announcements sent from the Associate Provost beginning June 2011, click here.

Coming after Sprink Break to Baruch…

Monday, April 29
1:00-2:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 750
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur, Jason Feifer, Editor-in-chief, Entrepreneur magazine
Jason Feifer, Editor-in-chief, Entrepreneur magazine, and host of the entrepreneur-focused podcast “Problem Solvers,” talks about the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.
RSVP: is required. Click here to register.
Tuesday, April 30
12:30-1:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Room 11-217 (IS-STA Conference Room)
The Information Systems and Statistics Research Seminar Series, Prof. Gene Fisch
The recent documentary, “Three Identical Strangers,” highlights the account of identical triplets separated several months after birth and adopted by three different families, only to encounter one another by chance two decades later. As a result of their accidental meeting, they learn later in life about how they came to be separated, followed up, and studied by a psychiatrist researching their development. The purpose of this seminar is to investigate how such a study, referred to as an experiment of sorts, could come into being. I consider the historical roots of the study of monozygotic twins and their development, of human behavior and its assessment, the relationship between genetics and behavior, the concepts of experimental research design, and ethics involved in research with human participants. I also note the current state of affairs of research and ethics with human subjects. For more information contact Rongning Wu.
Wednesday, May 1
12:30-2:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Room 763
Environmental Journalism and the Climate Crisis: The Stakes for Democracy,  Stacy Feldman, Co-Founder and Executive Editor, InsideClimate News
Stacy Feldman is co-founder and executive editor of InsideClimate News. In 2007, she helped launch the news organization. From 2008-2010, she was its energy reporter and foreign editor, reporting extensively on clean energy technologies, forestry issues and the United Nations climate change negotiations. InsideClimate News is a non-profit and non-partisan news organization, focusing on environmental journalism. The publication writes that it “covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped.” InsideClimate News won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
RSVP: to register click here.
Thursday, May 2
10:00 AM-7:15 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Engelman Recital Hall
Poland and the Jews, Keynote Speaker, Art Spiegelman
Join us for our annual day-long conference featuring expert panel discussions exploring public memory and Polish Jewry followed by a keynote lecture at 6.00 PM by Art Spiegelman, author of the critically acclaimed series “Maus.” This event is sponsored by The Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center. For more information click here.
RSVP: click here for ticket information.
8:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Engelman Recital Hall
Alexander String Quartet: Spring Concert
Among the world’s premiere ensembles, the Alexander String Quartet (ASQ) returns to Baruch to perform Mozart: String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428 (1783), Penderecki: String Quartet No. 3 “Leaves of an Unwritten Diary” (2008),  and Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American” (1893). To learn about the ASQ, visit https://asq4.com/.
RSVP: to purchase tickets click here.
 
Tuesday, May 7
12:30-2:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, Room 3-160
2019 Friedman Lecture: “‘Touching at a Distance’: A Meditation on Italian American Soundfulness,”  John Gennari
John Gennari is Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at its African American Edge (2017) and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics (2006), which received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism and the John Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Culture. Gennari’s new work on Italian sonorities is an extension of his pioneering investigation of the interethnic dialogue and mutual influences between the Italian American and African American communities. For more information on this event click here or contact Vincent DiGirolamo.
6:00-8:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Conference Center, 7th floor
Making It in Journalism,  Valerie Block, Editor, CNBC.com; Stevie Borello, Video Editor, Quartz; Hasani Gittens, Deputy Editor, The City; Jose Bayona, Deputy Press Secretary for the City of New York
Baruch journalism alums return to campus to share their career stories and advice at an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the award-winning student magazine, Dollars & Sense. For more information about this event click here or email Vera Haller, Faculty Advisor to Dollars & Sense.
Thursday, May 9
12:30-2:30PM, NVC Main Gym, Level 2B
Creative Inquiry Day
The Honors Program and the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute eagerly await this year’s Creative Inquiry Day! This spirited day of intellectual engagement and collegiality provides an invaluable opportunity for our students to participate in a community of ideas, articulate the exigency of their research in the world beyond the classroom, broaden their scholarly, professional, and personal communication skills, take risks, and have fun. Please encourage your students to register no later than May 5; all research and creative endeavors are welcome! We hope you’ll join us in celebrating undergraduate scholarship, creativity, and engagement. For more information, please visit https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/creativeinquiryday/.
RSVP: to register please click here.

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Happy Spring!

Vanessa Cano
Special Assistant to the Associate Provost
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Vanessa.Cano@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646)660-6517 Fax: (646)660-6531