Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, beginning December 3
November 30, 2020
This week @ Baruch…
Thursday, December 3
12:30 PM-1:30PM
Financial Success and Career Happiness: How to Achieve Both, speakers, Thomas Miele Managing Director, Private Wealth Management Alliance Bernstein , Cooper Harris, Founder and CEO Klickly and Terrence F. Martell, Director, Weissman Center For International Business Saxe Distinguished Professor of Finance
The Mitsui USA Forum series brings prominent speakers from the worlds of business to discuss timely topics related to international business. For more information, contact Ms. Ruthy Gascot.
6:00 PM-7:30PM
Speaking Truth to Power: Demanding a Response to Structural Inequality, moderators, Professor Marcus Johnson, Political Science, and Teona Pagan (BC ’21)
New York City residents have been forced to contend with long-running racial and economic disparities in public health, housing security, policing, and education. These political, social, and racial dimensions of structural inequality have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This round table discussion will feature student, academic, and policy voices in a conversation about the work the City has done–as well as what remains to be done. We invite you to join us in this vital discussion–please bring your questions, concerns, and an open mind. For more information and a full list of panelists, visit https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blackandlatinostudies/?p=243. Sponsored by the Black and Latino Studies Department and the Black Studies Colloquium.
Friday, December 4
12:00 PM-1:15 PM
Natural Sciences Faculty Seminar Series, presenter, Aparna Kesarwala, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Aparna Kesarwala, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, will discuss her work on “The Effect of Radiation Therapy on Cancer Metabolism.” Dr. Kesarwala’s laboratory research focuses on the central hypothesis that altering cancer cell metabolism can increase radiation response. Over half of cancer patients receive radiation therapy during their course of treatment, but radiation therapy volumes and doses are currently largely based on anatomic location, tissue of origin, stage, and/or grade, as opposed to molecular or metabolic characteristics of tumors. Altered metabolic pathways are currently molecular targets of great therapeutic interest, as cancer cells have fundamentally different metabolism from normal cells. Tumors produce increased levels of lactate via aerobic glycolysis, a long-described phenomenon known as the Warburg effect, but significant metabolic heterogeneity among individual tumors also exists.
EMAIL: Rebecca Spokony for Zoom information.
Looking forward…
Thursday, December 10
1:00 PM-2:00PM
Frida Kahlo’s Two Fridas: Crafting Paintings and Multiple Identities, presenter, Professor Gail Levin, Fine and Performing Arts
Baruch Professor of Art History Gail Levin will speak about the work of Frida Kahlo. In the large-scale double self-portrait, called Two Fridas (1939), Frida Kahlo suggested her dual nature, her multiple ethnic identities. The image on the right is dressed in Tehuana costume, while that on the left wears a European Victorian-style dress. Some of many interpretations argue that the Frida dressed in Mexican outfit, who holds Diego Rivera’s
portrait, is the one that he loved. This talk also features international homages to this painting by Mongolian and Japanese artists. This event is presented in the new series: A Tour of the World in 6 Artworks. It is developed by the Weissman Center for International Business, and is free and open to the Baruch community.
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