Mark your calendar for these upcoming events, starting February 16

February 10, 2021

Please note that Baruch College will be closed on Friday, February 12 and Monday, February 15.

Classes that regularly meet on Saturdays will meet as scheduled on Saturday the 13^th.

Next week @ Baruch…

Tuesday, February 16

6:00 PM-7:00 PM

Chinese New Year Gala!

Join NYCIGF@Baruch for a virtual celebration of the Year of the Ox! The program will feature traditional Chinese dance and folk music performed by students from Shanghai International Studies University’s Arts Education Center. Our Chinese guests will also detail Spring Festival customs and traditions rooted in more than 3,000 years of history. Additionally, students from Baruch’s Confucius Institute will demonstrate their Mandarin prowess via poem and song. This will be an evening you don’t want to miss! For more information on this event, click here.

Thursday, February 18

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Psychology Colloquium Series: Gender and Race Gatekeeping, speaker, Mikki Hebl, Rice University

The 2020-2021 Psychology Colloquium Series, co-sponsored by Globus Funds, is delighted to present a talk from Rice University Professor Mikki Hebl, entitled “Gender and Race Gatekeeping.” All are welcome to attend, and registration is encouraged. In this virtual talk, Dr. Hebl will discuss her recent research examining the biases that affect women and racial minorities. These biases are often held by gatekeepers, individuals who have influence over the advancement of other people within an organization or society. In addition to identifying these gatekeepers and the ubiquity of these biases, she will also offer recommendations as to their reduction at the individual and organizational levels. Mikki Hebl is the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychology with a joint appointment in the Jones School of Business at Rice University. Her research focuses on workplace discrimination and the ways individuals and organizations can remediate discrimination and successfully manage diversity.

For more information, contact Julie Dinh.

Zoom Link: https://baruch.zoom.us/s/86000877594

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Can Email Phishing Attacks Ever Be Stopped?, moderator, Mark W. Schleisner, CISSP, PMP

According to a recent Deloitte report, 91% of attacks begin with a phishing email and 32% of all successful breaches involve the use of phishing. It’s always been a lucrative field for Cybercriminals, and the Covid-19 pandemic has made it even more profitable. Cybercriminals use a wide variety of social engineering techniques to trick the user into clicking on deceptive email links, opening malware-infested email attachments, disclosing sensitive information or even wiring money to the criminals. We will investigate why phishing is so difficult to control. We will also investigate solutions — which come with problems of their own. Come and listen to our cybersecurity panel give their perspectives on ways of stopping the phishing scourge. It will be a lively show! Presented by Baruch College’s Student Cyber Security Club – ISACA. For more information on this event click here.

Friday, February 19

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Natural Sciences Virtual Seminar Series, speaker, Dr. Eric Folker, Baruch College

Dr. Eric Folker will give a Globus Seminar entitled “Myonuclei: Socially distancing since before it was cool.” He will be discussing his work on muscle development. To understand how and why nuclei move, he utilizes the model system Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila muscle cells are remarkably similar to those of humans, but offer superior genetic, optical, and physiological tractability. His group capitalizes on these advantages to perform genetic screens, advanced imaging in the developing organism, and functional output assays to define the mechanisms of nuclear movement and the determine how nuclear movement impacts muscle architecture and function.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL

This informal check-in session is an opportunity to connect with colleagues: to celebrate successes and collectively work through any challenges that may arise. For more about this event and others, visit: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/ctl/events/.

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Looking Forward…

Tuesday, February 23

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Zotero Workshop, speaker, Joseph Hartnett, Newman Library

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to Zotero, a free open-source, bibliographic citation management tool that allows you to collect, store and organize information as you research, and to rapidly generate citations and bibliographies with your word processor in a variety of styles as you write. You will learn to install Zotero, capture items into your personal library, generate in text citation and bibliographies, sync to the cloud, and utilize many of the software’s functions.

àRegister HERE.

5:00 PM-7:00 PM

What Investors Need to Know about Audits, moderator, Thomas Ray, CPA, Distinguished Lecturer, Baruch College

Investors rely upon financial statements to analyze their current and proposed investments. Investors also rely upon the audit process to verify the reliability of these statements. Auditors are professionals trained to verify financial statements, but as we all know, unreliable financial statements have been a recurring problem. We will have a series of experts explaining the state of today’s audit process, how it has and continues to changes over time, and what signals investors should look out for in evaluating financial statements to help identify possibly inaccurate statements. Baruch College Students, Faculty and Staff use code “BARUCH” for your free registration. Please also note you will need to create a CFA Institute account to participate. For more information click here.

Wednesday, February 24

12:30 PM-1:45 PM

Public Interest and Profit: Big Pharma and the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, speakers, Kenneth Abbott, Zicklin School of Business, Jonathan Engel, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, and Eric J. Rubin, New England Journal of Medicine

Join the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity on as we welcome a panel of business, public health, and policy experts to discuss the creation of COVID-19 vaccines and their subsequent distribution. Speakers will examine the roll Big Pharma played in developing the various vaccines and their decision-making to determine how the vaccine is delivered and who will receive it. For more information click here.

Friday, February 26

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Natural Sciences Virtual Globus Seminar, speakers, Dr. Jessica Ware, Assistant Curator, American Museum of Natural History, and Assistant Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School, Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics

Dr. Ware will give a seminar entitled “Studying diversity in insects and in entomology.” She will focus on the evolution of dragonflies, termites, and cockroaches, as well as her efforts to diversify entomology as a discipline.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM – CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

Distance Learning: Weekly Check-in, hosted by Tamara Gubernat, CTL

Kindly register in advance HERE.

Events for the Office of the Associate Provost’s weekly email must be submitted by noon on Wednesday of the week before the event takes place. To submit an event, please click here.