A still from "Visualizing the Proton," a video produced in a collaboration between nuclear physicists at MIT and Jefferson Lab, and MIT filmmakers | Baruch’s Nuclear Physicists Prepare to Look Into the Heart of the Proton and Back to The Beginning of Universe | |
Professors Stefan Bathe, Adrian Dumitru, and Jamal Jalilian-Marian, have spent their careers working on discovering what forces and constituents make up the proton, the positively charged particle at the core of every atom. They are colleagues in Baruch's Department of Natural Sciences.
Professor Bathe's latest experiment, sPHENIX, a new detector part of the enormous Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider particle accelerator, will start collecting data in two months’ time. The accelerator aims to recreate the conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang, before atoms as we know them had the chance to form. This primordial soup, known as "quark-gluon plasma,” out of which sprang the building blocks of our universe, may hold the key to uncovering what exactly comprises the proton, and hence matter itself.
sPHENIX, housed in Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been in the making for the past twelve years. For the past five, Baruch's experimental nuclear physics group has been leading the effort of assembling, testing, calibrating, and installing the hadronic calorimeter, a principal detector system of sPHENIX. Professor Bathe is serving as the 2023 Run Coordinator of the experiment, responsible for the inaugural 24-week data-taking period. During this period, atomic nuclei will be hurled at each other at 99.995% of the speed of light, resulting in collisions that produce explosions of quark-gluon plasma, a substance that hasn’t existed since the dawn of time. sPHENIX will help the team detect the components within.
"We are thrilled that our new detector will be coming to life soon," said Professor Bathe "A new, high-energy physics detector of this scale coming online is an event that happens only a few times in a research career."
Professors Dumitru and Jalilian-Marian have both published seminal papers that helped lead to this historic experiment, specifically on those proton constituents that carry a low momentum fraction. This quest for the origin of one the proton's key building blocks, the proton spin, was one the main drivers of the original PHENIX experiment which Professor Bathe worked on for two decades, co-authoring numerous papers.
Read more in two articles in Scientific America here and here.
Quanta Magazine published an aptly titled article and podcast "Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine,'" here.
Nuclear physicists at MIT and Jefferson Lab, together with MIT filmmakers, have produced an animation of the proton intended for use in high school classrooms. Check it out here.
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Baruch's English Department Ranked #34 by Best Accredited Colleges | |
We're pleased to announce that Best Accredited Colleges has released their 2023 rankings and Baruch College has been ranked #34 on its list of Best Bachelor's Degrees in English in the United States. The organization considered hundreds of institutions across the country and determined its rankings using data surrounding financial aid awards, the quality of education, faculty, campus resources, and tuition.
Baruch joins other CUNY English programs at City College and Hunter College, ranked #37 and #38 respectively, and Queens College at #47.
See the full top 50 list here.
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The Baruch MFE Program Wins 2023 Rotman International Trading Competition, the Program's 7th Win | Students gather to compete at the Rotman International Trading Competition | |
When it comes to Baruch's MFE Program, wonders never cease. The program has now come in first in the 2023 Rotman International Trading Competition (RITC). This is the 7th win overall for Baruch at RITC and the 6th win in the past eight years, an all-time scoring record.
The RITC is an annual event that brings together teams of financial engineering students and their faculty mentors from universities around the world. The teams compete in a unique 3-day simulated market challenge, racing to come up with the most accurate models for the presented case studies. This year, Baruch students Aneesh Subramanya, Mingsen (Mason) Wang, Chengxun (James) Wu, and Xingyu (Tony) Zhu, together with coach Professor Jarrod Pickens, competed against 42 other universities from 13 countries across four continents, the largest ever pool of contenders, and still took the No. 1 spot.
Professor Pickens, now celebrating his sixth win as a coach, reflected on what makes Baruch's MFE such a competitive contender.
"Our students are generally well prepared for the competition through their coursework—courses like market microstructure, fundamentals of trading, and financial markets and securities—but they are also very dedicated, and spend weeks preparing."
Pickens, who earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, writing a dissertation on differential geometry and geometric analysis, has spent his summers coaching youth baseball for the past several years and says all his experiences have come together to make him a successful team leader.
"I think my approach to preparing the students for the competition cases is not much different than my approach to teaching or preparing players on the field. I try to offer as many variations of the problem we're working on as possible, so that when presented with different situations during competition, they will be confident in those decisions."
It seems to be working.
This year, MFE’s partner Virtu Financial sponsored the participation of the student team and as usual, they were aided by many dedicated alumni, in particular Nelson Young.
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Baruch College Is Named a Top Producer of Fulbright Students and Scholars in 2022-23 | Baruch's roundup includes two Weissman professors, Alison Griffiths of Fine and Performing Arts and Martha Nguyen of History, and Weissman graduate Tiannis Coffie. | |
“As one of the top academic institutions in the heart of New York City, Baruch College is proud of the impactful scholarship of our faculty and the outstanding achievements of our students. This prestigious designation as a dual Fulbright top producer is a proof point of Baruch’s success in attracting world-class faculty who are not only distinguished in their fields, but committed to providing a transformative education for our students from every corner of New York, the nation, and the world.”
—Baruch College President S. David Wu.
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Mishkin Gallery Joins Pioneer Works to Present First-Ever Survey of New York Artist Aura Rosenberg | Aura Rosenberg, Aux Enfants de la Chance, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. | |
Mishkin Gallery and Pioneer Works are pleased to present What Is Psychedelic, the first institutional survey of New York-born artist Aura Rosenberg.
This two-venue exhibition traces the artist’s trajectory from early paintings of the 1970s to her more recent endeavors in photography, film, sculpture, and installation. Throughout her five decades-long career in New York and Berlin, Rosenberg has moved through diverse styles, preferring to work thematically and serially while often returning to ideas from past projects. The exhibition also includes several previously unseen works, and Rosenberg’s collaborations with artists like Mike Kelley, Mary Heilmann, Louise Lawler and Ei Arakawa, all of which chronicle the breadth of her multifaceted career.
The exhibition runs:
March 10–June 9, 2023 at Mishkin Gallery (135 E 22nd St, New York, NY 10010)
March 17–June 11, 2023 at Pioneer Works (159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231)
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FACULTY NEWS, PUBLICATIONS, AND MEDIA MENTIONS | | |
Andrew Sloin in Past & Present
Professor of History Andrew Sloin, who specializes in Russian, East European, Soviet, and Jewish history, published "Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto" in the prestigious journal Past & Present. The article examines the emergence and sudden disappearance of discourses about the Paris Commune in the global Yiddish public sphere during the first half of the twentieth century.
Check out the full article here.
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Els de Graauw in Critical Sociology
Els de Graauw, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, together with Shannon Gleeson of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has published "Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity During DACA and DAPA" in the journal Critical Sociology. The article gives a detailed account of how union solidarity with undocumented immigrants has varied notably across the United States.
Check it out here.
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Rianne Subijanto in European Journal of Cultural Studies
Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies Rianne Subijanto has just published "From London to Bali: Raymond Williams and communication as transport and social networks," in the latest issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. In it, she unearths Raymond Williams’ approach to communication as transport and social networks, and demonstrates his relevance to contemporary directions in communication studies.
Check it out here.
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Gail Levin on CUNY TV's Arts In The City
Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College, Gail Levin was featured on CUNY TV's Arts in The City. She discusses her youthful desire to become an artist, her parents' objections, and her eventual transformation into one of the leading art historians in her field.
Watch it now.
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Dr. Sabrina Kizzie on Black Enterprise
Dr. Sabrina Kizzie, a social media lecturer within the Department of Communication Studies, who has devoted years to conducting research on the spending power of Black millennials, is featured on Black Enterprise, the No. 1 Black digital media brand.
She has also been invited to serve as a speaker at Black Enterprise's Women of Power Summit alongside such celebrities as actresses Issa Rae and Tia Mowry. The conference will host 1,800 Black women business owners and entrepreneurs.
Check it out here.
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Because the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences has an extraordinary faculty, the WSAS Dean’s Office is delighted to recognize faculty achievement through five WSAS Faculty Excellence Awards. Awards will be made in the following areas: excellence in teaching (part-time and full-time); scholarly or artistic achievement; institutional leadership or service; and the mentorship of students and/or peers.
All nominations should be emailed to Kathy Lypides (Katheryn.Lypides@baruch.cuny.edu) in the Dean’s Office by March 31, 2023
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John Brenkman in the Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory and on johnbrenkman.com
John Brenkman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, has published “Rhetorics of Affect: Notes on the Political Theory of the Passions,” a commentary on the place of such emotions as fear, pity, shame, rage, and anxiety in political thought from Aristotle to Hobbes and Rousseau to contemporary theorists, including George Kateb, François Jullien, and Peter Sloterdijk (Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory, edited by Dilip Gaonkar and Keith Topper).
He has also posted “Neither Madman Nor Realist,” an essay on Russia’s war on Ukraine. In the wake of the nearly fatal attack on Salman Rushdie, he posted excerpts from earlier essays on The Satanic Verses.
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Howard Sherman on CBS News and in TDS Stages
Baruch Performing Arts Center's Managing Director, Howard Sherman appeared with powerful commentary on CBS News last week after theatregoers were antagonized by antisemitic protesters outside the revival of the Broadway musical, "Parade.”
Watch his interview here.
He also published a wonderful article in TDS Stages on his ongoing obsession with Sondheim's musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd, which returned to Broadway beginning on 2/26, and the seminal role it has played in his life as a self-professed theatre geek, critic, and advocate.
Read it here.
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Carl Rollyson on the History of Literature Podcast
Professor Emeritus of Journalism and serial biographer Carl Rollyson speaks about his new two-volume biography of William Faulkner, The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934 (Volume 1) and The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962 (Volume 2).
He's an author of more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children’s biography, film, and literary criticism.
Listen in!
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Ted Henken in the Denver Gazette
Ted Henken, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, examines the startling role that Facebook Marketplace has played for would-be Cuban refugees in search of boat parts for the perilous trip across the Gulf of Mexico.
Check it out here.
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New Media Arts
Kerry Downey: This is a reenactment but this time it will be different
| Photo by Joanna Seitz. Image courtesy of the artist. | |
The New Media Artspace is proud to present Kerry Downey: This is a reenactment but this time it will be different, a solo exhibition by this interdisciplinary New York-based artist. The exhibition is curated by Katherine Behar, Associate Professor of New Media Arts, and is generously sponsored by the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center.
The exhibition Kerry Downey: This is a reenactment but this time it will be different will be on view from February 28 through April 27, 2023 at the New Media Artspace website, bit.ly/nma_kerrydowney, and at the New Media Artspace gallery in Baruch’s Library and Information Building, 151 E. 25th Street.
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The Acclaim Is Still Surfacing...
Baruch College’s Mishkin Gallery receives two mentions in a year-end roundup on E-Flux Criticism. One for Lamin Fofana’s “BLUES” and the other for the acclaimed Who Speaks For The Oceans?
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"I’ll take any opportunity to see work by the architecture collective Ant Farm. Most recently, their Dolphin Embassy project appeared in “Who Speaks for the Oceans?” at Baruch College’s Mishkin Gallery. Compiling work that ranged from whimsical to urgent, the quietly transcendent show offered a necessarily polyvocal approach to decentering the Anthropocene."
—Hallie Ayres
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New Media Arts Students Curate Baruch-Wide Self-Portrait Art Challenge and Exhibition
The NMA Studio and Baruch's Undergraduate Student Government collaborated on the Self-Portrait Art Challenge, co-sponsored by Encounters magazine and created by New Media Artspace Docent Anya Ballantyne, and New Media Arts Studio Monitor Bryan Campaña.
The Self-Portrait Art Challenge involved an open call to students asking for self-portraits in any digital medium and encouraged participants to use the resources available to them in the NMA Studio to create their submissions. The studio, which opened in fall of 2022 in NVC 6-120, provides New Media Arts students with media creation equipment, software, and expert help from their Studio Monitor Team.
The challenge culminated on 2/28 as the self-portraits were put on display in the NMA Studio, transforming the classroom for the first time into a fully functional art show space. The exhibition includes work by Janelle Mendoza, Milton Gordon, Tiffany Thiem, L. Huang, Allison Lai, Khairun Nisa, Mansi Sajan, Tulsi Sewdass, Mary Abdelmassih, Olivia Pan, Justin Yanqui, Molonie Rishilakram, and Jessica Lian.
“From working on this challenge and show, I learned that the self-portrait as a genre is highly diverse and can be interpreted in a variety of ways,” reflected Anya Ballantyne. “Even when all are portrayed digitally, the uniqueness of each person is present in each work.”
Missed the show? Check out all the self-portraits here, on the NMA Studio website.
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L to R: NMA Studio Monitors Bryan Campaña, Angela Bernabeo, Nishat Farhana, Fariha Rahman, and Docent Anya Ballantyne | |
MA in Arts Administration alum Nick Luis Announces New Arts Nonprofit Organization
Born and raised in NYC Nick Luis describes himself as "a queer and gay Latinx individual" who graduated in 2021 from Baruch's Masters in Arts Administration Program. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Blended CIty, a production house of creativity. With a strong focus on the work of Latinx, LGBTQ+, and female-identifying creators, its mission is to support and connect non-traditional artists in disadvantaged communities by providing a multidisciplinary space to create.
Blended City was founded by Luis and Nuyorican writer Ashley L. Canfield as an LLC in 2017, and has produced numerous full-length stage and film offerings as well as recurring public events over the past five years. In 2022, it reorganized as a nonprofit. Blended City now plans to produce two short films, offer a second annual Universal Lens festival in Brooklyn, and develop additional performance and networking events for artists from diverse and underserved communities.
Check out their website and upcoming productions here.
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Student vs. Faculty Basketball Game Details: Location: ARC Arena (Baruch Main Basketball Gym) March 9, 2023, 6pm (Warm-Ups begin); 6:30pm (Start of Game)
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An in-person conversation about Albert Memmi with Jonathan Judaken and Michael Lejman, editors of The Albert Memmi Reader, following a screening of Margaux Fitoussi and Mo Scapelli’s short film El Hara. March 9 at 6pm BPAC, Engelman Recital Hall
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A discussion with Sarah Koenig of the podcast Serial - Join us for a Zoom discussion of audio investigative journalism with Sarah Koenig, co-creator, host and executive producer of Serial, the investigative podcast. She will talk about how she digs into cases, sorts through thousands of documents, listens to trial testimony and police interrogations and talks to everyone she can find with knowledge of the goings-on. Koenig is an award-winning journalist, public radio personality, and former producer of the television and radio program This American Life. Tuesday, March 14, 11am-12pm. Contact: Gisele.Regatao@baruch.cuny.edu or Joshua.Mills@baruch.cuny.edu
| - Silberman Residency of the Aaron Diehl Trio. Tuesday, March 21 at 1pm. BPAC
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BARUCH IN CONCERT Spring 2023 - Thursday, May 11 @ 1pm (Club Hours) Outside on the Clivner=Field Plaza. Interested in Performing? Send a video or MP3 of your music to abby.anderton@baruch.cuny.edu by March 24. All musical styles and acts are welcome!
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A conversation with Achy Obejas, novelist, poet, translator and journalist, author of Days of Awe, part of our Discovering Crypto-Jewish Identities series March 28 at 6pm. BPAC, Engelman Recital Hall
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- Dr. Marjorie Rhodes on "The Developmental Origins of Social Stereotypes" March 30th, 1pm-2pm. NVC 12-150
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The Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions Presents: Lost and Found. An Essay Contest. We are inviting students to write personal essays about what you’ve lost, and what you’ve found. Students may submit ONE personal essay of creative nonfiction, 600-800 words. Open to all students who are currently taking or have taken a class in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. Submissions must be emailed to both Bridgett.davis@baruch.cuny.edu and Gisele.Regatao@baruch.cuny.edu before 12am, April 5. More info here.
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“I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia: Interfaith Initiative: Faith, Conflicts, and Coalition Series - a conversation between Dr. Zhou Xun and Dr. Sander Gilman- April 17 at 5:30pm in NVC 14-285. Contact: carina.pasquesi@baruch.cuny.edu
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Research & Creative Inquiry Expo 2023 -The Research & Creative Inquiry Expo aims to promote undergraduate research and creative expressions at Baruch College by allowing students to showcase their work and knowledge beyond their classrooms. Undergraduate students in all majors may submit either an individual or group project. The Expo will take place on Thursday, May 11, and projects will be due on Tuesday, May 2. For more information, please visit the Expo website.
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Upcoming DEI Fridays: Register for DEI Fridays HERE; Find recordings and resources from last year's DEI Fridays HERE.
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