News & Announcements - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Weissman's Prof. Tansen Sen Participates in Major Silk Road Study

Ford Foundation grant supports study on reopening ancient trade route, nets major grant for Weissman professor Tansen Sen. Read more.

Graffiti Lives , by Weissman Professor Gregory Snyder Released January 1

Read Publishers' Weekly Review and Watch Graffiti Lives Video Trailer on Youtube

Weissman Professor Quiroz Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

New York, NY – Jun. 25, 2008 – Professor Alfonso Quiroz is adding yet another prestigious honor to the long list of awards that he has received during his professional career—a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. Read more

Weissman Professor Griffiths Celebrates Publication. Read more

New York Times reviews Francine Prose’s novel Goldengrove. Read the Review

East Meets West: Indian Born Jazz Guitarist Rez Abassi and His Sextet Open Baruch's 17th Milt Hinton Jazz Series

The concerts are free to Baruch students, faculty and administration. There is a nominal ticket charge for non-Baruch community individuals. To purchase tickets and for more information, please call 646-312- 4085 or visit www.theatermania.com. Read more

Weissman Establishes Journalism Department

New York, NY – Jul. 9, 2008 – After more than three decades as a specialized program within the Department of English, journalism at The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is attaining departmental status. The new Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions formally launched on July 1, 2008. Read more

Professor Zoe Sheehan Saldana Awarded a 2008-09 Workspace Residency

Zoe Sheehan Saldana, assistant professor in the department of Fine and Performing Arts, has been named one of six emerging artists to be awarded a 2008-09 Workspace residency by Dieu Donne, a nonprofit arts organization devoted to the creation, production and preservation of contemporary art in the process of fabricating handmade paper. Read more

A Statement of Sympathy For Victims of the Recent Natural Disasters in China and Burma

New York, NY - May 13, 2008 - Baruch College extends its heartfelt sympathies to the families of the victims of yesterday's terrible earthquake in China. Read more

Jeffrey M. Peck, the New Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Brings a Wealth of Scholarly and Administrative Experience to the Position.

New York, NY – April 4, 2008 – Jeffrey M. Peck, a scholar whose work explores the complex and ambiguous relationship between German and Jewish culture, has been appointed dean of Baruch College's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. The appointment was announced by Baruch College Provost James McCarthy and takes effect on August 1, 2008. Read more

Professor Alfonso W. Quiroz publishes new book, Corrupt Circles A History of Unbound Graft in Peru, Woodrow Wilson Center Press

In Corrupt Circles Alfonso W. Quiroz gives a definitive and thorough history of Peruvian corruption that dates back to the country’s colonial period. He demonstrates how corruption has been deeply embedded in Peru’s state institutions and has damaged the country’s prospects, and he offers a comprehensive estimate of the costs of corruption to the country’s development. Read more

Weissman Names 2008 Colin Powell Fellows

The Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the two annual winners of the prestigious Colin Powell Fellowships in International Diplomacy. This year's successful candidates are senior Sean Perryman and junior Simon Mairzadeh. They were chosen from a strong field of accomplished and talented Weissman students. The fellowship offers students the opportunity to serve a six to eight-week high-level internship working either for the State Department in Washington or abroad, or at the United Nations in New York. Read more

Charles Simic Announced as Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence

Charles Simic, U.S. Poet Laureate, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1953. He has lived in New York, Chicago, the San Francisco area, and in New Hampshire where, until his retirement, he was a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Read more

Baruch's Terry Berkowitz Mounts One-Person Exhibition in Madrid's Galeria Magda Belloti

New York, NY - January 28, 2008—Professor Terry Berkowitz, chairperson of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is a visual artist with an international reputation. From Jan. 31 to Mar. 9, her work will be on view in Madrid's Galeria Magda Belloti in a one-person exhibition that tackles issues of family, war crimes, and culture. Read more

Baruch Professor John Brenkman Publishes Book on Political Thought Post-9/11

New York, NY - Jan. 9, 2008—John Brenkman's lucid and probing essay, The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought Since September 11 (Princeton University Press, 2007), is a timely excursion into contemporary intellectual history, covering both the response to the shock of a terror attack on U.S. soil, and the political thought that produced the Iraq War and its dismaying aftermath. Read more

Baruch College Professor Carl Rollyson Awarded NEH Grant

New York, NY - Dec. 4, 2007—Carl Rollyson, professor of English at Baruch College's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2008-2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers to complete his book on the New England poet Amy Lowell. Click here to read more about this project. Read more

Baruch's Professor Marlow Turns From English and Journalism to Music Composition and Performance

Eugene Marlow, professor of English at Baruch College, has had a long and distinguished career in media and public relations. But his love for and interest in music finally got the better of him. Read more

Weissman Journalism Director Launches Multimedia Website

Geanne Rosenberg, Weissman Journalism Director and Associate Professor, has produced and written a multimedia, educational Website: kcnn.org/legal_risk. The site has loads of content, quizzes and animations, and videos of expert lawyers from Harvard Law School and the Media Law Resource Center. Professor Rosenberg produced the site under a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in collaboration with CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism and J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism's Knight Citizen News Network.

Financial Engineers Thrive Despite the Subprime Mess

International Herald Tribune Cites Weissman's MFE Program. Read more.