Brooklyn College: The Year in Pictures
Dec. 21, 2018
It’s been a good year at Brooklyn College. From celebrated scholars to celebrations of our diversity and to the long-awaited opening of the Leonard and Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, it was one for the record books. Take a look at some of this year’s highlights.
February’s Theater Department performance of Detroit ’67, about the 1967 Detroit riots.
Professor Lee Alan Dugatkin of the University of Kentucky, Louisville, delivers a lecture 'How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog),' as part of the Department of Psychology Graduate Colloquium Series.
Artist Diane Victor demonstrates smoke painting during her lecture 'Showing Truth to Power,' as part of a visiting artist series sponsored by the Department of Art
Brooklyn College takes part in April’s National School Walkout Day to demand action on gun control.
'I wanted to transform the whole system,' Lilia Melani said in the Woody Tanger Auditorium during remarks at the commemoration of 'The Women in the Archives,' exhibit in the Brooklyn College library. The exhibit highlighted activism on campus by or about Brooklyn College alumna.
Literary star and the 2018 Hess Scholar-in-Residence Edwidge Danticat delivers the 2018 Hess Memorial Lecture.
Founder of the Brooklyn College Magner Career Center Marge Magner ’69 takes a selfie with a student at student-alumni networking night.
The Art of Play and Wonderment Conference, sponsored by the Early Childhood Center Programs, was held in April.
Director of Choruses, Coordinator of Voice Studies, and Assistant Professor Malcolm J. Merriweather conducts at a concert in May.
This year the Brooklyn College Sustainability Council partnered with the Corbin Hill Food Project to bring a farm share to campus.
Carol Zicklin ’61 poses with students at the Summer Fellows awards luncheon in September. Supported by a grant from Zicklin, a trustee of the Brooklyn College Foundation, the fellowships provide financial support for students to take a credit-bearing internship or to complete summer courses.
President Michelle J. Anderson with Philosophy Professor Daniel G. Campos at the annual faculty book party in the Brooklyn College Library
Fifty years after graduating, the Brooklyn College Class of 1968 meets for a reunion luncheon.
Brooklyn College Commencement exercises were held at the Barclay’s Center for the second year.
Staff Appreciation Day 2018
Students role play medical interpreting in a new program done in cooperation with The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Even Brooklyn College mascot Buster the Bulldog got his ID checked on the first day of class.
Students at one of the many stations at the Involvement Fair (formerly Club Fair) held on August 28 on the East and West quads
At the 2018 Diversity Awareness Fair and Culture Fest, students from the Mexican Heritage Student Association demonstrate classic Mexican dances.
The Office of Student Activities, Involvement, and Leadership celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month.
October’s Freedom Concert by the Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir
A view of grand lobby during the ribbon cutting at the new Leonard and Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts
Renowned poet Sonia Sanchez delivers the keynote address at this year’s Shirley Chisholm Day.
An end-of-the-year sunset on the East Quad
