I can still remember being a child and the feeling I had of the grass beneath my feet as my toes curled against the Earth. On spring days my mother would have all of us kids take off our shoes and run around in the grass. We would run and play tag, and if we were lucky, we would stay at the park late enough to look up at the stars. Connected to these idyllic spring memories, I can also vividly recall the day before Easter 2004, when my mother dressed my sister and I in matching outfits for a photoshoot. At this stage of my life I was certain that I would be the future America’s Next Top Model, and I spent the entire photoshoot leaning back with my right arm bent on my hip. I also awkwardly had my upper-lip tucked inwards, revealing only teeth. The photos are nothing short of comedy.
How was your Easter fellow Boylan Blog reader? Was it as awkward as mine in 2004? If you don’t celebrate Easter, I hope that the Spring Recess was spent peacefully. Personally, this Spring Recess was much needed! I needed a week long break from reality, along with the beautiful weather hugging me tightly reminding me that Summer relief is near.
However, there’s no rainbow without the rain. Yes, that’s right, before we can call this semester to a close, the dreaded final’s week is fast approaching. Crunch time is near, and so here are the announcements to help you keep on top of all that is Brooklyn College 🙂
Announcements:
April 29 3:40 PM – 4:55 PM: Voices For Change: How I Built A Career with My Steel Pan- Lecture demonstration by Kendall Williams. Located at the Brooklyn College Library, Room 150. Williams will offer a lecture on his academic pursuit to broaden social understanding of the steel pan its connection to Trinidaian music.
April 29 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM: ConTEMPO. Located at the Don Buchwald Theater Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts. Conservatory of Music students will perform new music from around the world, featuring the works of leading American composers, experimental pieces, and original student works.
April 30 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Composers at the Piano. Located at the Topfer Recital Hall, Room 250 Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts. Will feature original works composed and performed by students of the Advanced Keyboard class
April 30 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: WGST: Women’s Leadership Mentor Luncheon. Located at the Student Center. A luncheon organized by the Women and Gender Studies department.
April 30 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM: WGST: Preserving the Her-story of the United Order of Tents in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Located at the Student Center, Occidental Lounge, 5th Floor. Brooklyn College students and faculty will report back on their collaboration with the Brooklyn-based organization The United Order of Tents. The Tents is a benevolent organization founded in 1867 by Annetta M. Lane and Harriett R. Taylor, two formerly enslaved black women. It grew as a secret society helmed largely by black churchwomen committed to community betterment.
May 2 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: The Heart of the Quasar: Physics Colloquium by Matt O’Dowd. Located in Ingersoll Hall. Matt O’Dowd is a professor at Lehman College and The Graduate Center. He is also the host of the PBS online series, Space Time. Professor O’Dowd’s abstract for the lecture states: “Quasars provide one of the few observable manifestations of the extreme behavior of matter near black holes and they are an important factor in the energetic evolution of the Universe. Yet due to their vast distances and compact sizes, we have only a crude understand the physics behind their powerful emission processes. I will discuss an extremely promising technique to map the inner structure of quasars through gravitational microlensing. This technique takes advantage of size-dependent magnification fluctuations in multiply-imaged quasars that result from the gravitational substructure of the intervening lensing galaxy. With our new Hubble Space Telescope observations we apply this technique to make the most reliable-to-date measurement of quasar accretion disk temperature gradients.
May 3: Deadline to Upload Thesis through Thesis Submission Online
May 6: Last day for Graduate students to complete and submit any incomplete work to resolve Fall 2018/Winter 2019 INC grades.
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