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On March 8, 1977, the killer struck again, taking the life of Barnard College student Virginia Voskerichian, a 19-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, as she walked down a Forest Hills street. On April 17, a 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman were fatally shot in the Bronx. (Bayside Times, NY)
Major writer marks book release in Westerly Aug 8, 2007
In addition to writing novels, short stories and memoirs, Gordon has been a professor of English at Barnard College, her alma mater, since 1989. She is married to author Arthur Cash, who recently completed an a biography of the 18th century English radical John Wilkes. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Legal scholars say Gertner is known as meticulous jurist Jul 27, 2007
After graduating from Barnard College, she earned a law degree in 1971 from Yale Law School. "We were a small firm, and she could have gotten any job she wanted, but she came to work for our brand-new start-up," Silverglate said. (Boston Globe)
There's a bright side to your kid's bad behavior Jul 27, 2007
D., the director of the Center for Toddler Development at Barnard College in New York City. "You want your child to be able to go after what he wants and stick up for himself," she says, "and this is where it starts.". (CNN -- Health)
Margot G. Botsford Jul 26, 2007
Education: Bachelor's degree, Barnard College, 1969; law degree, Northeastern University, 1973. Experience: Assistant attorney general, 1975-79; assistant district attorney, Middlesex, 1983-89; Suffolk Superior Court judge, 1989 to present. (Boston Globe)
The Potterverse lives on in the world of fan fiction Jul 24, 2007
Jones, 20, a student at Barnard College, has created a richer romantic history for the two men than Rowling ever could have using books alone. Her multimedia site features original artwork and handwritten letters. (Providence Journal (subscription))
Williams, Amherst, Rated Tops by U.S. News, Won't Join Rankings Protest Jul 24, 2007
Fourth-rated Wellesley College has already sat out the peer review for more than a decade, and last month Barnard College opted out. The campaign won't derail the rankings, U.S. News editor Brian Kelly says. (Bloomberg)
'Gong Show' Host in Bizarre Legal Battle With Co-op Neighbor Jul 19, 2007
Weitzner -- a 1943 Barnard College graduate and Columbia Law School dropout with 25 patents and a number of self-run businesses to her name -- also allegedly banged on their shared wall so loudly that it awakened, and even frightened, the couple. Weitzner frequently accused the Barrises of spying on her apartment, as evidenced -- according to Weitzner herself -- by their shared use of the same venereal-disease specialist. (Law.com)
Abu-Manneh: Occupied Palestine Jul 18, 2007
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College, New York, and is spending a sabbatical year in London. His 'Israel's Colonial Siege and the Palestinians' will appear in the upcoming issue of Socialist Register (2008). (Zmag.org)
Endowed Chair Established for UCSB Director of California NanoSystems Institute UCSB, Jun. 26 Jun 27, 2007
Hu received her B.A. in physics from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph. D. in physics from Columbia University. (University of California Newswire, CA)
Chaotic ceremony soothed by downpour Jun 23, 2007
"You have to have faith in yourself and know that what matters is how you react to situations." The most notable quote for Wieche, who will attend Barnard College in the fall, was provided by her friend, Halle Blejewski. "Eagles may soar but weasels never get sucked into jet engines," Wieche recalled. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Colleges to shun magazine's annual survey Jun 21, 2007
"Why should we do this work for them?" said Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College. "It is a way of saying, 'This is not our project.' ". (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Eckerd College Stops Participating In College Rankings Jun 21, 2007
" More and more liberal arts college leaders are expressing the same argument. Joining the rebellion are Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., Barnard College in New York City and Kenyon College in Ohio. "We really want to reclaim the high ground on this discussion," said Katherine Will, the president of Gettysburg College and the incoming president of the Annapolis Group. "We should be defining the conversation, not a magazine that uses us for its business plan. " Several of the group's... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
30 years ago, 'Son of Sam' terrorized New York Jun 20, 2007
Then on March 8, 1977, a Barnard College student named Virginia Voskerichian was shot in Forest Hills, Queens, just a few blocks from where Breslin lived. The next morning, Breslin went to the scene and spoke with Detective Andy Camera, the younger brother of a photo retoucher he'd worked with years before. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
* Living the life divine Jun 17, 2007
"The idea of virginal, pre-menstrual purity, it does seem like a contradiction with worshipping a feminine divine," said Rachel McDermott, associate professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Barnard College, "but in all this, there is the devotion to purity.". People go to the goddesses to touch their feet as they are carried through the streets. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Hindu goddess Jun 15, 2007
"The idea of virginal, pre-menstrual purity, it does seem like a contradiction with worshiping a feminine divine," said Rachel McDermott, associate professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Barnard College in New York, "but in all this, there is the devotion to purity.". People go to the goddesses to touch their feet as they are carried through the streets. (International Herald Tribune)
‘You can't feel sorry for yourself' Jun 15, 2007
Uniker attended Smith College, graduated from Barnard College and went on to earn a Masters degree in special education from New York University. After teaching in what she calls "a red school house," Uniker was selected to be the administrator for a residential facility that was both home and school for ten children who had at least one thing in common: They were all blind. (Daily Triplicate)
Open Letter to APA Jun 10, 2007
" The membership has a right to know why, in the face of continually emerging sets of tangible evidence suggesting that the its policy was flawed and that psychologists were systematically employing expert psychological knowledge for purposes of abuse, the APA leadership refused to investigate, and continued to give cover for these abuses. (According to APA Ethics Director, Dr. Stephen Behnke, the BSCTs attach a copy of the PENS report to their training manuals.) Therefore, it is critical... (Zmag.org)
Lis Wiehl: Parents, Just Say No Jun 3, 2007
Wiehl received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 1983 and received her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland in 1985. In addition, she earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1987. (Fox News)
Accolades, Some Tearful, for a Preacher in His Twilight Years Jun 2, 2007 Passionate and Restless May 17, 2007 Todays Washington Post offers a story May 16, 2007 Dr. Dorothy Villee, 79; studied accelerated aging disease May 14, 2007 Creating a canon for science May 14, 2007 Books: Why So Many Women Hate Their Bodies May 3, 2007 Maria Hinojosa is the conversation starter May 1, 2007 Hughes to attend Harvard, keep competing Apr 27, 2007 Dean finalists bring varied qualifications Apr 24, 2007 Monkeys' Ability To Reflect On Their Thoughts May Have Implications For Infants, Autistic Children Apr 22, 2007 Celebrating Zora Apr 21, 2007 Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud Apr 12, 2007 Taking a crack a fresh coconut leads to delicious results Apr 12, 2007 Herawati Diah: From tomboy to prominence Apr 11, 2007 Abu-Manneh: Israel in U.S. Empire Apr 6, 2007 Personnel Announcement Apr 5, 2007 New president repackages CARE Apr 4, 2007 Left behind? Not this book series Apr 3, 2007 Why Rani, Abhishek lost out on Namesake Mar 24, 2007 Fujiya & Miyagi gain popularity and tour the U.S. Mar 15, 2007 Can Christian Coalition Aid '08 Campaign? Mar 9, 2007 Entry level: For consultants, going solo can get lonely Mar 9, 2007 This week's zany Campus Chronicles Mar 8, 2007 Clytia Chambers, 84; PR executive developed Fruit Gardener magazine Mar 8, 2007 Taken to task over task forces Feb 25, 2007 Columbia professor offers insight on global climate change Feb 22, 2007 This president sets a precedent Feb 20, 2007 A new day at Harvard Feb 16, 2007 Third team Feb 15, 2007 Leonard selected as new assistant editor Feb 6, 2007 Mary Cheney says baby not political issue Feb 3, 2007 Feb. 3 religion briefs Feb 3, 2007 Mary Cheney defends same-sex parenthood Feb 3, 2007 Leftward Christian Soldiers Jan 30, 2007 Glass Castle author Walls speaks at GW Jan 27, 2007 Women's Basketball Looks to Stay Perfect in Ivy League Action, Travels to Columbia Jan 19, 2007 With no Fifth Avenue, students head to the web Jan 19, 2007 Roberta Wohlstetter; her book on faulty US analysis before WWII resonates today Jan 16, 2007 Renee Garrelick; captured Concord past and present Jan 15, 2007 Roberta Wohlstetter, 94; wrote Pearl Harbor study Jan 11, 2007 Barclays Ph.D.s Build $17 Billion Hedge Fund Giant Inside No. 3 U.K. Bank Jan 6, 2007
Nobody is going to be next the Billy Graham,; said Randall Balmer, professor of American religion at Barnard College. What we are looking at in the future of evangelism is niche evangelism, based on ethnicity, language, worship style. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Corrections: May 26, 2007
Minnite is employed by Barnard College. In the May 18 "," Ron Rosenbaum mistakenly stated that Tim McGraw wrote "Live Like You Were Dying." The song was written by Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman. (Slate)
In his later years, says Randall Balmer, a professor of religion at Barnard College, he descended to the level of self-parody, which (combined with the very real political power of the evangelical community today), has spawned a new generation of evangelicals who want to talk about the relationship between politics and God in a gentler way. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kans. (Newsweek)
According to Lorraine Minnite, a political scientist at Barnard College who co-wrote a recent study of federal prosecution of election fraud, the states in which U.S. attorneys were dismissed, or put on a tentative firing list, include five of nearly a dozen states that Rove and other Republicans last year identified as election battlegrounds. In some cases, Justice officials have cited conflicts with the chief prosecutors in those places that were unrelated to election fraud. (Harper's Magazine)
She worked her way through Barnard College and Harvard Medical School as a hairdresser and in jobs including cleaning test tubes and lab equipment. "She came from a large family, and money was tight," said her daughter. (Boston Globe)
" You could argue that there are not great incentives for studying science, though one of Angier's arguments is simply that science is fun and gets the synapses snapping.But can you really blame students who pass up advanced science, when after years of study a decade is not uncommon the pay is demoralizing? The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, a federal agency, estimates that a post-doctoral fellow in Canada earns between $45,000 and $55,000 annually. Angier, 49, is... (Toronto Star)
How Feminism Got Corrupted. A new book seeks to unravel the mystery of how intelligent women and girls have such unhealthy notions about food and the body. (MSNBC -- Health)
Back when she was a student at Barnard College , Maria Hinojosa anchored a radio show called "Nueva Cancion y Demas" ("New Music and More") that played political Latin music. She enjoyed introducing political music and presenting different personalities from New York's Spanish-speaking community. (Boston Globe)
Hughes was accepted at all seven schools to which she applied: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Barnard College and NYU. Sarah Hughes is a junior at Yale working toward a degree in American studies. Their oldest sister, Rebecca Parker, went to Harvard for her undergraduate degree and Columbia law school. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
Langland received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Barnard College and her master's and doctorate degrees, with departmental honors, from the University of Chicago. She served as associate dean for faculty affairs at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida until she relocated to the University of California, Davis in 1999 to serve as an English professor and dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
The study was a collaborative effort between Herbert Terrace, Columbia professor of psychology & psychiatry, and director of its Primate Cognition Laboratory, and two graduate students, Lisa Son -- now professor of psychology at Barnard College -- and UCLA postdoctoral researcher Nate Kornell. The study, which appears in the January issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, was designed to show that a monkey could express its confidence in its... (Science Daily)
Advertisement Specializing in ethnographic studies, Hurston received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Barnard College in 1927 Margaret Mead was a friend and fellow student and began to collect and publish songs and stories from African folklore. Her books, especially "Mules and Men" (1935), "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937) and "Dust Tracks on a Road" (1942) solidified Hurston's reputation as a writer of great passion and insight. (Vero Beach Press Journal)
Had the researchers been able to go even further than they did, they would have come to same conclusions but they would have had more analysis backing them up,; said Lorraine C. Minnite, a political science professor at Barnard College who is writing a book on voter fraud. Instead, the commission rewrote their report and changed the thrust of its conclusions. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Bayer, a mathematician on the faculty at Barnard College in New York, lives part-time in the Bay Area. He was the hand double for Russell Crowe in the film "A Beautiful Mind," scribbling all those equations on the blackboard. (San Francisco Chronicle)
After a journalism course at Stanford University in California -- between her principal studies of sociology at Barnard College, at the Columbia University in New York -- she returned home in 1942 as the first Indonesian woman journalist to be academically trained abroad. She became a stringer for the United Press International (UPI) newswire, joined Radio Japan or Hosokyoku as an announcer, and married BM Diah who was working for Asia Raya newspaper. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This essay is adapted from "After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies," eds. (Zmag.org)
Ms. Hughes received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College. The President intends to nominate Cameron P. Munter, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Serbia. (White House News Releases)
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Gayle has degrees from Barnard College in New York City, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She spent 20 years at the CDC, quickly becoming one of its key administrators. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
"Evangelicals have become upwardly very mobile, very content with their suburban lifestyles and watching their stock portfolios, and so the mantra is, 'Yeah, Jesus is coming. But take your time. We're doing pretty well,' " said Randall Balmer, a professor of religion at Columbia University's Barnard College and the author of the forthcoming "Religion and the Presidency From JFK to George W. Bush.". "I'm not being facetious about this," he continued. (Los Angeles Times)
But beyond that, I had known of her work and vision for a very long time since I was in school at Barnard College in New York. I remember going to see Salaam Bombay. (Rediff)
"We kind of morphed into this band that wasn't scared of choruses, and we wanted to entertain people," says Best, whose band performs Sunday and Tuesday at Manhattan's Mercury Lounge and Monday uptown at Barnard College ... The band plays Barnard College Monday at the McIntosh Building, Barnard Campus, 117th Street and Broadway. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Randall Balmer, a religion and politics expert at Barnard College, said that when Reed left the coalition, "they lost their best strategist.". Add to that a whiff of impropriety stemming from Reed's ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and it shows that once-powerful Christian conservative personalities "are not the kind of moral avatars that they claim to be," Balmer said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
D. in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and evaluated admissions applications at Barnard College. She said that even though she earns more now than she did then, she does not have the same standing. (International Herald Tribune -- Money Report)
Laptops in the classroom could soon be a thing of the past at Barnard College. because of concerns that they cause students to become disengaged in the classroom. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Football)
At 15, she graduated from high school in New York City and four years later earned a bachelor's degree from Barnard College. Working as a cryptographic specialist for the Army Signal Corps in Washington, D.C., the 19-year-old Chambers persuaded the commanding officer to desegregate the facility's cafeteria, Robert Chambers said. (Los Angeles Times)
Alexander's higher education tie: He was executive assistant to the president of Barnard College a quarter-century ago and has served on college boards. Campus Insider runs on alternate Sundays with Ask the Teacher, an advice column written by a teacher. (Boston Globe)
The Dartmouth Online. Thursday, February 22, 2007. (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
Indeed it took Mary Cheney to offer bracing words at a recent Barnard College gathering: "This notion that women today are overwhelmed with choices, my God, my grandmother would have killed to have these choices.". Washington Post Writers Group. (Buffalo News -- Opinion)
Indeed it took Mary Cheney to offer bracing words at a recent Barnard College gathering: "This notion that women today are overwhelmed with choices, my God, my grandmother would have killed to have these choices.". Faust's appointment is a generational marker and a turning point. (Boston Globe)
Eman Bataineh, Barnard College, New York. Home: Hauppauge, N.Y. Major: Anthropology. (USA Today)
She has also taken creative writing courses at Barnard College in New York and Emerson College in Boston. Taylor is a nice addition to our staff, said Kevin Cummings, editor of The Catoosa County News. (Catoosa County News, GA)
NEW YORK -- The decision to become pregnant and raise a child with her female partner was not political, Mary Cheney, a daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, told a Barnard College audience. "This is a baby," Cheney said Wednesday at a forum sponsored by Glamour magazine. (Boston Globe)
Dr. Balmer is professor of American Religious History at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the author of 11 books and several award-winning television documentaries. The theme for this Theologian-in-Residence Weekend is "Perspectives on American Evangelicalism." From 9:45 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 10, the topic will be "The Patchwork Quilt of American Evangelicalism;" from 1 to 3 p.m., "Evangelicals and Society in the 20th Century;" and from 7 to 8:30 p.m., "The Rise of the Religious... (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
" Cheney, 37, was speaking Wednesday at Barnard College in Manhattan in a panel discussion sponsored by Glamour magazine. The baby, whose sex she has not revealed publicly, is due this spring and will be the sixth grandchild for the vice president and his wife. Cheney, who is vice president for consumer advocacy for AOL and lives in Virginia, has not said how she became pregnant. Her father became testy last week during a CNN interview when the host, Wolf Blitzer, asked what he thought of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
According to the Barnard College religious studies professor, the purpose of the Religious Right s grasping for power amounts to an expansion of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the continued prosecution of a war in the Middle East that enraged our longtime allies and would not meet even the barest of just-war criteria, and a rejiggering of Social Security, the effect of which, most observers agree, would be to fray the social-safety net for the poorest among us. He argues that the... (The American Conservative)
At 17, Walls left Welch for New York City, where she lived with older sister, Lori, and eventually graduated with honors from Barnard College. Since The Glass Castle was published, Walls said she has learned that life is what you make it. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
THE SERIES VS. THE LIONS -- Cornell's rivalry with Columbia began in the 1975-76 season when the team represented Barnard College (the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium was organized in 1984-85, at which time the team began playing under the name Columbia). The Big Red holds the advantage in the all-time series, improving to 32-18, after defeating the Lions twice last season. (Cornellbigred.com)
"Unlike Dartmouth students, Jacqueline Dow, a freshman at Barnard College in New York City, rarely shops online because of the plenitude of retailers in the local area. "New York City has so much to offer," Dow said. "Anything I need is available nearby. "Dartmouth students also choose to shop online because internet stores are accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "Shopping online is convenient because all the stores are right at my fingertips," Makanda said. Liz Kolleeny '08 said that... (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
She graduated from Vassar College, earned degrees in psychology at Columbia University and comparative literature at Radcliffe College,and taught at the University of Chicago, Howard University, and Barnard College. She joined Rand in 1948 and was named woman of the year in 1963 by The Los Angeles Times. (Boston Globe)
After graduating from high school in 1958, she attended Barnard College and Columbia Teachers College, where she received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1962 and a master's degree in education in 1963, the year she and Joel were married. From 1963 to 1969, she taught history at Rye High School in Rye, N.Y.. (Boston Globe)
She taught at Barnard College and Howard University before moving to Los Angeles in 1948 to work at Rand, which had been established two years earlier by the U.S. Army Air Forces to conduct defense research. After Albert joined the think tank, the couple produced a series of studies that resulted in improvements in the Strategic Air Command's management of intercontinental manned bombers, said Robert Zarate, who is writing a biography of the Wohlstetters. (Los Angeles Times)
They didn't call it a hedge fund at the time, but this was early,'' says Perry Mehrling, an economics professor at Barnard College in New York and author of ``Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance'' (John Wiley, 374 pages, $29. 95). (Bloomberg)
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