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Minei’s research interests include leadership, high-reliability organizations, small-group/team communication, entrepreneurial issues, globalization and glocalization, and cyberterrorism. She says she’s fascinated by the intersection between interpersonal and organizational communication, and frequently studies High Reliability Teams (HRTs), leadership, supervisor-subordinate communication, small business growth, and message framing processes.  She has received numerous other research awards, including the Stanley L. Saxon Applied Research Award for her work assessing the communication practices between firefighters, and again for the interactions between supervisors and subordinates concerning illegitimate tasks. She also won the Ragan-Kramer-Wieder Qualitative Dissertation Award for her work with small businesses.

She holds a PhD from the University of Oklahoma.

Baruch Weissman is thrilled to announce the public reopening of Mishkin Gallery on March 21, 2022, two years after the pandemic shutdown of New York City forced the gallery to close its doors.

Mishkin reopens with Lamin Fofana: BLUES, the same exhibition that was up when the March 2020 shutdown hit. BLUES features work by the Sierra Leone-born, New York-based musician and artist Lamin Fofana.

“We are excited to physically welcome Baruch and New York back to the Mishkin Gallery for the exhibition Lamin Fofana: BLUES,” said  Alaina Claire Feldman, Mishkin’s director and curator. “The exhibition deeply resonates with the concerns of our students: those of racial and social justice, diaspora and displacement, and most importantly, how art and music is a conduit for coming together. The exhibition was forced to close after just one day in 2020 due to COVID-19, but we are thrilled to recommit to the artists involved and to this particular kind of artwork.”

Aiming for both physical and emotional resonance, the works attempt to challenge authoritative forms of representation and communication while drawing upon the artists’ personal experiences of diaspora, the coming and going of communities. Throughout the exhibition, Mishkin will hold live music performances, talks, readings, and listening sessions to collectively think through what Black studies scholar Christina Sharpe calls “wake work,” living with and attending to the paradoxical history of slavery and its afterlives.

A booklet with contributions by Feldman, Fofana, Dino Dinçer Şirin, and excerpts of primary source texts will accompany the exhibition. A zine including recent writing by the artists will account for and reflect on the past two years since the exhibition had initially opened.

Mishkin Gallery is located at 135 E. 22nd St., Monday–Friday, 11 am-6 pm.  Admission is free. It’s closed on days when classes are not in session.

Six terrific events of broad interest are taking place at Weissman in the next few weeks. Take a look!

CRIME FICTION: “Perspectives in Crime Fiction: Navigating the Past.” The renowned Belfast crime fiction writer Sharon Dempsey will be interviewed by Elizabeth Mannion, who teaches English at Baruch, in conjunction with the US release of Dempsey’s latest book, Who Took Eden Mulligan? Co-hosted by Baruch’s English Department and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, March 25, 1-2:15 pm ET. Register here.

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: “The Long Struggle for Gender Rights: The 50th Anniversary of the Congressional Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and its Legacy.” A discussion featuring women’s and gender studies faculty and Jay Berman, (Baruch Class of 1959 and Baruch College Fund Trustee), who served as aide and Chief of Staff for the late US Sen. Birch Bayh, who authored both the ERA amendment and Title IX legislation. Also on the panel: Baruch Black and Latino Studies Chair Shelly Eversley; Baruch/CUNY Graduate Center Presidential Professor Emerita of History Carol Berkin; Baruch/CUNY Graduate Center Professor of Economics Ted Joyce. Introduction by Baruch History Professor Katherine Pence, Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. March 28, 5 pm-6:30 pm ET. Register here.

HARMAN WRITER: Reading and conversation with the Spring 2022 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Ersi Sotiropoulos. All members of the Baruch community are invited to this in-person meeting, Thursday, April 7 at 6 pm, in Room 750, in the Baruch Library Building. A reception will be held at 5 pm, followed by the reading at 6. Sotiropoulos is an award-winning Greek novelist.

Khrystyna Melnyk graduated from Weissman in 2017 with a degree in biological sciences. She’s now a third-year medical student.

Last week, she posted on Facebook: “So, I felt like a secret agent this weekend. Specifically I was at the Polish-Ukrainian border where I crossed into Ukraine and brought 7 suitcases of aid.”

The Police Department in Ukraine’s Ternopil region thanked her for bringing them medicine, tactical gloves, and other protective equipment and supplies to help “fight the Russian occupier,” adding: “We thank you Khrystyna Melnyk for your civic position, for lifting the spirit of every Ukrainian! You are our Angel! You are a part of us!”

Melnyk was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the US with her family in 1998. “I still have very close family there and many friends,” she said. “My 83-year-old grandma is there as well as many, many uncles, aunts, cousins and so on.”

You can see her posts and images here and follow her plans on Facebook for other efforts. Her former professor, Pablo Peixoto (Natural Sciences), said that reading her posts filled him “with pride, inspiration, and a bit of worry.”

Baruch’s inaugural Mental Health Awareness Week will be held Monday, March 7, through Friday, March 11, 2022. Events include yoga, mindfulness, depression screening, a “body positivity” celebration, suicide prevention, and more. Details here: https://provost.baruch.cuny.edu/mental-health-awareness-week/.

This year’s theme is “Self-Care and Care for Others.”

This campus-specific week was developed within Baruch’s Suicide Prevention Taskforce and is offered in partnership with the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with schools and colleges to help protect the emotional health of, and prevent suicide in, student populations. The concept was expanded to include faculty and staff so the entire Baruch community can get to know the resources that are available to you, as well as the people around the College who are here to assist.

The Counseling Center and the Office Human Resources have planned events that are designed to help you manage stress, recognize warning signs in yourself and others, and more. Some events require registration.

The Office of Student Life at Baruch has collaborated with partners throughout the College to curate a calendar of events around the national Women’s History Month theme of “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” Please visit the Women’s History Month webpage for the full list.

Here’s a sample of some events.

We mourn the passing of Judy Broadwin, a beloved and exceedingly gifted teacher of math.

“Judy was a wonderful person,” said Professor Warren Gordon, Mathematics Department Chairman. “She loved to teach and felt she was blessed being in our department.  Little did she realize we reaped the benefits of her blessing.”

She was a “master teacher,” Gordon said, with the best success rate in the department for students passing calculus, and the fewest students withdrawing–usually none. “No one sat idly in her classroom,” he added. “She made special efforts to intervene early with those students in jeopardy.”

She was also known as the “matriarch of AP Calculus,” having taught hundreds of teachers in AP workshops both locally and throughout the world. She helped design the exam, and was extremely successful in preparing her high school students for it.

Broadwin came to Baruch after a 50-year career teaching at Jericho High School on Long Island and at Queens College. She was a lecturer at Baruch from 2003 to 2015, and was actively involved in training tutors both in SEEK and SACC. She reluctantly retired after suffering an accident that affected her mobility.

“Judy was a warm, energetic,compassionate woman with a tremendous enthusiasm for teaching,” Gordon added. “She had a special relationship with her students. They appreciated her devotion to their education.”

Broadwin died February 23, 2022. She was predeceased by her husband of nearly 60 years, Stanley, and is survived by her daughters, Dr. Beth Belkin and Sharon Lorman; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Her family encourages those seeking to make a donation in her memory to give to Town and Village Synagogue or the SEEK Program at Baruch.

The Baruch College History Department is hosting a teach-in on “Ukraine in Crisis,” Thursday, March 3, 2022, 12:30-2 pm, at the college, in VC 3-150.

Professors Jed Abrahamian, Thomas Heinrich, and Andrew Sloin of the Baruch College History Department will consider the historical and contemporary origins of the conflict, the contemporary geopolitical situation, and global political, economic, and security ramifications. This will be followed by a general discussion of the conflict, open to all members of the Baruch Community.

The Spring Semester at Baruch College is in full swing, including lots of events for students, faculty, and the broader community around Baruch, CUNY, and beyond. Take a look.

FILM SCREENING OF ‘QUILOMBO’: Audience discussion led by Professors Erica Richardson (English) and Tshombe Miles and Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies) focusing on racial capitalism, radical Black feminism, and “telling impossible stories” from archives of slavery as explored in Saidiya Hartman’s essay “Venus in Two Acts.” March 1, 6 pm. Register here. Co-sponsored by Mishkin Gallery, which is hosting the event in person for the Baruch community.

PREJUDICE REDUCTION: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES: The Psychology Colloquium Series presents Princeton Professor Elizabeth Levy Paluck speaking on this topic March 10, 12:30 pm. Register here.

LAMIN FOFANA: BLUES EXHIBITION: On view at the Mishkin Gallery, March 21-May 6.

CRIME FICTION: “Perspectives in Crime Fiction: Navigating the Past.” The renowned Belfast crime fiction writer Sharon Dempsey will be interviewed by Elizabeth Mannion, who teaches English at Baruch, in conjunction with the US release of Dempsey’s latest book, Who Took Eden Mulligan? Co-hosted by Baruch’s English Department and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, March 25, 1-2:15 pm ET. Register here.

HARMAN WRITER: April 7, 6 pm, Harman Writer in Residence Ersi Sotiropoulos, in person, Room 750, Baruch Library Building. Open only to Baruch staff, students, faculty. Reception at 5 pm.

FACULTY WORKS IN PROGRESS: Hosted by the Black Studies Colloquium with Professor Rojo Robles (BLS). April 8, 11 am. Register here.

DANCE: BPAC’s Rose Nagelberg Theatre hosts Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY 2022 New York Season World & New York premieres, April 20-23, 7:30 pm. Proof of vaccinations/mask required. Tickets go on sale March 5.

LIVE MUSIC BY STUDENTS: A concert featuring student performances is planned for the Clivner=Field Plaza for May 12 at 1 pm. Help spread the word: Let students know they can submit an audition video or MP3 to [email protected] by March 31. All musical styles, acts, and genres are welcome.