September

September 2021 (16 Articles)

• “Just One Thing” Video Series Showcases Faculty and the Digital Future of Public Scholarship

• Award for Student Brianna A. Baker to Support Intersectional Scholarship on Mental Health in Black Communities

  With a funded award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, counseling psychology doctoral student Brianna A. Baker will collaborate on national public health efforts

• $3.25 Million Grant to Fund Development of Black Studies Curriculum for NYC Public Schools

  TC’s Black Education Research Collective, led by Sonya Douglass Horsford, will play a lead role in a landmark initiative to develop an interdisciplinary K-12 Black studies curriculum

• Historic Funding: NIH Grant Opens Door for TC and Mailman Study on Gun Violence at the Intersection of Public Health and Education

  A $2 million grant from the National Institute of Health will fund a gun violence study co-led by TC’s Sonali Rajan

• Passion with Purpose in Higher Education

  First-year student Mana Uppili embraces campus life while pursuing aspirations for college counseling

• Moving Forward: FabLearn Fellow Ridhi Aggarwal Brings Maker-Space Learning, and Hope, to Indian Village

• Educational “Escape Rooms” Challenge Students in STEM Learning

  For FabLearn Fellow Lars Beck Johannsen, teaching the next generation of problem solvers means embracing innovative tech

• Higher Ed Needs Lobbyists Too

  Now is the time for every college in the country to fight hard for the next massive investment in higher education

• “Stronger Than Ever,” the TC Community Returns to 120th Street

• NYC Leaders and Faculty Discuss Reopening and a City Changed by the Pandemic

  As part of the College’s virtual New Student Orientation, local officials and TC faculty explored New York City’s greatest challenges amid Covid

• How Can Schools Better Serve Student Health?

  Questions and answers with TC’s Charles Basch

• Returning to Lead: Student Senate President Marion Bakhoya Talks Pandemic Life, Supporting Mental Health & More

  With the fall semester welcoming the majority of the community to the Teachers College campus for the first time since March 2020, Bakhoya prepares for new challenges

• The Teachers and the Towers: How Educators Helped Students Cope, Heal and Learn in the Aftermath of 9/11

  Twenty years after the terrorist attacks that killed 2,997, injured more than 6,000 and changed the world, we revisit the experiences of three TC alumni on the “frontlines” of New York–area schools in the shadow of Ground Zero

• Engineering Hope: FabLearn Fellow Brenda Nyakoa Brings a Different Kind of Learning to Kenyan Students

• Decoding Trauma: TC’s George Bonanno on 9/11, the Pandemic and How Flexibility is the Key to Survival

• ‘Say You Want a Revolution’ Advocacy Academy, Featuring Community Leaders & Government Officials, Can Help