This week we're adding pandemic zines from Aotearoa New Zealand, Manchester England, Portland Oregon, Columbus Ohio, and Kearny NJ.
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This week we're adding zines featuring quotes from queer icons, zines about staying home, body ideation, and surviving another day.
This week we added zines about the pandemic driving people to kombucha, dolphin drawing, staying inside, consuming a lot of media, attempting to care for themselves, and embracing it as a boon for neurodiverse introverts, as well as a screed by an Irish lesbian affirming her sexuality, which apparently you have to do in Ireland.
Our amazing AV team is hard at work updating classrooms so they're ready for hi-flex teaching in the Fall!
This week we added zines about how introverts would design the working world (our moment has arrived!), grim reaper problems, wearing a face mask with glasses, Starbucks worker pandemic life, essential worker life, thirsty queer sailors from the USNS Comfort, pandemic librarianing in Australia, and isolation...with a partner.
For our first-ever summer camp, join us at daily workshops around the theme of racial justice!
The Empirical Reasoning Center (erc.barnard.edu) at Barnard seeks a new cohort of Empirical Reasoning Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year!
This week we added a lot of zines that are about the ups and downs of quarantine life--and one zine about having impostor syndrome in comedy improv.
Eva-Quenby Johnson BC '20 is the Media Center's new Post-Baccalaureate Fellow.
Centers Coordinator Arun Bryson is among 61 exceptional students pursuing graduate degrees in library and information studies who were awarded 2020 American Library Association's (ALA) Spectrum Scholarships from the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services.
The #unsilencedpast initiative has emerged directly from this moment's exceptionally muscular call for us all to mobilize whatever platforms we have at our disposal in thoughtful and immediate service to the project of racial and social justice in our local, national, and global communities.
Barnard College has launched the Post Baccalaureate Fellowship program, a learning and career development opportunity for graduating seniors.
Fatima Koli BC '17 has been promoted to Associate Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center.
This week we added zines about going to school from going to school from twelve hours in the future, T-shirts worn during quarantine, Asian American coronavirus experiences, London street scenes, what the coronavirus is and how to deal with it (in English and español), a vision of the future if we minimize global warming, zines purchased during the pandemic, the passing of a beloved cat during the early days of social distancing, and body image during the crisis: don't diet!
Erin Anthony comes to Barnard as a new STEM Librarian from Brown University where they were the Public Health and Research Support Librarian.
We've added ten new pandemic zines this week. They're about making the best of things, Zooming art school, how life is different under quarantine, how ventilators work, isolated living, what skateboarders in the UK are doing to occupy their time, weekly news rundowns, meditating while Black, and what service workers in PDX are up to while they're unemployed.
The Center for Engaged Pedagogy, with support from IMATS and the Computational Science Center, hosted a four-day (June 15-18th) synchronous virtual intensive Curricular Design Institute for faculty to create Fall 2020 courses that critically engage with digital technologies and approaches. If you would like to access the recordings from the Institute, please email us.
Great news- it is now possible once again to request scans from Columbia offsite collections held at ReCAP. Offsite items available for scan requests will have the "Request: Offsite" links displayed in CLIO records.
Alisa Rod is leaving Barnard and New York to start a new chapter of her professional and personal life in Montreal, where she will take up the position of Research Data Management Specialist at McGill University.
On March 18th, I moved out of my dorm, Sulzberger 508, and it was the last time I went outside. Leaving Barnard, I not only left behind my freshmen year but my freedom as well.
By Aaisha Sajjad