Like many college students, Zicklin undergraduate Arash Lahijani (BBA, ’24) decorates his room with inspiring quotations. His all-time favorite is courtesy of Albert Einstein: “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” “Albert Einstein’s words have had... View Article
On December 31, H. Fenwick Huss, the Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business since 2014, will retire. During his eight-and-a-half years of leadership, Huss presided over crucial updates of undergraduate and MBA curricula, extended the Zicklin School’s... View Article
Three years ago, JC Alejaldre (Executive MBA in Healthcare Administration, ’18), lost his mother, Aurora, to cancer. An avid runner, she frequently told her son that her dream was to one day run a marathon. “Sadly, she died before she... View Article
Four Zicklin School undergraduate women — Emily Rodriguez Cabrera (BBA, ’23), Audite Talukder (BBA, ’23), Kamilah Torres (BBA, ’23), and Aruna Yessenzhanova (BBA, ’23) — received scholarships to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration in Florida in September. The scholarships were awarded... View Article
Willem Kooyker (BBA, ’71), who endowed the deanship of the Zicklin School of Business in gratitude for the free education he received from the school as a young Dutch immigrant, has died. Kooyker, who studied economics in night classes at... View Article
In parallel with Deloitte’s Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable (MADE) commitment to support greater racial and ethnic diversity in the accounting and tax professions, the Deloitte Foundation is collaborating with the Zicklin School of Business and nearly 20 other colleges... View Article
John Gomes (MBA, ’02) is co-founder of The Eklund|Gomes Team, a luxury division of Douglas Elliman Real Estate that Forbes dubbed “the Marvel heroes of real estate.” With more than 100 agents covering New York, Florida, California, Texas, and most... View Article
Zicklin School of Business alumni Maurice Ng, Alex Sheikhat, and Amelia Tran (below, left to right) were among the winners of 2022 Baruch Changemakers Awards, an inaugural program honoring alumni who have made a positive difference through leadership, innovation, and... View Article
Hailey Ra (BBA, ’24) launched her TikTok account back in 2019 just to entertain her friends. Early videos featured her goofing around with her brothers, lip synching to pop hits, and doing Taekwondo (she’s a fourth-degree black belt who competes... View Article
Brandon Lock, an assistant professor in the Zicklin School of Business’ Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, recently won a Zicklin Excellence and Innovation in Teaching award. “Brandon is known for using technology to foster student engagement,” says Donal Byard, professor... View Article
Conductor, Inc., is an organic search engine optimization (SEO) company with over 300 employees and customers that include household names like Slack, Citibank, and Visa. Its CEO and co-founder is Seth Besmertnik, who says he was inspired to launch the... View Article
The Zicklin marketing and communications team is delighted to announce that the ZicklinBusiness e-newsletter has received a 2022 APEX Award for Publication Excellence. The issues submitted for consideration highlighted a Zicklin alum who is leading successful clinical trials for a... View Article
Professor Donna Gitter of the Zicklin School of Business Department of Law teaches a course for Baruch undergraduates in the Macaulay Honors program called “The Peopling of New York,” in which she has partnered with nonprofit organizations to create experiential... View Article
Nila Paramathas (MS ’22), a graduate student in the Zicklin School of Business’ business analytics program, and Maniza Pritila (MS ’23), a Zicklin graduate student in statistics, both won all-expenses-paid trips to participate in the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland this past... View Article
Jermaine Scott Cherry (MBA, ’20) didn’t exactly have a straightforward path to the Zicklin School. “I started college [at another CUNY school] at age 18, but I was a nontraditional student,” he says. “It took me 11 years to finish... View Article
A team of Zicklin School undergraduate students took second place in the Student Cybersecurity Case Study Competition, organized by the New York metropolitan chapter of ISACA, an international professional association focused on risk governance. The student team, known as the... View Article
Some people go to college because it will help them get a better job. Others go to college because their parents want them to. Isaac Amissah (BBA ’20, MS ’22) went to college because the head of the United Nations... View Article
For the third year in a row, a team of graduate students at the Zicklin School of Business has won the Baruch College Data Challenge with Pitney Bowes, a two-week-long competition among students across Baruch College and the Zicklin School.... View Article
Three Zicklin students who met in the Baruch Association for Information Systems (AIS) club have been named the winners of “Best First-Time Hack” at this year’s HackNYU, a 48-hour event in which students from around the world come together virtually... View Article
Baruch College has announced the valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2022, and for the fourth consecutive year, both honorees are graduating from the Zicklin School. Ashley Mei Bo Torrenti (left), a Macaulay Honors student who is graduating with a... View Article
