Medgar Evers College School of Science, and Allied Health

08/15/2026

🌿🔬 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲! 🔬🌿

On August 11, the School of Science and Allied Health was proud to host the 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 — our partnership with SUNY ESF that brings NYC high school students into climate science, environmental justice, and the careers that flow from both.

✊🏾 The Institute takes its name from 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗼, a historic Black suffrage settlement in the Adirondacks that created electoral access and opportunity in the mid-1800s — a spirit of access and advocacy these students carry forward.

📊 The morning belonged to the students: posters and the program's first-ever video project on food deserts, nutrition insecurity, and the unequal geography of food access in our city. Their thesis, in their own words: 𝗮 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲.

🏛️ They were joined by Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, chair of the NYS Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus; 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗠. 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻, chair of the Task Force on Food, Farm & Nutrition Policy; and the office of 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗶 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘀 — whose advocacy makes this program possible.

➗ And yes, there was mathematics! Interim Dean Terrence Blackman showed students the math hiding inside every food desert map—distance, geometry, measurement—then won a birthday wager with the pigeonhole principle and revealed that, twenty generations back, each of us carries over a 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 ancestors. The lesson: 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁. Your presence carries potential that ought to be actualized.

🙏🏾 Thank you to our students, our partners at SUNY ESF, and our champions in Albany. See you at advocacy day — and, we hope, in our classrooms soon!

01/21/2022

Colleagues,
I trust that you are well. Please share in your network(s): We are delighted to inform you that a national search for the next Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Medgar Evers College was recently launched. The search committee invites you to visit the search website at mec.cuny.edu/provost-search for more information. We strongly encourage you to nominate individuals for the position through the nomination form. Be well.
terrence

President Patricia Ramsey is pleased to announce a national search for the next Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of Medgar Evers College.

07/30/2019

A CUNY team from Bronx Community College (10 students and 2 faculty), La Guardia Community College (1 student), York College (2 students) and Medgar Evers College (2 students and 1 faculty) will be journeying to Mumbai, India during July 30 - August 15, 2019 on a sustainability focused Study Abroad Program.

The CUNY team in India will be led by Professor Neal Phillip of Bronx, Prof. Paramita Sen of Bronx and Prof. Dereck Skeete of Medgar Evers. The CUNY team will be joined in India by Mr Greg Bruce, the Principal for Sustainability for Townsville, Australia. Townsville is the 2012 winner of an IBM Smarter City Challenge Award and Mr Bruce is the principal architect of the smart city deliverables for the city.

Last year a CUNY team under the leadership of Dr Neal Phillip of Bronx Community College conducted successful sustainability focused Study Abroad programs in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (June 2018) also with Mr Greg Bruce and in Townsville, Australia (November 2018). Dr. Skeete was part of the team in Australia last year.

The team had quite an impact in both locations and had many deliverables including installing solar powered weather stations, monitoring climate/pollution monitoring on a micro-scale with backpack weather stations designed by NOAA-CREST at City College, conducting Collective Social Learning workshops, conducting STEM workshops and training students and sustainability staff on the use of our backpack weather stations and presenting at the 2018 Annual Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference. See blogs chronicling activities in Spain and Australia:
Palma de Mallorca​, Spain Study Abroad Program: https://bcc-cuny-mallorca.tumblr.com/
Townsville, Australia Study Abroad Program: https://bcc-cuny-australia-ecotourism.tumblr.com/
We commend Dr. Skeete for his work and we are are looking forward to a similarly successful, sustainability focused, visit to Mumbai, India.

Be well.
Terrence
P.s. please see link to photos from farewell reception hosted by the Indian consulate: https://www.indiainnewyork.gov.in/subGallery?id=eyJpdiI6ImNXRnRSRWxKU0pZRWlTZVZ4bzIyNXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoieFp2XC9YdW55XC9jbG9FbTdTREY5Z2tBPT0iLCJtYWMiOiJhMmIxYzVlOTg1ZTY5NWY4YmZiZDE4MjYzNzNjMzE3ZGYyOTQ4OTliNjNmZDJhNmNkYWEwMjIwMjE4NzU0NjE1In0=
Terrence Blackman, Ph.D.,
Dean, School of Science, Health & Technology
Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Welcome to Consulate General of India, New York (USA)

07/12/2019

Education is about building a sustainable infrastructure that can reliably connect (y)our folk to opportunity--it feels really good when a student says--I'm heading off to the ...and you think, job well done young lady and you see the ancestors smiling in your mind's eye. Dean Terrence Blackman

07/12/2019

The joy of science--
PROJECT: Synthesis of Diacylglycerol-Lactones (DAG-Lactones)
Diacylglycerol (DAG) is a lipid second messenger that is produced through
phosphoinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) hydrolysis following the activation of receptor-coupled
phospholipase C or indirectly from phosphatidylcholine via phospholipase D. Increased levels of
DAG are transduced into cellular signals by binding to the C1 domains of the various protein
kinase C (PKC) isoforms and six other families of proteins. The binding of DAG translocates the
target proteins to membranes and may further lead to conformational change of the protein, as is
the case with PKC, leading to enzyme activation. These proteins represent promising therapeutic
targets for cancer, dementia, HIV and AIDS, and multiple other disorders.

In the project a new class of DAG mimetics will be prepared using microwave technology
and tested for PKC activity.

The materials have arrived. Dr. Denton is happy! Dean Terrence Blackman

07/04/2019

Dear Colleagues,
I trust all is well. Here’s hoping that you enjoy some good barbecue and fellowship tomorrow. Mindful of the challenges that we will face in the days ahead in our School, our College and our nation I thought that I’d share this article with you for under the rubric—readings for the 4th. Be well.
Terrence

Terrence R. Blackman, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Science, Health &Technology
Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced".--James Baldwin

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

06/12/2019

On June 12, 1963, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi,

During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his home state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote and recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmett Till murder case, which brought national attention to the plight of African Americans in the South.

After a funeral in Jackson, he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President John F. Kennedy and many other leaders publicly condemned the killing.

In 1964, the first trial of chief suspect Byron De La Beckwith ended with a deadlock by an all-white jury, sparking numerous protests. When a second all-white jury also failed to reach a decision, De La Beckwith was set free.

Three decades later, the state of Mississippi reopened the case under pressure from civil rights leaders and Evers’ family. In February 1994, a racially mixed jury in Jackson found Beckwith guilty of murder. The unrepentant white supremacist, aged 73, was sentenced to life imprisonment.(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/medgar-evers-assassinated)

Today I call upon us to pause for a moment to reflect privately on the responsibility of that comes to us as individual faculty, as departments, as a School of Science, Health and Technology and as Medgar Evers College to the community, city, state and nation of which we are a part and I call on us to commit ourselves to unfinished work of Medgar Wiley Evers.

Be well.
Dean Terrence Blackman

05/31/2019

June is Caribbean Heritage Month. See https://www.caribbeanamericanmonth.org/am To honor this occasion, The School of Science Health and Technology at Medgar Evers College, in conjunction with the Caribbean Friends Table Tennis Association and the Brownsville Strikers Table Tennis Club, will host our second annual Caribbean Invitational Tournament on Saturday, June 1st, 2019 at the Medgar Evers campus gym (Carroll St. Building) in Brooklyn, NY.

Last year’s event was a resounding success and this years event looks to be even bigger. We look forward to your participation in the tournament and to welcoming your family to Medgar Evers College.

05/12/2019

Dean Terrence Blackman receiving a shirt from this year's President of the MEC Math Society.

05/11/2019

Award Ceremony highlighting the contributions the impact of MEC students (both current and alumni) to the community. The Ceremony, which was hosted on Monday, May 6th, 2019, by Dr. Dereck Skeete and Dr. Christopher Boxe of the MEC School of Science, Health and Technology was graced by the presence of the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.