The Society of Presidential Descendants debuted its new Presidential Leadership Series podcast with guest Ulysses Grant Dietz, second great-grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant. The podcast was launched in honor of America’s 250th Anniversary and is hosted by Tweed Roosevelt, President of The Society of Presidential Descendants and great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Leading cardiovascular surgeons, engineers, and innovators will convene on the Brooklyn campus for the Living Heart Conference. The event will highlight breakthroughs in cardiovascular surgery, biomedical engineering, and medical simulation while fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that drive innovation. The Living Heart Project has grown to be the largest in the world focused on creating a digital twin of the human heart.

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The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment was honored by Billboard Magazine as part of the publication’s 2025 Top Music Business Schools List, which recognizes the country’s elite colleges and universities preparing the next generation of music business leaders. It marks the second straight year that the Roc Nation School has been honored on the prestigious list.

Kaysie Luna won the NEC Cross Country Women’s Rookie of the Week award for a third time this season after serving as LIU’s top finisher in the women’s 6k race at the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championship. The freshman from New Jersey finished with a time of 23:01.8 and an 8:31.2 split.

Pharmacy faculty Sara Grossman, Tina Zerilli, and Joseph Nathan won the American Association of College of Pharmacy’s (AACP) 2025 Best Publication Award for the Drug Information and Library Science Section. Their research, titled “Appropriateness of ChatGPT as a Resource for Medication-Related Questions,” assessed the popular large language model’s responses to 39 medication-related questions.

The men’s basketball team was unanimously selected to win the conference in the NEC Preseason Poll, while redshirt senior Malachi Davis and graduate student Jamal Fuller were named as Preseason All-NEC selections. The Sharks, who finished second in the NEC last season, enter the 2025-26 season with three returning All-NEC selections: Davis (First-Team All-NEC), Fuller (Second-Team All-NEC), and sophomore Shadrak Lasu (NEC All-Rookie Team).

National Civics Day was celebrated on October 27th by organizations and institutions across the U.S. The Roosevelt School and The Society of Presidential Descendants founded National Civics Day in 2021 to recognize the importance of civic education as a foundation for a strong democracy. This year’s events included an early screening of Ken Burns’ forthcoming documentary The American Revolution at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential site.

Bank of New York named Justin Grant ’06 as Senior Vice President, Head of Content – Wealth Management Product Marketing. Grant, a member of the LIU board of trustees, previously served as Executive Director of JPMorgan Chase. With over twenty years of experience, he has worked as a news reporter for Thomson Reuters, ABC News and as a corporate communications professional for top U.S. financial services firms like Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase.

Pharmacy professor Dharati Desai’s new cardiovascular research earned her the Dr. Dennis J. Baumgardner Clinician Research Award at the Advocate Aurora Health Scientific Day Research Symposium.

LIU Honors College Dean Gregory Barton was honored by the United Nations’ SDG Media Zone during the UN’s General Assembly week. Barton served as the Project Director for a new digital anthology called “Vision for the Future 2025 Capturing Inspiring Stories from Leaders and Changemakers.” The publication features stories from over 25 changemakers and visionaries, sharing their unique perspectives and connections to technology in an ever-changing world.