RXR, a leading real estate developer, recently broke ground on a new all-electric residential development project at 89 Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn. In addition to 324 residential units, the building will provide 55,000 square feet of academic and office space to be used by LIU faculty and students.

In a coordinated effort to build a robust, statewide educator pipeline in New York, the New York State Teachers Association has launched a new initiative: Take a Look at Teaching (TALAT). LIU’s CEIT Dean Laura Seinfeld and Associate Dean Cary Epstein brought the effort to local Long Island school districts, providing area high schoolers and middle schoolers with an in-depth look at the teaching profession. Teachers from the Oceanside School District called the opportunity “priceless. Our students had the privilege of witnessing the dedication, passion and unwavering commitment of educators to their profession and their students. And that had a huge impact on their commitment to pursue the field.”

As part of our new Global Leadership Series, LIU welcomed Ambassador Kim Euy Whan, Korean Consul General, to speak on campus. In addition to university students, faculty and students from Locust Valley High School attended the discussion, where Kim spoke of the Consulate’s role in uniting the Korean community and strengthening relations between Korea and the five states he oversees.

Byron Lewis ’53 has been called the “original king of Black media” by the New York Times. After founding UniWorld in 1969, Lewis’ company went on to champion multicultural advertising and promote the interests of Black consumers. Clients included Mars Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, AT&T, Ford Motor, the U.S. Marines and more. A collection from his groundbreaking career titled “Byron Lewis, Ad King Extraordinaire” is currently on display at the Smithsonian Museum’s Consumer Era section.

Four LIU students attended this year’s CHINA Town Hall with LIU Global’s dean, Ali Mazzara. The event connected leading China experts with Americans around the country for a national conversation on the implications of China’s rise on US-China relations. At this year’s Town Hall, Shaylin Martinez (center) was selected to talk with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns.

The winner of the biennial Presidential Leadership Book Award, hosted by the Society of Presidential Descendants, is “The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, and the World on the Brink” by William Inboden. Based on thousands of pages of newly-declassified documents and interviews with senior Regan officials, the biography brims with fresh insights into one of America’s most consequential presidents.

Jeff Price, founder of Word Collections and Tunecore, sat down with Young Guru, renowned sound engineer and director of music technology, entrepreneurship and production at Roc Nation School, to share key insights into music rights, licensing and the future of digital audio distribution with Roc Nation School students.

Rachel Hendrick ’12 has been named editor and publisher of Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Before joining ALA, Hendrick worked at various national and international publishing houses, including Readers Digest, Conde Nast and Sotheby’s auction house.