Weather Update
Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.
Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information.
The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.
Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed. The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open. For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS.
3:12 PM 02/08/2013
Jeanne S. Poindexter, professor emerita in Barnard's department of biological sciences, has been named among "Women of Distinction" by the New York State Senate. The award recognizes women living and working in New York, whose contributions have greatly enriched the quality of life in their communities and beyond. A member of Barnard's faculty from 1991-2007, Prof. Poindexter is a renowned research scientist who dedicated her career to the education of undergraduate students in the biological sciences. In addition, she has devoted much of her time and energy preserving New York’s remaining affordable co-op apartment buildings built under the State’s 1955 Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act (also known as the “Mitchell-Lama Law” after its Senate and Assembly sponsors).
In 2002, Prof. Poindexter received Barnard's Emily Gregory Teaching Award, for excellence in teaching and for devotion and service to students. She also won the Carski Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, granted to outstanding educators for exemplary teaching of microbiology to undergraduate students and for encouraging them toward subsequent achievement. She was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology in 1993.
Prof. Poindexter has two daughters, one who is a Barnard alumna and the other, an alumna of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
