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from Fall 2020 LIU Magazine

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that LIU would receive L O N G I S L A N D U N I V E R S I T Y $12 million in state funding to help open the region’s only veterinary medicine college. (Photo courtesy of Suffolk County Democratic Committee) NEWSROOM

WALL STREET JOURNAL’S COLLEGE RANKINGS 2021

Long Island University has secured a place in The Wall Street Journal’s/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2021. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are based on 15 individual performance indicators and responses from more than 170,000 current college students, collected through an annual student survey. LIU received high marks for student engagement and campus environment. U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT’S BEST COLLEGES FOR 2021

Long Island University earned recognition on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges for 2021. This marks the fourth consecutive year the University has earned the distinction from the premier national ranking database. LIU earned additional recognition for the University’s high ranking in social mobility.

NSF FUNDS COSMOLOGY PRIZE WINNER’S NEUTRON STAR RESEARCH

The National Science Foundation is funding pioneering research from Dr. Steven Liebling, professor of physics. Dr. Liebling, winner of the prestigious Buchalter Cosmology Prize, has worked with members of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), the world's largest gravitational wave observatory. In 2015, LIGO made one of the most profound discoveries of the 21st century when its twin laser detectors measured ripples in the fabric of spacetime – gravitational waves – arriving at the Earth from a cataclysmic collision of neutron stars in the distant universe. PRINCETON REVIEW RANKS LIU BEST IN NORTHEAST

For the fourth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has ranked Long Island University on its list of Best Colleges in the Northeast. The Princeton Review’s annual rankings, which consider hundreds of institutions, are determined primarily by overall excellence and student experience.

EMMY-WINNING SUPER BOWL PRODUCER TO ENTER HALL OF FAME

Fred Gaudelli, ’82, Emmy-Award winning executive producer of NBC’s Sunday Night Football, will be inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Gaudelli, who has collected 24 Emmys during his 30-year run producing primetime NFL games, enters with eight other members in the Class of 2020, including Charles Barkley, James Brown and Phyllis George. Gaudelli has produced six Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XLIX, which still ranks as the most-watched program in U.S. TV history with an average of 114.4 million viewers.

L O N G I S L A N D U N I V E R S I T Y NEWSROOM

NIH AWARDS $5M TO GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCHER

Hannah Ryan, resident director of Hamilton: An American Musical on Broadway and the U.S. Tour, will serve as one of four guest artists for the Post Theatre Company. Ryan also directed An American in Paris on Broadway. LIU students will work directly under the guidance of the guest artists, which also include Debbie Christine Tjong, Benita de Wit and NJ Agwuna. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a R01 grant worth more than $5 million to Dr. Bhaskar Das, professor of pharmaceutical sciences, to fund research on treatments of microsporidiosis, an emerging zoonotic infection. Dr. Das has received 20 NIH grants and his 28 patents have earned over $100 million. He leads the University’s Core Facility in Medicinal Chemistry and has conducted groundbreaking research in cancer therapy, obesity, cardiovascular and

HAMILTON DIRECTOR JOINS LIU AS GUEST ARTIST

neurodegenerative diseases and Alzheimer’s disease.

BERTHEL PROMOTED TO ELEVATED LEADERSHIP ROLE

Michael Berthel was promoted to chief of student affairs and alumni engagement. Michael has over 12 years of student affairs experience and previously served in the roles of associate dean of students and director of campus life, dean of students, and most recently as executive dean of students at LIU. Michael has demonstrated strong leadership and developed an outstanding rapport with his campus peers and students. He launched the "Ask the Dean" series—an open forum for addressing student questions, expanded campus programming and led the University’s on campus rebranding campaign. Under Michael’s leadership, LIU students log more than 150,000 service hours annually.