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• Merih Uctum Presents Reports on Economic Risks at NY State Assembly Meetings

  Merih Uctum (GC/Brooklyn, Economics) presented her assessment of potential risks to the state, national and international economies at two recent meetings of the Economic Advisory Committee of the NYSA Ways and Means Committee. Read more

• Mayor de Blasio Invites Michelle Fine and María Torre to Join NYC Task Force on Schools

  Michelle Fine and María Torre, GC professors of psychology and co-founders of the Public Science Project (PSP), were invited by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office to join the Data and Research Working Group of the Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline. Read more

• John Mollenkopf Featured in ‘The Dream Revisited’ Forum on Ferguson

   
  Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf (Political Science/Sociology) is featured in an online “slow debate” among leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners on how racial and class segregation contributed to last year’s events in Ferguson, Missouri. Read more

• Ruth Milkman Featured as Expert in News Reports on Paid Parental Leave

  Professor Ruth Milkman (Sociology), a scholar of labor and labor movements, has been a prominent voice in recent national news coverage of paid parental and sick, following President Barack Obama’s call to make paid leave a national policy. Read more

• Janet Gornick in the Washington Post on Parental Leave Policy, Income Inequality

  Professor Janet Gornick (Political Science/Sociology) recently lent her expertise to two hot-button issues featured in the Washington Post: parental leave policy and income inequality. Read more

• Janet Gornick on 'Stirring Outcry' of Paris March in NY Times Letter

  Professor Janet Gornick (GC Political Science/Sociology), in a New York Times letter to the editor, offered a firsthand account of the mass unity rally in Paris, following last week’s terrorist attacks. Read more

• Matthew Gold Announces 'Debates in the Digital Humanities' Book Series

  Debates in the Digital Humanities Series
  (University of Minnesota Press)
  
  Professor Matthew K. Gold (NYCCT/GC, English) recently announced the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (University of Minnesota Press), a new book series highlighting key tensions that are shaping the field.
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• Diana Diamond Receives International Research Award for Psychotherapy Paper

  Professor Diana Diamond (City College/GC, Psychology) recently received the 2014 Research Award from the International Society for Transference Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP) for her paper on patients with co-morbid borderline and narcissistic personality disorder. Read more

• Nicholas Michelli Award Recognizes Social Justice Project in Cincinnati

  The 2014 Nicholas Michelli Award for Promoting Social Justice, named to honor the work of Presidential Professor Nicholas Michelli (Urban Education), was presented to the Miami University Urban Teaching Cohort for a project in which students work with schools, community leaders, and families in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood.  Read more

• John Torpey Elected 2016-17 President of Eastern Sociological Society

  Professor John Torpey (Sociology), who serves as Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, has been elected to the top office of the Eastern Sociological Society, the regional professional association of sociologists. Read more