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• Language Matters: New Guidance on Race-Related Terms in The Graduate Center Style Guide

  

  The Graduate Center capitalizes Black and Indigenous. Our updated style guide includes a section on terms related to race and national origins. Read more

• We Could All Benefit From a Hug

  

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  New research by Professor Cheryl Carmichael shows that avoiding touch may be detrimental to our relationships and our health. Read more

• GRE Requirement Suspended for Most Graduate Center Programs

  In light of COVID-19–related testing disruptions, the GRE will not be required for fall 2021 or spring 2021 admission to all master’s programs and most doctoral programs. Read more

• Looking for Ways to Use Technology in Humanities Courses? A New Volume From the MLA Has 500 Ways to Help

  

  Professor Matthew K. Gold (Credit: Da Ping Luo)

  Professor Matthew K. Gold co-edited “Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities,” a curated resource organized by topical keywords. Read more

• A message to International students from the President and Provost

  We know that many of you will already have heard about the dismaying ruling of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). For those of you who haven't heard, the US Government’s SEVP has declared that international students may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States. Read more

• Graduate Center Alumni Awarded Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

  

  Barry P. Goldberg (left) and Jaime Shearn Coan. (Photos courtesy of ACLS)

  Jaime Shearn Coan and Barry P. Goldberg will apply the skills and perspectives they gained from their doctorates in English and history to community-focused positions in nonprofit organizations.  

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• Professor Michelle Fine Discusses Solidarities and the Movement from Racial and Social Justice Protests to Action

  

  Professor Michelle Fine

  Fine, co-founderof the Public Science Project, talks about her advocacy for prisoners, the recent protests, and the obligations of those who have benefited from white privilege.

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• Professor Lilia Maliar Awarded $308,000 NSF Grant for Research on Applying Artificial Intelligence to Economic Models

  

  Lilia Maliar (Photo courtesy of Maliar)

  She will “use AI to solve those difficult models that economists want but cannot solve yet,” including understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery. Read more

• Ph.D. Student Jah Elyse Sayers On How Trans People of Color Establish Their Sense of Place in NYC

  

  Jah Elyse Sayers (Photo courtesy of Sayers)

  Sayers is a Black, mixed-race, and trans masculine researcher, organizer, and artist who is studying the way that queer and trans people make and maintain their place in neighborhoods and public areas. Read more

• Graduate Center Astrophysicists Make Illuminating Discovery Inside a Black Hole

  

  Little Black Holes in Disk of Big Black Hole: Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disk of gas. Embedded within this disk are two smaller black holes orbiting one another. (Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC))

  Astronomers K. E. Saavik Ford and Barry McKernan have seen what appears to the first light ever detected from a black hole merger. Read more