For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. All NewsNews »All News Filter by: Category: 365 Fifth Newsletter Academic Calendar Administrative Appointments ARC Faculty Highlights ARC Research Projects Commencements Distinguished Professor Appointments Events Faculty Activities Faculty Awards Faculty Books GC Magazine General GC News Grants James Gallery Membership News New Appointments to the GC President Speeches President's Office - Archive President's Office - Community Meeting President's Office - Community Message President's Office - Events President's Office - Speeches Public Events Research Studies Signature Programs Year: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December In Memoriam: Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills, a Philosopher Who Changed the Conversation About Race in the U.S.Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills (Photo credit: Sam Alcoff)Mills joined the Graduate Center faculty in 2016 and was lauded, most recently with the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, for his groundbreaking book The Racial Contract. More than 20 years after its publication, The Racial Contract remains a seminal philosophy text. Read more‘Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves’ Revisited in a New Book About Women in the Greco-Roman WorldUnknown, Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called “Sappho"), c. 55–79, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples.Professor Ronnie Ancona and her former student Georgia Tsouvala have co-edited a book in honor of Professor Emerita Sarah Pomeroy and her landmark study, "Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves." Read moreHow Humans See the World Is Best Seen in a LabZhilin Zhang (Photo credit: Coralie Carlson)In her first semester, Zhilin Zhang is already conducting research and experiments in the lab of Presidential Professor Tony Ro. Read moreFaculty Book: Gita Martohardjono Gita Martohardjono and Suzanne Flynn (editors) Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (The MIT Press, 2021) Read moreNew to Cognitive Neuroscience and Already Involved in ResearchNikki Gerohristodoulos (Photo credit: Coralie Carlson)Master's student Nikki Gerohristodoulos spoke to the Graduate Center about her research and how it feels to be learning in person. Read moreHow to Fight and Win a War on GunsProfessor Candace McCoy discusses why shootings are on the rise and what the Biden administration should do about it. Read moreSavoring His StudiesCaesar Ekya (right) prepares for an experiment with Cathleen Rowe (left) and Nikki Gerohristodoulos (center). (Photo credit: Coralie Carlson)Caesar Ekya spoke to the Graduate Center about his neuroscience research and how his studies complement his day- and night-job as a restaurant co-owner. Read moreCUNY Anthropologist, a Vietnam Veteran, Analyzes War’s Trauma in New Memoir Glenn Petersen (Photo courtesy of Petersen)Professor Glenn Petersen also shares advice to veterans of today's wars. Read moreWhy People Start Sentences with ‘So,’ So Often: Alumna Syelle Graves in the ‘Times’Syelle Graves, the assistant director of the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context at the Graduate Center, spoke to The New York Times about using the word "so" at the start of a sentence (the linguistic trend on which she wrote her dissertation). Read moreA Message from the ProvostWelcome to the fall 2021 semester. I am thrilled to be joining you this year and look forward to getting to know each of you. Read more Previous 12345678910... Next