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• GC Fall Plans – Newsletter #3

  As you know from Governor Cuomo’s announcement and Chancellor Matos Rodríguez’s recent message, CUNY will require all students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to attend in-person classes this fall. Read more

• Professor Setha Low Awarded Environmental Design Research Association Career Award

  Low was recently awarded the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Career Award. Read more

• ‘What It Means to Be Human’: Anthropologist and Fulbright Fellow Evan Mann Looks for Clues in Quebec’s Prehistoric Pottery

  

  Evan Mann (Photo courtesy of Mann)

  Evan Mann came upon his passion for antrhopology almost by accident. Read more

• A Record Six Graduate Center Ph.D. Candidates Awarded ACLS Dissertation Fellowships, With More Than $35,000 in Funding Each

  

  Top (L-R): Jack Crawford, Jessica Larson, China Sajadian; Bottom: Amir Reicher, Yasemin Ozer, Kyong Mazzaro

  This year’s fellows span the fields of art history, politics, and anthropology. Read more

• The Share of Latinos in Three Brooklyn Neighborhoods Is Decreasing: Mexican Population Growth Has Overtaken That of Puerto Ricans, A New Report Shows

  A new report by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, tracks the marked racial and ethnic changes in Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace and Bushwick neighborhoods. Read more

• ‘I’m Going to Carry on Doing What I’ve Always Done, and Let My Curiosity Guide Me’: Writer, Google Strategist, and QMSS Student on Her 'Times' Feature and Multifaceted Career

  

  Stéphanie Thomson (Photo courtesy of Thomson)

  Master's student Stéphanie Thomson explains how a class at The Graduate Center led her to research and write an article on the desperate search for subsidized day care by low-income parents, published in The New York Times. Read more

• Student Spotlight: Melina Giakoumis Studies Some ‘Cool Critters’ in National Parks to Understand the Effects of Climate Change

  

  Giakoumis will devote the next year to studying sea stars in intertidal ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. to understand and share with the public how these ecologically important species are responding to climate change. Read more

• Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Professor Desiree Byrd Exposes the Racism in a Commonly Used Psychological Assessment

  

  Desiree Byrd (Photo courtsey of Byrd)

  In a new article published in Psychological Assessment, Byrd calls attention to the presence of the noose in a common word-naming psychological assessment tool. Read more

• Their Math Is Art: ‘Scientific American’ Covers the Chalk Drawings of Three Graduate Center Mathematicians

  Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the chalkboard art of Professors Linda Keene and John Terilla and alumna Tai-Danae Bradley, who is now at X - The Moonshot Factory. Read more

• ‘Neo-Antique’ New York: In New Book, Macaulay-Lewis Reveals the Ancient Influences Behind the City’s Structures — Including the Lost Façade of That CVS Across the Street

  

  Across the street from The Graduate Center stood the once-magnificent Knickerbocker Trust Company Building. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis)

  Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis shares some of her favorite photos from her new book, "Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City," and explains the little-known histories of these sites. Read more