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• Economics Ph.D. Student Austin L. MacDonald Is Awarded a Prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

  

  Graduate Center Ph.D. student Austin L. MacDonald

  MacDonald is one of 45 economics students nationwide and the first Graduate Center economics student to win the prestigious fellowship. Read more

• Staging Social Justice: Ash Marinaccio on The Thought Project

  A Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance talks about using theater as a tool for social justice and her experience as a first-generation college student and becoming a documentarian and activist. Read more

• The Success of SUM, a Website That Has Brought CUNY Research to the Public

  

  From left: Char Adams and Beth Harpaz; Harpaz and Amanda Wicks; Lida Tunesi

  We are taking this bittersweet moment to pay tribute to SUM’s impact on CUNY and on its hundreds of thousands of readers and followers who found new ideas and inspiration in the scholarship that SUM shared.  Read more

• Good Mental Health Care for Older Adults With HIV Is Economically Sound

  

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  Economics Professor Christos Giannikos and Ph.D. candidate Robert Utzinger say they hope policymakers will take into account the importance of mental health in vulnerable populations. Read more

• Global Warming Before Our Time: Ph.D. Student Andres Hernandez Nava Shares the Story of a Breakthrough Discovery

  

  Andres Hernandez Nava

  Andres Hernandez Nava explains his journey from Berkeley to CUNY and how he became a lead author on a study that sheds light on the role of volcanoes in the demise of the dinosaurs.  Read more

• Andréa Becker and Priscilla Bustamante Awarded Dissertation Fellowships for Research on Women’s and Gendered Issues

  

  Andréa Becker and Priscilla Bustamante

  They are among eight recipients of the WW Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowship from The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, selected for their original and interdisciplinary research. Read more

• Bringing a Social Work Perspective to a Premier LGBTQ+ Research Institute

  

  Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus

  Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus just started his new job as associate director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University, after receiving his Ph.D in social welfare in 2018. Read more

• How New Yorkers Can Fight for a Cleaner City: Community Sensor Lab Founders on The Thought Project​

  A new project at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center helps New Yorkers monitor their air, water, and soil quality and advocate for a safer, healthier environment. Read more

• ‘Sometimes Race Is a Veil’: Professor Nathalie Etoke Interrogates the Notion of Race in ‘Shades of Black’

  

  Nathalie Etoke

  Identity is a living experience and an ever-evolving process, says Professor Nathalie Etoke. Read more

• Scientists Zero in on the Role of Volcanoes in Setting the Stage for the Demise of Dinosaurs

  

  India’s Deccan Traps, an ancient lava field covering about one-fourth of India, has been tied to the End-Cretaceous mass extinction some 66 million years ago. New research is helping to determine whether it played a significant role. (Photo credit: Loÿc Vanderkluysen, Drexel University)

  Graduate Center, CUNY researchers uncover evidence suggesting that volcanic carbon emissions were not a major driver of Earth’s most recent extinction event. Read more