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• My Workplace Is My Real-Life Case Study’: Urban Ed Ph.D. Student and CUNY TV Correspondent Is Also a Full-Time Professor at FIT

  

  Elena Romero

  "During Hispanic Heritage Month, I want to draw attention to the need to recruit more Latinx students into Ph.D. programs and also the need for colleges and universities to recruit, hire, tenure, and support Latinx professors," Elena Romero says.  Read more

• Students, Make Your Voices Heard Through the 2021 Student Experience Survey

  

  (Photo credit: Da Ping Luo)

  Beginning October 19, 2021, students will have the opportunity to provide feedback about life at the Graduate Center through the Student Experience Survey. Read more

• 9 Ways the Graduate Center and its Scholars Are Influencing Hispanic Heritage

  During Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating the scholarship and advocacy of our students, faculty, and alumni. Read more

• Faculty Book: Jessie Daniels

  Jessie Daniels
  Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It  
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• Breast Pumps, Home Pregnancy Tests, and Snuglis: An Art Historian Examines How Design Influences Being a Mom

  

  Ph.D. candidate Michelle Millar Fisher and the cover of her book, Designing Motherhood

  Ph.D. candidate Michelle Millar Fisher and her co-author have published Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break our Births, which coincides with two museum exhibitions featuring more than 80 designs that The Guardian called a “first-of-its kind consideration of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design.” Read more

• GC Forward #12: How to Get on Campus

  It is wonderful to see hundreds of students, faculty, and staff coming to the Graduate Center daily. We are maintaining a safe environment for everyone in the community and look forward to seeing even more of you on campus throughout the fall. Read more

• Why These Eels Glow Green and What It Could Mean for People

  

  Gymnothorax zonipectis fluorescent eel (Photo © John Sparks)

  The discovery comes 10 years after scientists captured an image of a bioluminescent eel for the first time off the coast of the Cayman Islands and is the first identification of a fluorescent protein in any moray eel, adding to the growing list and awareness of biofluorescent fish. Read more

• Latinx Visions, a New Podcast by Two Alumni, Offers New Perspectives on Media, Art, and Pop Culture

  

  Baruch Professor Rojo Robles Mejias and Adjunct Assistant Professor Rebecca L. Salois, both Graduate Center alumni, in the recording studio. (Photo courtesy of Latinx Visions)

  Alumni Rojo Robles Mejias and Rebecca L. Salois, now both at Baruch, launched a podcast to explore the many forms of Latinx arts and culture. Read more

• NEH Grant of Nearly $500K Supports Graduate Center Digital Initiatives at a Crucial Time

  

  Participants in GCDI’s Digital Research Institute explore new digital skills. (Photo credit: Da Ping Luo)

  The generous grant, part of the NEH American Rescue Plan, will allow Graduate Center Digital Initiatives to restore initiatives that had been pared back due to pandemic-related budget cuts and to bring much-needed funding to Graduate Center students. Read more

• Graduate Center Professors Receive CUNY Grants for Promising Work in Biochemistry

  

  Professors Rupal Gupta and Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle (Photo credit for Elbaum-Garfinkle image: Rachel Ramirez)

  The funding will support graduate students in both Rupal Gupta’s and Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle’s labs, and both professors are seeking new, ambitious students and staff to join their groups. Read more