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• Ph.D. Candidate Alfredo Vidal Ceballos Creates Microscopic Images to Increase Awareness of Diseases Like Alzheimer’s

  

  Alfredo Vidal Ceballos

  A fellowship from Art Science Connect supports his project to create compelling microscopic images that increase understanding of what a disease like Alzheimer’s actually does to the brain. Read more

• The Scientist Behind the Powerful Cover Art of the Journal ‘Polity’ Is Also President of The Graduate Center

  

  COVID Sisyphys by Robin Garrell

  The drawing shows a very small human pushing an immense coronavirus cell uphill. Read more

• How America Can Recover: Paul Krugman on The Thought Project

  The New York Times columnist and distinguished professor elaborates on many of his ideas, particularly how the U.S. can pull itself out of its COVID-induced economic slump and address inequality. Read more

• Women’s History Month Books Guide: 10 Great Reads by Graduate Center Faculty and Alumni

  

  Books by Graduate Center faculty and alumni.

  From Georgia O'Keeffe to the ERA, here are some great books for Women's History Month.  Read more

• Professor Cindi Katz Is Honored for Her Distinguished Scholarship and ‘Immense Impact’ by the American Association of Geographers

  

  Professor Cindi Katz (Photo courtesy of Katz)

  Katz is celebrated for her “relentless efforts to identify and transform exploitative power relations” through pioneering scholarship that is focused on people’s everyday experiences and the possibilities for creating livable and just futures. Read more

• Ph.D. Student Gisely Colón López on the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies

  

  Gisely Colón López (Photo courtesy of Colón López)

  Colón López describes her work on the new documentary and how the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies department at Brooklyn College was "transformative" in her own life. Read more

• Danielle Garcia Explores Hip-Hop’s Political Power and Its Paradoxes, and Finds Her Calling

  

  Danielle Garcia and some of her hip-hop albums

  "There is a lot about hip-hop that we can learn from and use to empower," says alumna Dannielle Garcia.  Read more

• $9.5 Million Gift to The Graduate Center, CUNY Significantly Advances Research on Income and Wealth Inequality

  

  Credit: Alex Irklievski

  The latest gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation brings the foundation’s total support for The Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality to $14.36 million, and will help the prominent research center prepare more early-career scholars. Read more

• Jim Stone: How Academic Research Can Address Wealth Concentration and Inequality

  

  Cathy and Jim Stone (Photo courtesy of the Stone Foundation)

  Jim Stone, of the James M. and and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, talks to The Graduate Center about the importance of research on rising inequality and wealth concentration, and about how the Stone Center benefits from being a part of The Graduate Center and CUNY. Read more

• New Fossil Discovery Illuminates the Lives of the Earliest Primates

  

  A rendering of the newly discovered early primate species, Purgatorius mckeeveri. (Illustration by Andrey Atuchin)

  Graduate Center, CUNY/Brooklyn College anthropologist Stephen Chester is part of a team of researchers providing a big glimpse into how our primate relatives lived 66 million years ago, after an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs. Read more