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• Pivoting During the Pandemic: Laid Off from the Arts Sector, a Political Science Graduate Finds Opportunity and Meaning in New Role

  

  Adam Sachs (M.A. ’20, Political Science) advises job hunters in the pandemic to adjust expectations – but don't lower them.  Read more

• Professor Ruth Milkman and Ph.D. Candidate Luke Elliott-Negri Awarded Grant for Study of Food Workers and Collective Action in Light of the Coronavirus Pandemic

  

  Ruth Milkman and Luke Elliott-Negri (Photos courtesy of Milkman and Elliott-Negri)

  The $48,300 grant will fund research on collective labor action in businesses where work has been made more dangerous by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

• Maintaining Sanity and Equanimity: The Graduate Center’s Resident Stoic on Getting Through Anxious Times

  

  Massimo Pigliucci (Photo credit: Simon Wardenier)

  Professor Massimo Pigliucci explains how a stoic approaches the anxiety of our modern times.  Read more

• Feeling (Even More) Anxious? As the Pandemic Continues and New Stressors Emerge, Graduate Center Experts Offer Advice on Coping

  

  Arielle Shanok

  Arielle Shanok, deputy director of the Wellness Center for Student Counseling Services at The Graduate Center, offers advice for coping with this exceptionally anxiety-inducing time. Read more

• This Dolphin Research Made a Splash Despite Pandemic Challenges

  

  Eric Angel Ramos and dolphins recorded by his drone sharing food. (Images courtesy of Ramos)

  Ph.D. candidate Eric Angel Ramos makes an intriguing discovery from a drone. He talks about his research, how he uses social media to promote it, and what it’s like to study during a pandemic. Read more

• COVID-19, Conspiratorial Thinking, and Social Disaster: Alumna Martha Lincoln’s Perspective on the Pandemic

  

  Martha Lincoln (Photo courtesy fo Lincoln)

  Lincoln sharpens the public conversation about epidemics, inequality, and social change through the lens of medical anthropology. Read more

• Building Entry Policy

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• Message from the Provost: Fall Classes

  I write today to inform you of our plans for delivering fall 2020 courses. In accordance with CUNY policy and guidance, all classroom instruction will be remote for the fall. Read more

• A Message from the Interim President: A Victory for International Students

  The Trump administration’s decision, announced yesterday, to walk back from its misguided rule that required international students to take in-person classes in order to remain in this country is a victory for our students and for all of higher education. Read more

• Travel Advisory Policy

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