The City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of February (plus one in late January) at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center, visit www.gc.cuny.edu.
Read moreMusic in Midtown – the popular free lunchtime chamber concert series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York – will present six performances in its Winter/Spring 2009 season, beginning February 19.
Read moreA dramatic increase of Mexicans led the growth of New York City's overall Latino population, which rose to 28% of all city residents in 2007, according to the latest report of the Latino Data Project published by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Read moreSociologists Paul Attewell and David Lavin of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, have been named co-recipients of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for 2008 in the category of Education. Professors Attewell and Lavin will share the $200,000 prize that comes with the award, presented in recognition of a landmark study they co-authored showing the longterm benefits of providing disadvantaged women with access to higher education.
Read moreThe Long Island Index, in collaboration with the CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, has developed a new feature at its website (www.longislandindexmaps.org/) that makes data about Long Island come alive using innovative mapping tools displaying local and regional trends in revealing ways.
Read moreOn December 16, the Center for Jewish Studies and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center of the CUNY Graduate Center will present Beyond Boundaries: Klezmer Music in the 21st Century.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of December at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of November at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street.
Read moreAn ambitious new initiative of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Great Issues Forum brings together prominent statesmen, policy makers, public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, journalists, and scholars to explore the critical questions of our time, focusing on a separate theme each year. The Forum launches this fall with a series of high-profile public conversations on the theme of Power. An opening conversation on Political Power (October 2) will be followed by Economic Power on October 20 and Cultural Power on November 10.
Read moreA series of programs at the CUNY Graduate Center will explore the real-life scientific drama behind the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Doctor Atomic, an opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams about the making of the atomic bomb. Historians, philosophers, authors, artists, and scientists -- including 10 veterans of the original bomb project as well as creators of the opera -- will participate in five separate seminar sessions to be held at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, on October 11, 14, and 17, followed by a series of readings on October 20, 21, and November 10.
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