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
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
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Attewell will research the education and employment impacts of the COVID disruption on two- and four-year CUNY undergraduates, hoping to influence outreach and planning. Read more
Allison McGovern and Peter Crippen House. (Photos courtesy of McGovern)
Alumna Allison McGovern has recovered artifacts a critical site for African American history in Huntington, Long Island, that has been ravaged by time and neglect. Read more
Alicia Cannizzo (Photo courtesy of Cannizzo)
The fellowship will help Cannizzo complete her study of funerary art following the Black Plague, research that has been hampered by the pandemic. Read more
SLAM! (Student Liberation Action Movement) business card, by Jed Brandt. Retrieved from CUNY Digital History Archive.
The Metro Equity in Action grant, one of only four awarded citywide, enhances a project to curate and digitize documents relating to CUNY’s history, and provides funding for three student researchers. Read more
Gabriele Grosso (Photo courtesy of Grosso)
Grosso plans to use the funding, totaling over $537,000, to research new materials for quantum information technology, and to make this sometimes-intimidating field more accessible to students. Read more
Jessica Fletcher, Dean Schafer, Megan Henriquez, and Kristena Newman
A first round of donor-supported grants supports 60 students as they adjust their research in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students can apply for the next round of funding now. Read more
Thuy Anh Tran
Tran will use the grant for research that focuses on political repression, state power, and social movements. Read more
“Court Crier,” 2018 by Julian Louis Phillips, (courtesy of Phillips). Phillips is a graduate of Social Practice Queens (SPQ).
An innovative program based at The Graduate Center aims to create a new generation of cultural leaders in New York City who represent the city’s diverse population and are committed to bringing social change through art. Read more