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• A Scientist's Advice on Ph.D.s and Publishing: Start Your Research ASAP But Take Small Steps

  

  Mostafa Honari-Latifpour and a Peterson graph that has been color graphed

  Physics Ph.D. student Mostafa Honari-Latifpour co-authored a paper on a classically complex problem. He describes his findings and shares his insights. Read more

• Students and Faculty Honored for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

  

  (Top) Professors Stephen Brier (Urban Education); Alicia Meléndez (GC/Queens, Biology); and Phillip Ewell (GC/Hunter, Music); (Bottom) Yuzhe Song (Physics); Kahdeidra Martin (Urban Education); and Inés Vañó Garcia (Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures)

  Awards celebrate doctoral students who teach throughout CUNY and Graduate Center faculty who stand out for their commitment to students at all stages of research. Read more

• Princeton-Bound 2020 Graduate on Bridging the Gap Between ‘Being (and Feeling Like) a Student and Becoming a Scholar’

  

  Natalia Castro Picón

  Alumna Natalia Castro Picón is starting a tenure-track position at Princeton and offers advice to students in the job market.  Read more

• How to Help Autistic Students Thrive: Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch Involves Autistic Students in Study that Bucks Conventional Thought

  

  Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch

  Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch shares her study’s findings; her work with autistic students; and about why the term “autistic person” is preferable to saying “person with autism.”  Read more

• Unpacking Race in the Patient-Researcher Relationship

  

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  Graduate Center Ph.D. student Irina Mindlis explains the surprising results of her study on the relationships between Black and Latinx people participating in studies and the researchers conducting the study. Read more

• Ph.D. Candidate Awarded Two Fellowships for Work on Organized Crime in Mexico

  

  Ph.D. candidate Philip Luke Johnson (Photo credit Coralie Carlson)

  Philip Luke Johnson didn’t have much success securing fellowships until he tried some new strategies. He shared what was different this time. Read more

• From Birdsong to Far-Right Extremism, Mason Youngblood Traces How Individual Behavior Shifts Culture

  

  Ph.D. candidate Mason Youngblood (Credit: Emily Cote)

  Ph.D. candidate Mason Youngblood talks to The Graduate Center about his research on cultural evolution and how it has led to papers published on seemingly disparate topics. Read more

• COVID and Cages: Graduate Center Researchers Map How Prisons Responded to the Pandemic

  

  Ph.D. student Olivia Ildefonso (left) and alumna Celeste Wilson

  Ph.D. student Olivia Ildefonso and alumna Celeste Wilson talk about their project, which visualizes data about prison releases related to the pandemic. Read more

• How Incarceration Impacts HIV Risk Among Black Sexual Minority Men

  

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  A study by Ph.D. student Joseph Carter (Psychology) and fellow researchers unearths the connections between incarceration, police discrimination, and HIV risk and outcomes for Black sexual minority men.  Read more

• Smithsonian American Art Museum Names Janine DeFeo a Predoctoral Fellow

  

  The art history Ph.D. candidate is one of 21 students appointed to the prestigious fellowship, now in its 50th year. Read more