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• He Helped Free Innocent People from Prison. Now He Wants to Do Even More.

  

  Edwin Grimsley

  Ph.D. student Edwin Grimsley spoke to the graduate center about his work with the Innocence Project and the goals of his research, which focuses on the criminalization of marijuana. Read more

• The Stars Align for a Master’s Student Interested in Black Feminist Literature and Activism

  

  Kayla Reece

  Kalya Reece talks with the Graduate Center about her internship and her intersecting interests in Black feminism and sharing stories with the world. Read more

• Putting More CUNY Students on Paths to (Study) the Stars

  

  Professor Jackie Faherty (left), Rocio Kiman (Ph.D. '21, Physics) (center) and Kelle Cruz (right) on the day of her dissertation defense.

  With a new astrophysics master’s program starting next fall, directed by Professor Jillian Bellovary, the Graduate Center expects to help even more students reach the stars.  Read more

• ‘One Hell of a Learning Experience’: How COVID Nearly Upended a Student’s Dissertation Research

  

  Iris Strangmann (Photo credit: Alex Irklievski)

  Like many doctoral students, Iris Strangmann had to reimagine how she would conduct an in-person experiment when such activities were banned in New York. Read more

• How Students Feel About Math Affects How Well They Perform, as Shown in Large U.S. Study

  

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  While other studies usually focus on factors such as working memory, knowledge, motivation, or personality, until now researchers haven’t created a framework for math performance that includes attitude. Read more

• Three Graduate Center Students Receive Prestigious 2021 Fulbright-Hays Grants for Research Abroad

  

  (L-R) Nehal Amer, Charles Colwell, and Chinonye Otuonye

  The students, two from the doctoral program in anthropology and one from music, will study in Egypt, Nigeria, and Costa Rica. Read more

• Students Monitor the Eruption of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano: ‘It’s Hot, and You Have Ash on You’

  

  Samantha Tramontano sets up a station for sampling ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, 10/02/2021

  Ph.D. students Samantha Tramontano, Franco Cortese, and their adviser Professor Marc-Antoine Longpré traveled to La Palma to study Cumbre Vieja’s eruption, which began over a month ago on September 19. Read more

• A Graduate Center Fellowship That Builds Digital Skills Also Yields Jobs for Alumni

  

  Top (L-R): Patrick Smyth, Jojo Karlin, Patrick Sweeney; Bottom (L-R): Natalie O’Shea, Keith Miyake, GCDI logo

  Graduates now working as professors and postdocs and one as a data visualization analyst attribute much of their career success to what they learned as Graduate Center Digital Fellows. Read more

• The Long Shadow of 9/11 Hangs Over Guantánamo Bay

  Political Science Ph.D. candidate Philip Luke Johnson discusses the military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of five men accused of aiding the 9/11 attacks, and the prison’s extralegal history. Read more

• My Workplace Is My Real-Life Case Study’: Urban Ed Ph.D. Student and CUNY TV Correspondent Is Also a Full-Time Professor at FIT

  

  Elena Romero

  "During Hispanic Heritage Month, I want to draw attention to the need to recruit more Latinx students into Ph.D. programs and also the need for colleges and universities to recruit, hire, tenure, and support Latinx professors," Elena Romero says.  Read more