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• Why the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Must Be Passed

  Kevin Morris, a Sociology Ph.D. student and researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice describes his Congressional testimony in favor of the act. Read more

• The Graduate Center Science Communication Fellowship

  

  The GC Sciences will offer paid scicoms fellowships to two grad students during the 2021–22 academic year. Check out how to apply. Read more

• Student Spotlight: Yelena Dzhanova’s Research Reveals That the Police Officers Who Killed 50 Black Women Weren’t Convicted

  

  Yelena Dzhanova (Photo courtesy of Dzhanova)

  The #SayHerName campaign first drew widespread attention to killing and harming of Black women by police officers in 2014. Dzhanova's report is an investigative follow-up that answers questions about how law enforcement has responded to killings since then.  Read more

• How Was School During COVID? Urban Education Researchers Asked New York City Parents

  

  Members of the Urban Education Research Collective. Top row (left to right): José Luis Jiménez, Wendy Luttrell, Mieasia Edwards, and William Salomon Orellana. Bottom row (left to right): Nga Than, David Rosas, Kelly Brady, and Whitney Hollins.

  Their report, COVID-19 & Racial Justice in Urban Education: NYC Parents Speak Out, illuminates parents’ insights, critiques, and recommendations. Read more

• 7 Grad Center Alumni Share Their Tips to Get on the Tenure Track

  

  (L-R) Michèle Duguay, José R. Chávarry, Noel Torres-Rivera, and Morgan C. Williams, Jr.

  These alumni share their tips with fellow scholars who want to land a tenure-track job.  Read more

• Student Spotlight: Claudia M. Astorino, on the Brink of a Postoc at Berkeley, Shares Her Journey as a Biological Anthropologist and LGBTQIA+ Activist

  

  Claudia M. Astorino

  Astorino’s research focuses on variations in the human skull and teeth that are due to differences in sex, and she is a leader and activist for intersex rights in the STEM fields.  Read more

• ‘Like Little Underdogs’: Lichens Return to New York City, and a New Book Reveals Their Splendor

  

  Two lichens found in Brooklyn: Xanthomendoza fallax in Prospect Park and British Solider Lichen (Cladonia cristatella) at Floyd Bennett Field. (Photos: Jordan Hoffman)

  The book is not just for academics, but for anyone who is curious about the world around them. Read more

• Two Music Alumni Receive Tenure-Track Appointments at Prestigious Institutions

  

  Michèle Duguay and Noel Torres-Rivera

  Michèle Duguay will start as an assistant professor at Indiana University and Noel Torres-Rivera will be an assistant professor of music theory at the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory. Read more

• Four Student Works Selected for First Images of Research Exhibition at the Graduate Center

  

  The exhibition showcases student research to the public in a visual format and celebrates students and their innovative work.  Read more

• Behind the Images of Research: Students Answer Questions About Their Selected Works

  

  (L-R) Maura McGee, Shah Faisal Mazhar, Mabel Gray, and Maura McCreight

  Students explain the research behind their images in the inaugural Images of Research exhibition.  Read more