Valerie Gritsch stands next to a memorial for David Bowie (Photo courtesy of Valerie Gritsch)
Affected by Bowie's death, master’s student Valerie Gritsch applied her interest in pop culture to her academic research. She shares her story and findings. Read more
Athens Fruit Market (Credit: The Graduate Center, CUNY, courtesy of Max Papadantonakis)
Ph.D. candidate Max Papadantonakis wanted to learn about the immigrant experience firsthand and found himself “in between two worlds” as he conducted ethnographic research in his homeland. Read more
Emily Eagen
Graduate Center doctoral student Emily Eagen shows off her rare talent in a sold-out performance dedicated to the work of Stephen Sondheim. Read more
Make some academic new year resolutions for 2020. (Credit: Getty)
How about making some academic resolutions for the new year? Here are some that might already be on your list, along with guidance from Graduate Center students, faculty, and alumni on how to achieve them. (There’s even a happy ending.) Read more
Nathan Connealy (Credit: The Graduate Center, Coralie Carlson)
Ph.D. student Nathan Connealy finds nuances in data and uses them to understand how legal marijuana sales affect crime and policing. Read more
Seth Schimmel (Credit: Alex Irklievski)
Seth Schimmel talks about his experience in The Graduate Center’s master’s program and offers advice to current and prospective students. Read more
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Get tips and guidance from The Graduate Center’s Writing Center. Read more
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Op-eds are a great way for graduate students to promote their research. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff (Ph.D. ’09, History) talks about how to conceive, pitch, and place them. Read more
Michael C. Stern
"I feel incredibly lucky," said Michael C. Stern, a linguistics master's student, who is the first author on a paper on the way bilingual speakers process language. Read more
Ph.D. candidate Victor St. John (Criminal Justice) reveals racial disparities in the mass incarceration of the 1980s. Read more