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Julia Wrigley Named Acting Associate Provost

Julia Wrigley; Photo: A. Poyo

Professor Julia Wrigley of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology has been named Acting Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs at The Graduate Center.

Wrigley received her B.A. with distinction in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 1970, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and 1977, respectively.
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Chancellor's Fellowships Expanded

Additional Support for Continuing Students Created

The City University of New York has announced a significant increase to its five-year recruitment packages for incoming doctoral students, as well as more than $1 million in supplemental support to subsidize other doctoral students already providing instructional services on any of the CUNY campuses. These changes took effect in fall 2005 and guarantee combined tuition fellowships and teaching assignments (Chancellor's Fellowships) for more students than at any previous time in The Graduate Center's history.
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City University Establishes A Graduate Research Grant Program For CUNY Doctoral Students

Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Selma Botman has announced a new Graduate Research Grants Program for CUNY Doctoral Students, which is an investment in graduate education designed to provide financial support for the research efforts of doctoral students. The program is a result of joint efforts on the part of doctoral students, the GC administration, and the Chancellery.
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Farkas Exhibit Opens in GC Art Gallery

The Graduate Center unveiled the work of pathbreaking Hungarian Modernist painter István Farkas September 19 in the Art Gallery. It is the first full-scale retrospective of Farkas' work ever to be shown in the United States.
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2005 Student Orientation

The Graduate Center conducted its new student orientation August 25.
The day began with a reception breakfast in the Harold Proshansky Auditorium lobby, after which students filled the auditorium for a program of speakers. Following remarks by Vice President for Student Affairs Matthew G. Schoengood and Stephanie Domenici Cabonargi, a student in the doctoral psychology program and Co-Chair for Student Affairs of the Doctoral Students' Council, sociology student Mehmet Kucukozer gave the keynote address. Kucukozer encouraged new students to organize well and participate in department and university social and professional activities as they embarked upon what he called the transition "from consumers of knowledge to producers of knowledge."
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McCoy Appointed to GC Faculty

Candace McCoy; Photo: Foster Henry

Dr. Candace McCoy, a nationally renowned criminal justice scholar, was appointed both to the faculty of The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice as a Professor of Criminal Justice, effective September 1. She comes to The Graduate Center after 13 years as a faculty member at the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice in Newark.
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Foundation Benefit Dinner to Honor Carell

Monroe Carell, Jr.

The Graduate Center Foundation will honor Monroe Carell, Jr. at the Seventh Annual Benefit Dinner in support of The Graduate Center November 10. A reception will take place at 6:30 p.m., followed by a 7:30 dinner.
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GC Alumnus Research Leads to New AIDS Drug

An important AIDS treatment drug discovered by City University of New York Graduate Center alumnus Dennis C. Liotta and two colleagues has brought Emory University $540 million, possibly the largest payment ever made to a university for intellectual property. The drug, emtricitabine, was discovered by Liotta along with fellow Emory faculty member Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi and former Emory researcher Dr. Woo-Baeg Choi.
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Michelli Appointed Presidential Professor

Professor Nicholas Michelli, a faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education and former University Dean for Teacher Education in the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, has been appointed as a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, effective September 1. Michelli, who holds a B.A. from Montclair State University, an M.A. from New York University, and an Ed.D. from Columbia University, served as a dean at Montclair State for more than twenty years before his CUNY appointment in 2000. He was active in the launching of the Urban Education program, which began that same year.
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GC Awarded Grant for Classics Archive Project

The Graduate Center will collaborate with classical studies scholars at Georgetown, Harvard, and the University of Virginia on Project Vivarium--a project aimed at developing new electronic resources for use by classics researchers. The Mellon Foundation has awarded the collaborative effort a $260,000 planning grant to help determine ways to integrate existing classical studies print and electronic resources to better serve scholars and students. The Graduate Center's portion of the grant is $60,980. It becomes the fifth grant awarded in 2005 so far for the project, following funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities ($200,000, plus an additional $100,000 in matching funds), the Getty Foundation ($49,000), the Samuel H. Kress Foundation ($10,000), and a private donor ($4,000).
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MEMEAC to Expand Middle Eastern Studies at GC

The Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) will begin a two-year project to expand Middle Eastern studies at CUNY, having secured federal grant support. The project, "Expanding the Study of the Middle East and Its Diaspora at the City University of New York," will be funded by a $192,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education under the Title VI A program; it is one of only two grants awarded nationally for Middle Eastern studies at the undergraduate level.
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October 2005

Stories in this issue

• Julia Wrigley Named Acting Associate Provost
• Chancellor's Fellowships Expanded
• Research Grant Program
• Farkas Exhibit Opens in GC Art Gallery
• 2005 Student Orientation
• McCoy Appointed to GC Faculty
• Foundation Benefit Dinner to Honor Carell
• GC Alumnus Research Leads to New AIDS Drug
• Michelli Appointed Presidential Professor
• GC Awarded Grant for Classics Archive Project
• MEMEAC to Expand Middle Eastern Studies at GC

Newsbriefs

Two more Graduate Center faculty have assumed leadership posts with academic associations. Sociology Professor and Executive Officer Philip Kasinitz was chosen as President-Elect of the Eastern Sociological Society, and will become President in February 2006. Associate Professor Juan Battle was chosen as President-Elect of the Association of Black Sociologists in August, and will assume the presidency in August 2006.
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Faculty Activities

Professor Mimi Abramovitz (Social Welfare, Women's Studies) delivered the keynote address, "Welfare Reform in the United States: Gender Matters" at a conference entitled Why Gender Matters in Child Welfare and Protection at the University of Huddersfield, Great Britain, in April.
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Grants Awarded

In June, The Graduate Center received 6 grants totaling $990,531, and in July The Graduate Center received 17 grants totaling $1,598,367. This list of principal investigators and their awards is provided by the Office of Sponsored Research:
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Recent Appointments to Doctoral Faculty >

In Memoriam >