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• A Tenure-Track Social Welfare Grad Works on Preventing Intra-Community Violence

  

  Maurice Vann (Photo courtesy of Vann)

  After leaving law school for social welfare, '20 alumnus Maurice Vann connects research and practice while addressing racial bias, in a new tenure-track position.  Read more

• 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

• Home is Where Her Art Lies

  

  Nadiah Rivera Fellah

  Alumna Nadiah Rivera Fellah’s research on Latinx art embraced her family’s history and led her back home to Ohio and her curatorial job at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Read more

• After Finding an ‘Intellectual and Political Home’ at The Graduate Center, Alumna Lands Postdoc at UC Berkeley

  

  Mae A. Miller (Photo courtesy of Miller)

  Alumna Mae A. Miller (Ph.D. ’20, Earth & Environmental Sciences) talks to The Graduate Center about her bold research questions, the importance of building communities to support students of color, and her new postdoc position.  Read more

• Reaffirmation of Commitment to Diversity/Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

  The City University of New York (CUNY) and The Graduate Center are dedicated to our historic mission: providing high quality education to all students, regardless of means or background. 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

• Graduate Center’s CARA and CUNY Awarded Gates Foundation Grant to Provide Peer Leaders to Incoming Undergraduates

  The $175,000 grant will build on CARA’s existing College Allies program, through which peer leaders provide matriculation and first-year support to incoming students.  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

• ‘What’s Your Plan?’ In Professor Jill Bargonetti’s Cancer Lab, Reopening Means a Change in Rules and in Culture

  

  Professor Jill Bargonetti (Photo credit: Alex Irklievski)

  Professor Jill Bargonetti explains how her lab has resumed work while keeping the scientists safe during the coronovirus pandemic.  Read more

• Racism and Antiracism in Music Theory and Higher Education: Professor Philip Ewell Speaks Out

  

  Professor Philip Ewell (GC/Hunter, Music)

  Professor Philip Ewell is calling out racism in his field of music theory and providing a path forward for antiracist scholarship. Read more