365 Fifth Newsletter | Issue 36 | Dec. 2017 |

Cutting Tracks

Professor Eliot Bates is pushing ethnomusicology into uncharted territory.

News from the GC

When Translating Turns Deadly

Graduate of the Last Decade Award winner Maya Hess (Ph.D. ’14) discusses Red T — her “dissertation in action.”

Nanoscience vs. Cancer

At the ASRC, Ph.D. candidate Mona Tayarani is pitting peptides against cancer and other diseases.

The Gig Is Up

In her forthcoming book, Ph.D. candidate Alexandrea J. Ravenelle reveals what it’s like to work for companies like Airbnb and Uber.

Our Twitter Pics, Ourselves

In this Thought Project podcast, Professor Lev Manovich discusses what he and Ph.D. candidate Agustín Indaco found in their Visual Earth study.

Just Published

Pathways to Reform: Credits and Conflict at the City University of New York

Alexandra W. Logue
(Psychology)

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel

David H. Richter
(English)

Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender 3rd edition

Jack Jacobs
(GC/John Jay, Political Science)

New to the GC

Emergency Grants for Students

With The Carroll and Milton Petrie Student Emergency Fund, the GC can assist students who are facing short-term financial emergencies.

Overheard At the GC

Meet GC alumnus Daniel R. Porterfield and GC Ph.D. student Tai-Danae Bradley.


	Daniel R. Porterfield

	(Ph.D. ’95, English) President-Elect of the Aspen Institute

“I really just have this deep belief that education is the cornerstone of a democracy, that it is the crucial gesture we make as one citizen to others to provide high quality opportunity for all.”


	Tai-Danae Bradley

	(Math) Co-Host of PBS Infinite Series

“I find that the ideas of math are hidden behind a dense fog of formalities and technical jargon. Much of my transition process has been (and still is!) learning how to fight through this fog in order to clearly see the ideas, concepts, and notions which lie beneath."

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