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• Andrea Alù to Direct Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at the GC

  Andrea Alù, renowned engineer and photonics researcher, has been named the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Read more

• American Book Award Goes to Professor Ammiel Alcalay, Editor of 'Lost & Found'

  Professor Ammiel Alcalay (GC/Queens, English) has won an American Book Award in recognition of his work as the founder and general editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a chapbook series that features genre-bending writing. Read more

• GC Is Excellence

  GC students and faculty have garnered numerous awards and fellowships this year. Here, we celebrate a few. Read more

• Clues to Climate Change in Earth’s Past

  To understand what more carbon dioxide in the air means for our planet, Professor Stephen Pekar (GC/Queens, Earth and Environmental Sciences), a geologist, is looking back — way back to 60 million years ago. Read more

• A Celebrated Mentor to Diverse Scholar-Activists: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Earth and Environmental Sciences), director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, has won the 2017 Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association’s Minority Scholars’ Committee. Read more

• Boosting High School Digital Literacy

  This past spring, students from Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) honed their digital literacy skills and shaped the story of their city through the Mapping Time, a project jointly run by BHSEC, the Graduate Center’s Center for the Humanities, and the New York Public Library. Read more

• GC Faculty to Edit ASA Book Series

  Six GC sociology professors have been named the editors of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Rose Series books beginning in January 2018. Read more

• Claire Bishop Named a Fellow in Residence by the Center for Ballet and the Arts

  Professor Claire Bishop (Art History) has been named a fellow in residence by the Center for Ballet and the Arts (CBA) at New York University. Bishop will study Merce Cunningham’s Museum Events, produced between 1964 and 2012. Read more

• Nancy Foner Wins a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin

  Distinguished Professor Nancy Foner (GC/Hunter, Sociology) has won a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin to spend the fall 2017 semester in Berlin studying the effects of immigration on American social life and demographics. Read more

• Professor John Torpey ‘Defines Trumpism’ and Outlines Risks in Op-ed for The Hill

  Professor John Torpey (Sociology) published an op-ed in The Hill in which he argues this is a particularly dangerous moment in the presidency, as the administration shifts its focus to the international arena. Read more