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• Students and Faculty Honored for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

  

  (Top) Professors Stephen Brier (Urban Education); Alicia Meléndez (GC/Queens, Biology); and Phillip Ewell (GC/Hunter, Music); (Bottom) Yuzhe Song (Physics); Kahdeidra Martin (Urban Education); and Inés Vañó Garcia (Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures)

  Awards celebrate doctoral students who teach throughout CUNY and Graduate Center faculty who stand out for their commitment to students at all stages of research. Read more

• How to Help Autistic Students Thrive: Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch Involves Autistic Students in Study that Bucks Conventional Thought

  

  Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch

  Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch shares her study’s findings; her work with autistic students; and about why the term “autistic person” is preferable to saying “person with autism.”  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

• Prestigious NEH Grants Awarded to Professors Rachel Kousser and Matthew K. Gold

  

  Professors Rachel Kousser and Matthew K. Gold

  The funding will support a book that offers a different perspective on Alexander the Great and a digital teaching tool meant to enhance college classes. Read more

• Will Your Love Last the Test of Time? A.I. May Know

  

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  What makes some romantic partnerships last the ages while others fail is one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition. It turns out that artificial intelligence may hold the answer. Read more

• Eating Habits Offer Clues to Protecting the Heavily Poached Pangolin

  

  Pluto the Pangolin. (Photo courtesy of Josh DiPaola)

  Professor Joshua Plotnick and team release a timely study of the mysterious and prized pangolin, which may have been a vector species for the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

• Professors Alyson Cole, Robyn Marasco, and Charles Tien Named Co-Editors of ‘Polity’

  

  Professors Robyn Marasco, Charles Tien, and Alyson Cole

  They intend to expand the readership and contributor pool of the highly ranked political science journal. Read more

• Professor Brett Stoudt Discusses the Growing Support for Accountability in and Defunding of Police Departments

  

  Professor Brett Stoudt (Ph.D. '09, Psychology) (Credit: The Graduate Center/Alex Irklievski)

  He advocated for the Safer NY Act and is about to start a research project that will invite people living in heavily policed neighborhoods to imagine new possibilities for public safety. Read more

• Moments in Time, Preserved Forever: Prehistoric Footprints Reveal Uncanny Links to Our Past

  

  A beautifully preserved footprint from Engare Sero, Tanzania. Credit: William Harcourt-Smith.

  Anthropologist William Harcourt-Smith describes what he and fellow researchers discovered about our ancestors and how to download your own printable 3D footprint. Read more

• We Could All Benefit From a Hug

  

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  New research by Professor Cheryl Carmichael shows that avoiding touch may be detrimental to our relationships and our health. Read more