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• Ph.D. Student Gisely Colón López on the Struggle for Puerto Rican Studies

  

  Gisely Colón López (Photo courtesy of Colón López)

  Colón López describes her work on the new documentary and how the Puerto Rican and Latino Studies department at Brooklyn College was "transformative" in her own life. Read more

• Danielle Garcia Explores Hip-Hop’s Political Power and Its Paradoxes, and Finds Her Calling

  

  Danielle Garcia and some of her hip-hop albums

  "There is a lot about hip-hop that we can learn from and use to empower," says alumna Dannielle Garcia.  Read more

• $9.5 Million Gift to The Graduate Center, CUNY Significantly Advances Research on Income and Wealth Inequality

  

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  The latest gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation brings the foundation’s total support for The Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality to $14.36 million, and will help the prominent research center prepare more early-career scholars. Read more

• Jim Stone: How Academic Research Can Address Wealth Concentration and Inequality

  

  Cathy and Jim Stone (Photo courtesy of the Stone Foundation)

  Jim Stone, of the James M. and and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, talks to The Graduate Center about the importance of research on rising inequality and wealth concentration, and about how the Stone Center benefits from being a part of The Graduate Center and CUNY. Read more

• New Fossil Discovery Illuminates the Lives of the Earliest Primates

  

  A rendering of the newly discovered early primate species, Purgatorius mckeeveri. (Illustration by Andrey Atuchin)

  Graduate Center, CUNY/Brooklyn College anthropologist Stephen Chester is part of a team of researchers providing a big glimpse into how our primate relatives lived 66 million years ago, after an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs. Read more

• Professor Paul Attewell Receives Nearly $250K from DOE to Study How COVID-19 Has Affected CUNY Students

  

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  Attewell will research the education and employment impacts of the COVID disruption on two- and four-year CUNY undergraduates, hoping to influence outreach and planning. Read more

• In CUNY TV Interview, President Robin L. Garrell Shares Her Priorities

  President Robin L. Garrell discussed the role of public graduate education, The Graduate Center’s strengths, and her priorities in a recent interview on the broadcast “One to One” on CUNY TV. Read more

• Fragments of African American Life in Long Island: An Anthropology Alum Recovers Artifacts From a Soon-to-Be Demolished Site

  

  Allison McGovern and Peter Crippen House. (Photos courtesy of McGovern)

  Alumna Allison McGovern has recovered artifacts a critical site for African American history in Huntington, Long Island, that has been ravaged by time and neglect. Read more

• Crime and Punishment and the Black Community: Michael Fortner on The Thought Project

  Fortner, a professor of political science, discusses the history of the Rockefeller drug laws, their effect on mass incarceration, and his recommendations for protecting Black lives through criminal justice reform. ​ Read more

• Mourning the Passing of Professor Emeritus Donald Stone, Scholar of the Victorian Novel and Art Collector

  Professor Stone died on January 21. He is fondly remembered as an "astute, learned man with a bright wit" who was a "generous mentor. Read more