For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. All NewsNews »All News Filter by: Category: 365 Fifth Newsletter Academic Calendar Administrative Appointments ARC Faculty Highlights ARC Research Projects Commencements Distinguished Professor Appointments Events Faculty Activities Faculty Awards Faculty Books GC Magazine General GC News Grants James Gallery Membership News New Appointments to the GC President Speeches President's Office - Archive President's Office - Community Meeting President's Office - Community Message President's Office - Events President's Office - Speeches Public Events Research Studies Signature Programs Year: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December 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 moreDanielle Garcia Explores Hip-Hop’s Political Power and Its Paradoxes, and Finds Her CallingDanielle 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 InequalityCredit: Alex IrklievskiThe 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 moreJim Stone: How Academic Research Can Address Wealth Concentration and InequalityCathy 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 moreNew 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 moreProfessor Paul Attewell Receives Nearly $250K from DOE to Study How COVID-19 Has Affected CUNY StudentsCredit: Getty ImagesAttewell 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 moreIn CUNY TV Interview, President Robin L. Garrell Shares Her PrioritiesPresident 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 moreFragments of African American Life in Long Island: An Anthropology Alum Recovers Artifacts From a Soon-to-Be Demolished SiteAllison 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 moreCrime and Punishment and the Black Community: Michael Fortner on The Thought ProjectFortner, 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 moreMourning 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 Previous 12345678910... Next