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 - Community Meeting President's Office - Community Message President's Office - Events President's Office - Speeches Public Events Research Studies Signature Programs Year: 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 Nancy Foner Wins a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in BerlinDistinguished 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 moreGC’s Stone Center and Pew Research Center Reveal Shrinking Middle ClassA recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center in partnership with the GC’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality offers a comprehensive analysis of inequality and the status of the middle class in some of the world’s wealthiest countries, including the United States. Read moreLeon Levy Center for Biography Announces 2017-18 Fellowship RecipientsThe GC’s Leon Levy Center for Biography announced the recipients of four resident fellowships, supported by the Leon Levy Foundation, for the upcoming academic year. Read moreMuseum Curator Kirsten Jensen (Ph.D. ’07, Art History) in Media SpotlightKirsten Jensen (Ph.D. ’07, Art History), the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest chief curator of the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA, is featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer online. Read moreSix GC Students Receive Fulbright Awards for Upcoming Academic YearSix GC graduate students students have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2017-2018 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Read moreGC Announces 2017 Honorary Degree RecipientsThe Graduate Center will award three honorary degrees and the President’s Distinguished Alumni Medal at its Fifty-Third Commencement Exercises on Friday, June 2, President Chase F. Robinson announced today. Read morePh.D. Student Wins Ford Foundation Predoctoral FellowshipPh.D. student Richard Smith (Psychology) was awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Read moreProfessor John Torpey ‘Defines Trumpism’ and Outlines Risks in Op-ed for The HillProfessor 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 morePh.D. Candidate Named a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation FellowPh.D. candidate Danica Savonick (English) is one of 10 doctoral students nationwide to receive a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. Read moreVideo Games in the Classroom: History Ph.D. Student Comments in QuartzVideo games have increasingly become part of the classroom curriculum. But do they make learning more effective or just more fun? Ph.D. student Luke Reynolds (History) reacts in a new Quartz interview. Read more Previous ...11121314151617181920... Next