The Genetics Society of America (GSA) has awarded a grant to students Nicholas Palmisano (MCD, Queens College) and James Clark (MCD, Queens College), along with Dr. Mara Schvarzstein (Brooklyn... Read more
Arianna Kuhn (EEB) has won the Henri Seibert Award for best student paper given in Evolution & Systematics at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles (2016). Her talk was entitled ""Historical demography of Malagasy squamate communities.” Read more
Nathan Morris (MCD; Lab of Liz Alter) won the the prize for best graduate student poster at the annual meeting of the NY Marine Science Consortium. Read more
The Goldfarb laboratory (Biology & Biochemistry PhD Programs and the CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative; Hunter College) has identified proteins with essential functions in the regulation of sodium channel activity, revealing the underlying causes for a subset of heart and nervous system disorders. Read more
The pioneering work of Professor Eleanore T. Wurtzel (GC/Lehman, Biology), whose research is at the forefront of plant science, is featured in a special issue of the journal Science. Read more
APO Joan Reid of the PhD Program in Biology receives Employee of the Year Award after 29 years of service to the Graduate Center Read more
Neuroscience Collaborative Professor Jon Horvitz wins the NIH High Priority, Short-Term Project Award funding. Read more
Professor Joshua C. Brumberg and his students Chia-Chien Chen and Adesh Bajnath were published in the Neuroscience journal, Cerebral Cortex. Read more
Adam Kavalier (Ph.D. ’11, Biology) followed an unusual path after completing his doctorate — he launched Undone Chocolate, the first bean-to-bar maker of premium organic chocolate bars in the Washington, D.C., area. Read more
President Obama has named Professor Dan McCloskey (GC/Staten Island, Biology) a recipient of the nation’s top award for science and engineering research. Read more