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• What VR Can Show About How Humans Navigate New Spaces

  

  Cassandra Engstrom (Credit: Coralie Carlson)

  "I'd like to know how we deal with conflicting information," says Cognitive Neuroscience master's student Cassandra Engstrom. Read more

• Why People Start Sentences with ‘So,’ So Often: Alumna Syelle Graves in the ‘Times’

  

  Syelle Graves, the assistant director of the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context at the Graduate Center, spoke to The New York Times about using the word "so" at the start of a sentence (the linguistic trend on which she wrote her dissertation). Read more

• A Message from the Provost

  

  Welcome to the fall 2021 semester. I am thrilled to be joining you this year and look forward to getting to know each of you. Read more

• For Immigrant Muslims in the U.S., 9/11 ‘Was a Curse and a Blessing’

  

  Professor Mucahit Bilici

  Professor Mucahit Bilici, author of Finding Mecca in America, reflects on how the American Muslim community, of which he is a member, has fared since 9/11.   Read more

• $100,000 Carnegie Corporation Grant to the College Access Program at the Graduate Center Supports 40 CUNY Undergraduate Peer Mentors

  

  Students and mentors at a CARA event. (Photo courtesy of CARA)

  CARA helps first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color gain the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. Read more

• NEH Grants to Professors Anne Valk and Johanna Devaney Support LGBTQ+ History Education and a Digital Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit

  

  Professors Anne Valk and Johanna Devaney

  Professor Anne Valk was awarded funding for a project on LGBTQ+ teacher education and Professor Johanna Devaney is the recipient of funds in the area of digital humanities advancement. Read more

• Autism-Awareness Training for Students Is More Effective When Autistic Students Are Involved. Here’s Evidence.

  

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  “These findings are relevant for educators in terms of how they teach, by suggesting they should center the voices of marginalized people,” Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch said, “and how they structure their labs, by suggesting that they should collaborate with the people they want to help.” Read more

• To Understand How Culture Evolves, Alumnus Mason Youngblood Maps Electronic Music Trends and Much More

  

  Ph.D. candidate Mason Youngblood (Credit: Emily Cote)

  A chapter of Mason Youngblood's dissertation on mapping the evolution of electronic music subgenres has been published in "Evolution and Human Behavior." Read more

• Alumna Viveka Erlandsson Wins the Anne Bennett Prize From the London Mathematical Society

  

  Viveka Erlandsson (Photo Courtesy of Erlandsson)

  The prestigious prize recognizes Erlandsson, a faculty member at the University of Bristol, for her achievements in geometry and topology and for promoting women mathematicians.

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• A Message from the President: Tuition Adjustment for Second- and Third-Year Doctoral Students Whose Residency Status Was Affected by the Pandemic

  I write to share the good news that the Graduate Center and CUNY Central administration have reached a solution for qualifying second- and third-year doctoral students who would have satisfactorily established New York State residency beginning in the Fall 2021 semester but have yet to do so.  Read more