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• The Graduate Center, CUNY Launches New Lifelong Learning Program With the Institute for Retired Professionals

  

  The Institute for Retired Professionals (Credit: the Institute for Retired Professionals/Christina Itchon)

  The innovative program will join The Graduate Center as part of a new adult continuing education program.  Read more

• A Professor Adapts His Invention for Popping Ears as a Potential Treatment for COVID-19 Symptoms

  

  The EarPopper and Professor Shlomo Silman (inset)

  Presidential Professor Shlomo Silman, saddened by coronavirus deaths in New York, sought a way to help. Read more

• Sean Gerrity, Graduate Center Alum Now Teaching at Hostos, on Winning Grants, Working Toward Tenure, and a Pedagogy of Radical Kindness

  

  Sean Gerrity (Photo courtesy of Gerrity)

  Gerrity, who is on the tenure track, was just awarded a Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship. He shares his story and his advice. Read more

• On the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Fight: Ph.D. Nursing Students and Alumni Share Their Stories

  

  Sandra Langston, Shawna Townsend, Paul Quinn, Scott Kaye, Fernand (Dean) A. De Los Reyes, and Janusz Kaleta

  Graduate Center Ph.D. nursing students and alumni are working to save lives and fight the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more

• Déjà Vu? A Pandemic Alters the Art World — Again

  

  John Singer Sargent, Gassed, 1918–19 © IWM Art.IWM ART 1460

  Professor Michael Lobel makes the case that COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to change art and the art world. Read more

• New, Free 165-Language Dictionary Offers Promise for Developing Speech Recognition Technology in Hundreds of Languages

  

  The word "health" written in many languages

  New open-source software created by linguists at The Graduate Center, CUNY may speed the development of speech technologies such as recognizers and synthesizers in new languages. Read more

• A Year-End Message

  About 40 years ago I wrote a book called The Sufficiency of Hope, and I said that hope provides a way for rational people to move forward in those situations when reason alone cannot provide the answers. Read more

• Lessons About Growing Up in Working-Class and Immigrant Families From New Experts: Kids

  

  Professor Wendy Luttrell and the cover of her book, "Children Framing Childhoods" (Photos courtesy of Luttrell)

  Professor Wendy Luttrell discusses the surprising findings of her new book and what we can learn from kids about childhood, especially in the time of COVID-19. Read more

• On the Front Lines: A Ph.D. Nursing Candidate, Recently Recovered from COVID-19, Cares for Patients While Coping with Loss

  

  Fernand (Dean) A. De Los Reyes (Photo courtesy of De Los Reyes)

  Ph.D candidate Fernand (Dean) A. De Los Reyes shares his experience as a nurse caring for COVID-19 patients and recovering from the disease himself.  Read more

• What New York Can Learn About COVID-19 Recovery From Hurricane Katrina

  

  James Orr, associate director of the Economic Studies Group (inset, courtesy of Orr); a shuttered storefront (Credit: Getty)

  James Orr, a visiting scholar at The Graduate Center and associate director of its Economic Studies Group, offers insights. Read more