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• Student Spotlight: Melina Giakoumis Studies Some ‘Cool Critters’ in National Parks to Understand the Effects of Climate Change

  

  Giakoumis will devote the next year to studying sea stars in intertidal ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. to understand and share with the public how these ecologically important species are responding to climate change. Read more

• ‘Neo-Antique’ New York: In New Book, Macaulay-Lewis Reveals the Ancient Influences Behind the City’s Structures — Including the Lost Façade of That CVS Across the Street

  

  Across the street from The Graduate Center stood the once-magnificent Knickerbocker Trust Company Building. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis)

  Prof. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis shares some of her favorite photos from her new book, "Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City," and explains the little-known histories of these sites. Read more

• Their Math Is Art: ‘Scientific American’ Covers the Chalk Drawings of Three Graduate Center Mathematicians

  Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the chalkboard art of Professors Linda Keene and John Terilla and alumna Tai-Danae Bradley, who is now at X - The Moonshot Factory. Read more

• Medical Anthropologist Anahí Viladrich Addresses Why COVID Sparked Anti-Asian Hate and What to Do About It

  

  Anahí Viladrich (Photo courtesy of Viladrich)

  Professor Anahí Viladrich felt a need to speak out against the outbreak of stigma against Chinese and East Asian populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more

• Professor Rein Ulijn Receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

  

  Rein Ulijn

  Professor Ulijn is the second Graduate Center faculty member in just two years to receive the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award. Read more

• Professor Bianca C. Williams Awarded $75,000 Mellon/ACLS Fellowship for Project in Partnership with Well-Read Black Girl

  

  Bianca Williams

  Williams will be working on “AGENCY + CARE: Black Women’s Literature and the Power of Well-Read Black Girl(s),” a project that focuses on “the intergenerational communities of care and resistance Black women have built based on their shared love of reading and writing in the last decade (especially during the Movement for Black Lives).” Read more

• Mellon/ACLS Fellowships Go to Professors Leah Anderst and Prithi Kanakamedala for Projects on #MeToo and Brooklyn Abolitionism

  

  Prithi Kanakamedala and Leah Anderst

  Anderst, who is also a Graduate Center alumna, and Kanakamedala teach in the Liberal Studies master's program. They are among 28 faculty nationwide to receive the prestigious fellowship. Read more

• AAPI Month: Graduate Center Scholars and Alumni Who Are Challenging the Status Quo and Raising Awareness of Their Communities

  We're honoring the work of Graduate Center scholars who have contributed to scholarship and activism focused on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Read more

• From Robotics to Cannabis: 10 Students Will Enlighten Us About Their Doctoral Research in Just Three-Minutes Each, at 2021 Dissertation Showcase

  

  Top L-R: Jojo Karlin, Serena Wang, Jasmine Bayron, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, and Melanie Blair Thies; Bottom: Roxana Piotrowska, Emily Weiss, Raj Korpan, Natalie Gordon, and Virginia Diaz-Mendoza

  Meet the 10 students in this year’s Disseration Showcase, who will present research ranging from how cannabis affects psychopharmacology to what asteroids tell us about the origins of life. Read more

• Graduate Center Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  

  Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a renowned scholar and leading voice in the contemporary abolition movement, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more