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• Q & A with Marilyn Puder-York on Alumni Mentoring

  Ahead of the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development's Alumni Roundtable, the GC spoke to Marilyn Puder-York about the advice she would offer to students who are thinking about careers, particularly in non-academic settings. Read more

• Student Awarded Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

  Ph.D. student Mae Miller (Earth and Environmental Sciences) was awarded a highly competitive Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, which provides three years of financial support to students whose research, teaching, and service promote diversity. Read more

• Why Homosexuality Is Seen Differently Around the World: Amy Adamcyzk

  In a recent book and related podcast for Inside Higher Ed, Amy Adamcyzk (GC/Hunter, Sociology) illustrates why attitudes towards homosexuality vary widely from country to country. Read more

• GC Launches Demo of New Interactive Scholarly Publishing Platform

  The GC, in partnership with the University of Minnesota Press, has launched a demo of its new interactive platform for scholarly publishing, Manifold, an online, mobile-ready interface for reading and responding to texts.
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• Hackers, Trolls, and the Future of the Internet: Cathy Davidson

  Distinguished Professor Cathy Davidson (English) is quoted in an important new Pew Research Center report on the uncivil online behavior, pointing to geo-political “publicity” as a potential new “form of cyber terror.” Read more

• Thomas Kurtzman Honored by American Chemical Society

  Assistant Professor Thomas Kurtzman's research has had "a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry." Read more

• Provost Joy Connolly Publishes Op-Ed on Critical Importance of NEA and NEH

  Provost Joy Connolly has published a Village Voice op-ed on the critical importance of the National Endowments for the Arts (NEA) and for the Humanities (NEH), which were eliminated in the Trump administration’s proposed budget. Read more

• GC Study Shows Drop in Drunk-Driving Crashes After App Car Services Launched

  A working paper by doctoral student Jessica Peck (Economics) suggests that the arrival in New York City of digital app-based car services like Uber led to a significant decrease in drunk-driving related car accidents.
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• 'The Fragile Social Safety Net': Q&A with Janet Gornick & Sheldon Danziger

  Gornick and Danziger discuss the possible motivations behind Trump’s budget plans and how federal cuts will impact states and cities.
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• Fewer Girls Named ‘Hillary’ or ‘Hilary’ Was an Omen of Clinton’s Defeat: Stefano Ghirlanda

  Could we have predicted the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Naming patterns may suggest as much, says Professor Stefano Ghirlanda (GC/Brooklyn, Psychology/Biology). Read more