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• $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 Detect COVID Trends, Including Delta’s Emergence, CUNY Scientists Turn to the Sewers

  

  John Dennehy

  Testing wastewater allows scientists to monitor large populations in a cost-effective way, Dennehy explained.  Read more

• APA Recognizes Wellness Center Director Robert Hatcher as an Outstanding Leader

  

  Robert Hatcher

  Hatcher was invited by the American Psychological Association to give the Dr. Rosalee G. Weiss Lecture for Outstanding Leaders in Psychology at the association’s annual convention. Read more

• Graduate Center Physicists Peer Into the Start of the Universe, Thanks to $400,000 Grant

  

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  Their work will help researchers better understand the structures of particles like protons and neutrons, and the phase of matter that existed at the very beginning of the universe. Read more

• How Was School During COVID? Urban Education Researchers Asked New York City Parents

  

  Members of the Urban Education Research Collective. Top row (left to right): José Luis Jiménez, Wendy Luttrell, Mieasia Edwards, and William Salomon Orellana. Bottom row (left to right): Nga Than, David Rosas, Kelly Brady, and Whitney Hollins.

  Their report, COVID-19 & Racial Justice in Urban Education: NYC Parents Speak Out, illuminates parents’ insights, critiques, and recommendations. Read more

• CUNY Graduate Center Physicist and Engineer Andrea Alù Named Blavatnik National Awards Laureate

  

  Professor Andrea Alù

  The award recognizes Alù’s challenges to the boundaries of materials science and physics, which have brought about advances in electromagnetics, nano-optics, and acoustics. Read more

• ‘The Racial Contract’ by Professor Charles Mills Retains Its Influence After More Than Two Decades

  

  Charles Mills and his book, "The Racial Contract" (Photo: Sam Alcoff)

  The American Political Science Association chose Distinguished Professor Charles Mills as the recipient of its biennial Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, which honors a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant 15 or more years after its first publication. Read more

• Professor Lyn Di Iorio Was Named a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fiction Fellow

  

  Lyn Di Iorio

  The fellowship program, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts, makes unrestricted cash grants of $7,000 and is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice. Read more