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• 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

  

  Credit: Getty Images

  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

• Students and Faculty Honored With 2021 Teaching and Mentoring Awards Stood Out for Excellence and Dedication During the Pandemic

  

  (Top from Left) Professors Ryan Murelli, Alyson Cole, and Jean Graham-Jones; (Bottom from Left) Ph.D. students Melenia Giakoumis, Olivia Wood, and Karen Zaino

  Congratulations to Professors Ryan Murelli, Alyson Cole, and Jean Graham-Jones and Ph.D. students Melenia Giakoumis, Olivia Wood, and Karen Zaino. Read more

• Scholars Gain Technical Skills and Pass Them on to Hundreds More, Thanks to the Digital Humanities Research Institute

  

  By 2022, over 400 humanities scholars will have benefited from the train-the-trainer model of the Digital Humanities Research Institute. Lisa Rhody, who leads the DHRI, is shown conducting a workshop at a past institute.

  Many participants in the 2021 institute, offered virtually, come from schools that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students; curriculum materials will be freely available online. Read more

• Time to Transform: President Robin L. Garrell and Professors Cathy Davidson, Ann Kirschner, and Van C. Tran Share Their Perspectives on the Graduate Center’s Future and its Role in NYC

  

  Clockwise from upper left: President Robin L. Garrell, Professors Cathy Davidson, Van Tran and Ann Kirschner

  President Robin L. Garrell and three faculty members shared their visions for ways that the Graduate Center can transform and can contribute to the future of New York City, especially in the wake of the pandemic.  Read more