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• Branko Milanovic Awarded Tufts’ Leontief Prize for Research on Economic Inequality

  Visiting Presidential Professor Branko Milanovic, senior scholar of the Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, was named one of two recipients of the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought by Tufts University’s Global Development And Environment Institute. Read more

• GC Alum Co-Leads Project Influenced by Emeritus Professor William Kornblum

  Michelle Ronda ’11 (Sociology) and Robin Isserles ’02 (Sociology) were commissioned to survey Battery City Park, a study influenced by the work of Emeritus Professor William Kornblum. Read more

• Professor Tania León in the 'Times' for Opera Inspired by Little Rock Nine

  Professor Tania León (Music) is writing an opera inspired by the nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Read more

• CUNY and ‘The New Education’

  Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson highlights CUNY’s innovations in her popular new book, The New Education. Read more

• Charlottesville and White Supremacy: GC Professors Linda Martín Alcoff and Jessie Daniels Weigh In

  Professors Linda Martín Alcoff and Jessie Daniels share their expertise and insights. Read more

• From Ethnomusicology to Photonics: New Faculty at the GC

  The Graduate Center has appointed seven new faculty members for 2017 – 2018 — a substantial jump in new hires over previous years. Read more

• Andrea Alù to Direct Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at the GC

  Andrea Alù, renowned engineer and photonics researcher, has been named the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Read more

• American Book Award Goes to Professor Ammiel Alcalay, Editor of 'Lost & Found'

  Professor Ammiel Alcalay (GC/Queens, English) has won an American Book Award in recognition of his work as the founder and general editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a chapbook series that features genre-bending writing. Read more

• GC Is Excellence

  GC students and faculty have garnered numerous awards and fellowships this year. Here, we celebrate a few. Read more

• Clues to Climate Change in Earth’s Past

  To understand what more carbon dioxide in the air means for our planet, Professor Stephen Pekar (GC/Queens, Earth and Environmental Sciences), a geologist, is looking back — way back to 60 million years ago. Read more