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• 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

• A Celebrated Mentor to Diverse Scholar-Activists: Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Earth and Environmental Sciences), director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center, has won the 2017 Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award from the American Studies Association’s Minority Scholars’ Committee. Read more

• Boosting High School Digital Literacy

  This past spring, students from Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) honed their digital literacy skills and shaped the story of their city through the Mapping Time, a project jointly run by BHSEC, the Graduate Center’s Center for the Humanities, and the New York Public Library. Read more