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• Why People Start Sentences with ‘So,’ So Often: Alumna Syelle Graves in the ‘Times’

  

  Syelle Graves, the assistant director of the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context at the Graduate Center, spoke to The New York Times about using the word "so" at the start of a sentence (the linguistic trend on which she wrote her dissertation). Read more

• Interactive Map Breaks Down Vote Distribution in NYC's First Ranked Choice Election

  

  NYC Ranked Choice Vote Allocation

  New York’s first citywide election using ranked choice voting has now been mapped in detail by the Center for Urban Research (CUR) at The Graduate Center, CUNY. 
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• The Share of Latinos in Three Brooklyn Neighborhoods Is Decreasing: Mexican Population Growth Has Overtaken That of Puerto Ricans, A New Report Shows

  A new report by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY, tracks the marked racial and ethnic changes in Sunset Park/Windsor Terrace and Bushwick neighborhoods. Read more

• From Robotics to Cannabis: 10 Students Will Enlighten Us About Their Doctoral Research in Just Three-Minutes Each, at 2021 Dissertation Showcase

  

  Top L-R: Jojo Karlin, Serena Wang, Jasmine Bayron, Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa, and Melanie Blair Thies; Bottom: Roxana Piotrowska, Emily Weiss, Raj Korpan, Natalie Gordon, and Virginia Diaz-Mendoza

  Meet the 10 students in this year’s Disseration Showcase, who will present research ranging from how cannabis affects psychopharmacology to what asteroids tell us about the origins of life. Read more

• Scientists Zero in on the Role of Volcanoes in Setting the Stage for the Demise of Dinosaurs

  

  India’s Deccan Traps, an ancient lava field covering about one-fourth of India, has been tied to the End-Cretaceous mass extinction some 66 million years ago. New research is helping to determine whether it played a significant role. (Photo credit: Loÿc Vanderkluysen, Drexel University)

  Graduate Center, CUNY researchers uncover evidence suggesting that volcanic carbon emissions were not a major driver of Earth’s most recent extinction event. Read more

• New CUNY Report Shows That Lifting Wages for Home Care Workers Would Reduce Major Workforce Shortage and Create Broad Economic Benefits

  Graduate Center Professor Ruth Milkman, Ph.D. candidate Isaac Jabola-Carolus, and fellow CUNY researchers show the benefits of wage increases for jobs, the lives of older adults, and the New York economy.  Read more

• $9.5 Million Gift to The Graduate Center, CUNY Significantly Advances Research on Income and Wealth Inequality

  

  Credit: Alex Irklievski

  The latest gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation brings the foundation’s total support for The Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality to $14.36 million, and will help the prominent research center prepare more early-career scholars. Read more

• New Fossil Discovery Illuminates the Lives of the Earliest Primates

  

  A rendering of the newly discovered early primate species, Purgatorius mckeeveri. (Illustration by Andrey Atuchin)

  Graduate Center, CUNY/Brooklyn College anthropologist Stephen Chester is part of a team of researchers providing a big glimpse into how our primate relatives lived 66 million years ago, after an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs. Read more

• In CUNY TV Interview, President Robin L. Garrell Shares Her Priorities

  President Robin L. Garrell discussed the role of public graduate education, The Graduate Center’s strengths, and her priorities in a recent interview on the broadcast “One to One” on CUNY TV. Read more

• Professor Gabriele Grosso Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Grant for Photonics Research

  

  Gabriele Grosso (Photo courtesy of Grosso)

  Grosso plans to use the funding, totaling over $537,000, to research new materials for quantum information technology, and to make this sometimes-intimidating field more accessible to students. Read more