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Graduate Center faculty are frequently in the news, sharing their expertise with the public and weighing in on pressing issues. Read some recent clips. Read more
Elaine Montilla
Elaine Montilla, assistant vice president and chief information officer and a proud member of the LGTQ community, was recognized for working to create a more inclusive workplace. Read more
The Graduate Center is one of 35 Hispanic-serving institutions recognized by the State Department for its noteworthy engagement with Fulbright exchange participants. Read more
A new study from Malave et al. suggests that in the brains of L-Dopa-treated Parkinson’s patients the lack of Shh signaling to cholinergic neurons results in L-Dopa induced dyskinesia. Image credit: Santiago Uribe-Cano
Researchers at The Graduate Center, CUNY and the CUNY School of Medicine find that increased signaling of the sonic hedgehog protein could suppress debilitating involuntary movements that are a side effect of dopamine replacement therapy. Read more
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
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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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
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
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.
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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
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