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• Autism-Awareness Training for Students Is More Effective When Autistic Students Are Involved. Here’s Evidence.

  

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  “These findings are relevant for educators in terms of how they teach, by suggesting they should center the voices of marginalized people,” Professor Kristen Gillespie-Lynch said, “and how they structure their labs, by suggesting that they should collaborate with the people they want to help.” Read more

• 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

• Discouraged by Ghosting? A Ph.D. Psychologist Offers This Advice, Based on Her Research

  

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  Psychology Ph.D. alumna Maureen Coyle offers research-based advice and discusses what’s next in her academic career. Read more

• Graduate Center Physicists Peer Into the Start of the Universe, Thanks to $400,000 Grant

  

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  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

• Sociology Student Testifies Before Congress in Support of John Lewis Voting Rights Act

  

  Kevin Morris

  “Seeing the real-world impact of the research that I’m doing — that’s a gratifying experience to have as a grad student,” says Ph.D. student Kevin Morris. Read more

• Newly Discovered Dinosaur-Era Creatures Offer Insight Into Evolution

  

  Fossils of Fossiomanus (left) and Jueconodon

  Professor Jin Meng was part of a team that recently identified two new species of small, mammal-like creatures from 120 million years ago. Read more

• Student Spotlight: Javier Otero Peña Wants to ‘Make Cities More Just and Livable’

  

  Javier Otero Peña (Photo courtesy of Peña)

  His new study is the first to quantitatively look at the relationship between stop-and-frisk incidence and park usage. Read more

• 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

• Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Professor Desiree Byrd Exposes the Racism in a Commonly Used Psychological Assessment

  

  Desiree Byrd (Photo courtsey of Byrd)

  In a new article published in Psychological Assessment, Byrd calls attention to the presence of the noose in a common word-naming psychological assessment tool. Read more