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
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
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
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
Katarina Evans in the field (Photo courtesy of Evans)
“My experience doing research as a GC student has been invaluable and formative as I grow into becoming the scientist I would like to be,” said Ph.D. candidate Katarina Evans. Read more
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Economics Professor Christos Giannikos, Ph.D. candidate Robert Utzinger, and alumnus Andreas Kakolyris (Ph.D. '21, Economics) say they hope policymakers will take into account the importance of mental health in vulnerable populations. Read more
Andres Hernandez Nava
Andres Hernandez Nava explains his journey from Berkeley to CUNY and how he became a lead author on a study that sheds light on the role of volcanoes in the demise of the dinosaurs. 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.
(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
Cody Melcher
Melcher's study indicates that economically insecure white Americans are much more likely to be xenophobic and to perceive race relations in zero-sum terms. Read more
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