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
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Attewell will research the education and employment impacts of the COVID disruption on two- and four-year CUNY undergraduates, hoping to influence outreach and planning. Read more
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Educational Psychology Ph.D. student Jessica Brodsky explains what her new study shows about college students' understanding of algorithms and offers some resources for improving media literacy in young people. Read more
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Rose secured NSF funding for her research, which could have implications for programs like Duolingo. She shares tips on applying for grants and where to get help. Read more
Caption: Males and females in some populations of the common palmfly butterfly resemble each other and mimic crow butterflies, but females in other populations are orange and mimic tiger butterflies. Ruttenberg et al. demonstrate that orange females have evolved repeatedly in different parts of tropical and subtropical Asia, and locate a putative genetic “mimicry switch” that determines female color form.
David Lohman, an epidemiologist with The Graduate Center, CUNY and tThe City College of New York, and his collaborators studied the genome of 45 samples representing 18 butterfly subspecies across Asia to determine their evolutionary history and establish which genes are responsible for the color variation in females. Read more
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Angraecum polyphemus (Credit: Johan Hermans) and Simon Verlynde (Credit: Verlynde)
Simon Verlynde explains how he pivoted from airline mechanic school to getting his Ph.D. in biology and studying at The New York Botanical Garden. Read more
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A $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will support Professor Steven Young’s research on the impact of social distancing during a pandemic. Read more
The photo provides a conceptual view of how water can exist in two liquid states separated by a thin interface. The bottom liquid is more dense than the one on top, because it is composed of water molecules that are more closely packed. (Credit: Getty Images)
A newly published Science journal paper co-authored by Professor Nicolas Giovambattista answers one of the most important questions in the chemistry and physics of water. Read more