Samantha Tramontano sets up a station for sampling ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano, 10/02/2021
Ph.D. students Samantha Tramontano, Franco Cortese, and their adviser Professor Marc-Antoine Longpré traveled to La Palma to study Cumbre Vieja’s eruption, which began over a month ago on September 19. Read more
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Graduates now working as professors and postdocs and one as a data visualization analyst attribute much of their career success to what they learned as Graduate Center Digital Fellows.
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Political Science Ph.D. candidate Philip Luke Johnson discusses the military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of five men accused of aiding the 9/11 attacks, and the prison’s extralegal history.
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Elena Romero
"During Hispanic Heritage Month, I want to draw attention to the need to recruit more Latinx students into Ph.D. programs and also the need for colleges and universities to recruit, hire, tenure, and support Latinx professors," Elena Romero says. Read more
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Beginning October 19, 2021, students will have the opportunity to provide feedback about life at the Graduate Center through the Student Experience Survey. Read more
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating the scholarship and advocacy of our students, faculty, and alumni. Read more
Ph.D. candidate Michelle Millar Fisher and the cover of her book, Designing Motherhood
Ph.D. candidate Michelle Millar Fisher and her co-author have published Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break our Births, which coincides with two museum exhibitions featuring more than 80 designs that The Guardian called a “first-of-its kind consideration of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design.” Read more
Gymnothorax zonipectis fluorescent eel (Photo © John Sparks)
The discovery comes 10 years after scientists captured an image of a bioluminescent eel for the first time off the coast of the Cayman Islands and is the first identification of a fluorescent protein in any moray eel, adding to the growing list and awareness of biofluorescent fish. Read more
Professor Andreas Kottmann (third from left) with students and alumni from his lab (l to r): Ph.D. student Santiago Uribe-Cano (Psychology); alumna Lauren Malave (Ph.D. ’20, Biology); Ph.D. student Dustin Zuelke (Biology); master’s student Sonia Bernal (Cognitive Neuroscience); and alumnus Lev Starikov (Ph.D. ’19, Biology). (Photo Courtesy of Andreas Kottmann)
The Graduate Center spoke with Professor Andreas Kottmann about his lab’s latest research, new directions, and his collaborations with diverse student researchers. Read more
Paul C. Notari holding a framed copy of the flyer used to promote the Paul C. Notari Research Grants in Environmental Studies (Photo credit: Mary Lou Notari)
Four research microgrants of $500 will be offered by the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center in an annual competition, beginning in 2022. Read more