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• Student Spotlight: Yuko Miura Wants to Work in Biotech, and a Summer Internship Is Helping Her Get There

  

  Yuko Miura (Photo courtesy of Miura)

  Miura will intern with IAVI, formerly known as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a nonprofit that researches vaccines and other preventions for HIV, tuberculosis, emerging infectious diseases, and more. Read more

• Profiting From Their Inventions: A New Course Will Introduce STEM Students to the Business of Technology

  

  To show students how to shepherd their ideas out into the world, Professors Rein Ulijn and Scott Newbert designed a course that will cover idea generation, prototype creation, tech transfer, intellectual property, and how to create business models and secure financing. Read more

• Elliot Wiseman Receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Study How Crimes Are Reported by Detectives

  

  Elliot Wiseman (Photo courtesy of Wiseman)

  Wiseman will join the Anthropology program to study the narratives created and used by detectives during investigatory police work. Read more

• With Ph.D.s and Master’s in Hand, These 11 Grads Are Going Places

  

  Top (L-R) Katherine Entigar, Andrew Levine, Siqi Tu, Conner Martinez, Bottom (L-R): Sandra Castro, Roxana Piotrowska, Raj Korpan, Allison Guess

  The Class of 2021 graduates have overcome incredible odds to complete their dissertations and push scholarship in their fields forward. Read more

• Drag and Flamboyant Performance Art Are Like ‘Bread and Butter’ to Aerialist and Art History Scholar Jack Crawford

  

  Ph.D. candidate Jack Crawford performing as an aerialist. (Photo credit: Adad Hannah)

  Crawford is channeling her interest in drag and burlesque into her doctoral dissertation. Read more

• 9 Grad Center Scholars to Be Proud of During Pride And Every Day

  

  (L-R) Jack Crawford, Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, and Jama Shelton

  Graduate Center scholars have pushed boundaries with activism and outstanding scholarship about the LGBTQ+ community, from discovering the economic benefit of mental health care for older HIV+ patients to presenting a scholarly understanding of drag. Read more

• Documenting Immigrant Families’ Separation and Reunion: Sandra Castro, Class of 2021, on her Dissertation and Her New Assistant Dean Role

  

  Sandra Castro (Photo courtesy of Castro)

  For her doctoral dissertation, Castro spent years studying immigrant mothers on Long Island who came to the U.S. from Central America without their children, parented them from afar, and then finally reunited with them.  Read more

• Cooking Up New Ways to Use the ‘Wonder Material,’ Graphene: Andrew Levine, Class of 2021, Joins a Startup

  

  Andrew Levine (Photo courtesy of Levine)

  Levine’s knowledge of carbon-based nanomaterials comes from studying organic light-harvesting materials and their fabrication into devices at the CUNY ASRC. Read more

• For Siqi Tu, the Center Is Always Changing: A Class of 2021 Graduate on Relocating from China to New York To Germany, and Her Next Move

  

  Siqi Tu (Photo courtesy of Tu)

  Her research — which also examines the effects of the increasing geopolitical tension between China and the United States, and the surge of populist anti-immigrant and anti-globalization sentiments — is particularly timely. Read more

• How He Converted ‘Dumb Questions’ Into Serious Research: Conner Martinez, Class of 2021 M.A. Grad, on Getting Into a Political Science Ph.D. Program

  

  He plans to study federal and state anti-immigration policies and their impact on U.S. politics and on Latinx political involvement.  Read more