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• Recent Student and Faculty News (Fall 2017)

  Recent Student and Faculty News (Fall 2017) Read more

• Safeguarding All Children in Our Unequal Cities

  Professor Carla Shedd looks at how schools and the criminal justice system shape young lives. Read more

• Recognizing Alumni Achievement

  Five alumni will be recognized as the winners of the Graduate Center's 2017 Alumni Achievement Awards on Wednesday, November 15, at 6:00 p.m. Read more

• Doctoral Student Research Grant Funds Studies in Tanzania, India, and Closer to Home

  Each year more than 220 Graduate Center Ph.D. students receive funding through the Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) program. Read more

• Upcoming Insurgency from Below Conference on Future of U.S. Democracy

  The daylong conference on Wednesday, October 11, will examine the connections between social movements and electoral politics. Read more

• Serena Williams’s Daughter Has An Unusual Name—And It’s Great

  Fortune.com, 9.15.17 Read more

• This Is What Happens When Americans Are Told About Rising Inequality

  The Washington Post, “Monkey Cage,” 9.14.17 Read more

• De Blasio Names Commission To Review Controversial Monuments

  Observer, 9.8.17 Read more

• Broadway Bound: Ph.D. Student Cassondra James Kellam

  Graduate Center ­student Cassondra James Kellam (Ph.D., Sociology) will be making her Broadway debut this fall in a new revival of Once on This Island.
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• America Needs "Dreamers," GC Professor and Student Assert

  Professor Margaret Chin (GC/Hunter, Sociology) and Ph.D. student Hyein Lee (Sociology) published an essay addressing “the age-old question: Who is American?”—a question of particular importance in light of the decision to end DACA. Read more