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FYI posts are brief announcements, reminders, updates, and shout-outs. They cover successes, happenings, and advances at the Graduate Center.

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November 9, 2023

NOTICE OF EXAMINATION - Supervisor of Stock Workers (CUNY) #4107

The SUPERVISOR OF STOCK WORKERS (CUNY) Open Competitive Examination, Exam No.4107, is open for filing today. Attached please find the Notice of Exam(NOE). Please note that the filing deadline is Tuesday, November 21, 2023.

The filing fee is $54.00 and is non-refundable. For more information click here.

If you have any questions regarding this exam, please email us at hr@gc.cuny.edu or call (212) 817-7700.

October 23, 2023

Augustine Onyema Awarded Fellowship from The Molecular Sciences Software Institute

Augustine Onyema (Loverde lab, College of Staten Island) was awarded a fellowship from The Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MoLSSI) to develop Python modules to compute the lifetime of hydrogen bonds and conditional activity in proteins. The award is worth $40k for a period of 12 months.

October 23, 2023

Jasmin Philip is Recipient of 2022 Horst Schulz Biochemistry Prize

Jasmin Philip (Ikui lab, Brooklyn College) is the recipient of the 2022 Horst Schulz Biochemistry Prize with her first-author paper in Elife. This award recognizes a doctoral student or recent alumni who published the best paper in the previous year.

October 23, 2023

Joni Sebastien Receives Tow Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Joni Sebastien (Zeglis lab, Hunter College) received a Tow Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The award is for 4 years.

October 23, 2023

Raven Fisher Receives Administrative Supplement to Promote Diversity for NINDS Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias

Raven Fisher (Mariana Torrente, Brooklyn College) received an Administrative Supplement to Promote Diversity for NINDS Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) from the NIH NINDS for the next 2 years (Jun '23-March '25).

October 11, 2023

NACLO

Profs. Elena Filatova and Cece Cutler will  host NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Open competition) 2024 @ CUNY on Thursday, January 25, 2024, 10am – 1pm.
More information on NACLO can be found here: https://naclo.org/.
To participate in NACLO at the CUNY site and to get the announcements related to the CUNY NACLO site, choose the City University of New York (New York, NY) when registering for NACLO: https://naclo.org/registration_page.php

September 12, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Senior International Fellows

The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York is pleased to announce the selection of eight Fellows who will join us for this year’s Senior International Fellows Program. The Fellows come from Brazil, Italy, Ghana, Kosovo, Mexico, Senegal, and Ukraine and will attend seminars together in New York throughout the month of October. 

Read about the Fellows, their research topics, and their professional development in the field of philanthropy

Learn more about the Senior International Fellows Program.

August 29, 2023

Congratulations

Prof. Kyle Gorman (et al) received a $150,000 start-up grant from the US – Israel Binational Science Foundation for a project titled “Diacritization for the World's Scripts

August 29, 2023

Congratulations

Simon Zuberek (CL M.A. student) will be leading a workshop titled “A Calculator for Writing: Harnessing Generative AI to Develop Instructional Content for Foreign Language Writing” at the VI Consortium Workshop for Language Teaching and Learning (CLTL) at Princeton University, Oct. 6-7, 2023.

Simon's podcast episode titled, Corpora and Data in the Language Classroom, (S12E8) was released in October, on Speaking of Language from Cornell University’s Language Resources Center.