FYIs

The May 2023 Newsletter for the Computer Science / Data Science program can be found here.

William Randolph Hearst Graduate Assistantships are now available for CUNY Graduate Center students doing work related to civil society, philanthropy or nonprofit studies.

Learn more about the Hearst Graduate Assistantship

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 Brazil, Italy, Ghana, Kosovo, Mexico, Senegal, and Ukraine and will attend seminars together in New York throughout the month of October. 

Congrats to students Suzie Oppenheimer and Laura Suárez Rodriquez who won a DSRG Surplus Initiative Grant to fund a symposium on Latin American Art in 2024!  The DSRG received a large number of proposals across all fields at the Graduate Center,  so this was a highly competitive grant.  Well done Suzie and Laura!

Congratulations to Professor Martin D. Ruck (Psychology, Urban Education) and alumni Isabelle M. Elisha (Ph.D. ’16, Psychology), associate director for the psychology program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and Juliana E. Karras (Ph.D. ’18, Psychology), an assistant professor at San Francisco State University, whose paper “Looking Within: Elevating Black Scholarly Contributions to Empirical Approaches in Developmental Science” was published in the May-June issue of American Psychologist.

“Through examinations of the psychological effects of Blackness on the development of cognition, competence, identity, and social functioning, Black psychologists outline pathways and provide tools for ecological culturally rooted methodologies,” they write. “These multidisciplinary approaches run in contrast to dominant trends in the field and thus broaden developmental science’s reach and influence. In the 1950s, developmental research by Black psychologists was instrumental to the fight for civil rights. Today, it continues to provide a basis for advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.”

Read "The Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird, director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, on the NY Times website.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that we are expanding myProgress (formerly known as personalized processing times) to Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, and Form I-131, Application for Travel Document.

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/uscis-expands-myprogress-to-form-i-765-and-form-i-131

Anthropology professor Victoria Sanford's book, Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice, was reviewed by the London Review of Books. Read the review.

Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Ita Levitan (and CUNY co-PI Prof. Shweta Jain) for receiving an $80K CUNY Research Awards supported by Google CyberNYC initiative.  The winning project's title is: News or Opinion: Fine grained analysis of text data to inform online readers. 

ECA is ending its policy permitting the temporary modifications of exchange visitor programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, effective July 1, 2023.

Read the full announcement