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Alumna Andréa Becker Published An Op-Ed in New York Times
Men benefit from abortion—why don't cis men talk about their abortion stories and why do we mostly study women?
Read the op-ed "Men Have a Lot to Lose When Roe Falls" in New York Times written by our alumna Andréa Becker, who just began her postdoc journey at University of California San Francisco.
Congratulations to Ilaria Porru and Michael C. Stern (GC MA ’20) for their recent publication!
Porru I., Stern M.C., and Martohardjono G.,(2022, May). Comparing dominance measures in speakers of typologically different languages: A case study of Turkish-English Bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (pp. 211-223).”
Dissertation Defense: Denys Katerenchuk
Date: Friday, June 10, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Influence Level Prediction on Social Media Through Multi-Task and Sociolinguistic User Characteristics Modeling
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 816 5988 9460
Passcode: 270711
Dissertation Defense: Xiaojie Zhang
Date: Monday, June 6, 2022
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing for Compute-Intensive Application
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 820 6115 3069
Passcode: 836632
Alumna Claudia Calirman (Ph.D. Art History 2004) is 2022 Millard Meiss Publication Grant Recipient
Alumna Claudia Calirman (Ph.D. 2004) was awarded a 2022 Millard Meiss Publication Grant Award for her new book-length project Dissident Bodies: Brazilian Women Artists, (1960s-2020s), Duke University Press. The College Art Association awards grants through the Millard Meiss Publication Fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Professor Calirman has also written on art in Brazil under the dictatorship and is an advisor at El Museo del Barrio, NY.
Dissertation Defense: Subhadarshi Panda
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Deception Detection Across Domains, Languages, and Modalities
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 833 6613 7129
Passcode: 991177
Dissertation Defense: Di Wu
Date: Monday, June 13, 2022
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: BiTRDF: Extending RDF for BiTemporal Data
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 844 5739 4815
Passcode: 003000
Dissertation Defense: Yitzchak Novick
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: An Analysis of the Friendship Paradox and Derived Sampling Methods
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 815 9491 5568
Passcode: 111905
Dissertation Proposal: Chunyu Yuan
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Tiny Square Artificial Intelligence
Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 890 5633 8878
Passcode: 489353
Congratulations to Prof. Christina Hagedorn!
CUNY presented Christina with the Henry Wasser Award for Outstanding Research (https://csitoday.com/2022/05/two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-csi-asst-profs-receive-gross-wasser-awards)