FYIs

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

Dr. Suzanne van der Feest is the recipient of a PSC-CUNY Traditional A award for the project "Learning New Sounds: Individual Differences Influencing Productions of Turkish as a New Language". The grant will be used for conducting acoustic and morpho-phonological analyses as part of a larger project in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Brooks and Dr. Valerie Shafer. 

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Stetsenko, professor at The Graduate Center of CUNY (Developmental Psychology Training Area), on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Congratulations to Psychology Ph.D. student Wai Man Wong (Clinical Psychology at Queens Training Area) for receiving the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Summer 2023 Fellowship.

Melanie Fessinger, a dual specialization student in the Psychology and Law and Basic and Applied Social Psychology Ph.D. programs, has been awarded the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s (SPSP) Outstanding Research Award, which recognizes rigorous and transparent research by graduate students pursuing dissertation or pre-dissertation research. Submissions are reviewed by fellow SPSP student members and university faculty. Melanie’s research examines factors influencing both suspects’ and observers’ judgments about the voluntariness of agreements to plead guilty to a crime. Melanie’s PhD advisor is Margaret Bull Kovera.

This is now the second year in a row that a BASP student has been honored with this award. Congratulations, Melanie! We are so proud of you. 

Dr. Lauren Kois, who is a 2017 grad of the Clinical@JJ program is this recipient of the prestigious Saleem Shah early career award, which is cosponsored by the American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41) and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. 

Congratulations to Graduate Center Music program alumni Noriko Manabe (Ph.D. Music, ‘09) and Philip Stoecker (Ph.D. Music ’03), who were honored with awards at the recent Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory.

Manabe, an associate professor at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, received the Outstanding Publication Award for her article “We gon' be alright? The ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar's protest anthem” Music Theory Online, 25(1).

Stoecker, chair of the Department of Music at Hofstra University, received the Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award for co-editing (with Edward Venn) the book Thomas Adès Studies. Among other essays, this award-winning collection featured the article  “Sonic Allegory in Adès’s The Exterminating Angel" by CUNY Professor Yayoi Uno Everett.

Professor Lilia Maliar (Economics) is the new president of the Society for Computational Economics. Founded in 1995, the society includes about 450 members and holds an annual conference that typically draws 300 to 400 participants a year.

In addition to computational economics, Maliar, also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specializes in macroeconomics, economic theory, economic growth and development, dynamic games, transition economies, and international economics.

Daniela is a recipient of the Diversity Travel Fellowship funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to attend the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).

Professor Puleng Segalo, incumbent of the Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair at Unisa, has received The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Regional Award 2021 for Public Understanding and Popularization of Science. The prestigious award is aimed at fulfilling the academy’s objective of recognizing, supporting, and promoting scientific capacity and excellence in the developing world.