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HOW TO REACH YOUR ACADEMIC NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS: GET YOUR RESEARCH MOVING, PUBLISH YOUR DISSERTATION, FIND A TENURE-TRACK JOB, AND LAND A PROMOTION
As we look forward to a new year, Graduate Center scholars share the lessons they have learned to help you reach your academic goals in 2022. 1. Land a Tenure-Track Job João Marinotti (M.Phil. ’21, Linguistics; M.A. ’17, Linguistics), who...
CHINA AND THE U.S.: FRENEMIES OR JUST FOES?
The Graduate Center, CUNY · China and the U.S.: Frenemies or Just Foes? Today’s guest Ming Xia is a professor of Political Science at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of The Dual...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Maral Tajerian
Dr. Maral Tajerian is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Queens College, and a faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center Biology Ph.D. program. The CUNY community welcomed Dr. Tajerian when she joined us in 2018. Dr. Tajerian grew up...
APPLY FOR FUNDING WITH THESE GRANT AND FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
From full-time fellowships to summer research grants, there is a wide variety of funding opportunities for Graduate Center scholars – and many of them have application deadlines coming up soon. Browse funding opportunities for students here and check out some...
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE: 12 BOOKS BY GRADUATE CENTER FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI THAT BEND GENRES AND OFFER COMPELLING TAKES ON CULTURAL ISSUES
Haven’t yet tried a book by Maggie Nelson? Want to delve into the complexities of the fracking debate or learn why calls for civility hold back racial justice? Or are you interested in a genre-defying memoir or two? These books...
A PROFESSOR BRINGS THE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE DOWN TO EARTH FOR MILLIONS, AS A RESEARCHER AND TV SHOW HOST
By Lida Tunesi Whether he’s guiding people through the night sky at Burning Man, chatting with Neil deGrasse Tyson on the radio, or hosting a PBS science show, Professor Matthew O’Dowd (GC/Lehman, Physics) has found myriad ways to share his...
Science Faculty Spotlight: Dina Lipkind
Dr. Dina Lipkind is an Assistant Professor of Biology at York College, CUNY, and a member of the Cognitive and Comparative Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience graduate programs at the CUNY Graduate center. Research in Dr. Lipkind’s lab focuses on identifying...
PROFESSOR CECELIA CUTLER RECEIVED A PSC-CUNY GRANT
Professor Cecelia Cutler (GC/Lehmanh, Linguistics) received a PSC-CUNY grant, cycle 51 ($5717.20) for a research project titled “Writing dialects online: oral forms of language in digital spaces.” The grant will support Ph.D. candidate May Ahmar.
PROFESSOR VIRGINIA VALIAN GAVE A KEYNOTE AT THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL LINGUISTICS
Professor Virginia Valian (GC/Hunter, Linguistics and Psychology) was a keynote speaker at the Ninth International Conference on Formal Linguistics, sponsored by Fudan University in Shanghai, this November. The title of her talk was "Syntactic Categories, Syntactic Structure, and Innateness."
NEH FUNDS TO BOOST STUDENTS’ DIGITAL SKILLS HAVE WIDESPREAD BENEFITS AT CUNY AND BEYOND
The Graduate Center, CUNY · NEH Funds to Boost Students’ Digital Skills Have Widespread Benefits at CUNY and Beyond When CUNY Graduate Center Professor Matthew K. Gold tweeted last month that he and his colleague Lisa Rhody received a nearly...