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CANNABIS USE DURING PREGNANCY MAY HARM CHILDREN
As cannabis becomes more widely legalized, scientists are working to elucidate its effects on human health. A new study addresses the question of whether the drug is safe to use during pregnancy. The paper, published in Proceedings of the National...
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR CATHY N. DAVIDSON RECEIVES THE 2021 ARTS & SCIENCES ADVOCACY AWARD
Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (English), founding director of the Futures Initiative, and a leading scholar and innovator in education, was awarded the 2021 Arts & Sciences Advocacy Award by the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) at...
A PANDEMIC AND POLITICAL POLARIZATION SLAM U.S. SCHOOLS
The Graduate Center, CUNY · A Pandemic and Political Polarization Slam U.S. Schools David Bloomfield is a professor of Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center and of Education Leadership, Law, and Policy at Brooklyn College. A former general counsel...
PROFESSOR KYLE GORMAN PUBLISHES A PAPER IN AN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS JOURNAL
Professor Kyle Gorman (Linguistics) is the first author on a paper in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, titled "Structured abbreviation expansion in context." He co-wrote the paper with Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, and Richard Sproat. Following...
A 20-TON SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET LETS PHYSICISTS PEER INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE
With the installation of a 20-ton superconducting magnet, a group of Graduate Center researchers recently celebrated a big step toward finishing a new particle detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The detector will let scientists examine the kind of “particle soup”...
HOW STUDENTS FEEL ABOUT MATH AFFECTS HOW WELL THEY PERFORM, AS SHOWN IN LARGE U.S. STUDY
By Lida Tunesi Whether or not a student does well in mathematics can depend on many things. How are their study skills? Do they get along with their teacher? Are they getting enough sleep? Now, a new study confirms the...
Graduate Center Faculty in the News
Graduate Center faculty are frequently in the news, sharing their expertise with the public and weighing in on pressing issues. Following are some prominent news mentions from the past several months. Racism and Bias Professor Margaret Chin (GC/Hunter, Sociology) co-wrote...
PROVOST STEVE EVERETT DESCRIBES HIS AIMS TO SUPPORT STUDENTS, ADVANCE RESEARCH, AND ENHANCE DIVERSITY, AND WHY HIS NEW ROLE IS LIKE CONDUCTING AN OPERA
Composing, conducting, and creating music may seem unrelated to being a provost, but Steve Everett, a musician and music scholar who became provost and senior vice president of the CUNY Graduate Center in August 2021, finds many similarities. Everett’s career...
TWO GRADUATE CENTER PHILOSOPHY PROFESSORS NAMED EDITORS OF LEADING AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF ART JOURNAL
By Bonnie Eissner For the next five years, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (JAAC), published by Oxford University Press, considered the leading aesthetics and philosophy of art journal in North America, will be co-edited by two Graduate Center...
WHY THESE EELS GLOW GREEN AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR PEOPLE
By Lida Tunesi Researchers from the Graduate Center, Baruch College, and the American Museum of Natural History have identified a protein in the barred-fin moray eel that causes the eel to glow green. For humans, the protein could offer a...