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A CUNY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR AND HIS STUDENTS SEEK TO BRING RELIEF TO PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND COVID-19 PATIENTS
By Lida Tunesi In a recent study published in Communications Biology, researchers from the lab of Professor Andreas Kottmann (GC/City College, Biology) discovered new information about the action of a cell signaling protein called sonic hedgehog. Their work may offer...
THE 95TH BIRTHDAY GIFT PROFESSOR CATHY N. DAVIDSON GAVE TO HER FATHER WILL KEEP ON GIVING
By Bonnie Eissner To celebrate her father, who turned 95 this month and whose life was changed by the GI Bill, Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (English, Digital Humanities, and Data Analysis and Visualization) established the Paul C. Notari Research...
ECONOMICS PROFESSOR LILIA MALIAR NAMED A HOOVER INSTITUTION FELLOW
Professor Lilia Maliar (Economics) was appointed a fellow of the Hoover Institution, an influential public policy think tank based at Stanford University. Maliar, whose research involves finding numerical methods for solving dynamic economic models, will collaborate with other Hoover Institution...
KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON DEEP LEARNING AND MACHINE LEARNING BY ECONOMICS PROFESSOR LILIA MALIAR AT ECOMOD CONFERENCE
In a recent keynote address, “Solving Dynamic Economic Models with Deep Learning: Theory and Applications,” at the 2021 EcoMod conference, Professor Lilia Maliar (Economics) discussed her research on using machine learning and deep learning to solve large-scale dynamic economic models...
IN MEMORIAM: DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR CHARLES W. MILLS, A PHILOSOPHER WHO CHANGED THE CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE IN THE U.S.
The Graduate Center community is immensely saddened by the passing of Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills (Philosophy) who died on September 20, 2021, at age 70 after battling cancer. He was an esteemed scholar and treasured colleague and mentor whose...
‘GODDESSES, WHORES, WIVES, AND SLAVES’ REVISITED IN A NEW BOOK ABOUT WOMEN IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
Close to 50 years ago, Hunter College and Graduate Center Distinguished Professor Emerita Sarah Pomeroy published her landmark study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves, introducing scholars and general readers to the study of women in classical antiquity. Now Professor Ronnie...
How to Fight and Win a War on Guns
The Graduate Center, CUNY · How to Fight and Win a War on Guns Today’s guest, Professor Candace McCoy, is a faculty member in the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Trained in law, she applies legal...
CUNY ANTHROPOLOGIST, A VIETNAM VETERAN, ANALYZES WAR’S TRAUMA IN NEW MEMOIR
Glenn Petersen, a professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Baruch College and a professor of Liberal Studies and Anthropology at the Graduate Center, recently published War and the Arc of Human Experience, a memoir and anthropological examination of the...
PROFESSOR GITA MARTOHARDJONO INVOLVES GC SCHOLARS IN PUBLISHED WORK
Recent pieces of scholarship by Professor Gita Martohardjono (GC/Queens, Linguistics) demonstrate the collaborative nature of the Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Linguistics. Martohardjono's new co-edited book, Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (MIT Press), includes contributions by several Graduate Center...
$100,000 CARNEGIE CORPORATION GRANT TO THE COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM AT THE GRADUATE CENTER SUPPORTS 40 CUNY UNDERGRADUATE PEER MENTORS
College Access: Research & Action (CARA), a program based at the Graduate Center that fosters college enrollment and persistence, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to support its peer mentorship program. The Carnegie funds...