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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...
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”...