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BEFORE YOU PROTEST FRACKING IN RURAL TOWNS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR APARTMENT IS HEATED
Colin Jerolmack (Ph.D. ’09, Sociology) last month published an unusual and particularly gripping piece in The New York Times about a married couple in a rural Pennsylvania town who wound up with a contaminated water well thanks to fracking, yet...
INSTEAD OF CALLS FOR ‘CIVILITY,’ WE NEED CIVIC RADICALISM: ’14 POLITICAL SCIENCE GRADUATE ON HIS LATEST BOOK
Alex Zamalin (Ph.D. ’14, Political Science) has published a book almost every year since defending his dissertation. The latest, Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility, shows how calls for civility from both the right and the...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Michael Weisberg
I am both alumni and faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. I received my Ph.D. from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program in 1991. I think I was among the first several students to receive a Ph.D. from that Program...
ALUMNUS TODD BROWN FEATURED IN NEW ARCHINECT ARTICLE
Alumnus Todd Brown (Ph.D. '21, Psychology), who is the University of Texas at Austin's 2021–2023 Race and Gender in the Built Environment Fellow, was featured in a recent Archinect article as part of the Archinect's Fellow Fellows series. He said...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Ilya Kapovich
Ilya Kapovich received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996 under the direction of Gilbert Baumslag. Subsequently, Ilya held postdoctoral positions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Rutgers University. From 2000 to 2018, he...
A GRADUATE CENTER FELLOWSHIP THAT BUILDS DIGITAL SKILLS ALSO YIELDS JOBS FOR ALUMNI
By Lida Tunesi Until he learned to code in Python as a Graduate Center Digital Fellow, Patrick Smyth (Ph.D. ’21, English), who is blind and has only a little residual vision, felt frustrated by inaccessible graphical interfaces, such as the...
LIBERAL STUDIES ALUMNA SELLS HER BOOK TO U.K.-BASED DUCKWORTH BOOKS
Graduate Center alumna Carmel McMahon (M.A. ’20, Liberal Studies) will soon have her debut book, In Ordinary Time, published by Duckworth, an imprint of the U.K.-based Duckworth Books Group. In Ordinary Time is a hybrid work of essays, poems, and...
MALS ALUM GETS CAPSTONE RESEARCH PUBLISHED
Graduate Center alumnus Dax Oliver (M.A. '20, Liberal Studies) published his capstone research paper, "Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Psilocybin from January 1, 1989 to December 31, 2019," in the September 2021 issue of the Journal of Psychedelic Psychiatry. Congratulations...
9 WAYS THE GRADUATE CENTER AND ITS SCHOLARS ARE INFLUENCING HISPANIC HERITAGE
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we are celebrating the scholarship and advocacy of our students, faculty, and alumni. From awards and grants to hard-hitting research, these Graduate Center scholars are making a difference. Alumni Rojo Robles Mejias and Rebecca L. Salois...
Alexandra Adair PhD May 2020
Educational Psychology Learning, Development, and Instruction Apart from studying educational media, Dr. Adair's other research interests include, preschool science and engineering, the impact and use of media and technology in the home learning environment, measurement and assessment of school readiness...