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Science Alumni Spotlight: Andrea Paz-Velez
Andrea Paz-Velez just graduated from the Biology Ph.D. program with a concentration in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Biological Sciences from Universidad de Los Andes in her hometown Bogotá, she was a research scientist in...
THE COMPLICATED LEGACY OF THE ‘FATHER OF BLACK HARLEM,’ WHOSE REAL ESTATE PRACTICES HELPED GIVE RISE TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND ENTRENCHED SEGREGATION
The first week Kevin McGruder (Ph.D. ’10, History) was in New York, he went to a lecture at Hunter College about the LGBTQ community within the Harlem Renaissance. “I was a Black gay man slowly kind of finding my own...
CLASSICS PROGRAM STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS 2020-2021
The Ph.D. program in Classics celebrates recent presentations, awards, publications, and other achievements by our students and alumni in the 2020-2021 academic year. Current Students Jamie Banks gave a lightning talk on literary translation at the SCS in January and...
WHY PEOPLE START SENTENCES WITH ‘SO,’ SO OFTEN: ALUMNA SYELLE GRAVES IN THE ‘TIMES’
It is a linguistic trend: the use of the word “so” at the start of a sentence. The New York Times recently looked into that trend along with other current linguistic habits to understand what language usage may reveal about...
TO UNDERSTAND HOW CULTURE EVOLVES, ALUMNUS MASON YOUNGBLOOD MAPS ELECTRONIC MUSIC TRENDS AND MUCH MORE
By Lida Tunesi During his time at the Graduate Center, Mason Youngblood (Ph.D. ’21, Psychology) studied and published research on music sampling, far-right radicalization, and methods of monitoring house finch behavior, all in the name of understanding cultural evolution. Getting...
Alumna Viveka Erlandsson Wins the Anne Bennett Prize From the London Mathematical Society
By Lida Tunesi Viveka Erlandsson (Ph.D. ’13, Mathematics) was awarded the Anne Bennett Prize by the London Mathematical Society “for her outstanding achievements in geometry and topology and her inspirational active role in promoting women mathematicians.” “In a short period...
60 Years at the Graduate Center
The Graduate Center, conceived to offer rigorous, research-based doctoral education to students of all backgrounds, has triumphed against great odds. When it started in 1961, it was the first publicly supported doctoral education program in New York City. It is...
PROUD TO BE FIRST: BARBARA B. STERN WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE A DOCTORATE FROM THE GRADUATE CENTER
When Barbara B. Stern (Ph.D. ’65, English) was awarded her Ph.D., the news made The New York Times. Stern was not only the first woman to receive her doctorate from the Graduate Center (Daniel Robinson, Ph.D. ’65, Psychology, was the...
REMEMBERING FIRST GRADUATE DANIEL N. ROBINSON, A PHILOSOPHER WITH A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR
Daniel N. Robinson, who was the first man to receive a doctorate from the Graduate Center in 1965, made a career out of being curious. At the Graduate Center, he studied neuropsychology. According to a tribute published by Oxford University...
Science Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Bejcek
Lauren Bejcek started the doctorate program in chemistry at CUNY in August of 2016 and graduated in March 2021. She worked in the lab of Ryan Murelli at Brooklyn College. Prior to joining the PhD program at CUNY Lauren attended...