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‘22 Grads Blaze Ahead Into New Jobs and Opportunities
From nanoscience to queer criminology, our graduates are launching careers and bright futures with their new skills
The Mathematics of Union Organizing
A recent grad used her data visualization skills to rally colleagues at The New York Times.
Developing CUNY Students’ Digital Skills for the Tech Workforce
A new Graduate Center workforce development program funded by The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation will equip CUNY undergraduates with digital skills for tech sector jobs.
How Our Scholars Played Heroic Roles in the Pandemic
Graduate Center scholars have been at the forefront of research to understand the virus and the larger pandemic.
The Ways COVID Changed Teaching at CUNY for the Better
From confronting the “archaic way we test our students” to using digital archives, Graduate Center students and faculty share how the pandemic spurred new ways of teaching.
How to Be an Antiracist Teacher
Professor Cathy N. Davidson and Graduate Center scholars spur equitable teaching at CUNY through the grant-funded Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: A SOFTWARE ENGINEER SEEKS A MASTER'S IN DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DRAWN BY CUNY'S 'COOL VIBE'
Serving as an adjunct teacher for New York City’s Tech-in-Residence Corps in 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, gave software engineer Atilio Barreda his first taste of teaching. To his surprise, he liked it a lot. That experience spurred...
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...
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...
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...