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Soros Fellowship Brings Cellist Audrey Chen Closer to her Dream
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, awarded to a handful of immigrants or children of immigrants, has special meaning for Chen, a Music doctoral student.
Three Students Chosen for Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute
Jayson Castillo, Ricardo Martín Coloma, and Lidia Hernández-Tapia were selected for an immersive Latino humanities summer program.
Silvia Dapia Receives Inaugural Polish Studies Award for Book on Witold Gombrowicz
Her book examines the work and life of the Polish-born writer through a transnational lens.
$250,000 Prize Supports a Professor’s Work to Treat ALS
The award supports the development of a potential noninvasive ALS treatment by Neuroscience Professor Zaghloul Ahmed and his collaborator at PathMaker Neurosystems Inc.
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.
Professor Dennis Parnell Sullivan Awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics
The prize is equivalent to a Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
Mathematician Jason Behrstock Is Named a Simons Foundation Fellow
The competitive fellowship, Behrstock’s second from the Simons Foundation, will support his sabbatical research on theoretical mathematics.
Simons Foundation Gives $4 Million to CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education
Astrophysics is one of the most popular science fields, igniting the imaginations of many as they learn about it from television shows or news of space exploration. Like many other STEM fields, though, it lags in attracting students of color...
With a $1 Million NSF Career Grant, Andrew Reinmann Aims to Understand Fragmented Forests
Reinmann will study how temperate forests respond to climate change and being fragmented by farming and development and will offer a paid research training fellowship for CUNY students.
GRADUATE CENTER PROFESSORS RECEIVE CUNY GRANTS FOR PROMISING WORK IN BIOCHEMISTRY
By Lida Tunesi Out of four total recipients, two Graduate Center professors were chosen to receive CUNY Junior Faculty Research Awards in Science and Engineering for 2021. Professors Rupal Gupta (GC/College of Staten Island, Biochemistry) and Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle (Biochemistry), who...