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The 2021 Graduate Center Science Communication Fellowship
The GC Sciences will offer paid scicoms fellowships to two grad students during the 2021/22 academic year. Check out how to apply.
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER PHYSICIST AND ENGINEER ANDREA ALÙ NAMED BLAVATNIK NATIONAL AWARDS LAUREATE
The award recognizes Alù’s challenges to the boundaries of materials science and physics, which have brought about advances in electromagnetics, nano-optics, and acoustics.
Professor Kyle Gorman Received a PSC-CUNY Grant
Gorman received a PSC-CUNY grant for research that addresses how children acquire language.
Scholars Gain Technical Skills and Pass Them on to Hundreds More, Thanks to the Digital Humanities Research Institute
Many participants in the 2021 institute, offered virtually, come from schools that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students; curriculum materials will be freely available online.
Student Emergency Grants from CRRSAA Now Available
Grants of up to $1,000 are available to students who are facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
LO FERGUSON, M.A. ’20 IN WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES, RECEIVES FULL TUITION SCHOLARSHIP TO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL AS A PUBLIC INTEREST SCHOLAR
Ferguson, whose research focuses on transgender college students, wants to work "on things like access to health care and housing for the LGBTQ community, and at a level that will enact more systematic change."
Prestigious NIH Grants Support Neuroscience Research by Susana Mingote and Orie Shafer
Shafer will study how different neurotransmitters released by the same neuron mediate different functions within our circadian clocks. Mingote will investigate neurons that release both dopamine and glutamate, and their relation to disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.
Pending and Insistent Research Questions’ About Sustainable Development in Paraguay Led Alumna Christine Folch to a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship
Graduate Center alumna Christine Folch (Ph.D. 12, Anthropology) was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, receiving $200,000 for a two-year study of sustainable development in Paraguay.
Elliot Wiseman Receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Study How Crimes Are Reported by Detectives
Wiseman will join the Anthropology program to study the narratives created and used by detectives during investigatory police work.
DRAG AND FLAMBOYANT PERFORMANCE ART ARE LIKE ‘BREAD AND BUTTER’ TO AERIALIST AND ART HISTORY SCHOLAR JACK CRAWFORD
Crawford is channeling her interest in drag and burlesque into her doctoral dissertation.