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  In Memoriam: Frances Degen Horowitz, President of The Graduate Center from 1991 to 2005 Frances Degen Horowitz The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Past President and Professor Emerita Frances Degen Horowitz, who died on March 15 at age 88. A prominent child psychologist, Horowitz served as The Graduate Center’s president from 1991 to 2005 and remained a member of the faculty until her retirement in 2010. She is widely admired for having the conviction and determi...

  Ph.D. Candidate Alfredo Vidal Ceballos Creates Microscopic Images to Increase Awareness of Diseases Like Alzheimer’s Alfredo Vidal Ceballos s, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry, works in Professor Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle’s lab at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, where he researches the role that material properties, such as viscosity and surface tension, play in regulating biomolecular liquids in the brain. Vidal Ceballos is also a Creative GC: Art Science ...

  Waiting to Exhale: Students, Faculty, and Staff Reflect a Year After the COVID Shutdown Megan Henriquez, Rod Hurley, Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, and Shawna Townsend It has been a year since COVID altered life at CUNY, and life in general. Once we gathered in classrooms, hallways, and cafeterias. Now we gather largely on Zoom. Too many of us have lost loved ones and treasured colleagues or faced financial hardship and uncertainty, or both. More of us have had to change the ways we work, teach, le...

History of The Graduate Center   History of The Graduate Center The historic B. Altman building, current home of The Graduate Center.   — Former President      William P. Kelly The establishment of The Graduate Center in 1961 by the New York State Legislature, itself, had few precedents. This was to be the first publicly supported doctoral program in New York City. It was a bold move that grew out of the historic commitment to public higher education in New York City, the need...

  Alicia Cannizzo Awarded $30,000 Schallek Fellowship for Her Art History Dissertation on Medieval Tombs Alicia Cannizzo (Photo courtesy of Cannizzo) A fascination with medieval art and science connects the ceramic sculpture that Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate Alicia Cannizzo (Art History) creates and the art history she researches. That research has received important recognition with the award of a $30,000 Schallek Fellowship from the Medieval Academy of America and Richard III Societ...

  Monique Sosnowski Wants Poached Furs and Skins to Go Out of Fashion Monique Sosnowski Not only has Ph.D. student Monique Sosnowski (Criminal Justice) seen her research on wildlife crime published in academic journals, but she’s also been quoted and cited in Vogue, National Geographic, and other media outlets. Her latest work was co-authoring a chapter on wildlife crime for a textbook on international criminal justice. Sosnowski spoke with The Graduate Center about her research, her pa...

  Eliza Who? Restless Enterprise by Professor Katherine Manthorne Profiles the Most Famous American Artist You Never Heard Of Eliza Who? Restless Enterprise by Professor Katherine Manthorne Profiles the Most Famous American Katherine Manthorne and the cover of her book "Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex" By Beth Harpaz th century landscape painter and graphic artist.   Manthorne originally set out to research American culture between 1863 and 1877 as a period ...