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The Graduate Center, The City University of New York Established in 1961, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of CUNYs doctoral degrees. An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the Graduate Center offers more than thirty doctoral programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences, as well as a number of masters programs....

ShareBar BOSTON—Yesterday the Harvard Business School (HBS) recognized and honored the Class of 2021 with online livestreamed Class Day celebrations and graduation ceremonies. Thousands of graduating students and their loved ones tuned in from around the globe—from India, Nigeria, the UK, China, Mexico, and more, with the largest concentration in our very own Harvard backyards of Cambridge and Boston. The livestream featured Class Day speakers, Harvard University’s Degree Conferral Cerem...

  Drag and Flamboyant Performance Art Are Like ‘Bread and Butter’ to Aerialist and Art History Scholar Jack Crawford Ph.D. candidate Jack Crawford performing as an aerialist. (Photo credit: Adad Hannah) Prior to COVID, when she wasn’t combing archives and watching avant-garde films for her doctoral dissertation on drag and other forms of flamboyant performance art, Ph.D. candidate Jack Crawford (Art History) was often either taking in those art forms at venues throughout New York or ...

  Newly Discovered Dinosaur-Era Creatures Offer Insight Into Evolution Fossils of Fossiomanus (left) and Jueconodon By Lida Tunesi Graduate Center Professor Jin Meng (Earth and Environmental Sciences) was part of a team that recently discovered two new species of small, mammal-like creatures from 120 million years ago. The fossils came from northeastern China. The new animals are the first so-called “scratch-diggers” found in this area, and share similar digging-oriented traits even t...

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York Established in 1961, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of CUNYs doctoral degrees. An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the Graduate Center offers more than thirty doctoral programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences, as well as a number of masters programs....

  Getting Her Ideas Out of the Lab: Roxana Piotrowska, Class of 2021, on Her New Role at Estée Lauder and What Led to It Roxana Piotrowska (Photo courtesy of Piotrowska) By Lida Tunesi As Roxana Piotrowska (Ph.D. ’21, Chemistry) can tell you, water-responsive nanomaterials and the cosmetics industry might have more in common than you would think. Having completed her dissertation research with Professors (GC/City College; Chemistry/Chemical Engineering) at the Advanced Science Research...

  Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights Evan Mann and Carly Batist Two Graduate Center students in the Anthropology program won 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.  Ph.D. candidate Ph.D. student

  Student Spotlight: Javier Otero Peña Wants to ‘Make Cities More Just and Livable’ Javier Otero Peña (Photo courtesy of Peña) In his first published paper, Ph.D. student Javier Otero Peña (Psychology) takes a step toward his goal of understanding why people do or do not use public spaces, and what those spaces mean to them. “What drove me to this field, and to a Ph.D. in environmental psychology, is a desire to make cities more just and livable,” Peña said. Peña was first au...

  Learning to ‘Speak Lemur’: Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species Carly Batist and a black-and-white ruffed lemur (Photos courtesy of Batist) By Lida Tunesi Ph.D. candidate Carly Batist (Anthropology (Biological)) received a 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to research the vocalizations of black-and-white ruffed lemurs in Madagascar.  Or, as she told The Graduate Center in an interview, “I’m e...

  Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Students and Professors to Read About on Earth Day Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Studen Even in this difficult last year, Graduate Center professors and students have been hard at work, researching the effects of climate change and investigating ways to protect animals and the environment:    3. Orchid researcher Simon Ver...