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"ENMU helped me learn how to build relationships with virtually anyone," says Mr. Nate Williams. "ENMU also gave me the opportunity to try so many different things and get guidance from great mentors.

Student Testimonials   Student Testimonials Student Testimonials The program asked some of its students to speak about their experiences in the program. Their testimonials are shared below. Anthony Wheeler Alumnus Anthony is an educator who received his Bachelor’s degree from SUNY New Paltz. He joined the program in the Fall of 2018 with an interest in creating engaged digital pedagogies. Through coursework, close mentoring, and his involvement with the GC digital community he learned to ...

  Documenting Immigrant Families’ Separation and Reunion: Sandra Castro, Class of 2021, on her Dissertation and Her New Assistant Dean Role Sandra Castro (Photo courtesy of Castro) By Bonnie Eissner The recent surge in the number of unaccompanied children and teenagers making the treacherous crossing from Mexico into the United States, many of them seeking parents who are already in the U.S., is drawing renewed attention to the southern border and national immigration policy. President B...

  For Siqi Tu, the Center Is Always Changing: A Class of 2021 Graduate on Relocating from China to New York To Germany, and Her Next Move Siqi Tu (Photo courtesy of Tu) Siqi Tu (Ph.D. ’21, Sociology) was born and raised in China, moved to New York for graduate school, and is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she’s continuing her research on the shifting ethno-racial identity of Chinese “parachute stude...

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....

  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