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  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...

  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...

ENMU Student Association of Social Workers Named Volunteer of the Month by Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce Written by Desiree Cooper February 19, 2021 The Eastern New Mexico University Student Association of Social Workers receiving Volunteer of the Month for February form the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce. The Eastern New Mexico University Student Association of Social Workers (SASW) has received two awards this semester recognizing the positive impact the organizations members ...

  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...

Ashlyn Jude Peralta, a social work major at Eastern New Mexico University, is preparing for a career in mental health counseling.