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  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 Center at The Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC), Piotrowska recently began a new job with makeup, skin ca...

  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 author on the new paper, which examines park use in low-income neighborhoods around New York City. The...

  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 essentially trying to speak lemur.” With her adviser Professor Andrea Baden (GC/Hunter, Anthropolo...

  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 Verlynde, a Ph.D. student in the Plant Sciences subprogram of The Graduate Center’s Biology progr...