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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 determination to move The Graduate Center from its original space in an office building on 42 nd Street to ...

  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 Connect Research Fellow. The fellowship supports his project to create compelling microscopic images...

  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, learn, and spend time with families and friends.  To take stock of this year and what lies ahead, we ...

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 to provide advanced education for the growing post-World War II baby boom population, and the missi...

  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 Society, American Branch. She will use the fellowship to complete her dissertation focusing on a particula...