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  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 engaging in performance herself as an aerialist and an aerial teacher.  “Burlesque performance an...

  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 though they are not closely related. “We depend on fossils to understand the early evolution of mam...

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 CUNY's 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 master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields. Th...

  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