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“An instructive exercise in where the nation is heading,” wrote New York Times reporter Sam Roberts of New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future (Oxford University Press), the first in-depth comparative study of two regions where one in eight Americans currently lives. Serving as coeditors and contributors, members of the Graduate Center doctoral faculty [...]

Ph.D. Program in Urban Education is sponsoring a conference on “The NYC Public Schools after Mayor Bloomberg” on Tuesday, May 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. The Honorable Kathleen M. Cashin, a member of the New York State Board of Regents, will give the keynote address.

Research on the teaching of mathematics by recent alumna Dr. Rachel Lambert (Ph.D., Urban Education, 2013) is reported in Harvard Education Letter, a publication of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York has announced that Provost Chase F. Robinson will serve as interim president of the Graduate Center, effective July 1. Dr. Robinson will lead the GC while President William P. Kelly serves as interim chancellor of CUNY, following the retirement of Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. Robinson [...]

Karen G. Williams, doctoral student in anthropology, has won the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship for 2013–14. The $10,000 award, given to one student annually, is intended to encourage members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the discipline and promoting research on issues of concern among [...]

Three Fulbright Recipients, One Jack Kent Cooke Recipient CUNY BA is especially proud to announce that three students have earned Fulbright Fellowships for 2013. They are: Russell Barlow, a candidate for June 2013 graduation, whose Area of Concentration is Indo-European Studies. His home college is Brooklyn and his faculty mentor is Prof. John Van Sickle, [...]

The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York announced on April 23 that William P. Kelly, president of the Graduate Center, will serve as interim chancellor of the University starting July 1, following Chancellor Matthew Goldstein’s announcement that he would step down after nearly fourteen years in the post. The Board of [...]

“We Are What We Hear,” a talk by acclaimed music critic Paul Griffiths; a fifteen-minute concert; and a conversation between critic and conductor—these are the aural delights in store for those attending the 2013 Lloyd Old and Constance Old Lecture on May 10 at 6:30 p.m. in Elebash Recital Hall. The free event, which is [...]

The nation’s first antidrug warrior, a Chilean surrealist painter, former Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau and his famous forebears, and a Congolese man who became a Bronx Zoo exhibit in 1906—these are the subjects chosen by biographers awarded this year’s Leon Levy Center biography fellowships. The winners are Alexandra Chasin, Andrew Meier, Pamela Newkirk, and Justin Spring. Now [...]

In the first quarter of 2013, the Graduate Center received forty-two grants totaling more than $3,525,000. The listing below, for ten grants of $100,000 or more, provides the names of doctoral faculty members serving as principal investigators and their Graduate Center affiliations, the awarding agencies, the project titles, and the grant amounts. This information was [...]

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, director of the Center for Urban Education Policy at the Graduate Center, will receive a Lifetime Leadership Award on April 20 at the 2013 Annual Spring Scholarship and Leadership Awards Luncheon, hosted by the Community Council for Medgar Evers College, a not-for-profit organization, which has provided over $200,000 in scholarships. This [...]

Beth Terranova, a first-year student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Program at Hunter College, represented CUNY at the National University Weightlifting Championships in April and won a Bronze Medal.

2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is awarded to Vadricka Etienne, doctoral student in sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, for her study of ethnic identification of Haitian immigrants.

For its unique approach to digital humanities education, the Graduate Center’s Digital Fellows program has been selected to join the innovative Praxis Network (http://praxis-network.org/), a new partnership of seven graduate and undergraduate humanities education initiatives focused on preparing graduates for a wide range of careers in the digital age. Organized by the Scholarly Communication Institution [...]

The 2013 recipients of two CUNY BA awards generously funded by alumni and other friends of CUNY BA, the University’s individualized degree, are announced below. Each student is shown here with his/her area(s) of concentration and home college. The awards range from $600 to $1000. Congratulations to these recipients! The Harriet Brows Scholarship for Social [...]

The Graduate Center’s JustPublics@365 initiative is announcing its latest series of MediaCamp workshops for Spring 2013. These workshops, which bring together academics, community leaders, and journalists, offer intellectuals a way to combine their scholarly research with digital media “for the public good.” MediaCamp is made possible by JustPublics@365, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and [...]

Wayne Weng, a D.M.A. student, is an accomplished pianist currently studying with Ursula Oppens. In early March, his performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra won the seventh Iowa Piano Competition in a contest with two other gifted musicians, who also played works by Beethoven. The [...]

The 2013 recipients of three CUNY BA awards generously funded by alumni and other friends of CUNY BA, the University’s individualized degree, are announced below. Each student is shown here with his/her area(s) of concentration and home college. The awards range from $250 to $1000. (Recipients of the HT Chambers Memorial Award, the Memorial Scholarship for Students [...]

Al-Karim Gangji, a GC doctoral student in urban education, received the 2012 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty at Queens College, “in recognition of his commitment and dedication to the education of Queens College students.”

After more than twenty years as an organizer in labor and environmental justice movements, Ph.D. candidate Jane McAlevey (Sociology) has a lot to say about what it will take to renew the labor movement in the United States: primarily, engaging and educating workers, a task for which there are no shortcuts. She recently published a [...]