In her new book, Prof. @jennball.bsky.social reveals how robes, boots, and crowns expressed identity, power, and taste in the Byzantine Empire. Her research challenges assumptions about when “fashion” truly began. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/what-by... @cunygcarthistory.bsky.social

From foster care to doctoral research: Harmony D. Osei is rewriting the narrative about foster youth in higher education. Her dissertation focuses on stories of resilience, grit, and accomplishment www.gc.cuny.edu/news/she-tur...

Many thanks to WPIX Reporter Monica Morales for visisiting the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social to interview our Ph.D. urban ed student Elana Romero. @bonnieeissner.bsky.social Celebrate Hispanic Women! Thank you WPIX TV

Congratulations to @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, on receiving the 2025 McGraw Prize in Higher Education! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cathy-n... @futuresed.bsky.social @cuny.edu #McGrawPrize

Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Join us in celebrating our scholars and leaders of Latino heritage who are making a difference in the arts, higher education, biomedical research, technology, literature, and more www.gc.cuny.edu/news/honorin...

Meet Jose Noriega, our new vice president for information technology! 🎶 Fun fact: He used to DJ Latin rock & pop on weekends. Now, he’s spinning up IT strategy and innovation for the Graduate Center

In his new book, Prof. @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social explains how ordinary actions—when done with others—can help reshape unjust systems

APA member @kristinandrews.bsky.social brings "philosophy or animal minds" to the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/human-q...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has opened a new window to the universe — and Graduate Center scientists @saavikford.bsky.social and @emilylrice.me are among the first to peer through it www.gc.cuny.edu/news/2000-as... @cunygcastro.bsky.social @joshuatan.bsky.social

Dean for the Sciences Brian R. Gibney opens up about his priorities and how he plans to enhance science research and education at the Graduate Center

A dissertation quilt. Alumna Frances Howell sewed together the colors, shapes, and stories of Black women navigating infertility and egg freezing

“I decided to put it all in for this festival,” Frank Hentschker, program director of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, tells the New York Times, “because I really think this is what the city needs” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...

Join us in welcoming our new provost, Joel P. Christensen! Learn more about Christensen and his goals for the Graduate Center www.gc.cuny.edu/news...

Join us in welcoming our new faculty member, @kristinandrews.bsky.social! With appointments in Philosophy and Psychology, she explores animal culture and consciousness and shows how the animal world illuminates the human one www.gc.cuny.edu/news...

Why would an innocent person confess? Research from alumnae @stephaniecardenas.bsky.social and Patricia Y. Sanchez and Distinguished Professor Saul Kassin reveals a surprising culprit www.gc.cuny.edu/news/when-gu... @innocenceproject.bsky.social @quattronecenter.org @spspnews.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Laura Suárez Rodríguez and Julio E. Quiñones Santiago, who have been awarded prestigious Crossing Latinidades Fellowships for 2025–26! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/two-gra... @cunygcmusic.bsky.social

Congratulations to Prof. Raj Korpan, who has been awarded a year-long fellowship to investigate what the LGBTQ+ community needs in a robot www.gc.cuny.edu/news/still-g...

Schizophrenia is often misunderstood by the public, especially when it comes to aggressive behavior. Ph.D. student Shanique Y. Meyler is helping shift that narrative. Learn about her recent study www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-loo...

Elephants who live near people behave differently. Alumna @sarahljacobson.bsky.social and Prof. Joshua Plotnik reveal that curiosity may be key to understanding — and reducing — human-elephant conflict www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-som...

Congratulations, all!

Missed our workshop on the op-ed @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? The Op-Ed Project is a wonderful resources that can help you learn about the genre, identify a target publication, and craft a provocative lede. Check out their website: buff.ly/qzzJNLM #PublicWriting #WritingCommunity

Welcome to the ‪@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social‬, Provost Christensen! @sentantiq.bsky.social

From poetic novellas to political performance, our summer reading list has a book for everyone www.gc.cuny.edu/news/these-s... @gabriellebv.bsky.social @ccnyresearch.bsky.social‬ @ColumbiaUP @cunyenglish.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 class of Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Fellows! See all the winners and their projects www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc... @hebagowayed.bsky.social @aviladrich.bsky.social @jessicamwiza.bsky.social @lokw11.bsky.social @jesshardie.bsky.social @bfoxwilliams.bsky.social

Distinguished Prof. André Aciman’s new, “Room on the Sea,” offers three novellas about love, loss, and the haunting marks they leave behind www.gc.cuny.edu/news/andre-a... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

What an amazing night! It was rejuvenating to celebrate our newest graduates at a ceremony that honored the ongoing importance of higher education. Read a recap of Commencement here www.gc.cuny.edu/news/champio...

A beautiful ceremony! Professor Cathy N. Davidson and graduate Corey Scher gave inspiring speeches, and Xiaoming Tian sang the National Anthem. Anthropologist Faye Ginsburg was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Medal, and honorary degrees were given to Rob Robinson and Lucy Shapiro.

So much joy at Lincoln Center today! Congrats to our grads! #CUNYProud #GCGrads #CUNY25

We're still basking in the glow of commencement! A special thanks to all the families and loved ones who supported our graduates on their educational journeys. #CUNYProud

What can a Brooklyn diner teach us about public space, belonging, and power? Alumna @gabriellebv.bsky.social walked two neighborhoods for 20 years to find out www.gc.cuny.edu/news/citys-s... @buscada.bsky.social

Her impact spans books, policy, and generations of students. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social reflects on her time at the Graduate Center and what’s next www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cathy-n... @futuresed.bsky.social

“Lichens are a symbol of cooperation.” Laura Boggess, an ecologist and new Ph.D. grad, studies life on the edge—literally. Her research on rare lichens shows what we can learn from nature about surviving through connection www.gc.cuny.edu/news/lichen-... @iologygccuny.bsky.social

Graduate Center Chief Librarian Maura Smale shares how the @minareeslibrary.bsky.social sustains scholarship and intellectual freedom, on The Thought Project podcast www.gc.cuny.edu/news/why-sma...

“When they sent me the video of him reuniting with his family, I cried.” Professor @margaretkovera.bsky.social’s scholarship didn’t just shape national policy — it helped send an innocent man home www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @johnjayrec.bsky.social @icjmaprogram.bsky.social

Your skills aren’t a list — they’re a story. At a recent Graduate Center workshop, students learned to map their strengths using metaphors like archives, constellations, and orientations. Intrigued? Read more www.gc.cuny.edu/news/how-ide... @careerplangc.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Graduate Center’s Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser Awards winners: @anagantman.bsky.social, Qiushi Guo, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, @mattlindauer.bsky.social., Sarah Ita Levitan, and Vladimir Rosenhaus! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/six-cun...

We spoke with Graduate Center psychologists Tracey Revenson and Arielle Shanok to discuss the science of stress, how it manifests, and what we can do to better manage stress to live happier, healthier lives. Here’s their advice www.gc.cuny.edu/news/science... @cunygcwellness.bsky.social

Announcing presenters in the Dissertation Showcase! Damira Rasheed, Benjamin Diehl, Katherine Anderson, Erik Forman, Alex Steers-McCrum, Sarah Pangburn, Jacob Quartey, Eve Klein, Miguel Rodriguez, Oscar Aponte, Nicole Cote & Austin MacDonald. RESERVE for 5/13 event: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/insid...

Congratulations to Professors Noël Carroll and Blanche Wiesen Cook, Visiting Research Scholar William Bialek, and alumna Faye Ginsburg, who were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-gr... @cuny.edu @cunychancellor.bsky.social @joshbrumberg.bsky.social

This Earth Day, discover how Graduate Center scholars are driving change — from protecting the world’s most endangered marine mammal to rethinking how we define climate resilience www.gc.cuny.edu/news/safegua... #EarthDay @biologygccuny.bsky.social @eesgccuny.bsky.social @djlohman.bsky.social

In one week, Wed. April 23 at 6:30pm, I'll be in conversation with environmental scientist Peter Groffman at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Very excited for this event. Free and open to the public, in-person and online; reservations required www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...

CUNY mourns the loss of Andrew A. Beveridge, a professor emeritus of sociology at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. He also directed the University's Applied Social Research program and helped establish its Institute for Demographic Research.

Monarch butterflies capture public attention, but focusing on just one species risks overlooking a larger crisis. Prof. @djlohman.bsky.social explains why we need to rethink how we conserve insects www.gc.cuny.edu/news/monarch...

Congratulations to Prof. @hebagowayed.bsky.social, who has been awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to write a book that exposes the human costs of guarding borders against migrants www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat...

Faye Ginsburg (Ph.D. ’86, Anthropology) will be honored with the Graduate Center’s highest alumni award at Commencement on June 10. Her groundbreaking work has transformed how we understand culture, media, and activism www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-gr...

From her first museum visit at 19 to a spot in the Studio Museum's Arts Leadership Praxis, Naiomy Guerrero’s journey has been anything but conventional. The Graduate Center helped turn her passion into purpose www.gc.cuny.edu/news/studio-...

“I always wanted to know that I played a part when the challenges arise.” As COO of TheDream.US, Hyein Lee uses the research skills she gained at the Graduate Center to advocate for undocumented students and provide the most comprehensive data on their success www.gc.cuny.edu/news/she-spe...

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Beryl Kahn, who was awarded a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship by New York Sea Grant! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat...

Prof. @benjamincarterhett.bsky.social joins The Thought Project for a timely discussion of the rise of autocracy in America and its unsettling parallels to Europe in 1938 www.gc.cuny.edu/news/echoes-...