When Joel P. Christensen stepped into his role as CUNY Graduate Center provost last month, he brought with him a deep commitment to public higher education and to knowledge as a public good. A ...

Individuals living in urban cities are experiencing the combined effect of increasing temperatures and poor air quality, often referred to as the urban heat dome. Pregnant mothers and their unborn ...

The Graduate Center has appointed Professors Emeriti Harriet Goodman and Manfred Philipp as its new co-ombudspersons. The Graduate Center’s Ombuds Office provides confidential, impartial support to ...

FloodNet NYC, a partnership between CUNY, NYU, and New York City, uses low-cost sensors to monitor water levels in flood-prone areas of New York City. (Photos courtesy of Ricardo Toledo-Crow) An ...

The CUNY Graduate Center announced today that, following a national search, it has appointed Joel P. Christensen, a classics scholar and champion of liberal arts education, as its provost and senior ...

Professors Martin D. Ruck (left) and Van Tran (right) with 2025 BRES faculty and student fellows: from left: Professor Raj Korpan, Professor Felicia Arriaga, Professor Simone Martin-Howard, Shu Hao ...

The CUNY Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus Richard Alba (Sociology, Africana Studies), a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how ...

Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser Awards winners: (top row, left to right) Ana Gantman, Qiushi Guo, and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides, (bottom row, left to right) Matthew Lindauer, Sarah Ita Levitan, ...

Hyein Lee (Ph.D. ’24, Sociology) has a straightforward message about the reach and relevance of U.S. immigration policy. “It is about all of us,” she said at an immigration policy panel discussion at ...

Known for its two-note call and questionable parenting skills, the cuckoo bird has earned a unique place in Western culture. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to modern films, the cuckoo bird has ...

Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind (Oxford University Press, 2011). Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is “boring,” said the founding father of the American ...

Celeste Escobar was an ESL teacher in her home country of Paraguay in 2012 when she had an epiphany. “I suddenly realized I didn’t want to make a hegemonic language stronger,” she said, “but instead ...