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Dominican Population in NYC Falls 13% Since 2021, CUNY Study Finds

The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center reports that more Dominicans are ...
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Generous Gift to the CUNY Graduate Center Endows New Biography Fellowship

A gift of over $200,000 to the CUNY Graduate Center from the family and friends of late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Martin J. Sherwin will endow an important new fellowship at the school’s ...
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Imported Solar Panels Save U.S. Lives and Cut Billions in Climate Costs, Study Finds

As debates over clean energy supply chains intensify, new research led by Professor Gang He (GC/Baruch College, Earth and Environmental Sciences/Public Affairs) demonstrates that imported solar panels ...
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Building Bridges Through Public Scholarship

Prithi Kanakamedala, professor of history at Bronx Community College and faculty member in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Liberal Studies master’s program, joins The Thought Project to explore the ...
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How the Leon Levy Fellowship Became a Launchpad for Acclaimed Biographies

Biographies published by the 2020-2021 Leon Levy Center for Biography fellows. Five years ago, when Francesca Wade began what she termed a “completely transformative” fellowship at the CUNY Graduate ...
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NSF Supports Study of How Isolation and Dopamine Impact the Brain

Scientists know that social isolation can alter brain structure and lead to the breakdown of myelin, the fatty coating that insulates nerve fibers in the brain. But they don’t yet know exactly how or ...
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Urban Heat Dome May Be Programming Behavioral Problems in Children Before Birth

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 ...
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Announcing the CUNY Winners of the 2025 Google Cybersecurity Grants

Google cybersecurity research team members: Top row (from left): Jianing Qi, Rivka Levitan, Houssein Manshaei, Yingli Tian; Second row (from left): Anita Raja, Paneer Santhalingam, Ping Ji, Tushar ...
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CUNY Graduate Center Names Joel P. Christensen as Provost

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 ...
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Announcing 38 CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Fellows

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 ...
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CUNY Graduate Center Achieves Carnegie R1 Status for High Research Activity

The CUNY Graduate Center cemented its position in the highest rank of research universities in the U.S. by earning a renewed R1 designation in the latest Carnegie Classification of Institutions of ...