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You are cordially invited to a virtual screening of the film Defying My Disability, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Ramzi Maqdisi.
Spencer Caplan, a computational linguist and psycholinguist, looks at questions intersecting linguistics, computation, and cognition with a particular focus on language acquisition and language ...
Is the humanities degree going the way of the dodo bird? An article in The New Yorker, “ The End of the English Major,” posits as a eulogy for the bustling humanities programs of yesteryear, citing ...
Graduate Center experts weigh in on how professors can reap the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of ChatGPT.
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 ...
In her new book, “One Quarter of the Nation,” Professor Nancy Foner examines the ways that immigrants have shaped U.S. culture and society.
Kai Bird, executive director of the Graduate Center’s Leon Levy Center for Biography, announced the award of five resident Biography fellows for 2024-2025, including the sixth Leon Levy/Alfred P.
Professor Christopher Loperena is the author of “The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras.” Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people whose presence in Honduras ...
Professor David Lohman, author of “The Lives of Butterflies,” explains why concern for the monarch butterfly obscures a bigger threat.
Today, in a long-anticipated ruling, the Supreme revoked the constitutional right to an abortion, overturning Roe v. Wade. Graduate Center scholars and activists weighed in on what the decision in ...
A new study finds that temperature spikes are driving rates of violent crimes in American cities.
Conducted at the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the study used motion-activated cameras to observe 77 wild Asian elephants who approached and decided whether to attempt opening ...