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 ...

ChatGPT is the talk of the ivory tower. The AI language generator writes text that sounds uncannily human, including college-level essays. It also solves math problems; develops computer code; and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Philip Yanos and his new book, “Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward’s Island” Nestled in the East River between Queens and East Harlem, Ward’s Island has long been a place of ...

GC Stories; Student News; June 26, 2025 Three Graduate Center Students Win Fulbright Fellowships for Research Abroad. Madison Schindele, Wesley Doucette, and Cortney Berg, who garnered the prestigious ...

When Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (English, Data Analysis and Visualization, Digital Humanities, American Studies) came to the CUNY Graduate Center in 2014, she brought with her a lofty ...

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce the students whose photographs were chosen for its 2023 Images of Research exhibition. The winning images, selected for their visual appeal and success at ...

A newly awarded seed grant from the Mellon Foundation will pilot the first university-convened climate assembly in the U.S. Dubbed the CUNY Climate Assembly Project (CCAP), the effort will bring ...

Romance in the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is usually confined to books, but last Sunday, it spilled into the stacks as recently engaged first year-Ph.D. students Michelle Coleman (Urban ...

The Astrophysics master’s program at the Graduate Center offers students of all backgrounds an exciting route to doctoral study in astronomy and physics and to STEM careers.. Join us for a virtual ...