Ruth O’Brien, who earned her Ph.D. in political science at UCLA, joined the Graduate Center’s doctoral faculty in 1997 and, in 2004, founded the Writing Politics specialization in political science.

Faculty at the Graduate Center and throughout CUNY receive support for innovative work in AI, autonomous vehicle technology, smartphones, and wearable devices.

English students were celebrated during the Graduate Center's 2025 Commencement ceremony at David Geffen Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on June 10, 2025.

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 ...

Professor Heba Gowayed (GC/Hunter, Sociology), who won acclaim for her first book on Syrian refugees, has been awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to write a second book on the costs of borders to ...

Alumna Hyein Lee, the chief operating officer of TheDream.US, has a story to tell about college-educated undocumented immigrants based on the vast data she has collected.

The CUNY Graduate Center has been awarded a $1 million grant by Google.org for a three-year initiative led by its Teaching and Learning Center to help CUNY faculty and graduate student instructors ...

Selected Productions: City University Television (CUNY-TV) City Cinemathèque CANAPÉ NUEVA YORK Awards: Emmy award for "Nueva York", 2009 City Council of New York Citation for CANAPÉ, 2007. Chevalier ...

The programs are the first of their kind in the New York metropolitan area and prepare scholars and leaders to address urgent issues of race and ethnicity and advance social justice.

Distinguished Professor Andrea Alù and his team defy assumptions to make breakthroughs in optics, acoustics, and wave physics.

Keena Lipsitz is a Professor of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Competitive Elections and the American Voter (University of Pennsylvania, 2011) ...

Heba Gowayed's research is global and comparative, centering on the lives of people who migrate across borders and the unequal and often violent institutions they face.