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 ...

Amid scenes of wildfires, floods, severe storms, and increasingly extreme weather, the evidence is clear that climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. Less clear are the impacts that climate ...

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.

Individual innovation is considered one sign of intelligence within species, and elephants are among the animals that researchers have long taken an interest in because of their sophisticated approach ...

As was widely feared or hoped might happen, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, reversing almost 50 years of a constitutional right to abortion. The major driver of attitudes on abortion ...

Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people whose presence in Honduras predates the country’s independence, are often perceived as non-native inhabitants of the land they call home. That land happens to be ...

Nancy Foner and her book “One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America” By 2020 an unprecedented 45 million immigrants were living in the U.S., the largest number since ...

Nestled in the East River between Queens and East Harlem, Ward’s Island has long been a place of exile for some of society’s most vulnerable people. Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the ...

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 ...

Daisy Cocco De Filippis was an immigrant mother of three young children when she came to the Graduate Center to study Spanish literature. Suri Duitch was working full time for CUNY and had two ...

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 ...