Inside The Graduate Center: A Dissertation Showcase May 13, 2019 – 6:30 pm, Elebash Recital Hall Information for Potential Student Participants Application Deadline – March 15, 2019 Application Form In its second year after a successful showcase last spring, this event gives GC doctoral students the opportunity to share the impact and importance of their dissertations with the public. Those who are defending this spring or who have already defended their dissertations in the 2018-2019 academic year are eligible to apply. This event is a valuable opportunity for students to hone their public presentation skills and frame their research for …
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New Course: Mediating Race: Technology, Performance, Politics, and Aesthetics in Popular Culture.
Cathy Davison is teaching with Prof Racquel Gates, “Mediating Race: Technology, Performance, Politics, and Aesthetics in Popular Culture.” Although it has an English program number on CUNY First, it’s not on the English Dept website or program grid and I hear students are confused. We’re trying to get out the word through other means. Here’s the link to the syllabus: https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2018/11/16/mediating-race-evolving-syllabus Anyone having a difficult time registering on CUNY First, can contact Cathy Davidson, directly, for help (cdavidson@gc.cuny.edu). This is a great class for anyone who is teaching (especially college and secondary school) or plans to teach. This is a …
#EESpublishes: SHRIMP U–Pb zircon evidence for age, provenance, and tectonic history of early Paleozoic Ganderian rocks, east-central Maine, USA
New first authored paper by Prof Allan Ludman in the journal of Atlantic Geology
New book edited by Prof Setha Low: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City
Professor Setha Low has edited a new book entitled The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City. The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an ‘engaged’ approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatization, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban …
2018 Outstanding Book in Policing Award
The American Society of Criminology (ASC) and Chair of the Division of Policing named Drs. Provine, Varsanyi, Lewis, and Decker’s the “2018 Outstanding Book in Policing Award” winner for Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines. The Outstanding Book in Policing Award recognizes a monograph (not a textbook, anthology, or edited volume) published in the three calendar years preceding the year in which the award is made. The award honors a text that deserves recognition due to its significant empirical, theoretical, or policy-relevant contributions to the field. The ward will be presented at this year’s ASC …
#EESpublishes: Proff Peter Groffman on Nitrogen oligotrophication in northern hardwood forests
Professor Peter Groffman of ASRC, Brooklyn College, and EES has first-authored a paper in Biogeochemistry entitled “ Nitrogen oligotrophication in northern hardwood forests”. Abstract: While much research over the past 30 years has focused on the deleterious effects of excess N on forests and associated aquatic ecosystems, recent declines in atmospheric N deposition and unexplained declines in N export from these ecosystems have raised new concerns about N oligotrophication, limitations of forest productivity, and the capacity for forests to respond dynamically to disturbance and environmental change. Here we show multiple data streams from long-term ecological research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest …
EES prof Dr. Nazrul Khandaker honored with the GSA’s Distinguished Service Award for 2018
The Council of the Geological Society of America named EES professor, Dr. Nazrul Khandaker, as one of the GSA’s Distinguished Service Award recipients for 2018. GSA’s Distinguished Service Award was established by the GSA Council to acknowledge exceptional service to the Society. The award will be presented at the Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony, on Sunday, 4 November, during the 2018 GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. Professor Khandaker has been with the GSA since 1986 and served in various capacities including chair of the Minorities and Women in the Geosciences Committee, International Interdisciplinary Interest Group, member-at-large: GSA Education Division, and coordinator: First-Joint International …
#EESPublishes: EES teams up with City agencies to find long term affordable solution to urban garden soil pollution
PhD student Sara Perl Egendorf and research Advisor Professor Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng from the Brooklyn College Urban Soils Lab, the New York City Urban Soils Institute and the CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences were lead authors of an article just published in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning, along with Dr. Peter Groffman from Brooklyn College and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, PhD candidate Anna Paltseva, post-doctoral researcher Maha Deeb, undergraduate student Victor Flores, Dr. Daniel Walsh from the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation, and Dr. Howard Mielke from Tulane University . Egendorf and Cheng were also co-authors of a related article just published in the Journal of Environmental …
May 21-31: Soil Summer School in Moscow
Summer School for students and faculty, researchers in Moscow, Late May 2018. http://3mugis.org/. 3-MUGIS summer school is an annual event, which addresses relevant contemporary environmental consequences of urbanization and sustainable urban development. The summer school aims to provide a solid background and practical skills training in addressing impacts of urbanization through the monitoring and assessment of urban soils, design and maintenance of urban green infrastructure, and projects of sustainable urban development. The summer school will be hosted in Moscow and will include 7 days of lectures, seminars, lab and field practical, art and design master classes as well as a …
#EESPublishes: Prof Peter Groffman on Crab Burrowing and Surface Litter Limits in Temperate Salt Marshes
EES, ASRC, and Brooklyn College Professor Peter Groffman co-authored an article in the journal Ecosystems entitled Crab Burrowing Limits Surface Litter Accumulation in a Temperate Salt Marsh: Implications for Ecosystem Functioning and Connectivity. Abstract: Burial of aboveground plant litter by animals reduces the amount available for surface transport and places it into a different environment, affecting decomposition rates and fluxes of organic matter to adjacent ecosystems. Here we show that in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh the burrowing crab Neohelice granulata buries aboveground plant litter at rates (0.5–8 g m−2 day−1) comparable to those of litter production (3 g m−2 day−1). Buried litter has a low probability (0.6%) of …
