From a groundbreaking role as environmental justice coordinator to measuring the effects of climate change on Adirondack lakes, Graduate Center scholars are leading the drive to protect our planet.  Katera Moore Alumna Katera Moore ( Ph.D. '14, Earth and Environmental Sciences ) became Delaware's first environmental justice coordinator . Moore will work closely with underserved communities, who, she says, are at higher risk from environmental pollution and climate change. (Credit: Getty Images) Professors Ana Carnaval (GC/City College, Biology ) and (GC/Queens, Earth and Environmental Sciences ) detail the unprecedented rate at which people are altering the Amazon and suggest several policy solutions.

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This spring, Graduate Center doctoral candidates won several prestigious fellowships, ranging from $25,000 to $50,000, to support their dissertation research and writing. The fellowships include two from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), two from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and one from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The fellowships are highly competitive and to merit them, candidates must demonstrate the excellence and importance of their research projects.

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This spring, the Graduate Center's Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences program honored Susan Nittrouer with its Distinguished Alumni Award. The developmental psycholinguist has devoted her long career to understanding how children learn language. 'I'm honored,' said Nittrouer, a professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences at the University of Florida, and director of the school's Hearing Research Center. 'If I've been successful at all, it's a tribute to the program I came out of.' Nittrouer graduated with a Ph.

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From the first woman of Asian descent to join the piano faculty at Juilliard, to a professor whose experience in Japan helped shape her work on maternal mental health, we are celebrating our scholars during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.   Soyeon Kate Lee (Photo credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco) Soyeon Kate Lee (D.M.A. '18, Music ) became the first woman of Asian descent to join the piano faculty at the Juilliard School . She said the appointment is both a dream come true and a win for representation.

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For students interested in securing postdoctoral fellowships, Cody Nager (Ph.D. '23, History ) offers this advice: 'Conceive of your research topic and its potential relevance as broadly as possible.' He adds, 'You're qualified for a lot more than you think.' That optimistic approach panned out well for Nager, who recently landed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University's Hoover History Lab, part of the Hoover Institution. Nager shared more about the fellowship, what helped him qualify for it, his ambitions, and his advice for current Ph.

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