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An oyster reef of adult eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica

Studying What Oysters Need to Thrive in Polluted Urban Waterways

November 11, 2020
STEM | Baruch College, College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
A new study looked at how water quality and other conditions in urban waterways affect oysters’ reproductive health. Read more ›

Who Says Physics Can’t Be Fun?

October 19, 2020
STEM | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
A new book from Prof. Charles Liu endeavors to make physics fun — while updating an old science book! Read more ›
A Bolivian woman with long braids is seated turned away from the camera while her child peers back around for a look, both wearing hats.

Abortion in Bolivia: An Open Secret

September 14, 2020
Society | College of Staten Island
A new book says that abortion in Bolivia is an "open secret," prohibited by law but ubiquitous and tacitly accepted. Read more ›

It’s Time to Put Energy in the Hands of Communities — Not Corporations

September 9, 2020
Society STEM | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
Professor Ashley Dawson's new book "People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons" is a sharp rebuke of the world’s reliance on fossil fuels and power monopolies. Read more ›

There’s a Better Way to Teach Autistic Students. Here’s How

August 27, 2020
Society STEM | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
It's time to focus on the strengths of students with autism, rather than their weaknesses, researchers say. Read more ›

Why Do Black and Brown Children with Autism Go Overlooked?

June 23, 2020
Society STEM | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
A new study looks at whether implicit or explicit racial bias plays a part in why autism spectrum disorder isn't always identified quickly in Black and Hispanic children Read more ›
Workers harvesting peaches, 1991. Photo by Doel Vázquez. Courtesy of Records of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY.

The U.S. Recruited 400,000 Puerto Rican Farmworkers. This Is Their Story

June 12, 2020
Society | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
Between 1947 and 1993, a U.S. government program recruited and transported workers from Puerto Rico to fill more than 400,000 farm jobs around the continental U.S. A new book tells their story. Read more ›
Graph showing how apparently random-looking quasicrystalline patterns emerge from sampling a wave at certain fixed intervals.

Uncovering the Mystery of the Quasicrystal

June 8, 2020
STEM | College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center
Quasicrystals are rare material solids — only seen once in nature. Now, new research is shedding light on the behavior of these mystery crystals. Read more ›

China Is Trying to Improve Its Global Image — and Using Hollywood to Do It

May 13, 2020
Arts Society | College of Staten Island
A new book examines China’s efforts to improve its global image through film, branding, news media, and promotion of Chinese language and culture — and how U.S. Hollywood execs are tapping into the Chinese film market. Read more ›
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