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Margaret Chin on The Thought Project - Episode 68 Oct 21, 2019

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Today’s guest is Professor Margaret Chin of Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She has been at the center of the recent Harvard race-conscious admissions case in which the court ruled in support of Harvard’s “whole person review,” allowing for race to be considered as one factor among many in undergraduate admissions. Chin, a Harvard graduate, testified in the case and also contributed to writing a declaration in support of the Coalition for a Diverse Harvard.

Nina Gray on The Thought Project - Episode 67 Oct 15, 2019

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This week’s guest, Annette "Nina" C. Gray, recently joined The Graduate Center as associate dean for the sciences and the new executive director of the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC). Gray earned her Ph.D. from Brown University, where she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellow, and completed her postdoctoral work at Brandeis University where she researched synaptic plasticity — the way neurons in the brain communicate with each other in response to new information. She discusses the fifth anniversary of the CUNY ASRC and her evolution from a research scientist to a university administrator shaping the development of future scientists.

Ashley Dawson on The Thought Project - Episode 66 Oct 03, 2019

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This week’s guest is Professor Ashley Dawson (GC/CSI, English). He currently works in the fields of environmental humanities and postcolonial ecocriticism. He is the author of two recent books: Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso, 2017) and Extinction: A Radical History (OR Books, 2016). He weighs in on the climate change debate, the impact of climate change in New York City, and the youth-led global movement that captured attention during U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting last month.

Charles Tien on The Thought Project - Episode 65 Sep 26, 2019

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Professor Charles Tien (GC/Hunter, Political Science) weighs in on the congressional impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s admitted efforts to secure from the Ukraine president an investigation of Vice President Joe Biden and his son for alleged corruption. A former congressional staffer, Tien studies American politics with a particular focus on U.S. Congress and the representation of women and minorities.

John Mollenkopf on The Thought Project - Episode 64 Sep 20, 2019

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This week’s guest is Distinguished Professor John Mollenkopf (Political Science and Sociology), who directs The Graduate Center’s Center for Urban Research. He also coordinates our interdisciplinary concentration in public policy and urban studies. He weighs in on the presidential election and the unusual number of mayors vying for the Democratic nomination.

Interim President James Muyskens on The Thought Project - Episode 63 Sep 05, 2019

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This week’s guest is James Muyskens, who has been serving as interim president of The Graduate Center since July. He is a distinguished educational leader with a commitment to public higher education as both a teacher and administrator. His recent appointment marks his return to The Graduate Center, where he taught philosophy at the start of his career and later served as a University Professor following his 12-year presidency at Queens College. Muyskens talks about his priorities for The Graduate Center and what inspired him to take on his new role.

Susan Opotow on The Thought Project - Episode 62 Sep 03, 2019

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This week’s guest is Professor Susan Opotow, a member of the faculty at both The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Opotow, along with several doctoral students and her co-editor Zachary Baron Shemtob, recently published New York After 9/11 (Fordham Press, 2018). The collection of essays and papers offers a detailed and interdisciplinary look at New York's ongoing recovery from the terrorist attacks. As we approach the 18th anniversary of the tragic event, Opotow shares what she and her collaborators learned about how 9/11 changed New York and New Yorkers.

Amber Scorah on The Thought Project - Episode 61 Aug 23, 2019

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Amber Scorah, a current CUNY BA student talks about her life and best selling memoir Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life(Viking, June 2019). Scorah shares a remarkable journey of leaving the Jehovah Witness faith while on mission in China. Leaving her faith as a third generation Jehovah Witness was fraught with a multitude of challenges. For beginners, severing her ties to the church, by default she ended her marriage too. Ironically, being in China gave Scorah the emotional space and physical distrance to be able to carve out a path to a remarkable new life. Enchanted with New York City, Scorah seeks a new beginning where she sustains a tragedy that would stagger the strongest among us. She is studying Psychology of Mind Control and Group Dynamics at Hunter College. She is a Thomas Smith Academic Fellow.

The Thought Project - Episode 60 - Interview with José Luis Jiménez Jun 17, 2019

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We continue our celebration of Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots with a conversation with José Luis Jiménez, a New York City public school principal and a Ph.D. student in the urban education program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He was recently selected for the Cahn Fellows Program for Distinguished Principals at Teachers College, Columbia University, a leadership program that seeks to improve urban education and places distinguished school administrators on a fast track to leadership positions in K-12. He is a steering committee member of the Proud Teacher Initiative, a network of teachers, principals, and school professionals supporting one another to take steps towards self-disclosing their LGBTQ identities.

The Thought Project - Episode 59 - Interview with The Graduate Center Librarians Jun 11, 2019

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This June marks not only Pride Month, but also the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the LGBTQ civil rights movement. To celebrate, The Thought Project podcast is hosting guests who share their pride-related stories. Today, we speak with three librarians from the Mina Rees Library at The Graduate Center, CUNY: Professor and Chief Librarian Polly Thistlethwaite, Associate Professor and Critical Pedagogy Librarian Emily Drabinski, and Assistant Professor and Head of Reference Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, who identify as queer and lesbian, individually and in their professional work.

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