Parsing the English Language
Professor Christina Tortora (College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center, CUNY) has written a “DIY manual” for learning syntax and grammar. Understanding Sentence Structure appears as part of the...
View ArticleResearch in Real Time: Poetry at the College of Staten Island
The College of Staten Island figured prominently in a 2017 New York Times story headlined, “How CUNY Became Poetry U.” The school’s “three amazing poets” — as English Department chairman Professor Lee...
View ArticleTwitter 101 for Libraries, Museums, and More
With just 280 characters (140 at the start), Twitter has shifted the way information spreads. Since it was founded in 2006, the social media platform has risen to become a significant branding and...
View ArticleWhy Girls Love Horses
Jean Halley grew up in Wyoming with a violent, alcoholic father. She survived that difficult childhood by “being on horses and with horses, reading horses, dreaming horses, playing horses.”...
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The 1619 Project: A Poem Reveals Hidden History
The first Africans brought as slaves to British North America arrived 400 years ago. The New York Times is marking that terrible moment in history with The 1619 Project, a collection of essays and...
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Extreme Cities Reveals How Cities May Fare in a Time of Climate Chaos
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, by Professor Ashley Dawson (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY), reveals the stark future the...
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Verifying Data with a Better Mapper
Data sets often come in a “cloud” of points, says CUNY Baccalaureate student Alisa Leshchenko. The algorithm known as Mapper helps extract the shape of the data from this cloud. But Mapper isn’t...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of the Universe Explained — in 30 Seconds!
How old is the universe? What’s a black hole? Why do planets spin? A new book strives to answer those questions and many others with short, readable explanations that can be absorbed in a matter of...
View Article‘Imagining Queer Methods’ Tackles New Ways to Do Queer Theory
What methods should be used to study an interdisciplinary field that defies conventional categories, both in academia and in terms of the human experience? Imagining Queer Methods, co-edited by...
View ArticleWhere Do Wikipedia’s Editors Live? A Geographical Analysis
Anyone can edit or create a Wikipedia entry. But “just because anyone can edit, doesn’t mean that everyone does,” Professor Michael Mandiberg (College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center) writes in...
View Article‘Poor Queer Studies’: Away from Elitism, Toward Anti-Racist Education
For more than 10 years, Professor Matt Brim has taught courses on queer studies at the College of Staten Island. There, he’s seen firsthand the struggles his students face as they navigate higher...
View ArticleWe Could Learn a Thing Or Two About Social Distancing from Mole-Rats
African naked mole-rats are terrible at social distancing. They like to live in close quarters in stuffy underground colonies. In fact, while humans are self-isolating for the sake of health, a study...
View ArticleChina Is Trying to Improve Its Global Image — and Using Hollywood to Do It
A new book, Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds, examines China’s efforts to improve its global image through film, branding, news media, and promotion of...
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Uncovering the Mystery of the Quasicrystal
Some solids, like table salt, are crystalline. This means they’re made of a regularly repeating pattern of atoms. Others, like glass, are amorphous, meaning their atoms are arranged at random. In the...
View ArticleThe US Recruited 400,000 Puerto Rican Farmworkers. This Is Their Story
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, Colonial Migrants at the...
View ArticleWhy Do Black and Brown Children with Autism Go Overlooked?
Black and Hispanic children are often overlooked when it comes to autism spectrum disorder. Because they are more likely to be diagnosed with the disorder later in life, they usually miss out on...
View ArticleThere’s a Better Way to Teach Autistic Students. Here’s How
By LIDA TUNESI A lot of the research on autistic students focuses on the challenges they face, authors of a new paper say. This needs to shift, because what would actually help students find success...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Put Energy in the Hands of Communities — Not Corporations
By CHAR ADAMS “The great task of our times is to stop all new fossil fuel infrastructures. All of our other efforts to fight climate change will be useless if the world does not transition away from...
View ArticleAbortion in Bolivia: An Open Secret
By BETH HARPAZ Abortion in Bolivia is prohibited except in cases of rape, incest, and saving the mother’s life. But even with those allowances, the procedure is rarely greenlighted. Just 126 abortions...
View ArticleWho Says Physics Can’t Be Fun?
By BETH HARPAZ Updating a science book after a decade is a challenge, especially in an era of technological change and when our understanding of everything from climate change to cosmology is growing....
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