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Student Spotlight: Javier Otero Peña Wants to 'Make Cities More Just and Livable'


 
Student Spotlight: Javier Otero Peña Wants to ‘Make Cities More Just and Livable’
Javier Otero Peña (Photo courtesy of Peña)
In his first published paper, Ph.D. student
Javier Otero Peña (Psychology)
takes a step toward his goal of understanding why people do or do not use public spaces, and what those spaces mean to them.
“What drove me to this field, and to a Ph.D. in environmental psychology, is a desire to make cities more just and livable,” Peña said.
Peña was first author on the new paper, which examines park use in low-income neighborhoods around New York City. The study appears in ....

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Learning to 'Speak Lemur': Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species


 
Learning to ‘Speak Lemur’: Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species
Carly Batist and a black-and-white ruffed lemur (Photos courtesy of Batist)
By Lida Tunesi
Ph.D. candidate
Carly Batist (Anthropology (Biological)) received a 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to research the vocalizations of black-and-white ruffed lemurs in Madagascar. 
Or, as she told The Graduate Center in an interview, “I’m essentially trying to speak lemur.”
With her adviser Professor
Andrea Baden (GC/Hunter, Anthropology, Biology) Batist investigates how the lemurs’ calls facilitate their social and reproductive strategies. Some of this work takes place at the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar, which Graduate Center alumna Patricia Chapple Wright (Ph.D. ’85) helped establish in 2002. ....

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Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, 'Greening' Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Students and Professors to Read About on Earth Day


 
Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Students and Professors to Read About on Earth Day
Lemurs and Leaf Bugs, ‘Greening’ Neighborhoods and Green Energy: 11 Inspiring Graduate Center Studen
Even in this difficult last year, Graduate Center professors and students have been hard at work, researching the effects of climate change and investigating ways to protect animals and the environment: 
 
3. Orchid researcher
Simon Verlynde, a Ph.D. student in the Plant Sciences subprogram of The Graduate Center’s Biology program, has helped to asses the extinction risk of the flowers in their native habitats and can tell you how to make your orchid re-bloom. ....

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In Memoriam: Frances Degen Horowitz, President of The Graduate Center from 1991 to 2005


 
In Memoriam: Frances Degen Horowitz, President of The Graduate Center from 1991 to 2005
Frances Degen Horowitz
The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Past President and Professor Emerita
Frances Degen Horowitz, who died on March 15 at age 88. A prominent child psychologist, Horowitz served as The Graduate Center’s president from 1991 to 2005 and remained a member of the faculty until her retirement in 2010. She is widely admired for having the conviction and determination to move The Graduate Center from its original space in an office building on 42
nd Street to its current location in the landmark former home of the B. Altman & Company department store at 34 ....

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