- The Graduate Center is a really special place
because it has 31 doctoral programs
and 15 master's programs under one roof.
We have tremendous potential for
interdisciplinary collaboration and world-class scholars.
- They really push you to have a broader focus
of how the work you're doing within academia
really can have broader wings within society.
- We have a very strong and solid public nation
and we're very proud of producing students
that are the real examples
of what a sound public education can be.
- What we do is consonant with the mission of the university
in making top level academics possible to people
of all backgrounds and all means.
- This is a story of enormous progress for a lot of people.
- Everywhere you turn there's a cultural event
and many of them take place
in The Graduate Center building itself.
- My training as a biographer
came from my career as a journalist.
- We have so many different centers
and committees and lectures that are going on
that if you're a student,
you can take advantage of all of those things.
Many of our faculty have strong links
with different New York institutions
and that also provides a way
for our students to get hands on experience.
- An articles, chapters, and books...
- You have an eclectic faculty
and exciting new ideas across a range of subjects
so there's a galaxy of opportunity
in terms of themes, disciplines,
subjects, modes of expression, it's all here.
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- I am an archeologist by training
and an architectural historian.
I've excavated and conducted field work
in places like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Italy.
I also look at how New Yorkers
appropriated and reused the architecture
of the ancient world to create Greece, Rome, and Egypt.
- My research focuses on many different aspects
of economic inequality, trends in earnings
and equality by gender and race and class
but I also work on perceptions of economic inequality.
- Most recently I've been working with GIS
and climate change.
I'm trying to understand the impact
of tidal flooding on economic values of homes.
- I'm a networking person.
My research interests include the traditional internet
and the emerging Wi-Fi, mobile sensor nets,
and IOT which is Internet of Things.
- My area of expertise focuses on
the sort of linguistic technologies
that we need to build speech technology
by which I mean things like speech recognition
and speech synthesis and products you may know of
like the Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa.
- My research interests are aimed at trying to understand
how the human brain processes sensory information
and how it selects out some of that information
so that we can pay attention to it in much more detail.
- I started out doing my dissertation
and my first book on garment workers in New York City
where I compare the Chinese and Latino garment workers.
- My research is in television drama right now.
I work on transnational television.
- Originally I was trained as an artist
and I started to work with computers very early
and then I started to work with big data,
focusing on the analysis and visualization
of large cultural data.
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- The faculty here are very willing and excited
to sort of help you do what it is
that you're interested in doing with your degree
and they have time to devote to you.
- There is a generosity here
that I experienced from the get go.
I have met so many amazing people.
Professors and students.
I like the diversity of the student body here.
I really like that melding of interest.
- Most of our law enforcement personnel...
- Our masters programs involve classes
that are shared with the doctoral programs
and taught by full time faculty members.
- They are coming into small, intimate classrooms
that are filled with masters and doctoral students.
- Although I'm not a doctoral student,
I get to engage with PHD students.
Professors don't distinguish me as a masters student.
We're all kind of having similar conversations together.
- You're not stuck in a small group
of other masters students, you're really in the mix
and so there's this kind of institutional culture
at The Graduate Center that was really inclusive.
- The environment is very motivating
to people who are ambitious
and hardworking and who have great plans for themselves.
- Through my classes, I have gained self confidence.
I had hidden treasures that I didn't know about.
- Also, The Graduate Center is affordable
in a way that's almost not comparable
to other terminal masters programs of any repute,
especially in the New York City area.
- Just come to The Graduate Center.
Take a chance, take a plunge.
This is the place to do it.
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