Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, CUNY's leading expert on the spread of the coronavirus, talks about the latest: What the last two weeks tells us about the next two and beyond. Why social distancing is so critical right now, how some Asian countries have used it to stop the virus and what we can learn from them. What to make of stories about treatments and vaccines. And more.

CUNY Podcasts

Critical Condition: NYC at the Tipping Point

In her latest collection of poems, Donna Masini, a professor of English at Hunter College, moves back and forth in time–and human experience–as she copes with her younger sister’s death and celebrates life through the communal act of movie-watching. She talks with Joe Tirella about 4:30 Movie, which is now out in paperback.  

A Poetic Take on Life, Death and the Movies

Matthew Goodman's "The City Game" tells the dramatic and heart-wrenching story of the 1950 City College basketball team: a moment of glory that collapsed in scandal and forever changed college basketball.

CCNY’s Brief Shining Moment of Glory

Dr. Bruce Y. Lee of the CUNY School of Public Health offers a frank assessment of the state of the emerging pandemic – and some good advice. (March 12, 2020)

Coronavirus: What to Know, What to Do, What to Expect

Dipika Shrestha and Anuz Thapa left successful media careers in Nepal and came to New York. They've both since earned graduate degrees at CUNY, and for the past two years they've hosted a weekly podcast to help other immigrants navigate life in a new land and make the jump from "survival jobs" to professional careers.

Adventures in America (and Podcasting)

CUNY School of Public Health Dean Ayman El-Mohandes talks about the challenges of tracking the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

What We Know — and Don’t Know — About the Coronavirus

One of the most influential groups of the radical '60s was the Young Lords, an organization of poor and working class Puerto Ricans that began as a street gang and rose to confront the racism of institutions from government to religion. Johanna Fernandez, a professor of history at Baruch College, traces their roots and tells the story of their rise and fall in The Young Lords: A Radical History.

The Rise and Fall of The Young Lords

The 1940 discovery of a radioactive version of carbon — the element that is the basis for all life — led to the technique of carbon dating that transformed virtually every field of science. Carbon-14 has been used to study everything from Stone Age cultures to modern elephant poaching. How it all happened is the […]

The Tale of Carbon-14

The 1940 discovery of a radioactive isotope of carbon, the basis of all life, transformed virtually every field of science. Carbon-14 has been used to study everything from Stone Age cultures to modern elephant poaching. How it all happened is the story John Marra, an environmental scientist at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, […]

A conversation about the causes and consequences of growing rates of depression and anxiety among students, and how CUNY is taking on the issue. Featuring Nicholas Freudenberg of the School of Public Health and Health Policy, Wendy Paulino of the Lehman College counseling center and Lehman student Azeez Amini.

How Are You Really? CUNY Confronts Student Mental Health

Life have you stressed out? Weary of the endless news cycle? City College philosophy professor has an idea--one that goes back 18 centuries. He's a leader of a modern movement that's popularizing the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism. 

The Modern Stoic

City College/Macaulay student Emilia Decaudin, the first openly transgender member of the New York State Democratic Committee, talks about how she got the state party to change the gender language of its rules. And Jennifer Choi of the News Integrity Initiative at the Newmark School of Journalism discusses a project to advance newsroom diversity and improve coverage of marginalized communities.

Expanding Diversity on 2 Fronts

CUNY political scientist Corey Robin's "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" explores the puzzle of Clarence Thomas: How did a young black nationalist grow up to be the most extreme right-wing justice on the Supreme Court--and without abandoning the core ideas that once animated him as a radical leftist?

Deciphering ‘The Enigma of Clarence Thomas’

Less than half the students who start at America's public colleges make it to graduation. But CUNY's pioneering student success programs--ASAP, CUNY Start and others--are a model for what can be done to keep students in school and on track. So says David Kirp, a prominent education policy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, whose new book, "The College Dropout Scandal," includes an uplifting and prescriptive chapter about CUNY's programs.

How CUNY is Bucking America’s ‘College Dropout Scandal’

The 2020 Census could miss millions of immigrants and others who are historically hard to count, affecting everything from seats in Congress to federal funds for education.  That's why officials and groups from New York to California are using CUNY's interactive Census mapping tool to focus their efforts on neighborhoods that will be the hardest to count. Mapping guru Steven Romalewski of the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center explains how it works and the difference it could make.

Getting Up for the Count

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