Commons 2.7.5I’ve just released version 2.7.5 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes minor updates for plugins and themes. For complete details, visit the 2.7.5 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for June 23, 2026The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.7.6 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 23, […]

Dissertations and Theses Year-in-Review, 2025–26 Art by Fernando Martí (Justseeds) Today is Commencement Day at the Graduate Center, and we are again marking the occasion by […]

+May26 Mahdi Loodaricheh Wins Second Place in GC Poster CompetitionCongratulations to CS PhD student and DAIR member Mahdi Arab Loodaricheh, who won second place in the poster competition at The Graduate […]

Co-founder of the JSPS US & Canada Alumni Association Northeast Chapter Together with Piers Coleman (Rutgers University), I’ve co-founded […]

Welcome, Rachel Finn – Adjunct Reference Librarian (Dissertation Office) The Mina Rees library is pleased to introduce Rachel Finn, who has recently joined the Dissertation Office as an adjunct reference […]

Open Education Resources (OER) and the War on AI This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2026 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

Commons 2.7.4I’ve just released version 2.7.4 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major-update release for plugins and themes. The […]

Announcing the new Open Knowledge at the Mina Rees Library website! The Open Knowledge Fellowship team is excited to announce that there is a new website for all things “Open” at the Mina Rees Library. We’ […]

Finding OER for Teaching Chemistry Laboratory Courses: The Challenges and the Way Out This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2026 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

+May26 Molecular Arms Race Classifier work accepted to Digital DiscoveryThis paper co-led by Chemistry PhD student Favor Achimba and CS PhD student Arezoo Bybordi has been accepted to Digital Discovery! This […]

Open RA positionsMay 2026 : Hunter College Masters students interested in conducting research in the DAIR Lab for academic/thesis credit should: Submit […]

Selected for the CRA Emerging Leaders Cohort I’m honored to have been selected for the 2026 CRA Emerging Leaders Cohort—a program organized by the Computing Research Association that b […]

Commons 2.7.3I’ve just released version 2.7.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes: Fixed bug that caused […]

Anthropology for Everyone This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2026 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

+Apr 26 DAIR members present at HC HUMANities x Tech Anita Raja and Nan Jia joined Music Professor Poundie Burstein to explore what happens when machine learning models trained on the music of J […]

Major plugin and theme updates for May 26, 2026The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.7.4 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for May 26, 2026: Akismet […]

Contributing to the World of OER This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2026 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]

Important Updates from the Mina Rees Library | May 2026 Mina Rees Library Spring Hours 2026 | Closed on Memorial Day (5/25)  Monday-Friday: 9am-10pm Saturday: 10am-8pm* Sunday: 12pm-8pm* View […]

Open Education and the Future of Knowledge Sharing This piece is part of a series by participants in the Winter 2026 Open Knowledge Fellowship, coordinated by the Mina Rees Library. Fellows […]