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By: Carmela Muzio Dormani

Salsa is rhythm and melody, represents history and evolution, and encourages both individual expression and interpersonal connection. In the 1960s and 70s salsa music was, “the un […]

By: Yoshiko Oka

I was selected as one of the recipients of the Provost’s Digital Innovation Training Grant for the 2018-2019 academic year, which enabled me to attend the “Python and Machine Learning Boo […]

Training Course: Data Science with Python Pandas 101

by: Yu-Hsuan Liu

I recommend that people who want to improve their Python skills further and are interested in data science could take this class. After […]

Sofia Sedergren is an MA student in Political Science at The Graduate Center. Her focus is on political theory and comparative politics, and her research examines right-wing party rhetoric in Europe and their […]

This is a guest post by Ayşenur Benevento, a Ph.D candidate in the Human Development program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and adjunct lecturer in College of Staten Island. Her resea […]

This is a guest post by Manuel C. Co Jr., an informatician and Hunter College adjunct faculty, about his experience at the January 2018 Digital Research Institute.

I am fortunate to have been accepted to the […]

By Tom Ribitzky
Until the end of May, it would have been nearly impossible to single out Trump’s most ludicrous tweet.  Each seems to eclipse the previous one in its deranged, rabble-rousing, and misleading co […]

By Tom Ribitzky
What I enjoy most about teaching Dostoevsky is seeing how many students catch on to his humor.  Most of them are horrified; some even confess in class that he gives them nightmares.  But there a […]

By Tom Ribitzky
On the night before teaching my first class on Macbeth, Trump ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Syria.  The results, even though they constitute a horrific reality, seem to […]

By Tom Ribitzky
After Trump’s recent address to Congress, Dan Rather wrote, “Everyone who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, sil […]

By Tom Ribitzky
“Love Trumps Hate” is a common refrain at every anti-Trump protest I go to.  While the message of inclusivity is easy enough to get behind (even CNN’s Van Jones is spearheading a #LoveArmy to pro […]

By Tom Ribitzky
The word that inaugurates one of the foundational texts of Western civilization is “Rage.”  In The Iliad, Homer invokes the Muse not to sing about Achilles’ rage, but to sing the rage itself […]