Joseph W. Dauben, Executive Officer of the Liberal Studies Program, and member of Lehman College's and the Graduate Center's History faculty, has just been named Distinguished Professor by the CUNY Board of Trustees.  He is one of the world's leading scholars in the history of mathematics. more

Current Student Profile:
Joel Rogers

 Last spring, MALS student Joel Rogers was sitting in a Brooklyn diner lamenting the demands of a particularly arduous Philosophy of Science exam. His friend and now business partner Jeff Gross wondered aloud whether he might not have more fun working on one of the many entrepreneurial projects that they had been knocking around for a long time. Jeff had become interested in revisiting idea for a board game that he called "Litigation,” which would lampoon the American penchant for lawsuits. “So Sue Me!” was born. more

MALS graduate Karen McKinnon’s first book Narcissus Ascending

The antagonist in Narcissus Ascending, Callie is based on people in Karen McKinnon’s own life and Anne Sexton, although she describes Callie as “Anne Sexton with her art.”  more

NEWS
We would like to thank the following recent contributors to the Liberal Studies Program:

Adriana Bennett-Bernstein

Janet Brof

Zohra Lampert

Michael Newton

Alice Harrison

Sandra Waldman

Edwin Weber

Their contributions  demonstrate the importance of the MALS program and its unique place at the Graduate Center.