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[SUM @sum_research]

Goodbye to @sum_research: After 678 stories, 323,000 page views, 5,300 tweets, 3 million Twitter impressions, 1,000 Facebook posts, 12 podcasts, 33 newsletters, & 12 videos, SUM is going on hiatus. Final newsletter: https://t.co/qNISSEgfhi

[Baruch Weissman @Baruch_Weissman]

Huge congratulations to @Baruch_Weissman
Professor @JFernandez693 for winning @The_OAH's highly prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for her brilliant @UNC_Press book "The Young Lords: A Radical History." @BaruchCollege @CUNY @HistoryBaruch

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

Special thanks to Beth Harpaz (@literarydj), Char Adams (@CiCiAdams_), Amanda Wicks (@wickswrites), and Lida Tunesi – the writers and editors of @sum_research for the last three years

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

We are sad to share that @sum_research is going on hiatus. Please join us in paying tribute to SUM’s impact on @CUNY and on hundreds of thousands of readers and followers who found new ideas and inspiration in the scholarship that SUM shared https://t.co/liULpqFGjp

[SUM @sum_research]

@valderie @literarydj @Baruch_Weissman One of our faves.

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@CiCiAdams_ @literarydj @CUNY Backatcha @CiCiAdams_. The year with you ridin' shotgun over here was so much fun and took the website to unimaginable new heights.

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@katinalynn @emilyraboteau We've read hundreds of books and research papers here at SUM in the last 2 1/2 years. Gotta say: This one stands out. It's extraordinary. Anybody out there wants to be a writer with a capital W, read this and aspire to be this good.

[SUM @sum_research]

A book on part-time international students working remotely toward doctorates seemed like a niche topic. But the pandemic's normalization of virtual learning means many of its takeaways are now mainstream. Book co-edited by @msavva2015 (@LaGuardiaCC)
https://t.co/iTPWDAFwfA

[SUM @sum_research]

Even when played and taught on Zoom, improv games can improve skills like communication, leadership, and team-building. @BaruchCollege Professor @DonWaisanen explains in a new @sunypress book, "Improv for Democracy" https://t.co/ZBk0C8Drxj

[SUM @sum_research]

When the pandemic peaked in NYC a year ago, the city’s “soundtrack was dominated by two remarkable strains of music: birdsong and sirens," writes @CityCollegeNY Professor @emilyraboteau in an @Orion_Magazine essay about the bird murals of Upper Manhattan https://t.co/cwDXNtFq4x

[The City University of New York @CUNY]

In her new book, "Shades of Black," @GC_CUNY Professor Nathalie Etoke confronts the paradoxes of race and identity faced by every Black person. She says that identity "is a living experience and an ever-evolving process." https://t.co/Y4TcDvzp10

[AAARI-CUNY @aaaricuny]

missed today's lecture by Araceli Tinajero on her recently translated book, "A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan"? Video now available online. Prof. Tinajero speaks with Koichi Hagimoto, and conversation moderated by Zelideth Maria Rivas. https://t.co/WKmeyr0HYE

[The Graduate Center @GC_CUNY]

We are very excited to announce that The 8th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, hosted by the Institute for Language Education in Transcultural Context (@CUNYILETC) will take place virtually at @GC_CUNY May 13-15. Details: https://t.co/AXdx3vvJQA

[SUM @sum_research]

(3/3) Raboteau, an award-winning writer & climate activist, teaches in the @CityCollegeNY MFA creative writing program. She is the 2020-21 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in Humanities & the Arts and author of “The Professor’s Daughter” & “Searching for Zion" https://t.co/4n39iTyEVS

[SUM @sum_research]

(1/3) An @Orion_Magazine essay by @CityCollegeNY Prof @emilyraboteau starts out as a tribute to the bird murals of Harlem & Washington Heights but ends up as a meditation on racism, gentrification, the pandemic, & environmental threats to wildlife & humans https://t.co/cwDXNtFq4x

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(2/3) You can hear author @emilyraboteau, Friday, April 9, at 7 PM in this event https://t.co/dZh1a6m9hT

[Urban Archive @urbanarchiveny]

Prof. Andrea Ortuño from @BCCcuny discusses different workhouses for women across the city during the 19th & 20th c. in her latest story. Check it out!
https://t.co/mFExY92gUb

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A new book co-edited by @LaGuardiaCC Prof. @msavva2015 looks at an unconventional group of students: professionals in a part-time international Ed.D. program at @UCL. Savva also wrote a chapter about her own path and experiences https://t.co/KRTOR8rFjS

[SUM @sum_research]

Improv techniques can boost communication, leadership, and team-building. Learning improv can even improve democracy. A new book by Professor @DonWaisanen (@BaruchMarxe, @BaruchCollege) offers step-by-step guidance on improv exercises and their takeaways https://t.co/cooWSAzvTj

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

Why study history? What can you do with a history degree? Find out the answers to these questions and more with the AHA's "Careers for History Majors" booklet. #twitterstorians https://t.co/45Pehayy0m