CUNY Newswire

Novelist Gary Shteyngart (Hunter MFA ’02) has won a rave review from The New York Times for his latest book, Super Sad True Love Story

Hunter College President Jennifer Raab has announced a major partnership with the Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) that will have a transformative impact on the teaching and development of Latin American art at Hunter. The initiative establishes the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professorship in Latin American Art at Hunter and provides Hunter students with access to the resources of the CPPC. These range from curatorial scholarship to archival materials, to artworks from the collection that will be made available to the Hunter College Art Galleries for study, exhibition, and publication.

Hunter College Elementary and High School alumna Elena Kagan (HCES ’71, HCHS ’77) has been nominated by President Obama to be the 112th justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy awarded one of its coveted Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards to Hunter College for its restoration of Roosevelt House.

Mountain gorillas in Uganda eat a diet that most human doctors would enthusiastically recommend to their patients-with one exception: the gorillas get most of their sodium from decayed wood.

These are among the findings emerging from Dr. Jessica Rothman’s research, which has just won the Feliks Gross Endowment Award presented by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Rothman is an assistant professor of anthropology at Hunter, where she teaches human evolution and primate ecology and behavior. She also heads the Primate Nutrition Lab, spends three months a year doing field work in Uganda and, from Hunter, directs the research carried out by her Ugandan research assistants throughout the year.

Hunter Film and Media Studies Assistant Professor Shanti Thakur has won the Platinum Remi Award for Experimental Film at the 43rd Worldfest Houston International Film Festival for her short film, “Sky People.”

Hunter College is one of 286 U.S. colleges and universities selected for inclusion in the Princeton Review’s “Guide to Green Colleges.” The Guide, presented in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, lists “colleges and universities that have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to sustainability.” Hunter was one of three CUNY colleges included in the Guide.

New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein, ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson and other winners of Hunter College’s 2009 James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism will be honored during a ceremony open to the public at Hunter on Monday, May 3 at 6 pm. The event will feature a keynote introduction by Daily News columnist Errol Louis, Hunter’s Jack Newfield Visiting Professor of Journalism, who will speak on the state of social justice journalism.

It is scholastic honors season, and Hunter students are winning some of the nation’s top awards. David Bonilla and Sabrina Ibarrola, both of the class of 2012, have been awarded Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships that will provide them with three years of paid summer internships, mentoring and enhanced educational opportunities. The fellowships are given to [...]

Hendia Raisa Edmund, a junior at Hunter College, has been selected as one of the nation’s 278 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2010/11 academic year. The Goldwater scholarships – established in honor of the late Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate – support students who plan to pursue careers in science, mathematics and engineering.

Edmund is the only student from a CUNY college to win a Goldwater scholarship this year. This is the second consecutive year that a Hunter student has received this prestigious award.

The White House held a conference on workplace flexibility on March 31, and one of the participants was Hunter Professor of Sociology Pamela Stone. As an expert on gender inequality in pay and employment and author of the acclaimed book Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, Stone was ideally suited to [...]

Joseph Eastman is one of 25 young men and women chosen from more than 300 applicants around the nation to be a 2010-2011 New York City Urban Fellow-one of the most rewarding and prestigious positions a new college graduate can hold. As an urban fellow, he will participate in a nine-month program that includes a [...]

Classics Professor Ronnie Ancona was one of three professors nationwide honored with the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association at the group’s annual meeting held in January. The APA is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. In a [...]

Hunter’s Creative Writing MFA program director and senior poet Tom Sleigh has received a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. The Academy offers residential fellowships at its Hans Arnhold Center to a select group of American scholars, writers, policymakers and artists each year. The fellowships are designed to integrate accomplished American intellectual and artistic [...]

Forbes Magazine has named Hunter Professor Jessie Daniels as one of its “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The magazine – one of the nation’s foremost business and public affairs publications – developed the list after discovering that even though more women than men use Twitter, men have 15 percent more followers. To help [...]

Peter Carey, prize-winning novelist and executive director of Hunter’s MFA program in creative writing, has received yet another award – one that will make him a collector’s item. His homeland of Australia is issuing a stamp in his honor. Actually, two stamps, one with a photo of Carey from the 1970s and another with a [...]

Daily News columnist Errol Louis will serve as the Jack Newfield Visiting Professor of Journalism this semester at Hunter College, offering a course in urban investigative journalism to selected students in the undergraduate Film and Media Studies Program and the graduate-level Integrated Media Arts Program. “I’m delighted to be working with young filmmakers and journalists [...]

Hunter College junior Jeffrey Ruiz was chosen as the student representative at the launch of the Malaysia Global Model U.N. Program 2010 (GMUN 2010), which will take place this summer. In addition, Ruiz has been named a co-chair of the Program Committee for GMUN 2010, along with another Hunter junior, Christine Batilloro. Ruiz and Batilloro [...]

Tina Chang, Hunter adjunct professor of English, has been chosen over 21 other applicants to become Brooklyn’s next poet laureate.  Borough President Marty Markowitz announced the news in his State of the Borough address on February 3, citing Chang’s many literary accolades and her commitment to becoming a “poetic ambassador.”  At the event, Chang read [...]

On Sunday, March 7, Hunter Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning Peter Kwong will be at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where he hopes to find himself on stage after the announcement of the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).  Among the category’s five nominees is a film he co-produced: “China’s [...]