Hunter in the News
Hunter Urban Public Health Professor Alcabes Quoted in the New York Times on the Number of New HIV Cases Each Year
The New York Times: Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Medical Physicist, Dies at 89
Nobel Prize Laureate Rosalyn Yalow, Hunter Trailblazer, Dies at Age 89
The New York Times: At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character
Hunter alumna Bel Kaufman recently celebrated her 100th birthday. See what The New York Times had to say about the centenarian who still teaches at Hunter.
The New York Times: Mirrors, Clowns and Other Visions
The New York Times reviews the Hunter Dance Program's Sharing the Legacy dance performance.
Transportation Nation: Does Europe Like Bikes More Than New York?
Hunter Urban Affairs Professor Milczarski Discusses Biking in NYC on WNYC Radio.
NY Daily News: Cereal with cartoons on the box tastes better to kids
NY Daily News: Hunter Public Health Professor Freudenberg on Kids' Response to Cereal Boxes with Cartoon Characters
NY1: Princeton Review's Best Value Colleges
NY1 Parenting Correspondent Shelley Goldberg was recently joined by Rob Franek, senior vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review, to discuss this year's list of best value colleges.
The Wall Street Journal: Energy Researchers Measure New York’s Sunny Side
Is your building getting enough sunlight for solar electricity? This spring you’ll be able to find that out online, thanks to Hunter’s Sean Ahern of the Center for the Analysis and Research of Spatial Information who has been analyzing the data and creating the NYC sunlight map.
The New Yorker: Homage to Mary Hamilton by Tom Sleigh
Distinguished Professor Sleigh’s Poem Featured in The New Yorker
NY Daily News: The DREAM Act's failure will hurt thousands of hardworking, talented young immigrants
An article by Hunter College President Jennifer Raab
Psychology Professor Diana Reiss Featured in the New York Times
Diana Reiss, 61, a professor of psychology at Hunter College in New York, grew up wanting to be an artist and a stage designer. Instead, she has ended up spending most of her adult life trying to figure out what whales and dolphins know. Some of what Dr. Reiss knows came to light in two separate two-hour interviews.
The New York Times: A Home (Barely) Fit for Two Mrs. Roosevelts
"For the first time in 67 years, people are living in a certain rather famous town house on East 65th Street — up on the sixth floor, where the original occupants’ laundry flapped in the breeze long ago." - The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal: Hunter's Latino Art Collection Gets Boost
"Mr. Cisneros, chairman and CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies, a media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products conglomerate, and his wife Patricia are giving $1 million to Hunter College of the City University of New York to boost the college's Latin American Art program." - The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times: Beethoven May Not Have Died of Lead Poisoning, After All
"'His last years were so miserable,' said Susan Kagan, a pianist, Beethoven scholar and professor emeritus at Hunter College in New York. 'He suffered physically so very much. There’s one cry of pain after another in his letters. I don’t know if he was mistreated by doctors, but they didn’t know very much in those days, compared to what they know now. Pouring hot oil into his ears: can you imagine what that must have felt like?'" - The New York Times
The Epoch Times: Report Examines Childhood Obesity in NY and London
"“Our report shows that while childhood obesity affects all groups, it is becoming increasingly concentrated among low income children and neighborhoods in both cities,” said lead investigator Nicholas Freudenberg of Hunter College/CUNY in a press release." - The Epoch Times
Prof. Shanti Thakur wins Grand Remi Award at Worldfest-Houston
Scientists See Cruelty in Killing Method Used in Japan’s Dolphin Roundup (Read Professor Reiss' interview)