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2022 January

Awards and Recognition

Students

Devashish Baset
Devashish Basnet ’22 Named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar

Basnet, President of Hunter’s Undergraduate Student Government, is the second Hunter student in four years to earn a Rhodes Scholarship.

Rachel Chloe
Hunter Student Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts and Style List

Rachel Chloe, founder of Rachel Chloe Art Advisory, places the works of women, BIPOC and LGBTQ + artists into private and institutional collections.

68th St Campus
Seven students won the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship

Hannah Arnold, Jakub Goclon, Jia Qi He, Engyi J Lo, Janae O’Garro, Maryam Samassa, and Janet Tan earned awards ranging from $4K-$8K to study abroad.

Awilda Perez, Lily Zaballos, Gabriel Lefferts and Katie Zhang study Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter.
Hunter Students Named ANHDNYC Morgan Stanley Community Development Fellows

Awilda Perez, Lily Zaballos, Gabriel Lefferts and Katie Zhang study Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter.

Faculty

Jessica Neuwirth
Jessica Neuwirth Receives Legion of Honor Citation from French Republic

Neuwirth is the Rita Hauser Director of the Human Rights Program at Roosevelt House.

Peter Carey
Peter Carey Named a "2021 Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation

Carey is a two-time Booker Prize winner and the director of Hunter’s MFA Creative Writing program.

Elizabeth Cohn
Associate Provost Cohn Earns Commendation From Nassau County Executive

Associate Provost for Research and Rudin Professor of Nursing Dr. Elizabeth Cohn cited for her work in Public Heath and COVID response.

Kelle Cruz
Astronomy Professor Named 2022 American Astronomical Society Fellow

In honoring Professor Kelle Cruz, the AAS cited her "continuous dedication to the betterment of the scientific process and community."

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National Council for the Social Studies Honors Professor Terrie Epstein

Epstein, the Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, won the Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research in Social Studies Award.

Asher Grodman
Hunter Theater Professor Asher Grodman stars on CBS’s “Ghosts”

Grodman plays Trevor on “Ghosts,” the #1 new network show on television.

Ruth Finkelstein
Ruth Finkelstein (Generations Today): How Many Older Workers Is Just Right?

Ruth Finkelstein, the Rose Dobrof Executive Director at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, explores why more older adults are working than ever.

Anita Raja
Hunter College-Columbia University Team Win NIH Data Challenge

Professor Anita Raja, 3 Hunter students, and their Columbia teammates won the innovation prize at the NIH’s Decoding Maternal Morbidity Challenge.

Mandë Holford
Chemistry Professor Mandë Holford Named an Allen Distinguished Investigator

Holford is One of 23 New Allen Distinguished Investigators Across the World named by The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group.

Harold Holzer
New York State Library Acquires Complete Works of Harold Holzer

Holzer is the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and one of the nation’s pre-eminent Lincoln scholars.

Jill Bargonetti
Jill Bargonetti Awarded a METAvivor Grant for Breast Cancer Research

Professor Bargonetti’s research in our Belfer Lab could lead to targeted therapy for triple-negative breast cancer.

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Professor Dave McKenzie Will Participate in the Whitney Biennial

McKenzie is a visual artist. His exhibition "The Story I Tell Myself" was at the Whitney in 2021.

Charles Platkin
Charles Platkin Discusses Food Insecurity Crisis (Cheddar News)

Platkin, Executive Director of Hunter College’s NYC Food Policy Center, explains what government, non-profits, and individuals can do to help.

Institution

Yarimar Bonilla
Centro Receives $1.2M from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The grant will bring together academics, journalists and artists to study issues confronting Puerto Rico & the diaspora.

Tony Kushner and Rita Moreno at Hunter College with Jennifer Raab.
Rita Moreno and Tony Kushner Visit Centro

Hunter and Chancellor Rodriguez welcome Rita Moreno and Tony Kushner to the Centro Archives, where Kushner had conducted research for West Side Story.

Manhattan Hunter Science High School
Manhattan Hunter Science H.S. among top 12 non-specialized NYC High Schools

The New York Post cites the "nurturing atmosphere and...individual attention to support ambitious learners eager to get a jump on college."

Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College Receives Grant from Mother Cabrini Health Foundation

The grant aims to achieve health equity by diversifying the workforce, strengthening partnerships, expanding telehealth, and training providers.

Alumni

Eric Dinowitz
Eric Dinowitz (MSED ’09) Named Chair of City Council’s Higher Ed Committee

Dinowitz, who represents District #11 in the Bronx, graduated from Hunter’s School of Education.

Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hunter College High School Alum Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Encanto” Album is #1

Written by Grammy and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda ’98, it is the first soundtrack to top the Billboard charts in two years.

Estrellita Brodsky
Estrellita Brodsky (MA ’94) Appointed to National Council on the Humanities

The National Council on the Humanities is a board of 26 distinguished citizens that advise the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart (MFA ’02)’s "Our Country Friends" Earns Rave Reviews

The New York Times draws comparisons to Chekhov, calling the author "a master of verbs" & the novel perfect "for these times & all times."

Melva Miller
Alumna Melva M. Miller (MSW ’04) Honored by the Center for an Urban Future

Miller was honored for her hole in leading the Association for a Better New York’s census campaign.

Jeremy Levine
“The Panola Project” Featured in the New Yorker, to Screen at Sundance

Jeremy Levine (MFA ’20)’s short documentary looks at Dorothy Oliver, a woman who was instrumental in getting the COVID vaccine to her rural hometown.

Kate Quinn
Alumna Makes Most Powerful Women in Banking List

Kate Quinn ’91 ranks ranks #9 on American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking List for her work at US Bank.

Kevin Law
Kevin Law (MS ’84) Named Director and Chair of Urban Development Corp

Law, a Partner and Executive Vice President at TritecReal Estate Development Company, was nominated by Governor Kathy Hochul.

Ray Yamanouchi
Hunter Alum Receives Cygnet Theater’s Inaugural Dee Silver MD Commission

Ray Yamanouchi ’12 will receive $10k plus unrestricted time to create a play that “responds to our times with hope and healing.”

Jenna Frasier
Hunter Alumna Named LGBTQ Fellow by Governor Kathy Hochul

Jenna Frasier (MSW ’20) was appointed the New York State Edie Windsor, Marsha P. Johnson, & Sylvia Rivera LGBTQ Fellow.

Kajahl Benes-Trapp
MFA Studio Art Alum Receives Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship

Kajahl Benes-Trapp (MFA ’12), whose work has been shown in galleries across the country, receives a $20K award to further his artistic career.

Miguel Edwards
Miguel Edwards ’07 named partner at life sciences consulting firm DeciBio

Miguel also serves as Managing Director of DeciBio’s Bay Area office and is a founding member of DeciBio Ventures.

Cat Alves
Cat Alves '09 named Director of Athletics and Recreation, John Jay College

Alves began at John Jay’s Athletic Department in 2013, having previously served as Senior Associate Director and Deputy Director.

Monica Hernandez
Alumna Makes Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts and Style List

Monica Hernandez ’18’s paintings have been shown in the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts and featured in Teen Vogue, Hypebeast and Vice.

Nathan Fitch
Alumni’s Short Film on Cartoonist George Booth Featured in the New Yorker

“Drawing Life” was created by Nathan Fitch (MFA ’10) and Emily Collins (MFA ’18), graduates of Hunter’s Integrated Media Arts program.

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