The venerable CBS News show 60 Minutes profiled the work of Hunter College elephant researcher Joshua Plotnik.
See the 60 Minutes story
Elizabeth Nunez, the celebrated Trinidad-born novelist and distinguished Hunter College professor emerita of English, died November 8. She was 79.
Hunter College senior tahda queer has won The Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman.
Students in Hunter College’s Polish Program celebrated Polish Bilingual Day with songs, stories, and food in the West Building on October 17.
Twenty-nine Hunter College students recently attended the final dress rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production.
A Hunter College adjunct lecturer was among three CUNY doctoral students to win an annual university award for outstanding teaching.
Hunter Prof. Kelle Cruz, and team will receive a prestigious prize for developing open-source software that is broadening knowledge of the universe.
Dr. Charles Vörösmarty was recognized for his “exceptional contributions to Earth and space science through a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation."
Prof. William Solecki received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the federal government to improve flood resilience in vulnerable communities.
A Hunter researcher is one of nine CUNY faculty members receiving funding from Google as part of a three-year, $3 million grant from the company.
Professor Ofer Tchernichovski will investigate how we can stimulate collective learning, creativity, and smart decision-making in online communities.
Two Hunter-trained CUNY doctoral students won big at a recent datathon for prospective quantitative PhD.
Watch the datathon
Hunter Physics graduate Destiny Howell ’24 and her team placed first this summer at the University of Wyoming’s Nuclear Bootcamp Competition.
Watch Howell’s Winning Presentation at the Bootcamp
Erica Chito-Childs, became the acting Ruth and Harold Newman Dean of Hunter College’s School of Arts and Sciences on June 15.
Professor Yuhang Ren was awarded a three-year, $800,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to further the emerging field of QISE.
Six students spent three and a half weeks in Latvia and Lithuania this summer on a Hunter course about the East Bloc’s tortured history of censorship.
Learn More About the Study Abroad Program
Dr. Jill Bargonetti and her team are celebrating a new grant and a milestone from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF).
Professor Weigang Qiu and an international team mapped the complete genetic makeup of 47 strains of Lyme disease-causing and related bacteria.
Assistant Professor of Political Science Zhihang Ruan won the best dissertation prize from APSA’s Class and Inequality.
The study by Assistant Professor of Economics Sangita Vyas found that, compared to 2019, life expectancy at birth was 2.6 years lower.
A Hunter College research team is advancing a diagnostic tool that heralds new treatments for metastatic breast cancer.
William Howard “Bill” Williams, a longtime Hunter professor of Mathematics and Statistics, died July 9, 2024, at his home in Chatham, N.J.
Hunter was among five CUNY senior colleges listed among the best colleges in the United States by Money, the personal finance website.
Her 2022 book, Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential, recently won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award.
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