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An expert on diversity, equity, and inclusion will engage in a discussion on community healing on December 18 at the Leon and Toby Cooperman Library.

The venerable CBS News show 60 Minutes is profiling the work of Hunter College elephant researcher Joshua Plotnik.

Hunter College has appointed an acting dean for its recently reconfigured School of Health Professions.

Dr. Judith Aponte received the New York Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses’ Nurse Researcher Award.

The School of Education has been awarded a $54,233 Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) Strategic Planning grant.

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.

The grants exemplify Hunter's commitment to fulfilling its role as an anchor institution for New York City’s Puerto Rican community and beyond.

The trip was only the latest in a series of excursions and campus events designed to spotlight the relevance of the humanities.

Hunter MFA Playwriting grads Phillip Christian Smith '23 and Jennifer Diamond '24 were named 2024-25 Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellow.

Students in Hunter College’s Polish Program celebrated Polish Bilingual Day with songs, stories, and food in the West Building on October 17.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs again named Hunter College a leading Fulbright Hispanic Serving Institution.

Hunter College welcomed 150 high-school guidance counselors from all over New York on Oct. 18 as the host of CUNY’s annual Fall Counselor Conference.

TV series produced by Hunter's CENTRO –  Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, has won two New York Emmy Awards. 

Dr. Melissa O’Connor has been appointed Associate Dean for Research and Rudin Professor of Nursing in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

Ayana Mathis won the $10,000 Gabe Hudson Award for her novel "The Unsettled" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023).

A Hunter researcher has received an Outdrive Aphasia PPA grant from the National Aphasia Association.

Twenty-nine Hunter College students recently attended the final dress rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production.

Four Hunter College students were selected for the prestigious Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.

A Hunter College adjunct lecturer was among three CUNY doctoral students to win an annual university award for outstanding teaching.

Six Hunter College affiliates were among the 32 artists, writers, and scholars who were named as 2024-25 fellows of Social Practice CUNY.

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."

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