Hunter College News

"Voices of Reason" is a regular feature, taking a brief look at how some of the country's top medical experts view developing health-news stories.

CUNY's annual Relay for Life fundraising event started off with a party on Thursday with Baruch's kick-off during club hours.

Miriam Cohen's niece, Debra Allee, receives the flag at her aunt's funeral. Cohen, who passed away on Veteran's Day at age 101, was the nation's oldest female marine.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has raised $16 million in a campaign to challenge Democratic Governor David Paterson in 2010 for the statea s top job, according to a person familiar with his plans.

The president of the New York Public Library has announced plans to retire. Paul LeClerc said in a statement that he will retire in the summer of 2011.

Colum McCann won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for "Let the Great World Spin," a novel featuring a sprawling cast of characters in 1970s New York City whose lives are ineluctably touched by the mysterious tightrope walker who traverses a wire suspended between the Twin Towers one morning.

After 16 years at the helm of one of the world's largest library systems, Paul LeClerc announced on Wednesday that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in the summer of 2011 to give the institution plenty of time to search for a replacement.

A Canada goose in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, which local residents have named Beaky, is missing part of its upper beak.

Big political names abound in New York: Mario Cuomo. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rudy Giuliani.

The cement is cracking around some long-standing problems with public education in New York.

The state Board of Regents is considering innovations to improve teaching. The policy-making board will consider new requirements for incoming teachers to demonstrate knowledge of a subject and classroom skills that can be linked to effective instruction.

Astrid and Celina Bertoncini got a bonus yesterday on their way into Manhattan to see "Mary Poppins" on Broadway - the Cortlandt residents got to meet a couple of Radio City Rockettes.

With all due respect to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, his address at Teachers College, Columbia University, at the end of October had a few things wrong - namely that not all teacher preparation programs are failing.

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The University of Michigan study looked at a latent virus called CMV in young people, and the body's ability to control the virus.

" School cafeterias are on their way to getting healthier, fresher and more nutritious due to a growing movement that is uprooting the way school children eat and to junk the junk food that fatten a generation.

Two accomplished and talented writers will be joining the University of the Virgin Islands faculty and offering several new courses to students for the spring semester.

Michael Thomas, author of "Man Gone Down," a novel about post-9/11 aggression, greed and racism, will read at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Bonus reform could hit Gracie Mansion. Mayor Bloomberg's aides - " conditioned to expect windfall bonuses for helping achieve bigger margins of victory on Bloomberg's last two reelection campaigns - worry their billionaire boss will only dole out lumps of coal for his meager third term win this go around.

A former Hunter College staffer convicted of ripping off the school allegedly roped far-flung investors into funding a fictitious online fitness magazine to help repay the school, prosecutors said.