Hunter College News

Raquel Z. Rivera knows the importance of documenting history. As a researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, she's served as a gatekeeper of Boricua history.

Hunter College told Joanna Siwiec and Angelia Vargas that the scholarships they had been promised would be rescinded.

Rafeal Knipping fishes in Lighthouse State Park on Roosevelt Island next to an unreadable Department of Health warning sign.

Hilda L. Solis often recalls some advice her high school guidance counselor gave her mother: "Your daughter is not college material.

Registering students, keeping the books and serving as translator - she speaks three languages - Justa Bozman works for Brooksville's HEART Literacy adult education program.

In February 2008, Hicksville resident Jennifer A. Uihlein started work on a documentary to fulfill a master's thesis requirement at Hunter College.

Colum McCann's novel opens with a stunning five-page set piece about a tightrope performance that was called "the artistic crime of the 20th century." In August 1974, Philippe Petit broke several laws, including those having to do with gravity, as he walked a tightrope he had strung a quarter-mile above the ground between the towers of the new ...

From : "AGBU Press Office 2" Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:26 PDT AGBU Press Office 55 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022-1112 Phone: 212.319.6383, x118 Fax: 212.319.6507 Email: press@agbu.org Website: www.agbu.org PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, June 30, 2009 New York-Yerevan Videoconference Connects Armenian University Students on Many Levels On March ...

Mary Frances, passed away on June 26, 2009 from complications due to the autoimmune disease Lupus.

Rarely does a profession so completely embrace a radical new vision. Ed school professors everywhere are gaga over the new book "THE EDUCATION ENIGMA--What Happened To American Education" by Bruce Price.

Norman Finkelstein is not a wild-eyed Holocaust denier. In fact, his parents were both survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the camps, his father from Auschwitz, his mother from Majdanek.

WASHINGTON - Hudson Valley residents Nikita Ponochovnyy and Gabriela Alarcon donned their high school graduation gowns to join 400 other students from more than a dozen states yesterday to rally for legislation that would give them a path to citizenship.

Even before the unexpected announcement came this month, Michael Thomas had enjoyed a run of good luck with "Man Gone Down," his first novel.

Reschedule/Cancellation Policy: Rescheduled lessons within 7 days of cancelled lesson time at no additional charge Initial Consultation Fee: No Teacher Information Teacher Bio: Clare Kennedy Jorgensen has worked as a professional singer for nearly 20 years.

Fife artist Jeremy Mangan is the winner of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation's second annual Foundation of Art Award.

Center for the Arts Announces Edward R. Wiener Arts Scholarship Winners The Center for Arts Education , a leading voice in restoring and revitalizing the arts in New York City public schools, has announced the recipients of the 2009 Edward R. Wiener Arts Scholarship Program.

Jenna and Scott, both now 28, have known each other since they were 5 or 6. She lived in Upper Dublin, he in Upper Moreland.

"It was kind of fun, it was kind of light. It wasn't a Gordon Conference. ... It was just, 'Let's see if we can make a connection and then take it further if we need to.' " --Brian Kelly F inding new research partners can be a challenge for basic scientists and clinical researchers, as it may require them to step outside of their daily commitments.

Michael Thomas's Man Gone Down beats Philip Roth, Doris Lessing and Joyce Carol Oates to prestigious award 'I'm still waiting for the punch line' ... Michael Thomas.

A subway passenger tries a pay phone at the 42nd Street and 5th Avenue station. A report by the Straphangers Campaign found one in four of the phones are malfunctional.