Revered Al Sharpton, a CUNY alum, stopped by Hunter College on his tour of several university campuses late last month to discuss the continuing role of civil rights and to spread awareness of National Action Network, his prominent civil rights organization.
After an eleven-year hiatus, Hunter College can boast about another Goldwater Scholar. Yelena Leitman, a junior biology major in the Thomas Hunter Honors program, recently won the Senior-level Barry M. Goldwater scholarship, an award "established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M.
In a decision extremely unpopular with many New Yorkers, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted last month to increase public transportation fares even as the MTA cuts back on bus and train services. The response from Hunter community is unequivocal: students say the plan "sucks.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and CUNY Vice Chancellor and Provost Alexandra Logue have proposed a five-year partnership between CUNY and New York City hospitals so as to provide nursing programs with additional resources to make up for an increasing nurse deficit in the city.
An email from the Undergraduate Student Government recently announced that the Hunter Student Resource Center would soon implement a card swipe system, making free printing and copying more available to and efficient for Hunter students by reducing waiting time.
Hunter's Model UN team is riding high this spring. In March, the team, essentially a Political Science class taught by Professor Pamela Falk, won two awards in the Second Annual CUNY Regional Conference hosted by the Macaulay Honors College. The winning streak continued as the team won top three awards at the National Model UN Conference during spring break.
As a new school year begins, students across college campuses are bemoaning the dreaded semester ritual of emptying their pocketbooks and forking over their hard-earned cash to buy textbooks. According to a recent study conducted by City Councilman Eric N.
A team of Hunter biology students led by Professor Benjamin Ortiz is working on research that could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of HIV, cancer, and numerous genetic defects. In a lab on the eighth floor of Hunter's North building, Ortiz and his team devote countless hours to the study of T-cells, white blood cells that play a crucial role in the body's immune function.