Hunter College News

Some remarkable people just fly beneath the radar, quietly and steadily doing a job and being there in service to others.

Colum McCann sits down with his former student, Phil Klay, to talk about his new novel, TransAtlantic , writing about war and peace, his new charity, Narrative4-and getting a pint.

By Wellington C. Ramos When the government of Belize started the debate to educate Belizeans throughout the country on the referendum initiative to take the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice , many Belizeans in the United States and Belize became insecure about their current citizenship status.

You'd probably expect Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival, opening tomorrow, to be filled with avant-garde jazz musicians, performance artists and arty punk acts - and you'd be right.

Celebrate Harlem School of the Arts Dance students as they take the stage in their final performance of the year at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College tonight, June 13, 2013 at 7pm.

In the first public event of its 2013-14 season, the Metropolitan Opera Guild will pay tribute to one of the 20th century's great singing legends, Ris Stevens, who died in March at the age of 99, and whose centennial falls today, June 11. Hosted by Frederica von Stade , "Ris: A Celebration of Ris Stevens" will take place in New York City's Kaye ... (more)

Matthew Aaron Goodman's debut novel Hold Love Strong was published in 2010; he's also a professor at Hunter College and the coordinator of the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, which advocates for reform of the youth-court system.

Celebrate Harlem School of the Arts Dance students as they take the stage in their final performance of the year at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7pm.

Susan Rogers of Haddon Township will receive the highest award from Mental Health America at its awards banquet tonight, June 7. The association will present Rogers with the Clifford W. Beers Award for leadership and service at its awards banquet in National Harbor, MD.

The City School District of New Rochelle is happy to report the selection of candidates to fill the position of principal at the district's New Rochelle High School and Barnard Early Childhood Center, representing both the oldest and youngest students who are educated in the City School District of New Rochelle.

The estate of Lillian Rose Somach has listed for sale a four-bedroom, 5.5-bath home at 18 Island Drive in Boynton Beach for $799,000.

Reginald Richardson will be the new high school principal, and Joanna Genovese will be the new principal at Barnard Early Childhood Center .

"My dad would tell me there are more horses' asses than there are horses," says billionaire hedge fund manager Cooperman, 70. It's the kind of advice that frames the skeptical "go against the crowd" mind of value investors like Cooperman.

In 1995, Fraidy Reiss, then 19, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl from Brooklyn, NY, was married through a matchmaker to a man she hardly knew.

By Wellington C. Ramos When Belize became an independent country on September 21, 1981, all citizens of Belize who were not living in Belize lost their citizenship under the People's United Party.

After my six weeks training at Hunter College in Bronx, N.Y., I was assigned to U.S. Navy Communications in Washington, D.C., through WAVES.

New York City is launching a campaign to recruit gay and lesbian foster parents, part of a major push to expand the kinds of families who consider fostering and to find more welcoming homes for children who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.

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A controversial proposal in New York City to give voting rights to hundreds of thousands of non-citizen immigrants could make them into a key vote in America's largest city.

From the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China ; Department of Health, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China ; and CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY .