Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the

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and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also administers

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and

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. Hunter was founded in 1870 as a women's college; it first admitted male freshmen in 1946. The main campus has been located on Park Avenue since 1873. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated

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's and her former townhouse to the college; the building was reopened in 2010 as the

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. The institution has an 57% undergraduate graduation rate within six years.

History

Founding

Hunter College has its origins in the 19th-century movement for normal school training which swept across the United States. Hunter descends from the Female Normal and High School (later renamed the Normal College of the City of New York), established in New York City in 1870. It was founded by Thomas Hunter, an exile from Ireland because of his nationalist beliefs. Hunter was president of the school during the first 37 years. It was originally a women's college for training teachers. The school, which was housed in an armory and saddle store at Broadway and East Fourth Street in Manhattan, was open to all qualified women, irrespective of race, religion or ethnic background. At the time most women's colleges had racial or ethno-religious admissions criteria. Created by the New York State Legislature, Hunter was deemed the only approved institution for those seeking to teach in New York City. The school incorporated an elementary and high school for

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, where students practiced teaching. In 1887, a kindergarten was established as well. (Today, the

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and the high school still exist at a different location, and are now called the Hunter College Campus Schools.) During Thomas Hunter's tenure as president of the school, Hunter became known for its impartiality regarding race, religion, ethnicity, financial or political favoritism; its pursuit of higher education for women; its high entry requirements; and its rigorous academics. The first female professor at the school, Helen Gray Cone, was elected to the position in 1899. The college's student population quickly expanded, and the college subsequently moved uptown, in 1873, into a new red brick

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structure facing Park Avenue between 68th and 69th Streets.Christopher Gray
"Streetscapes/Hunter College on 68th Street and Park Avenue; Industrial-Style Main Building Raised Storm in 1940"
''The New York Times'', February 29, 2004 It was one of several public institutions built at the time on a

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lot that had been set aside by the city for a park, before the creation of Central Park. In 1888 the school was incorporated as a college under the statutes of New York State, with the power to confer the degree of A.B. This led to the separation of the school into two "camps": the "Normals", who pursued a four-year course of study to become licensed teachers, and the "Academics", who sought non-teaching professions and the Bachelor of Arts degree. After 1902 when the "Normal" course of study was abolished, the "Academic" course became standard across the student body.

Expansion

In 1913 the east end of the building, housing the elementary school, was replaced by Thomas Hunter Hall, a new limestone Tudor building facing

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and designed by

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. The following year the Normal College became Hunter College in honor of its first president. At the same time, the college was experiencing a period of great expansion as increasing student enrollments necessitated more space. The college reacted by establishing branches in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and

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. By 1920, Hunter College had the largest enrollment of women of any municipally financed college in the United States. In 1930, Hunter's Brooklyn campus merged with

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's Brooklyn campus, and the two were spun off to form

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Hunter College NY WAVES camp opening 1943

In 1936 fire destroyed the 1873 Gothic building facing Park Avenue, and by 1940 the

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replaced it with the Modernist north building, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon along with Harrison & Fouilhoux. The late 1930s saw the construction of Hunter College in the Bronx (later known as the Bronx Campus). During the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the United States Navy who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES and

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. When the Navy vacated the campus, the site was briefly occupied by the nascent United Nations, which held its first Security Council sessions at the Bronx Campus in 1946, giving the school an international profile. In 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated a town house at 47–49 East 65th Street in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the future President and First Lady. Today it is known as The Roosevelt House of Public Policy and opened in fall 2010 as an academic center hosting prominent speakers.

CUNY era

Hunter became the women's college of the municipal system, and in the 1950s, when

became coeducational, Hunter started admitting men to its Bronx campus. In 1964, the Manhattan campus began admitting men also. The Bronx campus subsequently became

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in 1968. In 1968–1969, Black and Puerto Rican students struggled to get a department that would teach about their history and experience. These and supportive students and faculty expressed this demand through building take-overs, rallies, etc. In Spring 1969, Hunter College established Black and Puerto Rican Studies (now called Africana/Puerto Rican and Latino Studies). An " open admissions" policy initiated in 1970 by the City University of New York opened the school's doors to historically underrepresented groups by guaranteeing a college education to any and all who graduated from NYC high schools. Many African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Puerto Ricans, and students from the developing world made their presence felt at Hunter, and even after the end of "open admissions" still comprise a large part of the school's student body. As a result of this increase in enrollment, Hunter opened new buildings on Lexington Avenue during the early 1980s. In further advancing Puerto Rican studies, Hunter became home to the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños ("Center for Puerto Rican Studies" or simply "Centro") in 1982. Today, Hunter College is a comprehensive teaching and research institution. Of the more than 20,000 students enrolled at Hunter, nearly 5,000 are enrolled in a graduate program, the most popular of which are education and social work. Although less than 28% of students are the first in their families to attend college, the institution maintains its tradition of concern for women's education, with nearly three out of four students being female. In 2006, Hunter became home to the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, which has training programs for young women to build their leadership, public speaking, business and advocacy skills. In recent years, the institution has integrated its undergraduate and graduate programs to successfully make advanced programs in fields such as ( Psychology and Biology) – "PhD Program", (Education) – "Master's Program", (Mathematics) – "Master's Program", -"PhD Program" ( Biology &

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) – " Biochemistry", (Accounting) – "Master's Program" along with the highly competitive (Economics) – "Master's Program" to which only a select few students may enter based on excellent scholarship and performance, and less than half will earn a master's degree by maintaining a nearly perfect academic record and performing thesis research. Although far from the polar regions, Hunter is a member institution of the University of the Arctic, a network of schools providing education accessible to northern students.

Campuses

Main campus

Hunter College is anchored by its main campus at East 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, a modern complex of three towers – the East, West, and North Buildings – and Thomas Hunter Hall, all interconnected by skywalks. The institution's official street address is 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065. (Formerly bearing the ZIP code of 10021, the code changed on July 1, 2007, in accordance with the United States Postal Service's plan to split the 10021 ZIP code.) The address is based on the North Building, which stretches from 68th to 69th Streets along Park Avenue. The main campus is situated two blocks east of Central Park, near many of New York's most prestigious cultural institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the

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Museum, and the

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. The

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() on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line is directly underneath, and serves the entire campus. Adjacent to the staircase to the station, in front of the West Building, sat an iconic Hunter sculpture, "Tau", created by late Hunter professor and respected artist Tony Smith. The sculpture has been removed as of October 2018 due to restoration purposes. The main campus is home to the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education. It features numerous facilities that serve not only Hunter, but the surrounding community, and is well known as a center for the arts. The Assembly Hall, which seats more than 2,000, is a major performance site; the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, a 675-seat

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, has over 100,000 visitors annually and hosts over 200 performances each season; the Ida K. Lang Recital Hall is a fully equipped concert space with 148 seats; the Frederick Loewe Theatre, a 50 x black box performance space is the site of most department performances; and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery hosts professionally organized art exhibits. Students have access to specialized learning facilities at the main campus, including the Dolciani Mathematics Learning Center, the Leona and Marcy Chanin Language Center, and the Physical Sciences Learning Center. Hunter has numerous research laboratories in the natural and

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sciences. These labs accommodate post-docs, PhD students from the CUNY Graduate School, and undergraduate researchers. College sports and recreational programs are served by the Hunter Sportsplex, located below the West Building.

Satellite campuses

Hunter has two satellite campuses: The Silberman School of Social Work Building, located on third Avenue between East 118th and East 119th Streets, which houses the School of Social Work, the School of Urban Public Health, and the Brookdale Center on Aging; and the Brookdale Campus, located at East 25th Street and first Avenue, which houses the

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, the Schools of the Health Professions, the Health Professions Library and several research centers and computer labs. The Brookdale Campus is the site of the Hunter dormitory, which is home to over 600 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a limited number of nurses employed at Bellevue Hospital. Prior to the opening of City College's new "Towers," the Brookdale complex was the City University's only dormitory facility.

Other facilities

The institution owns and operates property outside of its main campuses, including the MFA Building at 205 Hudson, Roosevelt House, Baker Theatre Building, Silberman School of Social Work, and the Hunter College Campus Schools. The MFA Studio Art program was formerly run out of a building on West 41st Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. It was a industrial space that students converted to studio space for the college's BFA and MFA program. The current building in Tribeca now houses the Studio Art and Integrated Media Arts MFA program, and Art History MA program. Roosevelt House, located on East 65th Street, is the historic family home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Hunter's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute is now located there, honoring the public policy commitments of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Baker Theatre Building located on 149 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10065 is the home of Hunter's Department of Theatre thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Hunter trustee Patty Baker ’82 and her husband, Jay. The Silberman School of Social Work is located between 118th and 119th street on 3rd Ave. The Hunter Campus Schools—

and

—are publicly funded schools for the intellectually gifted. Located at East 94th Street, the Campus Schools are among the nation's oldest and largest elementary and secondary schools of their kind.

Libraries

The Leon & Toby Cooperman Library entrance is located on the third-floor walkway level of the East Building. The Cooperman Library has individual and group study rooms, special facilities for students with disabilities, networked computer classrooms and labs for word processing and internet access. The Social Work & Urban Public Health Library, located on the main floor of the Silberman Building, (SWUPHL) serves the academic and research needs of the Silberman School of Social Work as well as Hunter’s Urban Public Health, Community Health Education, and Nutrition programs. The onsite, physical collection includes 55,000 books and journals as well as audio-visual materials. Silberman patrons have remote access to the Hunter Libraries electronic collections which include 250,000 full-text eBooks, 100,000 eJournals, and over 300 electronic databases. SWUPHL is a pick-up/drop-off site for the CUNY intra-library loan system (CLICS) that facilitates the sharing of books between all the CUNY libraries. In addition, SWUPHL participates in the national interlibrary loan program for academic libraries. These reciprocal agreements allow the patrons of SWUPHL extensive access to a multitude of collections. The SWUPHL Faculty provide drop-in and by-appointment reference services, research consultations, classroom and individual instruction. The library has 6 group study rooms, group and silent study areas, desktop computers, a laptop computer loan program, photocopiers, printing stations, and a book scanner. The Judith and Stanley Zabar Art Library, dedicated in December 2008, was made possible through the support of Judith Zabar, a member of the Hunter College Class of 1954, and her husband Stanley Zabar.

Academics

Hunter is organized into four schools: The School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of the Health Professions, and the School of Social Work. The institution is highly selective, with an undergraduate admissions acceptance rate of 36% in Fall 2018. Hunter offers 70 programs leading to a BA or BS degree; 10 BA-MA joint degree programs; and 75 graduate programs. Students at Hunter may study within the fields of fine arts, the humanities, the language arts, the sciences, the social sciences, and the applied arts and sciences, as well as in professional areas in accounting, education, health sciences, and nursing. Regardless of area of concentration, all undergraduate Hunter students are encouraged to have broad exposure to the liberal arts; Hunter was one of the first colleges in the nation to pass a 12-credit curriculum requirement for pluralism and diversity courses. As of 2007, Hunter had 673 full-time and 886 part-time faculty members, and 20,844 students—15,718 undergraduates and 5,126 graduates. Over 50% of Hunter's students belong to ethnic minority groups. The class of 2011 represented 60 countries and speaks 59 different languages. Seventy-one percent of these students were born outside the United States or have at least one foreign-born parent. SAT and high school GPA scores for the entering Fall 2012 class of freshmen had an SAT score 25th–75th percentile range of 1090 to 1280 and high school GPA 25th–75th percentile range of 85% to 92%.

Rankings

Hunter College rankings are as follows: National ARWU: 187–200 ''Forbes'': 129 ''THE''/''WSJ'': 256 QS: 151–160 CWUR: 218 Regional ''U.S. News & World Report'': 18 ''Washington Monthly'': 37 Graduate Program in Fine Arts In the most recent edition of '' U.S. News & World Report'' Ranking of Graduate Fine Arts Programs, Hunter has been ranked 23rd best in the United States. Hunter's MFA Programs in Studio Art (Painting and Sculpture) and Studio Art (Painting and Drawing) have both been ranked ninth best in the nation. In 2017,

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included Hunter's in the list of "Top 15 Art Schools in the United States." The admission to Hunter's MFA Programs in Studio Art is highly competitive, with the average acceptance rate of 8% as of 2018.

Honors programs

Hunter offers several honors programs, including the Macaulay Honors College and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. The Macaulay Honors College, a CUNY-wide honors program, supports the undergraduate education of academically gifted students. University Scholars benefit from a full tuition scholarship (up to the value of in-state tuition only as of Fall 2013, effectively restricting it to NY state residents), personalized advising, early registration, access to internships, and study abroad opportunities. All scholars at Hunter are given the choice of either a free dormitory room at the Brookdale Campus for two years or a yearly stipend. The Thomas Hunter Honors Program offers topical interdisciplinary seminars and academic concentrations designed to meet students’ individual interests. The program is open to outstanding students pursuing a BA and is orchestrated under the supervision of an Honors Council. It can be combined with, or replace, a formal departmental major/minor. Hunter offers other honors programs, including Honors Research Training Programs and Departmental Honors opportunities, The Freshmen Honors Scholar Programs inclusive of the Athena Scholar program, Daedalus Scholar program, Muse Scholar program, Nursing Scholar program, Roosevelt Scholar program, and the Yalow Scholar program. In addition to these honors programs, several honors societies are based at Hunter, including Phi Beta Kappa (PBK). A small percentage of Hunter students are invited to join Hunter's Nu chapter of PBK, which has existed at the college since 1920.

Student life

Student governance

The Hunter College student body is governed by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate Student Association (GSA),.

Clubs

Hunter offers approximately 150 clubs. These organizations range from the academic to the athletic, and from the religious/spiritual to the visual and performing arts. There are clubs based on specific interests, such as "Russian Club", which offers a look at Russian life and culture and "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship" an organization whose vision is to "transform students and faculty, renew the campus, and develop world changers."

Fraternities and sororities

National – Social * Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ) – international social fraternity * Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ) – international social fraternity *

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(ΔΣΘ) – international social sorority * Phi Sigma Sigma (ΦΣΣ) – international social sorority National – Service *

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(ΑΦΩ) – national co-educational service fraternity Local – Social *Alpha Sigma (ΑΣ) – local social sorority *Nu Phi Delta (ΝΦΔ) – local multicultural social fraternity Local – Service *Theta Phi Gamma (ΘΦΓ) – local cultural and philanthropic sorority *Epsilon Sigma Phi (ΕΣΦ) – local multicultural service sorority *Zeta Phi Alpha (ΖΦΑ) – local service sorority Non-Greek *Gamma Ce Upsilon (ΓCΥ) – non-Greek Latina sorority

Student media

Hunter College has a campus radio station, WHCS, which once broadcast at 590AM but is now solely online. ''The Envoy'' is the main campus newspaper, published bi-weekly during the academic year. Its literary and art magazine ''The Olivetree Review'' offers opportunities for publishing student prose, poetry, drama, and art. Other publications include ''Culture Magazine'' (fashion and lifestyle), ''Hunted Hero Comics'' (comics and graphic stories), ''The Photographer's Collective'' (photography), ''Nursing Student Press'' (medical news and articles), Spoon University (culinary online publication), ''Psych News'' (psychology), ''The Wistarion'' (yearbook), ''SABOR'' (Spanish language and photography/now defunct), ''Revista De La Academia'' (Spanish language/now defunct), the ''Islamic Times'' (now defunct), ''Political Paradigm'' (political science/now defunct), ''Hakol'' (Jewish interest/now defunct), and ''Spoof'' (humor/now defunct). Past publications also include ''The WORD'' (news) and ''Hunter Anonymous''.

Athletics

Hunter is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and competes at the Division III level. The mascot is the Hawks. Hunter plays in the City University of New York Athletic Conference. The basketball, volleyball and wrestling teams play at the

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Manhattan/Hunter College Science High School

As a partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the Manhattan/Hunter College High School for Sciences was opened in 2003 on the campus of the former Martin Luther King, Jr. High School on the Upper West Side. Unlike Hunter's campus schools, Hunter Science does not require an entrance exam for admission.

Notable alumni

Arts

This list covers alumni in visual, musical, and performing arts. * Martina Arroyo – opera singer *

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- visual artist * Jules de Balincourt – artist (painter) *

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– performance artist * Robert Barry (born 1936) – conceptual artist. *

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Vivian E. Browne Vivian E. Browne (April 26, 1929–July 23, 1993) was an American artist. Born in Laurel, Florida, Browne was mostly known for her painting series called ''Little Men'' and her ''Africa'' series. She is also known for linking abstraction to na ...

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Roy DeCarava Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American artist. DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communi ...

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Jacqueline Donachie Jacqueline Donachie (born 1969) is a Scottish artist who uses drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. She lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Education and early career Donachie studied fine art from 1987 to 1991 at the Glasgow Sch ...

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Cheryl Donegan Cheryl Donegan (born 1962) is an American conceptual artist.

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Echo Eggebrecht Echo Eggebrecht (born 1977) is an American artist and academic known for landscape paintings. Education Eggebrecht earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Hunter College. She also attended the Skowhegan Sc ...

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— fashion photographer * Gabriele Evertz – contemporary artist (painter) *

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Denise Green Denise Green (born 1946) is an Australian painter living and working in New York City. She is known for her contributions to New Image Painting, an ambiguous art movement that began in the late 1970s. Her paintings are typically abstract and pr ...

– artist (painter) * Wade Guyton – artist (painter) *

Minna Harkavy Minna Harkavy (November 13, 1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895) was an American sculptor. She was born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg and immigrated to the United States around 1900. She studied at the Art Students Lea ...

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Louise E. Jefferson Louise E. Jefferson (1908–2002) was an American artist. Education After attending public schools in Washington DC, Jefferson began her artistic education taking lessons at Howard University before moving to New York City in 1935. She attende ...

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– installation artist *

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– artist (sculptor, printmaking) *

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Katerina Lanfranco Katerina Lanfranco (born May 8, 1978) is a New York City-based visual artist making paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied art at the University of California, Santa Cruz ...

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Terrance Lindall Terrance Lindall (born 1944) is an American artist and the co-director and chief administrator of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Lindall's illustrations have been published in '' Heavy Metal'', ''Creepy'', ''Ee ...

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Nick Mangano Nick Mangano is an American stage actor and director. He is the chair and artistic director of the Department of Theatre Arts at Stony Brook University. Education Mangano studied in New York, attending Hunter College, where he achieved a BA in his ...

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Monica McKelvey Johnson Monica McKelvey Johnson, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is an artist, curator, and activist living in Brooklyn, New York. Education McKelvey Johnson has received degrees from San Francisco State University (BA, 2001), and CUNY Hunter Colleg ...

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– photographer * Robert Morris – artist (sculptor) * Bess Myerson (1924-2014)- Miss America 1945 *

Doug Ohlson Douglas Dean Ohlson (November 18, 1936 – June 29, 2010) was an American abstract artist who specialized in geometric patterns. Ohlson was born on November 18, 1936, in Cherokee, Iowa and attended Bethel College before serving in the United ...

(1936–2010) – abstract artist. *

Roselle Osk Roselle Osk (1884–1954) was an American printmaker known for her drypoints and etchings. Her style was realist and her subjects were figure studies, landscapes, and seascapes. She exhibited frequently during the 1930s and 1940s and was awa ...

— artist * Paul Pfeiffer – artist (video) * William Powhida – artist (painter) *

Henning Rübsam Henning Rübsam is a choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the artistic director of SENSEDANCE, a faculty member of The Juilliard School and Fordham University, and a visiting guest professor at Texas Academy of Ballet (Caroly ...

– choreographer and dancer *

Abbey Ryan Abbey Ryan (born 1979, New Jersey) is a contemporary American painter and educator, best known for her representational, classical realism still life and ''trompe-l'œil'' paintings. Her work is inspired by 17th century Dutch still life painting ...

– artist (painter) *

Lenny Schultz Lenny Schultz (born December 13, 1933) is an American retired comedian who performed during the 1970s on television and at comedy clubs in New York City. His madcap style of improvisational comedy influenced other comedians such as Gallagher, C ...

– comedian, gym teacher *

Sally Sheinman Sally Sheinman (born May 16, 1949), is an American painter, digital artist, and installation artist. She is based in the UK. Early life and education Sheinman was born in Watertown, New York where she grew up on a farm. She worked in financ ...

– artist *

Liz Story Liz Story (born October 28, 1956) is an American pianist. She was born in San Diego, California, United States, and played classical music as a child. She studied at Juilliard School and was a student at Hunter College when she saw jazz pianist B ...

– artist (pianist) *

Robin Tewes Robin may refer to: Animals * Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae * Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including: ** European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'') **Bush-robin ** Forest ...

– artist (painter) *

Cora Kelley Ward Cora Kelley Ward (1920–1989) was born in Eunice, Louisiana and lived through the New York City art movements of the 1960s to the 1980s, such as the Color Field Movement. Ward studied painting at the Newcomb Art School at Tulane University and l ...

– artist (painter) *

Nari Ward Nari Ward (born 1963 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is an American artist based in New York City. His work is often composed of found objects from his neighborhood, and "address issues related to consumer culture, poverty, and race". He is a distingui ...

– artist (sculptor) *

Beatrice Witkin Beatrice Braverman Witkin (May 13, 1916 – February 7, 1990) was an American composer and pianist who was best known for her electronic music, especially the theme she composed for the TV show '' Wild, Wild World of Animals'' in 1973. Witkin studi ...

- composer * Esther Zweig - composer

Business

Leon G. Cooperman Leon G. Cooperman (born April 25, 1943) is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager. He is the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm managing over $3.3 billion in assets under management ...

– chairman and CEO, Omega Advisors *

Lewis Frankfort Lewis "Lew" Frankfort is the chairman and former CEO of Coach, Inc. Early life and career Frankfort was born in The Bronx, and holds a B.A. from Hunter College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Frankfort joined Coach in 1979 as the Vi ...

– chairman and CEO, Coach, Inc. *

Jeremiah J. Sheehan Jeremiah, Modern: , Tiberian: ; el, Ἰερεμίας, Ieremíās; meaning "Yah shall raise" (c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish ...

– chairman and CEO, Reynolds Metals, Inc.

Entertainment and sports

Ellen Barkin Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an American actress and a producer. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film '' Diner'', and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as ''Tender Mercies'' (1983), ''Eddie and the ...

– actress *

James Bethea James A. Bethea Jr. (born January 14, 1965) is an American writer, producer and occasional performer, primarily in the field of television. As the former Head of Current Programming for UPN, he is among a handful of African Americans to head a p ...

– producer/television executive *

Inna Brayer Inna Brayer (born in Moscow, Russia) is a Brooklyn-based amateur ballroom dancer competing in the International 10-Dance division. She is best known for being the 2007 Amateur USA Dance National 10-Dance Champions with her partner, Pasha Pashkov. ...

– ballroom dance champion * Edward Burns – actor * Harry Connick, Jr. – actor, singer * Govinda – actor, producer * Bobby Darin – musician, singer, songwriter and actor *

Ruby Dee Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (19 ...

(1945) – Oscar-nominated actress and civil rights activist * Vin Diesel – American actor *

Grete Dollitz Grete Franke Dollitz (June 12, 1924 – May 9, 2013) was an American classical music radio presenter, classical guitarist, and guitar teacher in Richmond, Virginia. She was born in Germany, and immigrated to the United States with her mother a ...

(1946) – radio presenter and guitarist * Hugh Downs – television host * Nikolai Fraiture – musician and bassist for The Strokes * Wilson Jermaine Heredia – Tony Award-winning actor *

Alice Minnie Herts Alice Minnie Herts (c. 1870 – September 28, 1933), sometimes seen as A. Minnie Hertz-Heniger, was an American theatre professional, founder and manager of the Children's Educational Theatre in New York. Mark Twain said of Herts's theatrical work, ...

– founded Children's Educational Theatre in 1903 *

Jake Hurwitz Jacob Penn Cooper Hurwitz (born August 5, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and member of the comedy duo Jake and Amir. He was hired by the comedy website CollegeHumor after becoming an intern there in 2006, and has written and app ...

– web comedian and actor * Richard Jeni – comedian *

Carlos Reginald King Carlos Reginald King (born October 2, 1979) is the CEO of television production company, Kingdom Reign Entertainment - which produces shows such as ''Belle Collective'' (2020), and ''Love & Marriage: Huntsville'' (2019) seen on the Oprah Winfrey N ...

- executive producer * Natasha Leggero – actress/comedian *

Leigh Lezark The Misshapes are a New York City-based DJ duo composed of DJs Leigh Lezark, and Geordon Nicol. Previously the group consisted of Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol and Greg Krelenstein. Group history Night club years, 2003–2008 Leigh Lezark met ...

– member of DJ trio

the Misshapes The Misshapes are a New York City-based DJ duo composed of DJs Leigh Lezark, and Geordon Nicol. Previously the group consisted of Leigh Lezark, Geordon Nicol and Greg Krelenstein. Group history Night club years, 2003–2008 Leigh Lezark met ...

* Quinn Marston – singer-songwriter of

indie folk Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music. Indie folk hybridizes the acoustic guitar melodies of traditional folk music with contemporary instrumentation. The genre has its ...

Janet MacLachlan Janet Angel MacLachlan (August 27, 1933 – October 11, 2010) was an American actress who had roles in such television series as ''The Rockford Files'', ''Alias (TV series), Alias'' and ''The Golden Girls''. She is best remembered for her key s ...

(1955) – actress * Deepti Naval – actress, filmmaker, writer and photographer * Julianne Nicholson – actress on ''

Law & Order: Criminal Intent ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' is an American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 20 ...

'' (did not graduate) * Rhea Perlman – actress * Dascha Polanco – actress *

The Kid Mero ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

– former co-host of Viceland's '' Desus & Mero'' and former co-host of

Showtime Showtime or Show Time may refer to: Film * ''Showtime'' (film), a 2002 American action/comedy film * ''Showtime'' (video), a 1995 live concert video by Blur Television Networks and channels * Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Global w ...

's '' Desus & Mero''; AKA SKKRRRRT Loder, Ben Barson, Light-An-L Dutchie, Barmelo Xanthony, and the Plantain Supernova in the Sky *

Daniel Ravner Daniel Ravner ( Hebrew name: , born April 1, 1976) is an Israeli writer, speaker, and cross media creator. He is known for his work on Israeli television and blogging on crossmedia and internet trends. In March 2017, Ravner launched his startup n ...

– writer, speaker, cross media creator *

Judy Reyes Judy Reyes (born November 5, 1967) is an American actress, model and producer, best known for her roles as Carla Espinosa on the NBC/ABC medical comedy series '' Scrubs'' (2001–2009), and as Zoila Diaz in the Lifetime comedy-drama ''Devious M ...

– actress *

DJ Ricardo! DJ Ricardo! is a Puerto Rican-American DJ and producer. He is best known for conceptualizing, compiling, editing, and mixing the first annual mixed dance compilation series on Ultra Records Ultra Records is an American record label fo ...

– DJ/producer *

Margherita Roberti Margherita Roberti (1925 – January 23, 2021Esther Rolle – actress *

Ron Rothstein Ronald L. Rothstein (born December 27, 1942) is an American former professional basketball coach and college basketball player, who has led many different National Basketball Association, NBA teams. He served as the first head coach for the Miam ...

– basketball coach *

Mirko Savone Mirko Savone is an Italian voice-over actor born in Frosinone, Italy in 1985. Best known in Italy for giving his voice to Christian Bale, Elijah Wood, and many TV series and cartoons for Disney Channel, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and other Na ...

– actor and voice-over * Jean Stapleton – actress *

Nick Valensi Nicholas Valensi (born January 16, 1981) is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his role as lead and rhythm guitarist in the American rock band The Strokes. Since 2001, the band has released six studio albums, some of which Valen ...

– musician and guitarist for The Strokes *

J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner (born August 20, 1967) aka Dr. Buzz is a licensed forensic psychologist who provides weekly commentary for the TV show CopyCat Killers which airs on Reelz channel. Career Von Ornsteiner is a licensed psychologist and has ...

– forensic psychologist/television personality

Government, politics, and social issues

Rabab Abdulhadi Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (born 1955) is a Palestinian Americans, Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director. She is an Associate professor, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Race and Resistance Stud ...

(born 1955), Palestinian-born American scholar, activist, educator, editor, and an academic director. * Bella Abzug (1942) – Congresswoman (1971–1977), women's rights advocate, political activist *

Charles Barron Charles Barron (born October 7, 1950) is an American activist and politician who currently serves in the New York City Council, representing Brooklyn's 42nd district. He previously held the same seat from 2002 to 2013, and served in the New Y ...

–

New York City Council The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five Borough (New York City), boroughs. The council serves as a check against the Mayor of New York City, mayor in a may ...

member *

Keiko Bonk Keiko Cecilia Bonk (born 1954) is an American artist, musician and politician from Hawaii. Bonk co-founded the Hawaii Green Party and was the first person in North America elected to a partisan level office as a member of the Green Party of the ...

– Activist, artist, politician, and highest-ranking elected

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

member in the United States * Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick (1963) – Judge, first Hispanic woman named to the New York State Court of Appeals *

Helene S. Coleman Helene S. Coleman (April 22, 1925 - January 30, 2021) was the president of the National Council of Jewish Women in the USA. She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 1982. Coleman was instrumental in establishing the '' Guardian ...

(1925) – President, National Council of Jewish Women * Robert R. Davila (1965) – President,

Gallaudet University Gallaudet University ( ) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the first sc ...

and advocate for the rights of the hearing impaired *

Martin Garbus Martin Garbus (born August 8, 1934) is an American attorney. He has argued cases throughout the country involving constitutional, criminal, copyright, and intellectual property law. He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court, as well ...

(1955) – First Amendment attorney * Paula Harper – art historian *

Florence Howe Florence Rosenfeld Howe (March 17, 1929 – September 12, 2020) was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian who is considered to have been a leader of the contemporary feminist movement. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New ...

(1950) – Founder of women's studies and founder/publisher of the Feminist Press/CUNY *

Teresa Patterson Hughes Teresa Patterson Hughes (October 3, 1932 – November 13, 2011) was an American politician and educator. Teresa P. Hughes, a member of the Democratic Party, served from 1992 to 2000 as a California State Senator The California State Senate is ...

– California State Senator * Mary Johnson Lowe (1951) – Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York *

Roger Manno Roger P. Manno (born April 26, 1966) is an American politician. He was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2006 to represent the 19th Legislative District, and in 2010 was elected to the Maryland State Senate. Background Roger P. M ...

– Maryland politician *

Soia Mentschikoff Soia Mentschikoff (April 5, 1915 – June 18, 1984) was a Russian American lawyer, law professor, legal scholar and law school dean, best known for her work in the development and drafting of the Uniform Commercial Code. She served as dean of Un ...

(1934) – law professor who worked on the Uniform Commercial Code; first woman partner of a major law firm; first woman elected president, Association of American Law Schools *

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. Thomas J. Murphy Jr. (born August 15, 1944) is an American former politician and city management consultant from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served in state government in two capacities, from 1979 to 1982 representing the 17th district, and f ...

(1973) – Mayor,

Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsyl ...

, 1994–2006 * Pauli Murray (1933) – first African-American woman named an Episcopal priest; human rights activist; lawyer and co-founder of N. O. W. * Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. – Medal of Honor; United States Marine Corps, Vietnam *

Antonia Pantoja Antonia Pantoja (September 13, 1922 – May 24, 2002), was a Puerto Rican educator, social worker, feminist, civil rights leader and the founder of ''ASPIRA'', the Puerto Rican Forum, Boricua College and ''Producir''. In 1996, she was the fi ...

– Puerto Rican community leader, founder of

Boricua College Boricua College is a private college in New York City designed to serve the educational needs of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in the United States. It was founded by Victor G. Alicea and several others. Faculty The school employs a largely ...

Thomas S. Popkewitz Thomas S. Popkewitz (born August 16, 1940) is an Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, USA. His studies explore historically and contemporary education as practices of m ...

– Professor of curriculum theory,

University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' ...

* Jeanette Reibman (1937) – Pennsylvania State Representative and State Senator *

Sandra Schnur Sandra Schnur (July 30, 1935 – February 2, 1994) was a pioneer American disability rights leader and author, working mainly in New York City. Early life Schnur was born on July 30, 1935, in New York City to a Jewish family. Schnur contracted po ...

– disability rights advocate * Larry Seidlin – Broward County, Florida Judge, presided over

Anna Nicole Smith Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a ''Playboy'' magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 ...

's estate *

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presid ...

– United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton; tenth president of Hunter College (1980–1988) * John Timoney – Chief of Police of Miami, Florida

Literature and journalism

Mohamad Bazzi Mohamad Bazzi ( ar, محمد بزي) is a Lebanese-American journalist. He is the former Middle East bureau chief at ''Newsday'' and a current faculty member of New York University. Bazzi was the 2007-2008 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Co ...

– journalist * Maurice Berger – cultural critic * Peter Carey – writer *

Colin Channer Colin Channer (born 13 October 1963) is a Jamaican writer, often referred to as "Bob Marley with a pen," due to the spiritual, sensual, social themes presented from a literary Jamaican perspective. Indeed, his first two full-length novels, ''Wait ...

– writer, musician, co-founder of Calabash International Literary Festival Trust * Joy Davidman – writer, poet *

Garance Franke-Ruta Garance Franke-Ruta is the executive editor of GEN by Medium. She has worked as Washington editor of Yahoo News and editor in chief of Yahoo Politics, Voices columnist and politics editor of ''The Atlantic'' Online, national web politics editor ...

– journalist *

Martin Greif Martin Joel Greif (February 4, 1938, The Bronx, New York City - November 17, 1996, Cork (city), Cork, Ireland) was an American editor, lecturer, publisher and writer. He was the uncle of heavy metal music personality and lawyer Eric Greif. Backg ...

– writer, publisher, former managing editor of

Time-Life Books Time Life, with sister subsidiaries StarVista Live and Lifestyle Products Group, a holding of Direct Holdings Global LLC, is an American production company and direct marketer conglomerate, that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, ...

Andrew Hubner Andrew Keith Hubner (16 October 1962 – August 10, 2022), also known as Andrew Huebner and Drew Hubner, was an American author and college lecturer. He has been compared to Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, and Thomas Wolfe. Early life ...

– novelist *

Ada Louise Huxtable Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the ...

(1941) – writer,

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

-winning architectural critic *

Colette Inez Colette Inez (June 3, 1931 – January 16, 2018) was an American poet and a faculty member at Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She published ten poetry collections and won the Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, ...

– poet, academic, Guggenheim,

Rockefeller Rockefeller is a German surname, originally given to people from the village of Rockenfeld near Neuwied in the Rhineland and commonly referring to subjects associated with the Rockefeller family. It may refer to: People with the name Rockefeller fa ...

, and two

NEA Fellowship The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

s *

Phil Klay Phil Klay (; born 1983) is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, '' Redeployment''. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under ...

– writer Redeployment *

Bel Kaufman Bella Kaufman (May 10, 1911 – July 25, 2014) was an American teacher and author, well known for writing the bestselling 1964 novel ''Up the Down Staircase.'' Early life Bella's father, Michael Kaufman (Mikhail Y. Koyfman) and her mother, Lal ...

– teacher and author, best known for the 1965 novel '' Up the Down Staircase'' * Audre Lorde (1959) – African-American poet, essayist, educator and activist *

Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel '' Brown Girl, Brownstones''. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant. Life and career Marshall wa ...

– author, MacArthur Fellow "genius grant,"

Dos Passos Prize for Literature The John Dos Passos Prize is an annual literary award given to American writers. The Prize was founded at Longwood University Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia. Founded in 1839, it is the third-oldest public un ...

Jenny B. Merrill Jenny B. Merrill (September 4, 1854 – February 19, 1934) was an American early childhood educator and author. The first articles published in the U.S. regarding Montessori education were written by Merrill. Biography Jane Beggs Merrill was born ...

(1871) – educator, author *

Lilian Moore Lilian Moore (pen name, Sara Asheron; March 17, 1909July 20, 2004), was a writer of children's books, teacher and poet. She founded and edited for Scholastic's Arrow Book Club, a low-cost mail-order paperback service for children. She also helped ...

, author of children's books, teacher and poet *

Melissa Plaut Mel Plaut is a writer from New York City who was recognized by ABC News and the Associated Press in January 2006. Plaut ran a blog called "New York Hack" about her career as a New York City taxi driver. In 2007, her book ''Hack: How I Stopped Wo ...

– author *

Sylvia Field Porter Sylvia Field Porter (June 18, 1913 – June 5, 1991) was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people. Early life Porter was born in Patchogue, New York, on Long I ...

– economist/journalist, former financial editor of the '' New York Post'' *

Carole Radziwill Princess Carole Ann Radziwiłł (; ; born August 20, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and television personality. Throughout the course of nearly two decades working as a journalist and producer for ABC News, Radziwill's reporting ear ...

— journalist, author, and television personality *

Helen Reilly Helen Reilly (April 25, 1891 – January 11, 1962), was an American mystery writer known for a series of novels featuring Inspector Christopher McKee, head of the fictitious Manhattan Homicide Squad. She wrote mostly under her own name but also und ...

– mystery writer * Sonia Sanchez – poet * Paula Schwartz – novelist *

Augusta Huiell Seaman Augusta Huiell Seaman (April 3, 1879 – June 5, 1950) was an American author of children's literature. Augusta Huiell Seaman was born Augusta Curtiss Huiell in New York City, on April 3, 1879, the daughter of the bookkeeper John Valentine ...

– writer *

Julie Shigekuni Julie Shigekuni (born 1962) is an American writer and professor. Her novels include ''A Bridge Between Us'', ''Invisible Gardens'', ''Unending Nora'', and ''In Plain View'', and she has won a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. She is Pr ...

– novelist, professor at University of New Mexico * Ned Vizzini – writer

Science and technology

Henriette Avram Henriette Davidson Avram (October 7, 1919 – April 22, 2006) was a computer programmer and systems analyst who developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information ...

–

Computer programmer A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software. A programmer is someone who writes/creates ...

and

systems analyst A systems analyst, also known as business technology analyst, is an information technology (IT) professional who specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems. Systems analysts assess the suitability of information syst ...

Patricia Bath Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery. Her invention was called Laserphaco Probe, which she pat ...

– pioneering

ophthalmologist Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgery, surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Followin ...

* Patricia Charache – Microbiologist and infectious disease specialist * Mildred Cohn – biochemist, National Medal of Science *

Mary P. Dolciani Mary P. Dolciani (1923–1985) was an American mathematician, known for her work with secondary-school mathematics teachers. Education and career Dolciani earned her Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) at Hunter College in New York City, and she compl ...

– mathematician; influential in developing the basic modern method used for teaching algebra in the United States * Mildred Dresselhaus – National Medal of Science; Institute Professor at MIT; Professor, physics and

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Gertrude Elion –

Nobel Laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make out ...

, medicine;

biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and Cell (biology), cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of ...

; National Medal of Science (1991); Lemelson-MIT Prize (1997); first woman, National Inventors Hall of Fame *

Charlotte Friend Charlotte Friend (March 11, 1921 – January 13, 1987) was an American virologist. She is best known for her discovery of the Friend leukemia virus. She helped to establish the concept of the oncovirus, studied the role of the host immune respon ...

– virologist; member,

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

; discoverer, Friend Leukemia Virus and Friend erythroleukemia cells *

Erich Jarvis Erich Jarvis is an American professor at Rockefeller University. He leads a team of researchers who study the neurobiology of vocal learning, a critical behavioral substrate for spoken language. The animal models he studies include songbirds, par ...

– Professor of neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center *

Edna Kramer Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (May 11, 1902 – July 9, 1984), born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books. Kramer was born in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants. She earned her B.A. ''summa cum laude ...

– American mathematician and popularizer of mathematics *

Marilyn Levy Marilyn Levy (April 3, 1922 – June 19, 2014) was an American chemist and inventor based at Fort Monmouth. She was awarded the United States Army's Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1971. Early life Marilyn Levy was born in New York City ...

– photographic chemist at Fort Monmouth from 1953 to 1979 *

– forensic psychologist/television personality * Arlie Petters – professor of physics, mathematics, and business administration,

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

* Mina Rees – mathematician; first female President,

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(1971) *

Rosalyn Yalow Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay ...

–

, medicine; medical physicist; National Medal of Science (1988);

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is one of the prizes awarded by the Lasker Foundation for a fundamental discovery that opens up a new area of biomedical science. The award frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine; almost 5 ...

(1977)

Notable faculty

Vishwa Adluri Vishwa Adluri specializes in Indian philosophy. He is a strong critic of the academic discipline of Indology. Education Adluri enrolled for a PhD under the supervision of :de:Michael Hahn (Indologe), Michael Hahn, Professor of Indology and Tibeto ...

, professor of religion and philosophy *

Meena Alexander Meena Alexander (17 February 1951 – 21 November 2018) was an Indian American poet, scholar, and writer. Born in Allahabad, India, and raised in India and Sudan, Alexander later lived and worked in New York City, where she was a Distinguished P ...

, poet * Marimba Ani (Dona Richards), afrocentric anthropologist, coined the term "Maafa" for African holocaust *

Dora Askowith Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress. Life She was born in Kovno. She graduate ...

(1884–1958), Lithuanian-born American author and historian *

Harry Binswanger Harry Binswanger (; born 1944) is an American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and a board member of the Ayn Rand Institute. He was an associate of Ayn Rand, working with her on ''The Ayn Rand Lexicon'' and helping her edit the second editio ...

(born 1944), philosopher *

Emily Braun Emily Braun (born 1957) is a Canadian-born art historian, curator and Distinguished Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Braun is a specialist in the history of modern European art ...

, Canadian-born art historian and curator * Joyce Brothers (1927–2013), psychologist, television personality, advice columnist, and writer *

Jeannette Brown Jeannette Elizabeth Brown (born May 13, 1934) is a retired American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author. Life and education Brown was born in 1934 in The Bronx, New York. According to Brown, when she was young, she contracted tuberc ...

(born 1934), chemist, historian, author * Peter Carey, Australian novelist *

Neal L. Cohen Dr. Neal L. Cohen was the New York City Health Commissioner starting in 1998 and before that, Mental Health Commissioner since March 1996. In January 2007, he began teaching full time at Hunter College as a Distinguished Lecturer in Public Healt ...

, NYC Health Commissioner *

LaWanda Cox LaWanda Fenlason Cox (1909–2005) was a pioneering historian of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. Cox was born on September 24, 1909, in Aberdeen, Washington. She attended Washington High School in Portland, Oregon. Later ...

, historian *

Kelle Cruz Kelle Cruz is an astrophysicist who specializes in studying brown dwarfs. She currently works as an associate professor at Hunter College in New York City. With her study of brown dwarfs, Cruz hopes to better understand planets outside the Solar ...

, astrophysicist *

, photographer *

, mathematician * Emil Draitser (born 1937), author and professor of Russian * Nathan Englander, novelist *

Philip Ewell Philip Adrian Ewell (born February 16, 1966) is an American professor of music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "mus ...

, music theorist *

Stuart Ewen Stuart Ewen (born 1945) is a New York-based author, historian and lecturer on media, consumer culture, and the compliance profession. He is also a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, i ...

, historian and author * Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), political scientist and author * Helen Frankenthaler, artist *

Godfrey Gumbs Godfrey Gumbs is a professor of theoretical solid state physics. He is a distinguished professor of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Maria A. Chianta and Alice M. Stoll Professor of Physics at Hunter Col ...

, physicist *

E. Adelaide Hahn Emma Adelaide Hahn (April 1, 1893 – July 8, 1967) was an American linguist and classicist who specialized in Latin grammar and Indo-European linguistics. She served as chair of the Hunter College Classics department for twenty-seven years and wa ...

, classicist and linguist *

Winifred Hathaway Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870 — December 1, 1954) was a Welsh-born American educator. She was secretary and associate director of the National Society of the Prevention of Blindness from 1916 to 1949. Early life Winifred H. Phillips was bor ...

, advocate for blind education *

H. Wiley Hitchcock Hugh Wiley Hitchcock (September 28, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan – December 5, 2007 in New York, New York) was an American musicologist. He is best known for founding the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College of the City Uni ...

, musicologist * Alice von Hildebrand, Belgian-born American philosopher * Eva Hoffman, writer * Tina Howe, playwright *

Julia Indichova Julia Indichova is an American reproductive healthcare activist and author. She is best known for her book ''Inconceivable: A Woman’s Triumph Over Despair and Statistics'' (2001), which was hailed by Library Journal as “an important consumer ...

, reproductive healthcare activist and author *

Victoria Johnson Victoria Johnson (born 1969) is an American author and historian. She is a Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. Early life and education Johnson was born and raised in Ithaca, New York. She attended Yale University for her Ba ...

, Associate Professor of Urban Policy *

Francis Kilcoyne Francis P. Kilcoyne (died 1985) was an American professor of English and the third President of Brooklyn College, from 1966 to 1967. He was consecrated a Roman Catholic priest in the Brooklyn diocese at St. James Cathedral in 1980, when he was 7 ...

(died 1985), third President of

John Kneller John William Kneller, OAP (October 15, 1916 – July 2, 2009) was an English-American French language professor and scholar, and the fifth President of Brooklyn College. Biography Kneller was born in Oldham, England, to John W. Kneller and M ...

(1916–2009), English-American professor and fifth President of

Julia Jones-Pugliese Julia Jones-Pugliese (May 9, 1909 – March 6, 1993) was an American national champion foil and épée fencer and fencing coach. Early and personal life She was born Julia Jones, in New York, New York, and was Jewish. She graduated New Yor ...

(1909–1993), national champion fencer and fencing coach *

Bo Lawergren Bo Lawergren is a Professor Emeritus of physics at Hunter College, The City University of New York. He is also a music archaeologist. He received his PhD in nuclear physics from the Australian National University of Canberra, Australia A ...

, physicist and musicologist * Jan Heller Levi (born 1954), poet *

Lillian Rosanoff Lieber Lillian Rosanoff Lieber (July 26, 1886 in Nicolaiev, Russian Empire - July 11, 1986 in Queens, New York) was a Russian-American mathematician and popular author. She often teamed up with her illustrator husband, Hugh Gray Lieber, to produce wor ...

(1886-1986), Russian-American mathematician and author * Audre Lorde (1934–1992), poet *

Marguerite Merington Marguerite Merington (1857/60/61 – May 20, 1951) was an English-born American author of short stories, essays, dramatic works, and biographies. For several years, she taught in Greek and Latin at the Normal College in New York before pursuing ...

(1857–1951), author * Robert Motherwell, artist *

Carrie Moyer Carrie Moyer is an American painter and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Moyer's paintings and public art projects have been exhibited both in the US and Europe since the early 1990s. Life and work Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer who ha ...

, artist * Colum McCann, Irish novelist *

Leonard Peikoff Leonard Sylvan Peikoff (; born October 15, 1933) is a Canadian-American philosopher. He is an Objectivist and was a close associate of Ayn Rand, who designated him heir to her estate. He is a former professor of philosophy and host of a natio ...

, Canadian-American,

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...

's intellectual heir and founder of the Ayn Rand Institute *

Jeffrey T. Parsons Jeffrey T. Parsons is an American psychologist, researcher, and educator; he was a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and was the Director of Hunter College's ...

, psychologist *

Jennifer Raab Jennifer J. Raab is the 13th and current president of Hunter College of the City University of New York holding this position since June 2001. She is responsible for overseeing the functions of CUNY's college and its affiliates such as the Hu ...

, 13th and current president of Hunter College * Mina Rees, mathematician *

Paul Ramirez Jonas Paul Ramírez Jonas (born 1965, Pomona, California) is an American artist and arts educator, who is known for his social practice artworks exploring the potential between artist, audience, artwork and public. Many of Ramirez Jonas's projects use ...

, artist *

Blake Schwarzenbach Alexander Blake Schwarzenbach (born May 21, 1967) is an American musician. He is the singer and guitarist of Jawbreaker (1986–1996; 2017–present), and was also a member of Jets to Brazil (1997–2003), The Thorns of Life (2008–2009), a ...

, singer/guitarist of

Jawbreaker Jawbreaker may refer to: * Gobstopper, a hard candy with multiple layers Arts and entertainment * ''Jawbreakers'' (album), an album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Harry "Sweets" Edison * Jawbreaker (band), an American rock band * Jawbreakers (duo) ...

and

Jets to Brazil Jets to Brazil was an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, USA. They formed in 1997 and were active until 2003. History Jets to Brazil was founded by Blake Schwarzenbach, the former frontman of Jawbreaker, and Jeremy Chatelain, w ...

* Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Soviet-born American writer *

Lao Genevra Simons Lao Genevra Simons (1870–1949) also referred to as Lao G. Simons, was an American mathematician, writer, and historian of mathematics known for her influential book ''Fabre and Mathematics and Other Essays''. Simons was head of the mathematic ...

, mathematician and math historian * Tom Sleigh, poet * Tony Smith, sculptor * Leo Steinberg, Russian-born American art historian * John Kennedy Toole, author *

Lionel Trilling Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, ...

(1905–1975), literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher *

Edward P. Tryon Edward P. Tryon (September 4, 1940 – December 11, 2019) was an American scientist and a professor emeritus of physics at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was the first physicist to propose that our universe originat ...

, physicist *

Lydia Fowler Wadleigh Lydia Fowler Wadleigh (February 8, 1817 – October 27, 1888) was an American educator, principal of the first high school for girls in New York City, and "lady superintendent" of the precursor to Hunter College. Early life and education Lydia Fo ...

, "lady superintendent" of the Normal School *

, artist *

Jacob Weinberg Jacob Weinberg (1 July 1879, Odesa – 2 November 1956 New York) was a Russian-born American Jewish composer and pianist who composed over 135 works for piano and other instruments. He was one of the founders of the Jewish National Conserva ...

, pianist and composerLevin, Neil M
Biography: Jacob Weinberg 1879–1956

Milken Archive The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States. It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an ext ...

. Retrieved August 29, 2014. * Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth; born 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former

Haganah Haganah ( he, הַהֲגָנָה, lit. ''The Defence'') was the main Zionist paramilitary organization of the Jewish population ("Yishuv") in Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and its disestablishment in 1948, when it became the core of the ...

sniper. * Blanche Colton Williams, professor of English literature and head of the English department

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