- Robert Morris
Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art. Morris studied at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, and Reed College. - Thomas Hunter
Thomas Hunter was an immigrant from Ireland to the United States. He is most famous for founding the Female Normal and High School in New York City, now known as Hunter College. The school is today considered one of the most valuable assets of the City University of New York, one of the world's largest urban university systems. Hunter was president of the school for 37 years. During his tenure as president of the school, … - Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Diesel is the founder of the production companies OneRace Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records. Diesel made his stage debut at age seven when he appeared in "Theatre for the New City," which was produced in Greenwich Village and directed by Thomas Hinkerman. He remained involved with the theatre throughout adolescence, going on to attend the city's Hunter College, … - Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander Meena Alexander was born in India and raised there and in Africa. Her poems have been widely anthologized and translated. Her most recent volumes of poetry are Raw Silk (TriQuarterly Books, 2004) and Illiterate Heart — winner of a 2002 PEN Open Book Award. Her memoir Fault Lines — included in Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 1993 — appeared in a new edition in 2003 with a Coda entitled “Book of Childhood.” - Peter Carey
Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and after living in Melbourne, London and Sydney, he is now based in New York. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. He wrote advertising copy in the early days of his literary career. He also collaborated on the screenplay of the film "Until the End of the World". - Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, … - Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Sanchez attended public schools in New York City and then Hunter College, where she received a B.A. in 1955. Sanchez became an important voice in the revolutionary social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. - 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 largest college and its various affiliates such as the Hunter College High School for gifted students. - Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the women's movement. She famously said, "This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives," in her successful 1970 campaign to join that body. - Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. - Colum McCann
Colum McCann (born 1965) is an Irish-born writer of literary fiction, whose novels include "This Side of Brightness", "Dancer", and "Zoli". McCann teaches creative writing at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. - Ellen Rona Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. - Robert Altman
Robert Mark Altman (born October 20,1944) is an American photographer. Altman attended Hunter College at the City University of New York. After graduation, Altman was taught photography by Ansel Adams. He was soon hired as a photojournalist by "Rolling Stone" magazine. Following his early success as chief staff photographer for "Rolling Stone" he expanded into the realm of fashion photography and fine art. - Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. He is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile performer who conquered many music genres, including folk, country, pop, and jazz. He was also an award-winning actor, songwriter and music business entrepreneur. - John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 - July 16, 1998), born John Henry Clark in Union Springs, Alabama to John (a sharecropper) and Willie Ella (Mays) Clarke (a washer woman), was a Pan-Africanist, author, poet, historian, journalist, lecturer and teacher. Clarke was one of the most significant influences on the search for the role Africans play in World History. Clarke was the author of numerous articles that have appeared in leading scholarly journals. - Tony Smith
Tony Smith (September 23, 1912 - December 26, 1980) was an American sculptor, visual artist, and a noted theorist on art. Tony Smith was born in South Orange, New Jersey. He first trained as an architect and in 1939 began working for Frank Lloyd Wright and was introduced to Wright's module concrete blocks. He also did some painting as a part-time student at the Art Students League of New York but did not begin sculpting until 1956 when he was age 44. - Tony Avella
Tony Avella is a member of the New York City Council from the borough of Queens. He graduated from Hunter College. Avella is a very controversial, polarizing figure, and has received extensive public criticism for his anti-housing stances. Avella is best known for his highly contentious campaign to limit development in Queens. - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Mark Levine
Mark LeVine is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He's also a religious scholar and a musician. He received his B.A. in comparative religion and biblical studies from Hunter College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, as well as Italian, French and German. - Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941. Unable to obtain a graduate research position due to her sex, she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher, … - Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky was born in New York City in 1940. Although he developed an early interest in music and drawing, Prelutsky had reason to believe that poetry wasn't for him. In elementary school, one teacher left him with the impression that "poetry was the literary equivalent of liver." In junior high, Prelutsky was actually beat up because he published a poem in the school yearbook. - Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939) is an American performance artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. A member of the Fluxus group, her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, … - Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer (born Honolulu, Hawaii, 1966) is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA Printmaking) and Hunter College, New York (MFA), and has lived and worked in New York since 1990. He has had solo shows at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2001), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2002), the Barbican Arts Centre, London (2003) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, … - David A. Caputo
David Armand Caputo became the sixth president of Pace University in 2000. He serves as co-chair of the New York State Regents' Professional Standards and Practices Board, as a director of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, on the Council of Presidents of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and as a director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Westchester Arts Council. - Alice Aycock
Alice Aycock (born November 20, 1946) is an American sculptor. Aycock studied at Douglass College in New Brunswick, New Jersey graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1968, she then went to New York where she studied for her masters at Hunter College where she was taught and supervised by Robert Morris, she graduated in 1971. Her early sculptures were site specific and were largely made from wood and stone, in the 1980s she began to use steel. - John Hollander
John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American poet and literary critic. As of 2007 he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Previously he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He attended Columbia University where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and had Allen Ginsberg as one of his classmates. - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born on July 19, 1921) is an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique. Born Rosalyn Sussman in New York City to Simon Sussman and Clara Zipper, she attended Walton High School and graduated in 1941 from Hunter College, where she developed an interest in physics. - Martina Arroyo
Martina Arroyo is an American soprano, best known for her performances of the Italian spinto repertoire. She possessed a large, rich voice that soared over large orchestras but could also be refined to a lovely pianissimo. Miss Arroyo was born on February 2, 1937 in New York City. After completing a B.A. in romance languages at Hunter College and while working on her dissertation at New York University on Ignacio Silone's "Pane e Vino and Vino e Pane", … - Karen Hunter
Karen Hunter is an American journalist and writing collaborator. She has co-authored books with Queen Latifah, Al Sharpton, Mason Betha, Karrine Steffans, LL Cool J, Wendy Williams, JL King and Cedric the Entertainer. Hunter spent four years as a part of the New York Daily News' seven-member editorial board. In 1999, she was a concurrent member of respective news teams that won the Pulitzer Prize and the Polk Award. - Susan Crile
Susan Crile (b. Cleveland, 1942) is an artist, primarily a painter and printmaker. A graduate of Bennington College, she has had over 50 solo shows. Her work is in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and others. She has taught at Princeton and New York University. - William Baziotes
William Baziotes was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baziotes began his formal art training in 1933 at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He studied with Charles Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Gifford Beal, and Leon Kroll. He was employed by the Federal Art Project in the late 1930s. - Erich Jarvis
When he was eighteen years old, Erich Jarvis stood at a crossroads: should he be a professional dancer or a scientist? Very different directions, clearly, and Jarvis' choice - to go to college and pursue a scientific education - led him on the path towards becoming one of today's brightest young stars in the field of neurobiology. Not only is Erich Jarvis ' personal story compelling, but his dedication, perseverance, and enthusiasm for his field of science is also truly inspiring. - Regina Resnik
Regina Resnik (born 30 August 1922 in New York City) is an opera singer and actress, first as a soprano, then a mezzo-soprano. After graduating from Hunter College in 1942, Regina Resnik made her concert debut in Brooklyn. She followed that up by making her operatic debut in Manhattan during the same year. She made her first Metropolitan Opera appearance in 1944 and began performing internationally. In 1971, she began to direct opera productions, and in 1983, … - Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen, a syndicated columnist for the "Washington Post", is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and attended Hunter College, NYU, and Columbia University. He is a four-time honorable-mention winner in Pulitzer Prize competitions, and is now a journalism professor at Columbia University. Cohen splits his time between Washington, D.C. and New York City. - Tina Howe
Tina Howe (born 1937 in New York City) is an American playwright. She is best known for her plays "Painting Churches" and "Coastal Disturbances"; the latter received a Tony Award nomination for best play in 1987. She currently teaches at Hunter College in New York City and has been a member of the council of The Dramatists Guild of America since 1990. In June of 2006 she traveled to Paris as a guide for students studying abroad. - John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto (born John Gatto) is an American retired school teacher of 29 years 8 months and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling and the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions. - Ramona Moore
Ramona Moore, or 'Romona Moore', depending upon the media-spelling version of her name, versus the college-listed spelling of her name, was a young, black 21-year old (one account has her at age 23) Hunter College Student who was kidnapped, chained, tortured, raped and murdered in 2003. She lived with her parents, with relatives from Guyana, in the East Flatbush, Brooklyn section of New York City. - Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred S. Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak on November 11 1930 in The Bronx, New York) is an Institute Professor and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dresselhaus received her undergraduate degree at Hunter College in New York, and carried out postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge on a Fulbright Fellowship and Harvard University. - Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon for her career. - Richard Jeni
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 - March 10 2007), better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
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