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Deanna Fei ’95, the author of Girl in Glass, received an excellent review in the New York Times. Her memoir details her experience as the mother of a premature baby whose medical bills caused a huge uproar when AOL CEO downgraded company healthcare in response.…
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes ’76 was selected as a 2015 National Book Award Long List Finalist for nonfiction. Dr. Hodes was also the featured speaker at the Autumn Reception in October and presented a talk on her book.…
Christopher Jackson ’89 edits the winner of the National Book Award for NonFiction, Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Read the interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
The MacArthur Foundation gives away $625,000 each year, with “no strings attached,” to 24 selected artists, writers, scientists, and innovators of all kinds who “are shedding light and making progress on critical issues, pushing the boundaries of their fields, and improving our world in imaginative, unexpected ways…their work, their commitment, …
Jane Tillman Irving ’65 wins the prestigious Writer’s Guild Award for her WCBS radio series, “Civil Rights at 50.”…
Reed Rayman ’04 has been named to Forbes “30 Under 30” for 2015. Reed left investment banking at Goldman Sachs to join the private equity firm of Apollo Global Management.
Jenna Livingston ’02 was selected by Business Insiders as the #6 “Most Creative 30 Under 30 in Advertising.” Jenna is …
A video, published online in the journal Nature Methods in June, shows a new method for converting electrical activity into fluorescent light. This nascent technology was discovered by 35-year-old Harvard University neuroscientist Adam Cohen, a native New Yorker with two doctorates under his belt. Pharmaceutical companies from Biogen Idec Inc. …
Hunter Alumna Mildred Dresselhaus Wins the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Watch her White House interview here. …
The HCHSAA was saddened to learn of the death of Ruby WALLACE Dee ’39, a legend in the American theater and a political activist and pioneer for civil rights throughout her life. She was an Academy Award nominee, and winner of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, and SAG awards, as …
On Sunday, March 2, Bobby Lopez ’93 made history when he accepted his Oscar for the song “Let It Go” in the moving Frozen, making him the youngest artist to ever win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (popularly known as EGOT). Check out one of the articles about …