June 18, 2007
VIA FACSIMILE
Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson
Vice Chancellor of University Relations and
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
The City University of New York
535 East 80th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10021
Dear Vice Chancellor Hershenson:
I am pleased to announce the following faculty and student honors and awards for Hunter
College:
Presidential Appointment:
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Jennifer J. Raab, President of Hunter College, was recently appointed to the
Chairman’s Council of the New York Red Cross.
Faculty Honors and Awards:

Dr. Peter Carey, a Professor of English at Hunter College, has won the New
South Wales Premier’s Christina Stead Award for Best Fiction for his work Theft:
A Love Story. The award is a prestigious literary award in Australia and comes
with $20,000 Australian dollars.
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Dr. Tracy Dennis, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, has
won a KOI Career Development Award from the National Institute of Health to
support her research in the antecedents, correlatives, and consequences of emotion
regulation in young children.
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Dr. Angela Reyes, an Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, has
received a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship through a program
to support research by pre-tenured faculty, particularly minority scholars and
scholars who seek to promote cross cultural understanding. Professor Reyes is
currently at work on a study of Chinese “cram schools” in New York.
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Dr. Kate Parry, a Professor of English at Hunter College, has won the Fulbright
New Century Scholars Fellowship. The New Century Scholars Fellowship
supports efforts to promote literacy in developing or emerging countries. Ms.
Parry's Fellowship is supporting her work in Ghana where she is helping to
develop educational programs to improve reading and writing skills of Ghananian
students.
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Dr. Susan Turner-Meiklejohn, an Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and
Planning at Hunter College, has won the Russell Sage Fellowship. The Russell
Sage Foundation, established in 1907, is the leading foundation supporting
research and publication in social and civic issues. This fellowship is full time
support for 10 months to allow the recipient to devote themselves full time to a
research project that furthers knowledge in a social science.

Dr. Susan Crile, a Professor of Art at Hunter College, has won the Rockefeller
Grant for Residency at Bellagio, Italy. The Rockefeller Foundation chooses a
small cohort of leading artists of various fields as fellows in residence at the
famous Bellagio resort on Lake Como in Italy for this highly sought after
fellowship. Artists are given time and space for their own work and ample
opportunity for conversation across fields.

Dr. Elizabeth Harmon, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter
College, was invited by Richard Leakey to be a speaker at the exclusive Stony
Brook Workshop on Human Evolution. Richard Leakey, one of the foremost
anthropologists and evolutionary scientists, organizes this yearly workshop for
leading scholars in the field to come together to report findings of their ongoing
research.
Student Honors and Awards:

A team of 12 graduate students in the Hunter College Urban Planning
Department, have won the $25,000 first prize in the JPMorgan Chase
Community Development Competition. The annual competition challenges urban
planning graduate schools (including Columbia University and the New School)
to work with non-profit community groups on the development of a small-scale
community-based project. This year’s win marks the fourth time that Hunter’s
team has placed first in the Chase competition. The team presented a proposal
calling for the development of a Health & Fitness Center at Kennedy Airport for
the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), the largest taxi driver
association in the country.
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Tamara Joachim, a Hunter College junior, was chosen as the 2007 Drum Major
Institute Scholar for Public Policy (DMI). DMI is a non-profit think tank that
encourages scholars from colleges around the country to become future
progressive leaders who will bring activism to public policy careers. Joachim is
one of fourteen scholars chosen for their demonstrated commitment to activism
and desire to learn how public policy can advance an agenda of fairness and
equity.
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Talia Krevsky and Long Tran, have been named winners of the 2007 Jeannette
K. Watson Fellowship. Krevsky is a first year student in the CUNY Honors
College and a member of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. Tran is a Hunter
College sophomore majoring in political science and a member of the CUNY
Honors College and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. Hunter is one of ten
colleges in New York City invited to participate in this Program which provides
internship placements with generous stipends for three consecutive summers.
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Kurt Ralski, a 2006 computer science graduate of Hunter College and a video
artist, has been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship. The
Fellowships recognize the artistic excellence of 20 film, video, and new media
artists in the United States with cash awards of $35,000 each.

Neil Landreville, a student in the Hunter College School of Nursing, was
appointed by President Bush to the Council on Service and Civic Participation.
I am extremely proud of the awards and honors achieved by these Hunter faculty
and students. I would appreciate your assistance in announcing these outstanding
achievements at the next Board of Trustees meeting. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jennifer J. Raab
cc: Ms. Hourig Messerlian
Ms. Gail Aidinoff Scovell
Ms. Meredith Halpern
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