This edition: David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
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Original tape date: October 26, 2023. First aired: December 18, 2023.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three MacArthur Fellows from the City University of New York. First, David Rudovsky fights to expand civil rights through strategic litigation aimed at those who make the decisions in government. Bright Sheng fuses Chinese folk music with Western classical traditions to create unique musical forms and become one of the most prolific composers of our time. And, we learn how Patricia Wright went from being a research scientist to being one of the world’s leading conservationists, with a focus on humankind’s distant cousin, the lemur.
Guest List
David Rudovsky Civil Rights Lawyer
Bright Sheng Composer, Conductor and Pianist
Dr. Patricia Wright Primatologist and Conservationist, Primatologist and Conservationist
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Saturday, December 6 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Saturday, December 6 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 21 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 28 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Sunday, December 7 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Sunday, December 7 - 5:30pm
- Friday, December 26 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 2 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, December 8 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 10 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 16 - 5:00pm
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- Tuesday, December 30 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 1 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, December 9 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 11 - 5:00pm
- Monday, December 15 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 17 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 23 - 5:00pm
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- Monday, December 29 - 5:00pm
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- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Friday, December 12 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, December 12 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, December 27 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 3 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Saturday, December 13 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Saturday, December 13 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 28 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 4 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Sunday, December 14 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Sunday, December 14 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 2 - 5:30pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Friday, December 19 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, December 19 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 3 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Saturday, December 20 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Saturday, December 20 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 4 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Sunday, December 21 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Friday, December 26 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Saturday, December 27 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Friday, December 5 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Sunday, November 30 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, November 24 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, November 25 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, November 26 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, November 27 - 5:00pm
- Monday, December 1 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 2 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 3 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 4 - 5:00pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, November 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, November 29 - 7:30am
- Friday, December 5 - 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, November 15 - 5:30pm
- Friday, November 28 - 7:30am
- Sunday, November 30 - 5:30pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Saturday, November 15 - 7:30am
- Friday, November 21 - 5:30pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, November 14 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, November 23 - 7:30am
- Saturday, November 29 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, November 14 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Sunday, November 9 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, November 22 - 7:30am
- Friday, November 28 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Sunday, November 9 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Saturday, November 8 - 5:30pm
- Friday, November 21 - 7:30am
- Sunday, November 23 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Saturday, November 8 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, November 7 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, November 16 - 7:30am
- Saturday, November 22 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, November 7 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Thursday, November 6 - 5:00pm
- Monday, November 10 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, November 11 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, November 12 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, November 13 - 5:00pm
- Monday, November 17 - 5:00pm
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- Thursday, November 20 - 5:00pm
