This edition: The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
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Original tape date: August 16, 2024. First aired: September 16, 2024.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we begin a new series profiling Pulitzer Prize winners who graduated from the City University of New York. First, we get a history lesson on the Pulitzer Prize and its namesake, Joseph Pulitzer, who helped set new standards for how journalism is recognized. Then, Angela Hill shines a light on the often unseen passions and pain surrounding one of America's most controversial weapons. Finally, we honor National Hispanic Heritage Month by remembering the first Latino author to win a Pulitzer Prize in fiction: Oscar Hijuelos.
Guest List
Andrew Hill Senior Scientist, Vizzuality
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Wednesday, July 15 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, August 8 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 10 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Thursday, July 16 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 11 - 5:00pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, July 17 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Friday, July 31 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 1 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 2 - 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, July 18 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Friday, August 7 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 8 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 5:30pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, July 19 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- TBA
- Monday, July 20 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 21 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 22 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 23 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 27 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 28 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 29 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 30 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, August 12 - 5:00pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, July 24 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, July 25 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, July 26 - 7:30am, 5:30pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Friday, July 31 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 3 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Saturday, August 1 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 4 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Sunday, August 2 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 7 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, July 12 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, July 11 - 7:30am
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, July 10 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, July 5 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, July 4 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, July 3 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, July 4 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 5 - 5:30pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, July 3 - 7:30am
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, July 2 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 14 - 5:00pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, June 28 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, June 27 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, June 26 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, June 27 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 28 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, June 26 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, June 22 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 13 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, June 21 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, June 20 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, June 19 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, June 20 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, June 21 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, June 19 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Thursday, June 18 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, June 30 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, June 17 - 5:00pm
- Monday, June 29 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Tuesday, June 16 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, June 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, June 25 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, July 7 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 9 - 5:00pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Monday, June 15 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, June 24 - 5:00pm
- Monday, July 6 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, July 8 - 5:00pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Sunday, June 14 - 5:30pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, June 14 - 7:30am
- Friday, July 10 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, July 11 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 12 - 5:30pm
