This edition: Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
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Original tape date: May 19, 2025. First aired: June 16, 2025.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three Pulitzer Prize winners who graduated from the City University of New York. Marvin Hamlisch graduated from Queens College in the midst of an entertainment career that would eventually see him earn the coveted EGOT. Queens College alum Richard Ofshe has dedicated his work to undoing false confessions. And City College graduate Upton Sinclair's writing and activism have helped redefine America’s relationship to politics – and food – for more than a century.
Guest List
Richard Ofshe Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Thursday, January 22 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 26 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 4 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, January 23 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, January 23 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 24 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 25 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, January 24 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, January 25 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, January 27 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 2 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 5 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, January 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 3 - 5:00pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, January 30 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, January 30 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 31 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 1 - 5:30pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, January 31 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, February 1 - 7:30am
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, February 6 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, February 6 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 7 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 8 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, February 7 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, February 8 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, January 19 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 20 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 21 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, January 18 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, January 17 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, January 16 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, January 4 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 11 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, January 3 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 10 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, January 2 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 9 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Sunday, December 28 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 4 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Sunday, December 28 - 7:30am
- Friday, January 9 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 10 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 11 - 5:30pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Saturday, December 27 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 3 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Saturday, December 27 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, December 26 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 2 - 7:30am
- Friday, January 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 17 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 18 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Friday, December 26 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, December 24 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 30 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 7 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 12 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 14 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, December 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, December 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 31 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 6 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 8 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 13 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 15 - 5:00pm
