This edition: John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
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Original tape date: August 11, 2025. First aired: September 29, 2025.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile three Guggenheim Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. John Yao, a graduate of Queens College's Aaron Copland School of Music, makes his intimate life moments louder, fuller, and grander by transforming them into music for a big band. Brooklyn College alum, Sol Yurick, took inspiration from the distant past to explore the social dilemmas of the present in his novel-turned-cult-classic-film, The Warriors. And Hunter College graduate Lisa Corinne Davis is a visual artist who constructs abstract visuals informed by maps and identity.
Guest List
Lisa Corinne Davis Visual Artist
John Yao Composer, Arranger and Bandleader
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, February 15 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Sunday, February 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, March 8 - 5:30pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Monday, February 16 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 19 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 25 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 12 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, February 17 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 23 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 10 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, February 18 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 26 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 11 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, February 20 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, February 20 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 21 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 22 - 5:30pm
- Friday, March 13 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, February 21 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, February 22 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, February 27 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, February 27 - 5:30pm
- Friday, March 13 - 7:30am
- Saturday, March 14 - 5:30pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, February 28 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, February 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, March 14 - 7:30am
- Sunday, March 15 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, March 1 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, March 1 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, March 15 - 7:30am
- TBA
- Monday, March 2 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 3 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 4 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 5 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 9 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 16 - 5:00pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, March 6 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, March 6 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, March 7 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Saturday, March 7 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, March 8 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, February 13 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 14 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, February 8 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, February 7 - 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
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, February 6 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, February 1 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, January 31 - 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
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, January 30 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, January 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 3 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 9 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 12 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, January 27 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 2 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 11 - 5:00pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, January 25 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, January 24 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, January 23 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 24 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 25 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, January 23 - 7:30am
- 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
- Tuesday, February 10 - 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
- Saturday, February 14 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, January 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 17 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 18 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, January 16 - 7:30am
- Friday, February 13 - 7:30am
