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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Roosevelt House Celebrates with Pride the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Created Under the Chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt Passed Today in 1948 by the UN General Assembly

Posted on December 10th, 2018 · Posted in Roosevelt House, Roosevelt House General News

Roosevelt House celebrates the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt in writing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as we mark the 70th anniversary of its adoption by the United Nations on…  

Roosevelt House welcomes NY Times op-ed columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman for 2nd Annual Kossoff Lecture

Posted on December 7th, 2018 · Posted in Roosevelt House, Roosevelt House General News

The Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture is an annual forum that brings leading figures in public life to Roosevelt House for conversation and reflection on pressing issues of domestic and national…  

Winners of The Annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize for Excellence in Urban Public Health Announced by Hunter College

Posted on November 14th, 2018 · Posted in Featured News Story, Roosevelt House, Tisch Legacy Project Public Programs

  (New York, NY – November 14, 2018) – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Founder and President Laurie Tisch have announced this year’s…  

Public Policy Program Alumnus Publishes “Get Out The Vote” Op-Ed from Indonesia

Luce Scholar Matthew Locastro urges foreign-based American Citizens to Cast Ballots in his Op Ed in the Daily News “How Democrats abroad can help the Blue Wave”.

Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Virginia Valian Publishes New Article in Nature

Posted on October 10th, 2018 · Posted in Faculty Associates News, Publication News, Roosevelt House

“No field can afford to ignore or alienate half its potential contributors” writes Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College, and Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, in the issue of…  

CBS News: Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms,” then and now

Posted on September 2nd, 2018 · Posted in Featured News Story, Roosevelt House, Roosevelt House General News

CBS NEWS, September 2, 2018 “”The Four Freedoms,” first proclaimed years ago by an American president, have inspired (and continue to inspire) a remarkable body of American art…” Read the full…  

Our Town: Making accuracy great again

Posted on June 21st, 2018 · Posted in Roosevelt House, Roosevelt House General News

By Jon Friedman, June 15, 2018 “Jack Newfield would have been proud. On the evening of June 14, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College hosted a program…  

Roosevelt House to Open New Exhibition: Reimagining The Four Freedoms, A Traveling Show From The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

Works by a diverse group of artists were created in response to a challenge from the Museum to create an artwork that expresses what “freedom” means today. This exhibition is…  

2018 Public Policy Students Visit Washington D.C. for Annual Trip

Posted on April 17th, 2018 · Posted in P-cubed News, Roosevelt House, Roosevelt House General News

Hunter College students from the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House traveled to Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 13, 2018. Dr. Shyama Venkateswar, Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Public…  

Funding Available for Outstanding Accomplishments in Urban Public Health: Hunter College Announces Call for Nominations for the Eighth Annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize; Deadline is April 5, 2018

Posted on March 23rd, 2018 · Posted in Roosevelt House, Tisch Legacy Project News

New York, NY, March 23, 2018 – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the call for nominations for the eighth annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize, the…