Student Spotlight

Hunter Moran is a Macaulay student majoring in Economics. He is on the pre-health track and wants to be a physician-scientist one day with a practice in gastroenterology. With his Fulbright Research Scholarship, Hunter will serve as an epidemiology research assistant under the guidance of Dr. Tine Jess at the Read more…

Professors Temisan Agbeyegbe, Matthew Baker, and Jonathan Conning received a Google Award for Undergraduate Computer Science Research Focused Workshops for Minority Students

We are pleased to announce a remarkable opportunity to explore machine learning research. Professors Temisan Agbeyegbe, Matthew Baker, and Jonathan Conning have just received a Google Award for Undergraduate Computer Science Research Focused Workshops for Minority Students. If you are an undergraduate at Hunter and would like to participate in Read more…

Class of 2023 Valedictorian

Amireh Rezaei-Kamalabad is a recent graduate of Hunter College and a Class of 2023 valedictorian. As a Bluhm Scholar and Muse Scholar, she earned her B.A. with a double major in economics and classical archaeology. Amireh previously held roles in art museums and non-profits but had a strong interest in Read more…

Economics Faculty Member Job Opening

The Department of Economics at Hunter College, seeks to hire a tenure-track or tenured faculty member in Economics with research, teaching and service responsibilities. The faculty member will be expected to conduct research in broadly defined areas of macroeconomics or financial economics, publish that research in top journals, be an Read more…

PhD and BA/MA Students Present at 92nd Annual Southern Economic Association in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Four Hunter students presented their work at the 92nd Annual Southern Economic Association in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 19-21, 2022. PhD student, Chuxin Liu, presented her research paper “Climate Change and the Widening Racial Gap in Severe Maternal Mortality”. PhD student, Ke Zeng, presented his research paper ““Practice-style Spillovers Read more…

Sangita Vyas

Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2022 Fields: Development Economics, Economic Demography Office:  HW 1540 Phone: 212-772-5544 Email:  sangita.vyas@hunter.cuny.edu Personal Webpage: sangitavyas.com SangitaVyasCV Sangita Vyas is an applied microeconomist specializing in development economics and demography. She teaches an undergraduate course in statistics and a PhD course in demographic Read more…