Jennifer J. Raab, the fast-moving, fast-talking president of Hunter College, recently landed a $25 million donation, the largest in the college’s history. A science and health building that Hunter is constructing with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center won approval last month from the Department of City Planning. And on Tuesday, Ms. Raab will cut the ribbon on Phase 1 of a $45 million redesign of the college’s library — a bright, inviting, communal space that could transform the compact vertical campus.
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