When we send off our students to study abroad in every corner of the world, we know they’ll come back as even better global citizens – but Marymount Manhattan College’s own Ashley Feith ’13 is out to prove it. Ashley’s video documenting her experience abroad at the American College in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a Niarchos Foundation Exchange Student, took top honors in the NAFSA Student Diplomat Video Contest, making Ashley NAFSA’s 2012 Student Diplomat.
Ms. Bagdziunas is an IS minor and got the internship that lead to her attending the event through the IS department and MMC professor, Dr. Ghassan Shabaneh.
Although college life is exciting and fun, adjusting to it often can be a challenging process. At Marymount Manhattan, Dean Michael Salmon goes above and beyond to ease that transition. As the Dean of Academic Advisement and Student Retention, he has created numerous innovative programs and opportunities geared toward helping first-year students adjust to college life. In recognition of his successful efforts, he is one of ten recipients nationwide of the 2012-2013 Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate award from The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition!
Once again, senseless violence has claimed the lives of students and staff at an educational institution committed fundamentally to enhancing life and human development.
Ground-breaking research has led to the discovery that bromine is interactive with other elements, refuting the long-held belief that halogen elements like bromine exist in nature only as inorganic salts.The study, The Chemistry of Bromine in Terrestrial and Marine Environments, was conducted by Dr. Alessandra Leri (Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science) and Dr. Satish Myneni (Princeton University Associate Professor of Geosciences) and recently was highlighted by the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, the DOE-funded particle accelerator where Dr. Leri performed part of her research.
Philosophy and Religious Studies Professor, Carrie-Ann Biondi along with two of her students, Ashley Feith and Ariel Kline were featured on MuggleNet Academia discussing “Harry Potter and Philosophy: Metaphysical Musings at Hogwarts.”
During the spring semester of 2013, Marymount Manhattan College students will be going to prison for class. Over the past fifteen years, Marymount Manhattan has been offering classes and degrees to the inmates of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Under the direction of Professor Michelle Ronda, students from Marymount Manhattan’s main campus at 71st Street will mark another milestone for the program – its first “combined classroom”, in which students from the main campus will study together with the women at Bedford Hills.
When we send off our students to study abroad in every corner of the world, we know they’ll come back as even better global citizens – but Marymount Manhattan College’s own Ashley Feith ’13 is out to prove it. Ashley’s video documenting her experience at the American College of Thessaloniki is a finalist in the NAFSA Student Diplomat Video Contest.
I write to welcome you back to campus as the College re-opens today. Although many of us are able to pick up and return to our routines, we know that some members of our community and many others are still lacking heat or electricity and access to their homes. We keep in our thoughts and prayers those who lost loved ones or whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged.
To Members of the Marymount Manhattan College Community:
I am hoping that each of you is safe and secure in the aftermath of the most severe weather condition in recent memory, and that your loved ones are also safe. I offer my sympathy for any losses you have suffered.
I hope very much that this note finds you safe and sound. As students who live or whose families live in areas affected by the storm, we are praying that you have not suffered catastrophic damages. If you have, we’d like to know how MMC might be helpful to you. President Shaver, the administrative team at MMC and I are ready to assist you.
Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., a Marymount Manhattan College Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History, reveals the story behind John Everett Millais’s painting Isabella (1849). Dr. Rosenfeld is the co-curator of Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, the National Gallery of British Art, in London, England.
In order to make sense of Hurricane Sandy’s severity, the International Science Times turned to a local leader in the field of climate science – Marymount Manhattan College’s own Dr. Debra Tillinger.
For over half a century, there has been a chasm between the arts and the sciences–creating a gulf that has hindered the growth of both sides. Addressing this, Astrophysicist and fiction writer Janna Levin will deliver her remarks, “A New Experiment in the Third Culture,” during The Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at Marymount Manhattan College on Wednesday, October 17th.
Three Marymount Manhattan College biology majors earned top honors at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s 15th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, held on Saturday, October 20th.
Marymount Manhattan College was heralded this week as a College of Distinction for the 2012-2013 school year. The honorees, 294 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada, were selected based on recommendations made by high school counselors and quantitative data, including graduation rates and classroom size.
Money, property and education are certainly status symbols in American culture. But, according to co-authors and academicians Peter Naccarato and Katie LeBesco, food and food practices can also serve as a mark of status and distinction. In their newly released book, Culinary Capital, they coin a new term as they examine contemporary culture’s fascination (perhaps even obsession) with the food scene. According to Naccarato and LeBesco, knowing and embracing the latest food trends – being a “foodie” – is an important path for gaining status in today’s world. Thus, Culinary Capital is a must read for all self-described foodies who thirst to understand the importance of their food choices – what, when, how and why they eat.
Psychology major Emma Eden Ramos is not only a published author, but one that is close to having another hit on her hands. Her most recently published books, a novella for middle grade readers called The Realm of the Lost (MuseItUp Publishing, September 2012), is receiving good press on the review and interview circuit.
During the turmoil brought by Hurricane Sandy this past week, many people suffered losses across all scales – from power to heat to home to life – but even as some problems see their solution and others seem like they never will, most news stories focus more on facts than reflection.
New York, N.Y. – Select students in Marymount Manhattan’s dance department will present original choreography on Nov. 18, 19, and 20 in the Great Hall. Dancers at Work (DAW) has been staged for 15 years in various forms. In addition the dance department’s Dance Representatives uses the event as a fundraiser to purchase risers for the Great Hall.
New York, NY, September 6, 2012 - The Marymount Manhattan College experience is as individual and varied as each of its students. Faculty and students, alike, value the small, yet tightly connected community in this city of nine million. Students are encouraged to mirror NYC’s rhythm and “personality diversity” and to combine them with their own newly honed talents to serve as a springboard to success.
NEW YORK, NY, August 6, 2012 – Marymount Manhattan College has added nine full-time assistant professors to its faculty for the 2013 academic year. Their field of expertise range from theater, dance and communications to math, physics and international studies. “We are proud to add these assistant professors to our already stellar array of faculty members. Each will bring an infusion of new energy and a unique perspective that will undoubtedly enrich our students’ academic experience,” expresses Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., President, Marymount Manhattan College.
New York, N.Y.-The Other Mirror is proud to present Bite the Apple as part of the 16th annual New York International Fringe festival- FringeNYC. The dark comedy, written by Linda Manning, will have its first fully staged production directed by Katherine M. Carter.
New York, N.Y.—In an effort to create a more integrated online community and a seamless online giving process, Marymount Manhattan College is launching its new community for online giving and event registration. MMC’s NetCommunity provides donors the convenience of easily making secure gifts of any type, such as tributes, pledge payments, recurring gifts and events payments alongside donations.
New York, N.Y.—Millie Falcaro, M.F.A., associate professor of art at Marymount Manhattan College, is among three artists whose work is featured in a joint exhibition, Nature Up Close, at the Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library. The exhibition includes Falcaro’s plant life photograms, as well as Gail Flanery’s monotype prints and Christine Newman’s pastels on paper, and runs through August 24, 2012.
New York, N.Y. – After spending a year abroad, Marymount Manhattan student and Boren Scholar Alvin Young ’13 was selected for an internship with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York City. CARICOM is a conglomerate of representatives from different Caribbean countries that work together to facilitate and promote economic integration, as well as the coordination of foreign policy.
New York, N.Y.– During the 2011-2012 academic year, Marymount Manhattan College’s Senior Marshals, a select group of graduating seniors who are responsible for planning senior events and programs and leading the charge in fundraising for the Senior Class Gift, have made an especially positive impression on the way students view fundraising and giving back to their institution. Together with the help of the Office of Institutional Advancement, they raised $2,624.85, the largest amount ever contributed to the Senior Class Gift during an academic year.
New York, N.Y.—Marymount Manhattan College new and transfer students are not the only ones gearing up for the 2012-2013 semester. On August 25, 26 and 29, 2012, MMC parents will familiarize themselves with the College and learn about opportunities to stay informed and connected with their students as they earn their degrees at MMC.
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan College invited the classes ending in 2 and 7 back to campus for Reunion 2012 “Then and Now” from June 1 to 2. The College honored Elizabeth Hayes ’52 with the Père Gailhac Award and Marjorie Ihrig ’57 with the Sr. Raymunde McKay Award.
CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, Italy— “Sole, dov’è il tartufo (Sun, where’s the truffle)?” called Matteo Bartolini after his dog.
Picking their way carefully over the uneven ground, a group of Umbra Institute students from Marymount Manhattan College followed Bartolini – and the truffle-hunting Sole – as the farmer showed the class around the woods and meadows of his farm, nestled in the Tiber River Valley in northern Umbria, Saturday.
New York, N.Y.—During a memorable and inspiring evening at the Metropolitan Club, Marymount Manhattan College held its 75th Anniversary Gala on Wednesday, June 6 with moving remarks and uplifting music and poetry. The evening honored Nora Moran ’06 and the graduates of the Bedford Hills College Program.
New York, N.Y. – As part of a citywide celebration of playwright Noël Coward and his work, Marymount Manhattan College students will perform a Noël Coward revue—TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY NOEL—that will be presented in The York Theatre at Citicorp Center on June 24 at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. and in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center on June 25 at 6 p.m. Noted Broadway choreographer and director Larry Fuller will direct the revue. Admission is free, but seats are first come, first served.
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan international studies student Katelyn Sives ’13 was awarded a Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and the Institute of International Education (IIE). She will receive $20,000 to study and research sustainable development in Brazil through the School of International Training (SIT). During the first six months of the 2012-2013 academic year, Sives will study in Fortaleza, where she will conduct research on agrarian reform in the state of Ceará. Following this, Sives will pursue research in the social dimensions of agro-ecological farming practices in the Amazonian city of Belem.
New York, N.Y.—MMC’s Department of Natural Sciences is proud to announce that biology major Emerson Khost ’13 earned an Honorable Mention at the 16th Annual ASBMB Undergraduate Student Research Competition held on Saturday, April 21 in San Diego, Calif. The competition was part of the 2012 Experimental Biology conference held from April 20 to 25. Of the 238 student competitors, only 20 students earned either First Place or Honorable Mention Awards. Khost presented the research findings of his investigation into a connection between insulin dysregulation and neurodegenerative disease conducted under the guidance of Associate Professor of Biology Ann Aguanno.
New York, N.Y.—Ricardo Soares ’12, an international studies major at Marymount Manhattan College, was selected as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Fulbright ETA Program, a component of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, places recent U.S. college graduates as English teaching assistants in schools or universities overseas. Soares is among seven Fulbright fellows who will begin their 10-month assistantships in Macau, a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China that was a Portuguese colony for nearly 500 years, this September.
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan College is pleased to announce that Nora Moran ’06, a graduate of the Bedford Hills College Program, as well as all students and graduates of the Bedford Hills College Program, will be honored at the College’s 75th Anniversary Gala at The Metropolitan Club in New York City.
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan students Alice Luci Trye ’15, Sameera Uddin ’14 and Adam Warwinsky ’15 have been awarded a 2012 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. The three-year fellowship program offers paid summer internships, mentoring, and enhanced educational opportunities to New York City undergraduates who demonstrate exceptional promise, outstanding leadership skills, and commitment to the common good.
New York, N.Y.—On March 30, a documentary created by Marymount Manhattan College students launched the “Participatory Budgeting in the U.S. and Canada: International Conference” at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work, for an international panel discussing participatory budgeting. The event was the first regional conference devoted to participatory budgeting in New York City, celebrating the closing of its first planning cycle, which allowed citizens to take part in determining council members’ discretionary budgets. MMC student Nancy Baez ’12 also presented her senior thesis “Initiating the Participatory Budget in New York City” among a panel of scholars. Policy makers, politicians, community leaders and activists from more than 20 countries were in attendance.
New York, N.Y. – Since graduating from Marymount Manhattan College in 2010, Nick LaMedica has landed several prominent roles in New York and national theatre productions, including his recent appointment as a cast member for the national touring production of War Horse, the 2011 winner of five Tony Awards. LaMedica played Tod in Return to the Onion Cellar, a production that was part of last year’s New York International Fringe Festival, and in addition to several characters for Crash Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet, he played Tybalt at New Jersey’s Pax Amicus Castle Theatre and Romeo at Shakespeare Miami and New York’s Sink or Swim Rep.
New York, N.Y. – On March 21, prize-winning environmental journalist Andrew C. Revkin delivered the first Barry Commoner Environmental Lecture, “Nine Billion People Plus One Planet Equals?,” at Marymount Manhattan College in the Great Hall. His lecture provided solutions to making the world’s anticipated spike in population by the year 2050 livable for the future. In his optimistic view, Revkin suggested an exploration of ways in which colleges can foster progress on a finite planet, including using technology in more creative ways to communicate environmental standards worldwide.
New York, N.Y.– On March 21, Marymount Manhattan College hosted Honors Day to celebrate intellectual and creative achievement by students and their faculty mentors through the sharing of outstanding student work.
New York, N.Y.—Corey Liberman, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication arts, has been selected as a distinguished alumnus in the field of communication by his alma mater Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Liberman, who received his master’s and doctorate degrees from Rutgers, was invited to present his research to Ph.D. candidates and faculty at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information on April 20, which will be followed by a distinguished alumni dinner. Each year, Rutgers selects three distinguished alumni in the areas of communication, media studies, and library and information science for this presentation.
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan biology major Alexandra Tarasenko ’12 will present her research findings in testing bisphenol A (BPA) found in baby bottles at the 2012 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego, Calif., April 21-25. Recent studies have shown that exposure to BPA can cause serious health problems among children, affecting brain functioning, behavior and development, and even leading to cancer, and Tarasenko’s research will show which commonly consumed baby liquids are the most vulnerable to BPA leaching.