2011-2012

President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., presented Elizabeth Hayes '52 (right) with the Père Gailhac Award and Marjorie Ihrig '57 (left) with ...
Marymount Manhattan Welcomes Back Alumni for Reunion 2012
June 21, 2012
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.

Surrounded by his students, Marymount Manhattan Chair of the Humanities Division Peter Naccarato, Ph.D., holds a handful of truffles that...
Marymount Manhattan Students in Italy Take an Interdisciplinary Look at Food
June 20, 2012
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. 

President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., presents Nora Moran '06 with the 75th Anniversary Gala award.
Marymount Manhattan Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary in Recognition of the Bedford Hills College Program
June 14, 2012
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.

Celebration of Noël Coward’s Work Features Performance by Marymount Manhattan Students at Lincoln Center
June 6, 2012
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.

Marymount Manhattan Presents 63rd Commencement
May 30, 2012
New York, N.Y.—On May 18, 2012, 363 graduates participated in Marymount Manhattan College’s 63rd Commencement Exercises at the New York City Center.

Katie Sives preparing the Amazonian Tambaqui fish!
Katelyn Sives ’13 to Study Sustainable Development in Brazil as Boren Scholar
May 9, 2012
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.

Emerson Khost '13 earned an Honorable Mention at the 16th Annual ASBMB Undergraduate Student Research Competition for his research findin...
MMC Biology Student Earns Honors at National Science Conference
May 4, 2012
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.

Ricardo Soares '12
Ricardo Soares ‘12 Receives Fulbright Award
April 24, 2012
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.

Marymount Manhattan College to Host 75th Anniversary Gala, Honoring Nora Moran ‘06 and Bedford Hills College Program
April 18, 2012
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. 

Three MMC Students Named 2012 Jeannette K. Watson Fellows
April 11, 2012
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. 

Student Documentary Sparks Conversation at International Conference on Participatory Budgeting
April 9, 2012
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. 

Nick LaMedica '10 performed in MMC's 2009 Theatre Production Workshop of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
MMC Alumnus Nick LaMedica ‘10 to Tour with War Horse
April 3, 2012
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. 

(L-R) Andrew C. Revkin, Barry Commoner and President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D.
Andrew C. Revkin Delivers Inaugural Barry Commoner Environmental Lecture
March 23, 2012
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.

Monica Wiles '13, recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence, presented Marx, the Master and Me, sponsored by Bradley Herling...
Honors Day Features Student Research at 35th Annual Honors Colloquium
March 23, 2012
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. 

Corey Liberman, Ph.D.
MMC Communication Arts Professor Receives Distinguished Alumni Honor from Rutgers
March 20, 2012
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. 

Alexandra Tarasenko '12
Research on BPA Found in Baby Bottles Takes MMC Student to National Experimental Biology Meeting
March 19, 2012
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. 

President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., addresses members of the Marymount Manhattan community during the Trustee Donor Dinner at The Lotos Club.
Marymount Manhattan Celebrates 75 Years at Trustee Donor Dinner
December 12, 2011
New York, N.Y.—On December 6, 2011, President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., hosted Marymount Manhattan College’s most generous and steadfast donors at The Lotos Club in Manhattan for a celebratory dinner marking the College’s 75th anniversary. Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, decreed December 6 as “Marymount Manhattan College Day” in a proclamation read by MMC’s Board of Trustees Chairman James E. Buckman. 

Communication Arts Professor Appointed to WNYC Community Advisory Board
December 5, 2011
New York, N.Y.— MJ Robinson, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication arts, was appointed to WNYC Radio’s Community Advisory Board (CAB) during its Board of Trustees meeting on December 1, 2011. Dr. Robinson begins her three-year term on the CAB in January 2012.

Ann Aguanno, Ph.D.
Council on Undergraduate Research Recognizes Professor Ann Aguanno for Superior Mentorship
September 13, 2011
New York, N.Y. – Ann Aguanno, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at Marymount Manhattan College, was named a 2011 recipient of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Biology Mentorship Award. The Biology Mentorship Awards recognize biologists who demonstrate superior mentorship of undergraduate students in research. 

Rudin Lecture to Feature Andrew Ross Sorkin in “Too Big to Fail: Capitalism on the Brink, the Inside Story”
August 23, 2011
Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist for The New York Times and author of Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System —and Themselves, will deliver The Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at Marymount Manhattan College on Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m. 

Rudin Lecture to Feature Andrew Ross Sorkin in “Too Big to Fail: Capitalism on the Brink, the Inside Story”
August 23, 2011
New York, N.Y. – Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and columnist for The New York Times and author of Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System —and Themselves, will deliver The Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at Marymount Manhattan College on Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m. 

Marymount Manhattan Presents the Tournées Festival: New French Films on Campus
August 1, 2011
New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan College has been selected as a recipient of the Tournées Festival grant for the 2011-2012 academic year, which will support a film festival held on the Marymount Manhattan campus in New York City throughout the month of November. The Tournées Festival is a program of French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which partner with more than 350 American universities and colleges to bring contemporary French cinema to campuses across the nation.