MMC’s fourth president, Sister Colette Mahoney, who served MMC as president for twenty-one years and received the President’s Medal in 1988, died peacefully on the 14th day of June, 2013.
It took Carol Berman 38 years to graduate from college. Through financial challenges, a teenage marriage, single parenthood at 23, a breast cancer battle and a double mastectomy last year, Carol graduated Friday, May 24, 2013, from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in psychology. There’s no surprise that she was awarded the College’s Rowley Founder’s Medal for overcoming adversity to attain educational achievement. Did we mention her GPA is 3.945?
New York, N.Y.—Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, has curated an exhibition featuring the luminescent works of American landscape painter Stephen Hannock, the artist’s first comprehensive exhibition in New York in seven years, currently on view through June 2 at the Marlborough Gallery, located at 40 West 57th Street in Manhattan. In addition to large-scale paintings, the exhibition includes a room documenting Hannock’s process.
New York, N.Y.—Marymount Manhattan College will hold its 63rd Commencement on Friday, May 18, 2012, at 2:30 p.m., in the New York City Center, located at 131 West 55th Street. Photojournalist and humanitarian Ruth Gruber, devoted faculty and staff member Peter H. Baker and human rights advocate Sheila Barry Tacon ’56 will receive honorary degrees.
MMC Bedford Hills College Program is Featured in USA TODAY
May 3, 2013
USA Today visited Michelle Ronda’s, Asst. Professor of Sociology, “Combined Classroom” at the Bedford Hills College Program and featured a video and article on their website. Click HERE to watch the special video presentation and read the article.
On April 15th, fourteen Marymount Manhattan College students completed the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to provide free income tax preparation services to New York City residents. Collectively, the students volunteered over 300 hours during the 2013 tax season and prepared approximately 110 income tax returns which resulted in tax refunds of approximately $173,000 to low income New York City residents.
Listen to Professor Linton KRFC FM on April 22
April 22, 2013
Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, David Linton, Ph.D. will be on the Colorado radio station on April 22 discussing men and menstruation. Click HERE to read more.
Following their passions and talents, Theater Arts alumni from Marymount Manhattan College are a part of the neon lights on Broadway and are opening in the hottest shows this season!
In August, senior Annabelle Royer is headed to Taiwan, her next stop after graduation thanks to a prestigious and highly sought-after Fulbright U.S. Student Award. Annabelle, a double-major in English and World Literatures and Secondary Education, earned her award and the English Teaching Assistantship that comes with it through her studies at Marymount Manhattan College and a rigorous selection process.
On Monday, April 15th, the room was packed to hear an invited speaker – Simi Linton, Ph.D. Marymount Manhattan students from three classes (Introduction to Community Psychology: Examining Barriers to Solving Social Problems, Sociology Special Topics-Advocacy, Web Video Activism), a few faculty, and a staff member heard an inspiring presentation. Dr. Linton is the author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identify and My Body Politic. She is the Co-Producer/Director of a forthcoming documentary film, Invitation to Dance. She was on the faculty of the City University of New York for 14 years, leaving in 1998 to develop her arts consultancy. Her work focuses on shaping the presentation of disability in the arts and increasing the representation of works by disabled artists.
As Thomas Hettrick, class of 2012 was performing his graduating recital he selected a few songs from the rock musical “American Idiot.” Little did he know that in the audience was a casting director who arranged an audition for the international tour of the Broadway hit, which was written by rock group Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Tony Award winner Michael Mayer.
Alessandra Leri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a Distinguished Chair – one of the highest honors that Marymount Manhattan College can bestow on a faculty member. The award recognizes dedication to teaching excellence and prolific scholarly pursuits.
When students graduate from Marymount Manhattan College, their academic lives are just beginning. In the case of Boren Scholar Alvin Young ‘13, the next step is the prestigious Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program at Washington, D.C.’s Howard University. The highly selective summer program will build on Young’s International Studies major to help broaden his understanding of topics and trends in international affairs and to prepare him for a career in the field.
Rod McLucas, a much beloved Theatre Arts faculty member, passed away in early March 2013 of asymptiomatic heart disease. Rod taught acting classes in Shakespeare & Period Styles for several years at MMC, and he directed memorable mainstage productions including Molière’s The Hypochondriac, Shepard’s The Unseen Hand, and Brecht/Weill’s The Three Penny Opera.
Marymount Manhattan students from two of Professor Paradis’ psychology classes spent a morning at an innovative court program for substance abusing defendants.
On Thursday, March 14th, the talents of students and their faculty mentors were showcased through a series of outstanding student presentations, awards and remarks as part of the college’s annual Honors Day.
The American Literary Merit Award (ALMA) organization recently recognized Marymount Manhattan College student Danielle Chin with a prestigious Honorable Mention for her short story, “One Third.” The English and World Literature major, who minors in Creative Writing, also published her award-winning story in the 2011-2012 Marymount Review.
For a forthcoming book on curriculum development (Curriculum Development, Innovation and Reform [Spring, 2013, Nova Science Publishers]), Dr. Ann Aguanno, Associate Professor of Biology, contributes a chapter using her work at Marymount Manhattan College as a model. Her training approach focuses on teaching students how to conduct rigorous scientific research. By encouraging her students to pursue their scientific interests, Professor Aguanno hopes to guide them towards careers paths in S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), beyond limiting their consideration to solely medical school.
Many current students and alums from the Psychology Department presented their research at the annual Eastern Psychological Association at the Marriot Hotel in Manhattan on March 2 and 3.
The Barry Commoner Environmental Lecture Series was established at Marymount Manhattan College through the gifts from the husband and wife team of Richard S. Berry and Lucy A. Commoner. These gifts have also created The Commoner Fund for Environmental Studies at the College. Barry Commoner, who recently passed away in September 2012, was a prominent environmental scientist, widely known as a writer and lecturer on the relation between environmental and energy problems and public policy.
SMASH Assistant Choreographer Ryan Kasprzak’s newest endeavor is on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and it’s for a production that is running less than a week! As one of Marymount Manhattan College’s graduates, Ryan ’03 is back on campus as guest choreographer for the Theater Production Workshops musical, Triumph of Love, opening on March 6th and ending on March 10th.
Thirteen MMC psychology students and recent graduates, a record number, presented their research at the 84th annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association. This regional convention which was held in New York City on March 2nd and 3rd included an exciting array of symposia, invited speakers, research posters, and workshops. MMC faculty and students took an active part. The entire program is posted on the association website, easternpsychological.org.
In recognition of their excellence, seven biology students and alumni will be traveling to Boston this April to present their respective research posters during the prestigious annual Experimental Biology Conference.
Marymount Manhattan College students are working with the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to provide free tax preparation services to New York City residents. MMC is partnering with FoodBank and New York City Financial Network Action Consortium to make the service available to qualified New York City residents. Students are volunteering at the Supportive Children’s Advocacy Network (SCAN) LaGuardia location and several FoodBank locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
The American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Undergraduate Affiliate Network recently featured the articles of two MMC biology students in its newsletter.
In conjunction with Marymount Manhattan College, Pacific Performance Project (P3) is now offering a Physical Acting Intensive Workshop during the January 2013 Session, which will synthesize the techniques of Tadashi Suzuki, Shogo Ohta and modern dance with training methods more familiar to western performers, such as those of Stanislavski, Meisner and Alexander. Marymount Manhattan is pleased to welcome Robyn Hunt and J. Steven Pearson to its community, and we invite you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to study with these three master teachers.
Marymount Manhattan College professor of communication arts, David Linton, Ph.D. was recently interviewed on a radio program based in Melbourne, Australia called “The Fairer Sex” which is hosted by Lauren Rosewarne.
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.
