Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Director of Residence Life, Chris Mosier, has made major sports history as the first known out trans athlete to win a spot on a USA national team that matches their identified gender.
Annaleigh Ashford ’05 was awarded the Tony Award for best featured actress in a play for her performance in You Can’t Take it With You! Ashford previously won the Drama Desk Award in the same category.
(Annaleigh Ashford at the 69th Annual Tony Awards. Photo Credit: AP Images/Invision)
Invited from Manhattan to Moscow, Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Professor of History, Lauren Erin Brown, Ph.D., presented research May 12th at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) Zverev International Biennial Conference on American Studies.
Marymount Manhattan College alumni returned to where it all began at Reunion Weekend, May 29-30, where they enjoyed memorable events and a weekend full of activities.
MMC congratulates Annaleigh Ashford ’05 on winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. (Annaleigh Ashford at the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards. Photo Credit: David Gordon/TheaterMania)
The 66th Commencement Exercises of Marymount Manhattan College will take place on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 4:30pm at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. This year’s Honorary Degree Recipient is Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater since 2011.
Kelly Sebastian (’01) will be featured at this year’s New Jersey International Film Festival alongside former students Oliver Fetter (’13) and Jaz Valentino. The screening of the film in which they star, Forever into Space, will take place on May 30.
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, thirteen students presented at the 23rd Annual Pace University Psychology Conference. Five professors were co-authors and/or sponsors of the presented projects.
Dancers of New York recently interviewed MMC alumni and established performer, choreographer and teacher, Ryan Kasprzak. Click through to read the entire interview and to learn more about Ryan, visit RyanKasprzak.com
Marymount Manhattan College Alumna, Michelle Lamb, was featured as a contributing reporter on TV One’s true crime series Fatal Attraction on Monday, May 4, 2015.
On Monday, April 27, students in the Advanced Interdisciplinary Perspectives (AIP) course “The Body in American Culture,” taught by Associate Professor of Art History Adrienne Bell, participated in a demonstration of the art of the great American modernist dancer Isadora Duncan (1877-1927). Lori Belilove, Artistic Director of Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Dance Company, taught the class in a large dance studio at 316 East 63rd Street.
Marymount Manhattan College congratulates alumna Annaleigh Ashford on her second Tony nomination for Featured Actress in a Play for her role in ‘You Can’t Take it With You’! Congrats to all the other nominees and best of luck at the Tonys!
Graduating senior and Acting Major, Joe Hetterly, recently sat down with us to give us all a glimpse into his life, what it means to be Marymount Manhattan College’s valedictorian, and what his future holds. See the full interview here:
The Marymount Manhattan College 2015 President’s Medal Dinner was held at the spectacular Guastavino’s on the Upper East Side, Thursday, April 16, 2015. The memorable evening honored Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D., President of Marymount Manhattan College, who has served the college with distinction for the past fourteen years.
The Board of Trustees joins the College community in welcoming Kerry Walk as our eighth president. We are delighted with the excitement for her appointment among faculty, staff, students, and the greater community.
David Carr teaches a course called “Trauma and the Bible” to female inmates at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York state’s only maximum security prison for women. The class, composed of both prisoners finishing degrees in the Marymount Manhattan’s Bedford Hills College Program, and students enrolled at Union Seminary, wrote reflections on Jesus’ seven last words, offering a glimpse at how life experience and circumstances can influence the impact Jesus’ words can have on people.
MMC students Jonathan Melo, Ray Zanders, Whitney Semin Noelle, Ally Kupferberg, May Yoshiko and Patrice Bell performed in the York Theatre Company’s benefit performance celebrating 100 shows of the acclaimed Musicals in Mufti series.
As the 2014-2015 school year comes to a close, we are extremely proud and honored as a Dance Department to announce the success of a student, Kynan Welsh.
On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Marymount Manhattan College held the 38th Annual Honors Day Colloquium. A truly spectacular day, several of MMC’s dedicated students and faculty shared their highly acclaimed work with peers, families, and friends. Congratulations to all who presented or were recognized.
Professor Worcestor gave his presentation, Ten Great Cartoonists You’ve Never Heard Of, at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium, a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 was enacted into law to increase transparency regarding sexual misconduct on campus. In accordance with this legislation, Marymount Manhattan College has updated our Policy on Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Assault, Stalking, and Relationship Violence.
Get to know Marymount Manhattan College freshman Theatre Arts major Blake Marshall in the latest edition of BroadwayWorld.com’s Collegiate Theatrics Series, which features young actors across the country who are pursuing their dreams on stage.
Tori Ernst takes readers behind the stage door for an inside scoop on her current role in The ChristmApocalypse, the roles she’s dying to play, and her plans for the future.
Congratulations to alumna Brooke Ishibashi who just landed the lead role on the new NBC pilot People are Talking, by producer and writer DJ Nash (Growing Up Fisher and Up All Night)!
Teen Vogue says, “If you want an arts education in the capital of culture and creativity, apply to Marymount Manhattan College. The school boasts rigorous and impressive dance and theatre programs while encouraging its students to make NYC their playground.”
After publishing three poems in the Mississippi Review last Spring, Professor Jerry Williams’ work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the most honored literary project in the United States.
For the second February in a row, the MMC community is taking the Real Happiness meditation challenge: 28 days of daily meditation. Join the challenge and share your experiences at our official MMC 28-Day Challenge blog.
Carl Safina, acclaimed scientist/author and President of the Safina Center at Stony Brook University, will deliver the 2015 Barry Commoner Lecture on the Environment, titled Caught in the Same Net: The Ocean and Us.
Marymount Manhattan College senior Dance major Brooke Averi Lineberger has realized her childhood dream of becoming a Rockette, performing at the illustrious Radio City Music Hall in NYC this winter.
Associate Professor of Art, Hallie Cohen, Chair of the Art & Art History Department and Director of the Hewitt Gallery, has been accepted as a Visiting Artist to the American Academy in Rome for two weeks in January 2015.
Marymount Manhattan College was honored to have author, philanthropist, and businesswoman, Tina Santi Flaherty on campus during Homecoming Weekend. She was here to lead a lecture and book signing on her newly released commemorative edition of What Jackie Taught Us: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Over 200 came out to hear her speak and meet Mrs. Flaherty. Here are some clips from that event.
This upcoming Sunday, November 9, 2014, the Marymount Manhattan College Psychology Department will host students from over 20 universities and colleges for the 26th Annual Greater New York Behavioral Conference. Over 100 presenters from all over the U.S. will come to share their latest psychological research findings through student and faculty presentations and panels. Please join us from 12:30-6 PM for a wonderful day of enlightening presentations and panels (1:00-4:30), and for an award ceremony and a delicious brunch (12:30 PM) and dinner (5 PM). This event is free. We look forward to seeing you soon!
For several years, the students entering MMC’s HEOP program have studied the history of the program itself. This summer was also the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the war on poverty, and so it was decided that this summer the HEOP students would focus on putting MMC’s HEOP history into the larger context. Accordingly, the students followed the standard chronology of a U.S. history course, from Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty in January 1964 to the establishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity under Sargent Shriver. The students then used MMC’s own archives to expand that chronology to include MMC’s participation in the events of the day, and its own innovations in addressing the economic barriers to a college education. Check for more updates and posts throughout the semester!
This blog is conceived as a gift to the Class of 2018 from the students already at MMC. During Summer I 2014, 16 students took AIP 332-01, New York: A World City, which combined field trips with reading, documentaries, discussions and library work. Each student found a favorite image on a field trip, and reflected upon it using resources discovered in class or in the library. The result is a series reflecting the varied interests of MMC’s students and the support available for the diverse topics students might wish to pursue.
The Marymount Manhattan College community mourns the loss of Sister Teresita Fay, RSHM, Ph.D., a dedicated and loyal member of the College’s Board of Trustees.
Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited to submit papers for possible presentation. Proposals (300 word abstracts) are due by 5pm Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 to gnybc2014@gmail.com. The Conference on Behavioral Research will be on November9, 2014, at Marymount Manhattan College.
On Friday, August 29, ten Theatre Arts alumni returned to the College to participate in a panel for incoming theatre students covering a range of topics, including what to expect during their time at Marymount Manhattan, their possible career prospects upon graduation, tips for navigating both the College and the City, and more.
The New York City arm of 3 Day Startup (“3DS NYC”), a nonprofit organization teaching entrepreneurial skills to students and entrepreneurs, announced their partnership today with Marymount Manhattan College. The new partnership will lead to new opportunities, including potential internships, for MMC students.
Be sure to head down to the Grand Opening of Starbucks in the Nugent Lounge on Monday, September 15th. There will be exciting giveaways and festivities planned throughout the day!
Acclaimed theatre artist Robert Lepage will deliver the 2014 Rudin Lecture, “Creating Outside of the Frame,” in the Theresa Lang Theatre at MMC on Wednesday, October 22, at 7 p.m.
Missed out on Griffin Days? No worries! We asked some of our panelists to answer some of the Frequently Asked Questions, just in case you couldn’t make it!
New and returning students at Marymount Manhattan College are not the only ones gearing up for the Fall 2014 semester. On August 22, 23 and 24, parents of MMC students will also have the opportunity to get better acquainted with the College.
“Mi nombre es Darío Cecchini , y estoy 250 años de antigüedad” [My name is Dario Cecchini, and I’m 250 years old], exclaimed a smiling Dario, whom the LA Times calls “the most famous butcher in the world.” Jokes aside, Dario was referring to his extensive family history, as he is an eighth generation butcher.
Ten MMC students from the Division of Science recently landed research internships (some with pay) and awards in the neuroscience field, thanks to the efforts of Professor Deirtra Hunter-Romagnoli.