All Things Alumni
Every year, the Mathematics department holds a College-wide π-Day contest. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit an original sentence, paragraph, poem, or short story that uses the digits of π in order (π ≈ 3.1415926..).
Jared Grimes ’05, MMC Communication and Media Arts alum, performed in the Broadway at Birdland concert series on February 24, providing an evening of high energy, non-stop, genre-fusing music and dance. His performance was widely praised in a Broadway World review .
Author and alumna Kiley Reid ’10, an Acting major and Religious Studies minor at MMC, joined Trevor Noah on The Daily Show to discuss Such a Fun Age, her best-selling debut novel about the precarious relationship between a black babysitter and her wealthy white female employer.
Laura Ann Peterson ’18, an MMC alumna who majored in Theatre Performance and minored in Musical Theatre and Arts Administration, stars in Water Music, one of six plays chosen for performance in Sundog Theatre’s 18th annual one-act play contest, Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry.
Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford ’05 will star as Gina in Chuck Lorre’s CBS pilot B Positive.
Goulart, who earned a degree in Communication Arts in 2012, is an Associate Director of Media Strategy at Giant Spoon, a full service advertising agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Communication Arts graduate Victoria Bachan ’13 has been included in the coveted ‘Dealmakers List 2019’ from Variety Magazine for her work with Authentic Talent and Literary Management. Since Authentic establishment their digital department in 2017, the team has generated has generated approximately $25 million in revenue.
Corridoni, who graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2013 with a degree in Political Science , has joined Pete for America’s 2020 Presidential campaign team as Deputy Rapid Response Communications Director.
For Flaherty NYC: Surface Knowledge, Anthology Film Archives , New York Monday, December 2, 2019, 7 p.m.
Class of 2016’s English and World Literatures graduate, Xoai Pham, penned an op-ed for Teen Vogue titled, “Rediscovering What Being a Transgender Woman Means to Me”.
Graduates of MMC’s Theatre program Bittner and Ashford recently guest starred as husband and wife in the seventh episode of the latest CBS show ‘Evil’ on Thursday, November 14.
Alumna Adrienne Warren ’09 is featured on the cover of the November 2019 issue of IN New York magazine. Read the feature story here.
Class of 2016’s Treneé McGee has been elected to the city of West Haven, Connecticut’s District 7 council, making her the youngest African American ever elected to the board.
Biology alumna Emma Kamen ’18 and Prof. Alessandra Leri have published an article describing a unique application of place-based learning in undergraduate STEM education.
Howard Weightman ’00, a Theatre Arts graduate and Naval officer, has been reunited with his beloved college ring 15 years after losing it aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while stationed at Naval Station Norfolk in 2003.
Adrienne Warren ’09, Theatre Arts alumna and star of TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, was featured in an article in The New York Times in advance of the show’s Broadway debut on November 7.
Speech-Language Pathologists Christina Castronovo ’13 and Kelly Ann Peña ’13 presented important lessons for working with college students on the autism spectrum, as well as those with visual disabilities, at the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence October Pedagogy luncheon.
Marymount Manhattan College’s annual Family and Friends Homecoming Weekend spanned across campus and from Roosevelt Island to Central Park and Chelsea, jam-packed with events and activities for the College community.
Samantha Butts ’19 is one of 13 new women joining the world-famous Rockettes for the 2019 Christmas Spectacular.
A graduate of MMC’s Art History program, Michael Quituisaca ’17 is now working toward his master’s in Art History at American University, where he and his peers have opened Moves Like Walter , the first exclusive exhibition from the Corcoran Legacy Collection.
Cornelison ’22, who is working towards a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Writing for the Stage, shares her advice for before, during, and after making the choice to transfer colleges.
The MMC alumna walked the red carpet with date Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, and spoke about the upcoming October 8 anti-discrimination Supreme Court case.
Ms. Kahn, who graduated from MMC in 1995 with a degree in Business, will challenge incumbent Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
English and World Literatures and Education graduate Annabelle Royer ’13 has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a 10-month fellowship project training teachers and teaching English in Montenegro at The University of Montenegro. Royer is one of only 200 U.S. citizens selected for the 2019-2020 English Language Fellow Program.
Ashford will play Paula Jones in American Crime Story: Impeachment, the third installment of FX’s hit show, set to air on September 27, 2020.
Dr. Lia Leon Margolin, Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented a talk, “Constructing Wave Functions for Few-Body Systems in a Hyperspherical Basis Using Parentage Scheme of Symmetrization,” at the 15th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU-2019) , held at Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Studio Art alum Heui Tae Yoon ’11 exhibits Bible: The Space Zero Enter Lowercase OLO at the Chosun Ilbo Museum in Seoul, South Korea, from August 7-12, 2019.
Marymount Manhattan College is pleased to announce the election of two new members to the Board of Trustees, which oversees the mission, fiscal integrity, and educational quality of the College. Marymount Manhattan is proud to welcome these new trustees, both of whom are alumnae of the College.
Amy Pekal ’15 Art History and Business major, Studio Art minor , was one of 6 [out of 110 applicants] selected to participate in Cittadellarte and Fondazione Zegna’s residential module, Rituals of the Contemporary.
Studio art alum and Mixed Media artist, Kristen Haskell’s Decomposition drawings are in “Vision Quest,” an exhibition of art, fashion and music at the Hartford ArtSpace.