MMC Students Take a Trip to Sesame Street
Students in Dr. Nava Silton's Psychology and NYC Seminar courses pose for a photo at Sesame Workshop
Students in Dr. Nava Silton's Psychology and NYC Seminar courses pose for a photo at Sesame Workshop
Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content at Sesame, gave a “tremendous” talk for the students about her work, says Silton. Responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, Dr. Truglio also oversees content development for Sesame Street across various platforms including television, theme park activities, publishing, and more. “All of our students left with signed copies of her incredible new book…so fun celebrating with my Psychology and NYC Seminar Students!”
Learn more about Dr. Truglio and Sesame Workshop here.
New MMC Center Helps Students Find Creative Paths in Health Care
Professor Nava Silton has had a varied career in health and human development. She’s created graphic novels about the adventures of children with visible and invisible disabilities and produced an off-Broadway musical about disabilities and bullying. Levar Burton and The Jim Henson Company are developing two of her projects for the small screen.
But she wouldn’t have been able to envision it in her early days as a premed student; back then, she thought building a career in health meant following a narrow professional track. “I remember thinking, okay, maybe I’ll be a physician or teach in a medical school,” she said. “I’d always been creative, but I never thought it would relate to any professional goals I’d have in health.”
That changed when she took a developmental psychology class that showed her how rich and exciting the field could be and worked with a professor who helped her realize that creativity could be an asset in health—and not just a passion she pursued on the side.
Now, as the director of MMC’s new Center for Health, Human Development, and Creativity, Dr. Silton is helping Marymount Manhattan students reach that same understanding from the moment they step foot on campus.
