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<div class="feature "> <div class="feature__media"> <picture class="lw_image"> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/11/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1415,952/28299_New_Faculty.rev.1667745905.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/png" srcset="/live/image/gid/11/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1415,952/28299_New_Faculty.rev.1667745905.PNG 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/11/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1415,952/28299_New_Faculty.rev.1667745905.PNG" alt="" width="800" height="800" data-max-w="1415" data-max-h="952" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <div class="feature__text"> <h2 class="h3"> <a href="/live/news/4497-meet-our-new-faculty">Meet Our New Faculty!</a> </h2> <hr class="feature__hr"/> <div class="feature__summary"> <p> First-year and transfer students aren’t the only new additions to campus this fall; MMC is also welcoming nearly a dozen new full-time faculty to the community. We spoke with several of them about their hopes for the semester and their adventures in the classroom and beyond.<br/><br/></p> </div> </div> </div>
<div class="feature "> <div class="feature__media"> <picture class="lw_image"> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1920,1080/27961_220906_Digital_CHHDC_1920x1080_2.rev.1662539145.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1920,1080/27961_220906_Digital_CHHDC_1920x1080_2.rev.1662539145.jpg 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,1920,1080/27961_220906_Digital_CHHDC_1920x1080_2.rev.1662539145.jpg" alt="MMC?s Center for Health, Human Development, and Creativity is a hub for students and faculty from..." width="800" height="800" data-max-w="1920" data-max-h="1080" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <div class="feature__text"> <h2 class="h3"> <a href="/live/news/4496-new-mmc-center-helps-students-find-creative-paths">New MMC Center Helps Students Find Creative Paths in Health Care</a> </h2> <hr class="feature__hr"/> <div class="feature__summary"> <p> 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.</p> <p> 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.”</p> <p> 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.</p> <p> Now, as the director of MMC’s new <a href="/center-for-health-human-development-and-creativity/">Center for Health, Human Development, and Creativity</a>, Dr. Silton is helping Marymount Manhattan students reach that same understanding from the moment they step foot on campus.</p> </div> </div> </div>
<div class="feature "> <div class="feature__media"> <picture class="lw_image"> <source type="image/webp" srcset="/live/image/gid/177/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,664,443/27524_ALU.rev.1649078549.webp 1x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" srcset="/live/image/gid/177/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,664,443/27524_ALU.rev.1649078549.jpg 1x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/177/width/800/height/800/crop/1/src_region/0,0,664,443/27524_ALU.rev.1649078549.jpg" alt="The Amazon Labor Union celebrates their historic win." width="800" height="800" data-max-w="664" data-max-h="443" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </div> <div class="feature__text"> <h2 class="h3"> <a href="/live/news/4422-justine-medina-12-and-the-first-unionized-amazon">Justine Medina ’12 and the First Unionized Amazon Warehouse</a> </h2> <hr class="feature__hr"/> <div class="feature__summary"> In a historic win for labor rights, Amazon workers at the Staten Island warehouse voted to form the company’s first union on Friday, April 1st. Among the organizers was MMC grad Justine Medina ’12. </div> </div> </div>

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