The Trustees of Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Sharon Meagher as MMC’s Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty.

Alumna Christina Daigneault ’97 has been awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship to engage in cross-cultural dialogue with other entrepreneurs from around the world who are working hard to make a positive difference in the world.

Art At Viacom presents “The American Daydream,” a new installation from Artist-in-Residence Ogulcan Kush. Born in Istanbul, Kush is a painter and sculptor whose work plays with geometric patterns and saturated color to create captivating motifs. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States.

Nava R. Silton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at MMC, is heading up the creative team, along with composer and lyricist Bonnie Gleicher, to produce the first family musical about disability. Entitled Addy & Uno, the musical is an adaptation of Dr. Silton’s Realabilities Educational Comic Book Curriculum.

On Friday, May 5^th, MMC celebrated the 20^th anniversary of the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP).  The event’s theme – KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – focused attention on the vital role that education has played in the lives of the women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility who have earned their associate’s and bachelor’s degrees through MMC’s College Program.   

Three MMC Biology and Biomedical Sciences students presented their research at the international Experimental Biology Meeting (EB 2017) in Chicago this April.