After spending the spring 2020 semester creating artwork in quarantine, seven senior Art majors opened the Virtual Senior Solos Exhibition in the Hewitt Gallery of Art, all online!

Marymount Manhattan College College and the Office of Student Development and Activities proudly celebrates Latinx Heritage Month, traditionally observed each year from September 15 through October 15, to honor the historic, cultural, and artistic contributions of Latinx Americans to the United States.

The Office of Institutional Advancement and the MMCMagazine editorial board is thrilled to release the latest edition of Marymount Manhattan College’s annual magazine. Read class notes, feature stories on “Internships to Careers” and the College’s response to COVID-19, faculty spotlights, campus news, and more!

Stay connected, even while we’re apart. Check out Issue #8 of MMC’s biweekly newsletter. Read the full newsletter here or click on the image below for information on Latinx Heritage Month, campus events, virtual internships, and more!

Stay connected, even while we’re apart. Check out Issue #7 of MMC’s biweekly newsletter. Read the full newsletter here or click on the image below for information on the College’s Program change period, (virtual) fun in the city, and more!

Dr. Lauren Erin Brown, Associate Professor of History and Politics and Human Rights, has received two grants to support her new book project, Cold War, Culture War, War on Terror: The Art of Public Diplomacy in a Post-Cold War World.

The Presidential Task Force to Restart MMC has worked diligently these past months to develop our Virtual Classes/Open Campus model for the fall 2020 semester. Our first priority, in this plan and through all of our efforts, has been to design and implement robust health and safety protocols for the MMC community, in alignment with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control, New York State Governor’s Office, the NYS and NYC Departments of Health, and local healthcare professionals.

New and returning students at Marymount Manhattan College are not the only ones gearing up for the Fall 2020 semester! On August 16 and August 24, MMC is excited to welcome parents and families of our new students to the 2020 Parents and Family Orientation.

Marymount Manhattan College President, Kerry Walk, Ph.D., has appointed Rebecca Mattis-Pinard to the College’s senior leadership team—the President’s Cabinet—both to recognize her forward-looking leadership as the College’s Chief Diversity Officer and to accelerate the vital work the College must undertake to undo damaging norms, policies, and power dynamics that perpetuate racism at MMC, and to create an inclusive campus culture.

Associate Professor of Academic Writing, Tahneer Oksman, Ph.D., along with her co-author Seamus O’Malley, have been awarded the CSS Prize for Edited Book Collection for their book, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (University of Mississippi Press, 2019).

The article, titled “Linguistically Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Role for Teaching and Learning Centers” was co-authored by Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Susan Behrens, Ph.D., and Eva M. Fernández, Ph.D., Associate Provost at Queens College.

Reid ’10, who graduated from MMC with a BFA in Acting and a minor in Religious Studies, has been longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for her New York Times best-selling novel, Such a Fun Age.

Marymount Manhattan College is proud to announce that Estrella Redondo, Senior Associate Director of Admission has been named Vice President for Inclusion, Access & Success for the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC).

Please join the Office of Student Development and Activities (SDA) on Thursdays, from July 16 to August 6, 2020 at 1:05pm EST via Zoom for a summer Master Class Series.

A Message from President Kerry Walk

College Magazine, a college guide and quarterly magazine written and edited by college students, named Marymount Manhattan College one of the country’s top ten colleges for Dance studies.

Originally scheduled for March and postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Eastern Psychological Association’s (EPA) annual conference was held virtually on June 17 and 18, 2020.

Lia Margolin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, presented a talk, “Constructing Fully Anti-Symmetric Four-Body Wave Functions Including Spin, Isospin, and Hyperspherical Parts,” at the 6-th International Conference in Physics (EuroPhysics2020).

Members of the Marymount Manhattan College family are dedicating time and resources to their own communities in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Read some of their stories below.

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