The First Generation program at Marymount Manhattan College is a campus-wide initiative aimed at supporting students who are first in their families to attend college or university.

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.

On August 8, 2019, students in the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at Marymount Manhattan College were officially welcomed as members of MMC’s “Jubilee Class,” in celebration of 50 years of the College’s HEOP program, founded in 1969.

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.

Congratulations to MMC alumna Mia DeWeese ’13 and the entire cast and crew of Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway, which opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Thursday, July 25.

Marymount Manhattan College is pleased to announce that it is the recipient of an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Over three years, the grant will assist in expanding and promoting MMC’s BRIDGE model of college- and university-based prison education programs.

MMC’s Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Dr. Kathleen LeBesco, will present “Nostalgia, Privilege, and Resistance: Hipster Food in Digital Culture,” at the University of Melbourne, Australia on August 13.

BFA Acting senior Malachi Rosen performs sound as a Foley artist in the summer 2019 production of The 39 Steps at Gloucester Stage in Massachusetts.

Antonio Edwards Suarez, MFA, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, premiered his new one-man show, Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of aSon, on July 5 at the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University in West Virginia.  

Many congratulations to Asma Rathod ’20, a Communication Arts major and Psychology minor, who will spend the fall 2019 semester at the American College of Thessaloniki, located in Greece’s second-largest city.

Susan Behrens, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD), along with two CSD students Ailyn Gomez ’19 and Jessica Krimgold ’19 (who just graduated in May), will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Research and Teaching in Developmental Education.