Marymount Manhattan College’s 68^th Commencement Exercises were held on Friday, May 19, 2017, at the iconic Lincoln Center. MMC proudly granted American director and producer Stanley Nelson an honorary degree. View photos from Commencement and a video slideshow of the ceremony.

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.   

Trajectories explores the evolution of six recent MMC alumni artists at the initial burgeoning of their careers.The show is curated by an art history alumna, Alyssa Rose Johnson ’14.

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

Seth Becker ’15, Art History and Studio Art double major, is receiving his MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School. Becker’s work is on display from May 17-31, 2017. The school is located at 8 West 8th Street, between Sixth Avenue/Avenue of the Americas and Fifth Avenue.

Madison Weisend, a freshman majoring in Environmental Studies and Politics & Human Rights, has won a prestigious David L. Boren Scholarship to study Hindi and sustainable development in India during the 2017-18 academic year.

Victoria McIlrath, who graduated with a B.S. in Biology in 2015, will attend the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in the fall.

Spring Break: Students traveled over 7,000 miles to South Africa for an academic adventure as part of Drs. Jessica Blatt and Jennifer Mueller’s Spring 2017 From Apartheid to Democracy class.