News Archive
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MMC Introduces New ‘First Generation’ Initiative and Mentor Program
August 15, 2019The 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. -
MMC Officially Welcomes 50th “Jubilee” Class into the Higher Education Opportunity Program
August 12, 2019On 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. -
Math Professor Presents at the International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics
August 10, 2019Dr. 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.
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Heui Tae Yoon ’11 exhibits new work at Chosun Ilbo Museum in Seoul
August 8, 2019Studio Art alum Heui Tae Yoon ’11 exhibits Bible: The Space Zero Enter Lowercase OLO at the Chosun Ilbo Museum in Seoul, South Korea, from August 7-12, 2019.
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MMC Welcomes New Trustees
August 7, 2019Marymount 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. -
Amy Pekal in Workshop/Residency in Italy: Rituals of the Contemporary
August 5, 2019Amy Pekal ’15 Art History and Business major, Studio Art minor , was one of 6 [out of 110 applicants] selected to participate in Cittadellarte and Fondazione Zegna’s residential module, Rituals of the Contemporary. -
Kristen Haskell ’05 exhibits large scale drawings
August 5, 2019Studio art alum and Mixed Media artist, Kristen Haskell’s Decomposition drawings are in “Vision Quest,” an exhibition of art, fashion and music at the Hartford ArtSpace. -
Margaret Roleke selected for QAI commission
August 4, 2019Congratulations to Margaret Roleke ’84, Studio art alum, one of 6 artists selected for QAI 2019 (Queens Art Intervention) -
EWL Department Chooses Poet Donika Kelly’s ‘Bestiary’ for 2019 Summer Reading
August 1, 2019Kelly’s 2016 collection, Bestiary, has been selected as the 2019 EWL summer reading. Incoming English and World Literatures majors will receive a copy of the book, and EWL faculty will host discussions, introduce writing prompts, and weave the collection’s themes into numerous courses offered this fall. -
Dr. Kathleen LeBesco Talks Food at University of Melbourne
July 29, 2019MMC’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. -
Associate Choreographer Mia DeWeese ’13 Celebrates Opening of ‘Moulin Rouge’ on Broadway
July 29, 2019Congratulations 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. -
Senior Malachi Rosen ’20 Performs in ‘The 39 Steps’ at Gloucester Stage
July 18, 2019BFA Acting senior Malachi Rosen performs sound as a Foley artist in the summer 2019 production of The 39 Steps at Gloucester Stage in Massachusetts. -
Rising Senior Returns from Summer in Cyprus
July 16, 2019Kate Cheney ’20, Art History major with minors in Law & Ethics and Business Management , participated in a five-week archaeology program in Cyprus this summer, thanks to the Sister Judith Savard Study Abroad Fellowship . -
Theatre Faculty Premieres New Play at Contemporary American Theater Festival
July 15, 2019Antonio 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. -
Alumna Ellie Ga ’98 to Perform “The Fortunetellers” at Whitney Biennial
July 10, 2019Former Studio Art major Ellie Ga ’98 will perform her narrative-based piece as part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial on Monday, July 22 at 7:00 pm. -
Senior Asma Rathod ’20 Awarded Gilman Scholarship to Study Abroad in Greece
July 9, 2019Many 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. -
Michael Lewis Mejia ’10 Cast in “In the Heights” and Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” Remake
July 9, 2019Congratulations to Class of 2010’s Michael Lewis Mejia (BA Theatre, Musical Theatre minor) who has been cast in two highly-anticipated movie musicals, both set to be released in 2020: In the Heights and West Side Story. -
Business Students Recognized at Senior Award Ceremony
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Professor Laura Tropp Receives Erving Goffman Award
July 1, 2019Laura Tropp, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Arts, received the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction for her recent book Grandparents in the Digital Age: The Third Act. -
BHCP Student Publishes Book Review in Online Journal
June 26, 2019Tawana Anthony, a student in MMC’s Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP), wrote an insightful and incisive review of Homer Venter’s Life and Death in Rikers Island , published in Metropolitics , a peer-reviewed online journal that publishes academic essays aimed at an international audience. -
Summer “Ethics in Creativity” Students Enter the ‘Shark Tank’
June 19, 2019As a final project in summer session course AIP 339: Ethics in Creativity, taught by Nava Silton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, students pitched their final capstone “tools” to a panel of ‘sharks,’ inspired by the popular ABC television show Shark Tank . -
Sophomore Alan McKenzie ’22 Accepted to Naylor Workshop in Undergraduate Writing Studies
June 17, 2019The Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media major’s research, started while enrolled in Writing 102 with Diana Epelbaum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Academic Writing, analyzes the use of Hip-Hop music as an effective teaching pedagogy. -
CSD Professor and Two Graduating Seniors Publish Research
June 17, 2019Susan 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. -
Digital Journalism Student Featured in NY1 Podcast
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MMC Receives $800k Mellon Foundation Grant to Fund College’s Prison Education Programming
June 13, 2019Marymount 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.
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MMC Celebrates First Commencement at Taconic Correctional Facility
June 10, 2019On Monday, June 10, Marymount Manhattan held its first commencement ceremony at the Taconic Correctional Facility, recognizing women graduating from the newly established Taconic College Program (TCP). -
Aaron Glick ’06 Wins a Tony Award
June 10, 2019A huge congratulations to alumnus Aaron Glick ’06 for his 2019 Tony win as a producer on The Boys in the Band, which received Best Revival of a Play. -
Lesly Castillo ’21 Is Awarded Pre-Medical Atlantis Fellowship
June 9, 2019Biology major Lesly Castillo will intern at the Hospital Santa Barbara in Puertollano, Spain, in January 2020. -
MMC Student Artwork Impacts Family Immigration Case
May 30, 2019Can a single art project speed up an immigration visa process? Missing Moments, a stunning series by Art major Itzamary Dominguez ’19, just may have. A short documentary by Gabriel Richardson ’21, Dance major with Dance and Media concentration, showcases the inspiring story of a small collection of colored pencil drawings. -
MMC Students Travel to Puerto Rico on “Alternative Spring Break”
May 29, 2019In mid-April, ten MMC students and two staff members traveled to Puerto Rico for a series of volunteer projects focused on hurricane relief as part of the College’s annual Alternative Spring Break trip.