News Archive
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Grab an Academic Pass for the NYTimes.com
September 1, 2020MMC students, faculty, and staff now have complimentary access to The New York Times online academic pass.
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Grab an Academic Pass for the NYTimes.com!
August 31, 2020MMC students, faculty, and staff now have complimentary access to The New York Times online academic pass. -
Theatre Arts Alum Directs Virtual Concert ‘Obsessed: Alanis Morissette’
August 13, 2020MMC alum Daniel Palese ’11, a graduate of the Musical Theatre program, will act as the musical director and guitarist for “Obsessed: Alanis Morisette” taking place virtually on Zoom at 9:30 p.m. on August 14. -
Rebecca Mattis-Pinard Named Chief Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer
August 8, 2020Marymount 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. -
CommArts Student Short Film Accepted into Film Festival
August 4, 2020Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media major Ebro Marrero’s film, American Pulp, has been accepted into the 2020 Dominican Film Festival. Written and directed earlier this year for an independent study with Professor of Communications Arts Laura Tropp, Ph.D., American Pulp examines the decisions a man is faced with when he encounters a potential school shooter. -
Prof. Tahneer Oksman Awarded Prize for Edited Book Collection by the Comics Studies Society
August 4, 2020Associate 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). -
MMC Student Janelle Murray Interviews Associate Professor Ellen Orenstein in ‘Broadway World’ Article
August 4, 2020In the recent blog post for Broadway World,Acting major Janelle Murray ’22 questioned Ellen Orenstein, MFA, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, on the challenges and benefits of adapting performing arts courses to fit a remote environment. -
Prof. Sue Behrens Published in ‘Journal on Excellence in College Teaching’
August 3, 2020The 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. -
Novelist Kiley Reid ’10 Longlisted for Prestigious Booker Prize
August 1, 2020Reid ’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. -
Alumna Hope Kenmore ’20 Hired by Weill Cornell Medicine
July 30, 2020Hope Kenmore has taken a position at the Institutional Biorepository Core of Weill Cornell Medicine, where she is involved with research on COVID-19. -
MMC’s Estrella Redondo Named NYSACAC Vice President for Inclusion, Access & Success
July 28, 2020Marymount 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). -
MMC Trustee Sr. Susan Gardella ’79 Runs Summer Camp to Assist Immigrant Families in Need
July 21, 2020Sr. Gardella, a member of Marymount Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees and the Executive Director of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary’s (RSHM) Life Center, has opened an in-person summer day camp to help lower-income immigrant families as parents return to work. Her work has been profiled in a recent Hudson Independent feature on community heroes. -
MMCOnline: Issue #5 - Stay connected, even while we’re apart!
July 20, 2020Stay connected, even while we’re apart! Check out Issue #5 of MMC’s biweekly newsletter. Read the full newsletter here for info on the College’s fall Restart Plan and Virtual Classes/Open Campus model. -
Science Labs Will Be In-Person This Fall
July 17, 2020Students will have the option to take biology, chemistry, and physics labs in-person this fall. -
SDA Presents a Summer Master Class Series
July 15, 2020Please 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. -
MMC Stands Firmly with International Students
July 10, 2020A Message from President Kerry Walk -
Follow Up: FAQs for MMC’s Fall Restart Plan
July 9, 2020
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President Walk Announces MMC’s Fall 2020 Restart Plan
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MMC Named One of the Top Ten Colleges for Dance
July 7, 2020College 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. -
Psych Faculty and Students Represent MMC at Virtual Conference
June 29, 2020Originally 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. -
Cameron Kelsall ’10 Joins Executive Committee of American Theatre Critics Association
June 25, 2020Kelsall, who graduated with a degree in English and World Literatures in 2010 and works as a freelance journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, American Theatre magazine, Broad Street Review, and Opera News, has been elected as a member of the American Theatre Critics Association’s Executive Committee. -
Digital Journalism Student Publishes Bloomberg Article on Future Health Crises
June 25, 2020Woodhouse ’21, a double major in Digital Journalism and Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media, is completing a virtual internship with Bloomberg News, working on the company’s U.S government team with specific focus on congressional news. -
Update on MMC’s Plans to Restart in the Fall
June 20, 2020
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Math Professor Presents at The 6-th International Conference in Physics
June 16, 2020Lia 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). -
A Message from President Walk: Working Toward Racial Justice at MMC
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Theatre Arts Professor Timothy Johnson Directs Metropolitan Playhouse’s Latest Zoom Production
June 11, 2020Timothy Johnson, MFA, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, has directed the latest production from the Metrolpolitan “Virtual” Playhouse; Willis Richardson’s 1925 one-act play, Compromise. -
Madison Fortner ’20 Accepted into Prestigious UK Graduate Programs
June 9, 2020Fortner, who recently earned a BA in Business with a concentration in Fashion Marketing and a BS in International Business this May, has received acceptances into four prestigious programs at three London universities, including Imperial College London. -
MMC Prof. Dan Hunt’s Documentary ‘Little Miss Westie’ Premiering Soon on PBS
June 3, 2020Produced by Dan Hunt, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, and award-winning filmmaker Joy E. Reed, Little Miss Westie follows the lives of two transgender siblings, Luca and Ren, as they navigate through a challenging social environment. The documentary will make its national premiere in tandem with Pride Month on June 16, 2020 at 8:00 pm as a part of America ReFramed on the PBS WORLD Channel.
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A Message from President Walk: Interrupting Racism and Creating a Just World
June 2, 2020
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Theatre Class Attends Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Virtual 2020 Gala
May 29, 2020Students in the spring 2020 course, Fundraising and Marketing for the Arts, taught by adjunct instructor Jaynie Saunders Tiller, had the unique opportunity to “attend” the popular annual fundraiser for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.