News Archive

A graduate of MMC’s Art History program, Michael Quituisaca ’17 is now working toward his master’s in Art History at American University, where he and his peers have opened Moves Like Walter , the first exclusive exhibition from the Corcoran Legacy Collection.

Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at MMC, Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D. , has curated the latest exhibition at Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea, celebrating the work of artist Leon Berkowitz.

Students enrolled in Spring 2020’s Special Topics in Business (BUS 300) will travel to three cities during Spring Break to learn about the Italian fashion industry, its rich history, current regulations, and the impact of globalization across cultures.

Psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove, Ph.D., will deliver the 2019 Lefkowitz Lecture, Urbanism is a Participatory Sport, on Thursday, October 24, in the Theresa Lang Theatre.

Thank you MMC alumni, parents, and friends from all over the world for joining MMC on our most successful Griffins Give Day yet!

Students in Public Affairs and Political Reporting with Tatiana Serafin, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts and Coordinator of Journalism at MMC, visited the Upper East Side’s local precinct on 67^th Street to learn how police officers cover and patrol the neighborhood.

On Wednesday, October 2, artist and activist Zoë Buckman spoke to MMC art students at the Fort Gansevoort gallery about her current solo show, Heavy Rag, as part of the College’s recurring “Conversations on Diversity and Social Justice” series.

Curated by MMC alum Kristen Haskell ’05, SYNAPSES

On Monday, September 23, the Global Climate Summit convened as part of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and MMC CommArts students from Public Affairs and Political Reporting, taught by Tatiana Serafin, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, were at the forefront, covering protests and interviewing civic activists. 

MMC will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at the College’s Golden Jubilee Celebration on Friday, October 18, and we are delighted to announce that Council Member Adrienne E. Adams will deliver the keynote address at the event.

Corey J. Liberman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication and Media Arts, published Casing Communication Theory (Kendall Hunt, 2019), his latest book in collaboration with co-authors Andrew S. Rancer and Theodore A. Avtgis.

Beginning January 2020, Akademos , a leader in online bookstore solutions, will manage the first Marymount Manhattan College digital bookstore.

Marymount Manhattan College officially welcomed the Class of 2023 and new transfer students to the campus community in August at New Student Convocation, a joyful event attended by hundreds of students, as well as faculty, staff, and trustees.

English and World Literatures and Education graduate Annabelle Royer ’13 has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a 10-month fellowship project training teachers and teaching English in Montenegro at The University of Montenegro. Royer is one of only 200 U.S. citizens selected for the 2019-2020 English Language Fellow Program.

Marymount Manhattan College’s Department of Art & Art History prepares students with a stellar education grounded in the liberal arts, and graduates go on to an array of impressive careers as artists and in art-related fields. This summer proved to be an especially fruitful one for the department’s graduates, with six alumni attaining milestone achievements in their careers.

“The Art and Art History faculty are delighted and proud of the extraordinary accomplishments of this recent group of alumni,” says Beth Shipley, MFA, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Art and Art History Department. “The diversity of their pursuits—crossing disciplines and spanning the globe—speaks to their ability to transform a core body of knowledge into far reaching innovations and significant contributions in the fields of contemporary art and arts administration.”

Read their stories below:

A new Broadway World feature announces the creation of the Musical Theatre Common Pre-Screen, a universal collection of pre-screen requirements for students applying to college and university Musical Theatre programs. Marymount Manhattan has signed on to participate, helping streamline the application process for students.

Sponsored by the Office of Student Development and Activities (SDA), Marymount Manhattan College’s annual Welcome Week and Orientation brings new and transfer students to campus for fun activities and informational workshops before the official start to the semester.

Marymount Manhattan College’s first student food pantry, Griffy’s Grocery, kicked off in early 2019 and has since served over one hundred students with non-perishable food and care items. The Grocery will officially open for the fall 2019 semester on Tuesday, September 10 with newly extended hours.

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.

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.

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.