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<p> First-year and transfer students aren’t the only new additions to campus this fall; MMC is also welcoming nearly a dozen new full-time faculty to the community. We spoke with several of them about their hopes for the semester and their adventures in the classroom and beyond.<br/><br/></p>
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<a href="/live/news/4496-new-mmc-center-helps-students-find-creative-paths">New MMC Center Helps Students Find Creative Paths in Health Care</a>
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<p> Professor Nava Silton has had a varied career in health and human development. She’s created graphic novels about the adventures of children with visible and invisible disabilities and produced an off-Broadway musical about disabilities and bullying. Levar Burton and The Jim Henson Company are developing two of her projects for the small screen.</p>
<p> But she wouldn’t have been able to envision it in her early days as a premed student; back then, she thought building a career in health meant following a narrow professional track. “I remember thinking, okay, maybe I’ll be a physician or teach in a medical school,” she said. “I’d always been creative, but I never thought it would relate to any professional goals I’d have in health.”</p>
<p> That changed when she took a developmental psychology class that showed her how rich and exciting the field could be and worked with a professor who helped her realize that creativity could be an asset in health—and not just a passion she pursued on the side.</p>
<p> Now, as the director of MMC’s new <a href="/center-for-health-human-development-and-creativity/">Center for Health, Human Development, and Creativity</a>, Dr. Silton is helping Marymount Manhattan students reach that same understanding from the moment they step foot on campus.</p>
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<p> As a first-generation college student, Zach Biron ’24 had lots of questions and anxieties as he entered his freshman year—and he kept them all to himself.</p>
<p> “I graduated from a large public high school that didn’t have resources for first-gen students about to go to college and started MMC during the pandemic while it was virtual,” said Biron, a Psychology and Theatre Arts major. “There were so many things I was confused about, but I struggled with imposter syndrome, thinking everybody else knew more than me and was sure of what they wanted, so I kept quiet. I didn’t know how to serve myself.”</p>
<p> That changed, however, with help from a new resource at MMC that Biron would help launch as a student worker: the College’s Intercultural Center (IC). Though it just <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci0Tq_OMsqk/">marked its first anniversary</a> in September, it has already had a powerful impact on those who rely on its services, including first-gen students.</p>
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