News Archive

On March 11, MMC’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) presented a powerful panel discussion featuring clients from the College’s on-campus clinic, the Ruth Smadbeck Communication and Learning Center, as a way to give students a glimpse into life as a professional speech-language pathologist serving clients struggling with speech and communication disorders.

The Center for Learning and Living (CL&L), originally founded at Marymount Manhattan College, is now celebrating its 25th year of offering lifelong learning opportunities to adults 55 and older. The spring 2019 course schedule is now available.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2019, MMC’s Student Activities Advisory Board and the Office of Student Development and Activities co-hosted an opening reception in honor of Womxn’s Herstory Month, inviting New York City Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal to speak.

Lauren Garafano, a senior double majoring in Digital Journalism and Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media is excited to announce she has officially been hired as an Editorial Fellow at leading media company BuzzFeed.

Maria Andrews ’17, an International Studies and Dance major at MMC, received the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) grant to teach in Malaysia from January to November 2018.

Since 2006, the Crossing Borders Conference has been a key component of the Bedford Hills College Program (BHCP)—MMC’s college-prep and degree program for women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, NYS’s only maximum-security facility. During the conference, MMC students—from outside the facility and in—join professors and alumni in presenting their creative and scholarly work on a wide variety of subjects. This year’s conference will be held on Friday, April 26, 2019.

Jack Irvin, while interning at Rolling Stone, earns writing credits.

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Higher Education Opportunity Program  (HEOP) being part of New York State legislation, with programs now at over 50 private colleges across the state. To kick off a yearlong celebratory campaign at MMC, HEOP Director Harmony Cross and HEOP Counselor and Coordinator Keith Windsor accompanied students from MMC’s HEOP to Temple University in Philadelphia for the annual Inclusive Leadership Conference  on Saturday, February 9.

Dr. Lauren Brown’s scholarly article ‘As Long as They Have Talent’: Organizational Barriers to Black Ballet has been published in popular academic journal Dance Chronicle .

Counsellor Meriem El Hilali of the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations joined Professor Kazi Rahman’s Diplomacy: Theory and Practice class to discuss the history of US-Moroccan relations.

MMC Theatre Arts alumna Adrienne Warren ’09, Tony Award-nominee, stars in the West End blockbuster musical TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, which will be coming to Broadway in Fall 2019. The first single from the upcoming cast album was released today, featuring Adrienne performing the iconic song River Deep - Mountain High!

The Marymount Manhattan College community is saddened to learn of the passing of Sister Hélène Louise Zimmerman, a member for 71 years of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, MMC’s founding order.

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