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Students in Art 480: Professional Portfolio with Associate Professor of Art James Holl gathered in the Commons West on Monday, May 13 to present their work to the MMC community.

A group of seven Biology majors ran a chemistry-themed learning station for children grades K-8 at Science Saturday , a science outreach event at Rockefeller University.

Erin Greenwell, MFA, Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Arts, and Nava Silton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, were the recipients of the 2019 C-TIE Award for Innovative Teaching.

Get to know the Cinema, Television, and Emerging Media major from California who was selected as this year’s Student Speaker for the 2019 Commencement ceremony at Lincoln Center.

The graduating Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology major will address her classmates, faculty, and family at the 2019 Commencement ceremony in the Valedictorian speech on Friday, May 17 at Lincoln Center.

In anticipation of APIDA Heritage Month 2019, MMC’s Student Development and Activities Office has coordinated several campus-wide events to honor and celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Desi Associated* (APIDA) cultures, histories, and identities.

On Saturday, April 13, members from across the MMC community took part in the annual Wage Hope at PurpleStride walk to support pancreatic cancer research.

Dr. Matt Lundquist published his paper “Aquatic insect diversity in streams across a rural-urban land-use discontinuum ” in the international journal Hydrobiologia.

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Thomas J. Shanahan Library, the MMC R.E.A.D.S. (Racial Equity And Dialogue Series) Book Club was developed to provide a space of continued learning for faculty and staff interested in better understanding issues of race and racism.

First-year students in the Higher Education Opportunity Program at MMC, Jerandy Beato, Kayleen Cabrera and Diana Camilo, traveled to Chicago Illinois for the 2019 Spring National Convention on student leadership and diversity. 

Madison Weisend, a junior majoring in Environmental Studies and Politics & Human Rights , presented a poster at the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) conference held at the New School.

Julia Furnari ’20, Marjan Khan ’20, and Ashley Pavia ’21 presented research at the ECSC 2019 conference at Manhattan College.

Congratulations to Professor Jim Holl on his latest exhibition, Particle Point Collisions . April 4-May 11, 2019 at Prographica/KDR Gallery, 313 Occidental Ave. South Seattle, WA 98104

MMC’s Fifth Annual Stand Up Speak Out Film, Play, and Arts Festival was phenomenal. Thanks to all who participated!

The President’s Advisory Committee for Inclusivity held the first Faculty and Staff of Color Gathering on Wednesday, April 3 with keynote speaker, Dr. Danielle R. Moss, Oliver Scholars CEO.

Psychogeography  explores artists’ responses to place [and displacement] in real and imagined spaces. From the psychic to the specific, from recollection to recording, the works in this exhibit recreate the power of place in the human imagination. 

The nine artists in this group exhibition have traversed the globe, from the North Pole to Egypt, from Tibet to Italy, and from Flatbush to Central Park. Some travel in the imaginative realms, others may never leave the studio. 

This exhibit takes inspiration from the notion of derive, or “drifting,” a word coined by French Marxist philosopher Guy Debord, one of the founders of the Situationists International movement.

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.

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.