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Career Services and CityEdge will present the Second Annual Career Summit on Wednesday, March 29 from 11:00am-3:30pm. This professional and career development conference for students will encompass keynote speakers, a networking lunch, and breakout panels with industry professionals.

Award-winning photographer Joseph Rodriguez shared his work with students, faculty, and staff in a packed Regina Peruggi Room.

Founder and photographer for the photo-activism campaign The Adipositivity Project presented “The Adipositivity Project: Subverting the Tools of the Angst Industrial Complex” to a packed Regina Peruggi Room.

The Office of Academic Affairs hosted a reception to recognize the outstanding achievement of first-year students during their first semester at MMC.

On December 18th and 19th, MMC hosted Realabilities—The Puppet Show Musical, which uses Avenue Q style puppets to teach children kindness, empathy and understanding towards children with disabilities and their typical peers through a charming, humorous and beautiful 50 minute musical.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Marymount Manhattan College a $50,000 new presidents discretionary grant. President Kerry Walk has dedicated the funds to support faculty development in integrative and immersion pedagogies.

Dr. Klein was the first Jewish dean of a Catholic college, and taught Geraldine Ferraro ’56 while at Marymount Manhattan College.

Students in the NYC seminar “The Urban Ecosystem” use the city as their laboratory. Through field trips, projects, and readings, students explore the science of the urban landscape, as well as the particular environmental challenges faced by NYC.

It’s International Education Week at Marymount Manhattan College! International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.  Multiple offices and departments at MMC have arranged events this coming week to expand global awareness and promote education abroad. 

Two students from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, sponsored by professor Sue Behrens, presented at the 28th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research, held at Fordham University.

In grateful appreciation and with deepest gratitude, President Kerry Walk, Ph.D. and the entire Marymount Manhattan College community are pleased to announce the naming of Carson Hall in honor of Judith M. Carson ’03, H’13 and Russell L. Carson.

Marymount Manhattan College was well represented at the 19th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Four of our students presented their research findings, and one was awarded the top prize in her category.

“It’s always fun to celebrate the holidays with your friends,” said Sophia Ostroff ’20, “and that’s exactly what we did today.”

The entire Marymount Manhattan College community is saddened to learn of the death of Margaret Ann Landry, RSHM on October 18, 2016.

Two superstar Marymount Manhattan College alumnae are getting ready to do the timewarp again!

On Thursday, September 22, over 30 Marymount Manhattan College clubs and organizations took over 71st street for the annual Apple Fest.

Maria Andrews, a senior with a double major in Dance and International Studies, has been selected to serve as the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Campus Coordinator. “I am excited to bring together the MMC community to discuss important foreign affairs issues that affect our daily lives,” Maria says.

Politics and Human Rights, alongside Student Development and Activities, hosted a screening for the campus community of the first Presidential debate on September 26, 2016.

On September 13, 2016, President Barack Obama announced the recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. Awardees include authors, a poet, physican, historian, chef, and a higher education program. Included in the awardees is author Ron Chernow, who received an honorary degree from Marymount Manhattan College is 2005.

On the evening of Wednesday, September 14, Governor Andrew Cuomo paid a surprise visit to the Marymount Manhattan College Program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.

MMC Biology alumni Zach Barbati ’10 and Alice Trye ’15 are entering prestigious M.D. programs.

Marymount Manhattan College welcomed six new full-time faculty members for the 2016-17 academic year.

The $250,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation, to be used over two years, will provide funding for Marymount Manhattan College’s recently launched college-to-career initiative, CityEdge, a model for integrating the liberal arts and professional preparation.

“What College Freshmen Can Learn from Upperclassmen” In this Parenting report, NY1’s Shelley Goldberg catches up with some upperclassmen at Marymount Manhattan College who shared their tips for navigating as a freshman in New York.