MSMC Magazine
The Office of Marketing and Communications prepares this magazine for alumni, students, parents and friends of the College. The Mount Saint Mary College Magazine is published twice a year and has a circulation of approximately 8,000.
Mount Saint Mary College hosted the first classes of the Fall 2020 semester on Monday, August 24, having welcomed hundreds of students to their residence halls over the weekend. Just like any other year, several hundred freshmen began their college careers…
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Alumni Notes
CategoriesPublished:1967Ronnie (Burns) Brady is now a retired registered nurse (medical oncology). She is enjoying retirement and spending time with her five granddaughters! 1974Mary Ann (Kadera) Klicka attended the Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators’…
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Creativity and adaptation
CategoriesPublished:The need for social distancing has challenged the Mount community to think outside the box when it comes to traditional classroom instruction. Here, Douglas Robinson, associate professor of Biology, teaches one of his biology classes outside of Aquinas…
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Published:As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students fought back on the frontlines. Briana Irwin, a full-time medical-surgical nursing assistant at Saint Anthony’s Community Hospital in Warwick, N.Y., is one of many Mount Nursing…
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The new normal
CategoriesPublished:Given enough time, even a pandemic can start to feel ordinary. Mount Nursing students, faculty, and alumni began to adjust to the stress of working with COVID-19 patients. And while the switch to online courses took some getting used to, it soon became…
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Stronger with service
CategoriesPublished:By helping others, the students of James Phillips, associate professor of Theatre, were also helping themselves. The educational videos they produced for Bishop Dunn Memorial School last semester gave the kindergarten and pre-K students interesting content…
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Working…with children
CategoriesPublished:While students began to find success in their online endeavors, Mount faculty and staff became accustomed to working from home. For many, every day has become Take Your Child to Work Day. Orin Strauchler, assistant dean of Student Support Services and…
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Mount welcomes new honor societies
CategoriesPublished:Near the end of the Spring 2020 semester, the Mount introduced two new honor societies in recognition of the dedication and skill of dozens of students: Chi Rho Iota for Criminology and Chi Alpha Sigma for student-athletes. Chi Rho Iota and Chi Alpha…
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Pomp, circumstance, and social distance
CategoriesPublished:After an unusual semester, Mount Saint Mary College was proud to recognize more than 550 graduates at its virtual Commencement celebration on Saturday, May 16. Of the graduates, 111 earned master’s degrees and 444 earned bachelor’s degrees. The graduating…
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The road ahead
CategoriesPublished:The Fall 2020 semester at Mount Saint Mary College, and at institutions of higher learning throughout the United States, is simultaneously a return to the college experience we remember and proof that we must continue to act with both caution and compassion…