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More than 40 students, faculty, and staff from Mount Saint Mary College took part in American Cancer Society’s yearly Making Strides Against Breast Cancer (MSABC) walk at Woodbury Common, earning nearly $2,300 for the cause. The team, named Together…

A new red oak tree stands outside of Bishop Dunn Memorial School, thanks to principal Nancy Benfer’s second grade class and a team of freshmen and faculty from Mount Saint Mary College’s First Year Experience (FYE) program. The tree was planted in the…

Holocaust survivor Tibor Spitz discusses his experiences at the recent panel talk and screening of the film We Remember: Songs of Survivors at Mount Saint Mary College on Sunday, October 15.    When greeting a friend (or even someone he’s never met)…

Janet Kass, volunteer with Jewish Family Service of Orange County, spoke to Mount Saint Mary College freshmen about the concept of tikkun olam, or “repairing the world.”   From filmmakers to songwriters, five local leaders recently taught Mount Saint…

Nursing students Jason Cruz of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Victoria Ward of Oceanside, N.Y.; Miracle Cooke of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.; Sadie Dirubbio of Beacon, N.Y.; and Brittany Drake of New Windsor, N.Y. lent a hand at the recent Mount Saint Mary College drive…

In celebration of October – Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Mount Saint Mary College’s Center for Cybersecurity will be hosting two free, public talks by local leaders in the field. All of the presentations will take place on campus in Aquinas Hall,…

We Remember: Songs of Survivors, a PBS documentary celebrating the lives of Holocaust survivors, will be screened at Mount Saint Mary College on Sunday, October 15 at 2:30 p.m. It will be followed by a panel featuring some of the filmmakers and artists…

Bishop Dunn Memorial School (BDMS) hosted its annual Cupcake 5K Run/Walk on the Mount Saint Mary College campus on Sunday, September 17, raising $19,500 for scholarships and improvements to the school.  Students, parents, faculty, and members of the…

Anthony Russel Farina, a novelist and associate professor of Humanities at Siena Heights University, will present “Dominican and Buddhist Contemplative Practices: Writing in Action” at Mount Saint Mary College on Tuesday, October 3 at 4 p.m. The free…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) and Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) recently hosted their College Boot Camp for students at Newburgh Free Academy (NFA) West. In addition to HEOP and CSTEP…