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Candles flickered in The Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary at Mount Saint Mary College on Friday night, as the campus community honored the victims, survivors, and heroes of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Leading the prayer service was Fr…

Local artists Rita Leduc and Vernon M. Byron recently discussed their techniques, inspirations, and career highlights during two virtual classroom visits to the students of Mount Saint Mary College. The pair were guest speakers in Art History instructor…

Maddie Belfonti of Southington, Conn., an Accounting major on the five-year MBA track, shows her mask-making station at home. As the need for cloth masks continues to rise in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mount Saint Mary College community is…

If the Mount Saint Mary College community could raise $24,000 in 24 hours for their Student Emergency Fund, college President Dr. Jason N. Adsit promised to shave his hair into a mohawk. The Mount community banded together on Friday, April 3 and Saturday…

About a dozen children learned the “bear necessities” of nursing at a Fuzzy Friends clinic hosted at the Newburgh Free Library early last month. The event was run by Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students and faculty. “Sometimes children get scared…

Susan LaRocco, Dean of the Mount’s School of Nursing, stands in one of the college’s labs in this file photo. The Mount’s School of Nursing recently donated about 7,000 disposable gloves and other protective equipment to area hospitals and retirement…

Jenifer Lee-Gonyea, associate professor of Criminology at Mount Saint Mary College, discusses “Using Restorative Justice to Address Serious Harms” during a recent presentation on campus. Lee-Gonyea was recently named a Rockefeller Institute Fellow for…

Mount Saint Mary College’s student-athletes had a ball with our local Special Olympics teams early this month at the college’s Kaplan Recreation Center. The college men’s and women’s basketball teams worked with Special Olympic athletes on Thursday,…

Mount students happy to serve, left to right: Victoria Veloz-Vicioso of Englewood, N.J.; Alicia Santiago of Endicott, N.Y.; Angelica Rolka of Poland, N.Y.; Molly Jensen of Bayport, N.Y; and Brother Peter, a Franciscan friar. For Mount Saint Mary College…

Sonya Abbye Taylor, associate professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College. Sonya Abbye Taylor, associate professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College, recently presented “Poverty: There But For Fortune” for local educators.   In a small…