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We Remember: Songs of Survivors, a documentary celebrating the lives of Holocaust survivors and featuring concert footage filmed at Mount Saint Mary College, will air on PBS on Tuesday, April 26 at 8 p.m.  The hour-long special will premiere the week…

Mount Saint Mary College will honor the life and legacy of longtime professor James Finn Cotter on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. Cotter passed away on January 8, 2022, at the age of 92.  The event will celebrate Cotter’s life and accomplishments with readings…

Mount Saint Mary College's recent Founders Day celebrations honored the legacy of St. Dominic de Guzman and the Dominican Sisters whose vision guided the creation of the college. The events were sponsored by the Mount's Catholic and Dominican Institute…

Mount Saint Mary College was recently recognized as a top 100 school in the 2022 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. On U.S. News and World Report’s comprehensive lists of top-tier regional universities, the Mount was ranked number 94 in Regional Universities…

Mount Saint Mary College closed on the sale of the Desmond Estate last week, officially putting the 26-acre property in the care of the Town of Newburgh.  The town has revealed plans to continue using the estate for educational programming, and as parkland…

Mount Saint Mary College’s Center on Aging and Policy (CAP) was recently awarded a $600,000 grant to launch the ProActive Caring initiative for families of individuals with disabilities. The grant was secured by Lawrence T. Force and Jeffery S. Kahana…

Rabbi Philip Weintraub of Congregation Agudas Israel in Newburgh, N.Y. and Fr. Francis Amodio, O.Carm., Mount campus chaplain and director of Campus Ministry, bless the college’s newly acquired volumes of the Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition on Monday…

Cardinal Timothy Dolan (right) blesses plaques bearing the names of the Dominican Center’s benefactors on September 17, 2014. The plaques will be placed throughout the recently transformed, state-of-the-art living and learning center. Photo by Lee Ferris…

Brett Bondar, Information Technology Support Center coordinator, leads the first book down the human chain with traditional bagpipe music. Photo by Lee Ferris. Hundreds from the Mount Saint Mary College community – students, alumni, faculty, staff, friends…

“A Call to Excellence: The Campaign for the Dominican Center” began its public phase on Saturday night, with a goal of $10 million toward extensive transformation of the five story building and property at Mount Saint Mary College. Mount Saint Mary College…