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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…

Jane Gangi, professor of Education, tells the story “The Black Cat.” In this story, the listeners draw along with the storyteller to reveal the titular black cat by the end. The Mount Saint Mary College community is bringing the online classroom to life…

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies throughout the country, many Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students are fighting back on the frontlines. In addition to hundreds of Mount Nursing alumni who are facing the COVID-19 pandemic head-on, several current…

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 alumna Nicole Corbett ’12, a digital account manager at Learfield IMG College, discusses her career in sports marketing during a talk several weeks ago at Mount Saint Mary College. Mount Saint Mary College alumna Nicole Corbett…

Jane Gangi, professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary College, discusses banned literature at the Banned Books Symposium. To her left are Kate Sprague-Hicks, middle school librarian at Arlington Central School, and Marie-Therese Sulit, an associate professor…

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…