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Local kids kick off the Mini Cupcake race at the Bishop Dunn Memorial Cupcake 5K fundraiser on the Mount Saint Mary College campus on Sunday, September 15.   Bishop Dunn Memorial School (BDMS) hosted its sixth annual Cupcake 5K Run/Walk on the Mount…

Fire Through Dry Grass, a documentary about race, poverty, disability, and the power of art, will be screened online on Tuesday, October 15 at 5 p.m. The viewing will be followed by an interactive discussion with Reality Poets Andres “Jay” Molina and…

Mount Saint Mary College student Caitlyn Garrigan of Staten Island (right) and Rob Wakeman, associate professor of English and Co-Coordinator of the Knight Summer Connections program, prune a peach tree at Newburgh Urban Farm and Food Initiative.  …

Mount Saint Mary College’s Together in Pink team (seen here) earned more than $2,000 for cancer research at last year’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. The team is looking to beat their 2023 total at the next walk, scheduled for Sunday, October…

Mount Saint Mary College’s James F. Cotter Villa Library was packed with familiar faces at the Emeriti Faculty Luncheon on Thursday, September 12. The professors and longtime staff members caught up with old friends, enjoyed lunch, and learned about…

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

Ann Garrido, associate professor of Homiletics at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Mo., will present “Truth: The Fire in Our Bones” at Mount Saint Mary College on Tuesday, October 8 at 4 p.m. The free, public event will take place in the…

As part of their First-Year Experience (FYE), the Mount Saint Mary College Class of 2028 took part in an unforgettable campus scavenger hunt. Students competed to learn more about the college and on-campus resources available to them, helping the Class…

Dr. Dana E. Crawford, a pediatric and clinical psychologist, will host Preventing and Repairing Cultural Misunderstandings” on Friday, Friday, September 27 at Mount Saint Mary College. She’s seen here speaking at another Desmond Center event, the Healing…

Members of the local community are welcome to discuss what they would like to see the Desmond Center provide at the upcoming community listening session on Thursday, September 26. Seen here, area residents discuss ideas for Desmond Center programing at…