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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…

Therapy dogs help students de-stress at the Mount’s Kaplan Family Library and Learning Center. Midterms can be a demanding time for the Mount Saint Mary College community, but trained therapy dogs provided a break for students, faculty, and staff on…

At a community reception on February 26 – Ash Wednesday – Tiffany Gagliano ’02, Esq., Mount Saint Mary College’s inaugural Dean of the School of Business, discussed her plans to help the college thrive. Gagliano was appointed to the role in January 2020…

Alex Valentin, director of Technical Services at Mount Saint Mary College, discusses his international travels at a talk on campus.  World traveler Alex Valentin, director of Technical Services at Mount Saint Mary College, shared his tips for traveling…

Mount Saint Mary College students help sort hundreds of pounds of food on Friday, February 21, to be distributed to those in need through Newburgh’s St. Mary’s Church. Before even the earliest of the college’s morning classes began on Friday, February…