5/8/2008 - On April 22, 2008, The College of Mount Saint
Vincent hosted its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner at
Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City. The gala is a
significant event for the College and for the community
as monies raised provide scholarship funds for students
with extraordinary ability and great need, a vital
investment in the future.
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4/28/2008 - Riverdale, NY – The College of Mount
Saint Vincent will honor its graduates on May 17, 2008,
with its annual commencement ceremony. Commencement for
the class of 2008 will take place on River Lawn in front
of the Administration Building at 10:30 a.m.
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4/16/2008 - On April 22, 2008, The College of Mount Saint
Vincent will host its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner
at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York City. The Dinner
is an important event for the College and for the
community as monies raised through the Dinner provide
scholarship funds for strong students with great need, a
wonderful investment in the future.
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4/11/2008 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent
will celebrate Founders Day on its campus on
Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Founders Day celebrates the
Sisters of Charity, who established Mount Saint Vincent
in 1847, and the models of charity from which the College
draws its inspiration: Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint
Louise de Marillac, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. The
College will celebrate an historic 161 years of providing
a quality education for its students.
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4/8/2008 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s
Environmental Club is trying to push for a greener
campus. Actions and ideas such as solar panels, wind
power, recycling of all waste not just bottles,
eco-friendly facilities cars and healthier food are
goals. While this may seem like an impossible feat many
facets of the community want to bring about this change.
The college is promoting Environmental Week (April 6-11th
by hosting several events free for everyone on campus
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4/2/2008 - Riverdale, NY – The Women’s
Studies Program at the College of Mount Saint Vincent
will host a panel discussion on women and immigration on
April 7, 2008. The forum will examine the
legal and social status of immigrant women from several
standpoints. Sr. Claire Regan, the Sisters of Charity
Coordinator of Justice Effectiveness and Corporate
Responsibility as well as Myriam Jaidi, Immigrant Rights
Attorney, and Maria Muentes, Co-Founder of Families
for Freedom are three of the speakers of note. Sr.
Regan will focus on Sisters of Charity’s work in
issues in immigration while Myriam Jaidi will focus on
questions of gender and immigrants’ rights.
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3/28/2008 - The nonprofit Women's Leadership Caucus
will bring its seminar series, Some Leaders are Born
Women, to the College of Mount Saint Vincent on April 1,
2008. Led by Cindy Dougherty, former president of
the National Benevolent Association, the series will be
presented at several universities across the country this
spring. It will bring young women, with an
expressed interest in the nonprofit sector, together with
demonstrated leaders in the field.
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3/26/2008 - Riverdale, NY - To combat the lack of media
coverage and therefore a lack of knowledge about the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, the College of Mount Saint
Vincent will host a program entitled “United We
Stand?” giving students, faculty, and the general
public a greater understanding of the effects of war on
the American military and provide a personal look at the
men and women who courageously served, and still serve
today in war zones overseas.
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2/29/2008 - On March 6, 2008, the College of Mount Saint
Vincent will host the Community Leaders Reception, an
event celebrated jointly with neighboring Manhattan
College each year. Among the many distinguished
guests will be Raymond Walter Kelly, Commissioner of the
New York City Police Department.
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2/28/2008 - Kelvin Gentles, a 2005 graduate of the
College of Mount Saint Vincent, will be among 19
individuals honored by the Commission on Independent
Colleges and Universities (CICU) during the 2008
Independent Sector Alumni Hall of Distinction Awards
Ceremony and Legislative Reception on Monday, March 3rd
at the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York.
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2/25/2008 - Riverdale, NY— For many students and
their families, understanding the financing options
available to help pay for college, and navigating the
financial aid process, are almost as challenging as
getting into the college of their choice. In an
effort to help, the College of Mount Saint Vincent will
hold a financial aid workshop for all students and
families who plan to apply for the Free Application for
Student Aid or “FAFSA”, regardless of whether
they are interested in attending Mount Saint Vincent.
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2/25/2008 - Dr. Sondra Perl, noted lecturer, author and
professor of English Literature at Lehman College, will
present “Inheriting the Holocaust: A Legacy of
Hatred or Hope?”, a discussion and book signing on
Wednesday March 5, at 7:30 pm in Smith Hall of the
Administration Building. The lecture is based upon her
book, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to
Hate. The book and the lecture, which is part of a
series, are designed to foster understanding in the
struggle between the author’s weighted history as a
Jew, and the Austrian students she teaches, some of whom
are the descendants of Nazis. This event is free
and open to the public, and free parking is available on
campus.
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12/21/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will
provide use of Hayes Auditorium to charitable
organization, God’s Love We Deliver on December 25,
2007. A group of volunteers will prepare approximately
2,100 meals from 9:00 to 10:00 A.M. These meals will then
be personally delivered to clients, many who are living
with HIV/AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and
other chronic illnesses. These clients live in all five
New York City boroughs as well as New Jersey and Hudson
County.
God’s Love We Deliver is the metropolitan
area’s leading not-for-profit organization
dedicated to preparing and delivering approximately
3,000 nutritious, life-sustaining meals free-of-charge
each weekday, to nearly 1,600 men, women and children
GLWD has no waiting list for any of its services,
including meals. Since its inception, the agency has
prepared and delivered over 8.6 million meals. GLWD has
nearly 1,800 volunteers, of whom almost 1,300 are
active each month. Our volunteers provide nearly
6,000 hours of service each month and outnumber the
staff 25 to 1.
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11/12/2007 - College of Mount Saint Vincent’s
Institute for Immigrant Concerns will host an Open House
on November 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to celebrate their
new location. Students and staff will be on hand to
answer questions about the program. In addition, guests
will be treated to photo displays of students’
native cultures, live music and entertainment.
The Institute for Immigrant Concerns, launched in May
1997, became part of the College of Mount Saint Vincent
in March 2005. The mission of the Institute is to help
immigrants, refugees and asylees achieve the dual goals
of social and economic independence in their new
country. Toward that end, the Institute annually
provides more then 500 participants with English as a
second language (ESL) instruction, job preparation and
placement, social services and educational counseling.
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10/26/2007 - The College of
Mount Saint Vincent’s undergraduate and
graduate Nursing programs have been awarded four
grants totaling more than $2 million from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services’
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
The grants, which represent a renewal and doubling
of HRSA grants of $1 million awarded to the College
in 2004, support programs that will expand the
supply of qualified nurses in the New York
metropolitan area and promote diversity within the
nursing profession.
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9/17/2007 - Beginning on
August 26, approximately 200 students moved in to
the newly opened Mastronardi Hall. Four days prior,
honorees and guests gathered in Spellman Hall to
celebrate the completion of the new residence hall.
The unveiling of Mastronardi Hall is the latest
culmination of the college’s Building Our
Future capital campaign
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5/31/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is
offering three Summer Sessions of a wide variety of
undergraduate and graduate courses, at significantly
discounted summer rates. While the first session is
currently underway, there is still time to register for
courses offered in the second and third sessions, where
spaces are available.
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5/18/2007 - Commencement will be held rain or
shine Saturday morning under the tent on River Lawn.
Graduating students must assemble by 9:30am in Hayes
auditorium. Families and friends of graduating students
are asked to be under the tent on River Lawn for the
beginning of Commencement exercises at 10:30am.
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5/1/2007 - Commencement will be held rain or shine
Saturday morning under the tent on River Lawn. Graduating
students must assemble by 9:30am in Hayes auditorium.
Families and friends of graduating students are asked to
be under the tent on River Lawn for the beginning of
Commencement exercises at 10:30am.
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5/11/2007 - Yesterday President Charles L. Flynn released
a statement regarding a local television news report
concerning building and fire code violations on campus.
As the President indicated in yesterday’s
statement, the College is committed to addressing any and
all problems.
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5/9/2007 - President Charles L. Flynn, Jr., issued the
following statement today regarding a Channel 7 report of
building and fire code violations at the College
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4/21/2007 - Mount Saint Vincent will host the prestigious
Highbridge Voices youth choir on Wednesday, April 25th at
7:30pm. The event will be held in the President’s
Reception Room and is free and open to the public.
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4/13/2007 - On Saturday April 21, Mount Saint Vincent
will host the ECSC conference, where students
in the sciences and engineering from over twenty
colleges will present their research
findings in platform or poster presentations as well
as full-length papers. Go to the
Conference home page for more
information.
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3/2/2007 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent’s
annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner will be held on
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at Cipriani 42nd Street (110 East
42nd Street New York , NY 10017). The event will
honor Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Diversified Agency Services division of
Omnicom and Maura Markus, President of Citibank North
America.
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1/3/2007 - Before graduating from high school, college
bound students and their parents must learn an entirely
new vocabulary—terms such as FAFSA, TAP, HESC,
Stafford Subsidized, Pell and Work-Study—to help
them through the financial aid process. The College of
Mount Saint Vincent has designed a workshop to help area
students navigate this important process.
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1/12/2007 -
Herman Badillo will visit the College of Mount Saint
Vincent on Wednesday, January 31 to read from his
new book One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on
How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant
Groups.
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12/13/2006 - Pamela Kerrigan, Associate Professor of
Chemistry has been elected Associate Director of Sigma
Xi, the international honor society of science and
engineering.
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11/13/2006 - Thomas Cahill, the best-selling author of
How the Irish Saved Civilization and
The
Gifts of the Jews, will visit the College on
Tuesday, December 12, 2006.
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10/18/2006 - Susan Apold, NP, PhD has been awarded The
Nancy J. Macintyre, PhD, FNP Nurse Practitioner of the
Year Award at the Annual Convention of The Nurse
Practitioner Association New York State (The NPA). This
prestigious award is presented annually to a nurse
practitioner in New York State who exemplifies the
highest standards of the nurse practitioner profession
based on rigorous criteria including clinical excellence,
volunteer service, research, advancement of the
profession and leadership.
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10/20/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent honored
Mary C. Segers, Class of 1961 with the Ad Laudem Dei
award on Tuesday, October 17, 2006. The Ad Laudem
Dei award is presented to individuals whose business or
professional lives are of national significance and
illustrate that service is not only an activity but also
an approach to the responsibilities of the work.
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9/12/2006 - The College of Mount
Saint Vincent will host Edwin Forrest’s New York: A
Bicentennial Conference on Saturday, November 4,
2006. The event commemorates the birth of Edwin
Forrest, one of America’s greatest Shakespearean
actors, in 1807. The conference will be held in the
College’s Administration building beginning at 9:15
a.m.and will culminate at 4:30 p.m.
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10/5/2006 - Congressman Eliot Engel (D-17th District)
will join the previously announced panel that
includes New York State Senators Jeff Klein (D-District
34) and Eric Schneiderman (D-District 31), Assemblyman
Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-District 81), Congressional Candidate
Jim Faulkner (R-17th District) and State Senate
Candidates Stylo Sapaskis (R-District 31) and Joseph J.
Savino (R-District 34) for a Meet the Candidates event on
Monday, October 30, 2006 at the College of Mount Saint
Vincent.
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8/29/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent is one the
best schools in the North according to US News and World
Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2007.
The College is featured in the
“Universities-Master's” category along
with other institutions in the North region that offer
both undergraduate and master's level programs.
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8/29/2006 - The
College of Mount Saint Vincent is one of 222 select
colleges and universities in the Northeast that The
Princeton Review recommends to college applicants
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8/17/2006 - Joan M. Squires has
been elected Chair of the College of Mount Saint
Vincent’s Board of Trustees. Squires is
returning to the Board after a one year hiatus, having
previously served as a Trustee from 1997-2005.
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8/17/2006 - Natalia Smirnova,
Assistant Professor of Business and Economics at the
College of Mount Saint Vincent, was among a group of
educators who rang the New York Stock Exchange’s
Opening Bell Tuesday, August 15, 2006.
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7/27/2006 - The College of Mount
Saint Vincent’s education programs and curriculum
have been accredited by the Teacher Education
Accreditation Council (TEAC) in recognition of the
quality and success of the programs. The TEAC
evaluation team who visited the College unanimously
supported its application for accreditation.
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6/12/2006 - Teresita Ramirez, PhD, has been selected to
take part in the Department of Education's 2006
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. She will be
one of 16 educators from the United States to participate
in a seminar entitled History and Culture in China, to be
held
from June 26 to July 30, 2006.
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6/20/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will
welcome the Class of 2010 during five, three day
orientation sessions held between June 19th and July
16th.
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5/12/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will offer
undergraduate and graduate courses this summer in three
different sessions. All courses will be offered at
special reduced tution rate, $750 per 3 credit
undergraduate course, and $1,800 per 3 credit graduate
course.
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5/22/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent held
commencement exercises for the Class of 2006 Saturday,
May 20, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. Undergraduate degrees
were awarded in the liberal arts, humanities, and
sciences as well as graduate degrees in nursing and
education. Thomas J. Moran, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Mutual of America Insurance Company delivered
the Commencement Address and received an honorary
doctorate of law.
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5/1/2006 - Students, faculty and staff from the College
of Mount Saint Vincent and Academy of Jewish
Religion took part in the
Save Darfur: Rally to
Stop Genocide event held on the National Mall in
Washington D.C. Sunday, April 30, 2006.
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3/14/2006 - Dr. Andrey V. Rezaev, a 2005-2006 Fulbright
Scholar, will visit the College of Mount Saint Vincent on
Thursday, April 27, 2006 to present a lecture examining
“Colleges in USA and Russia: From Conversion of
Perception to Convergence of Systems.”
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3/13/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will hold
its annual Scholarship Tribute Dinner on Thursday, April
27, 2006, at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. The
honorees will be Robert M. Callagy, Senior Partner of
Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP and Dennis J.
Manning, President and Chief Executive Officer of The
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
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3/11/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host
authors Mary Higgins Clark, a Bronx native, and daughter
Carol Higgins Clark on Thursday, April 6 at 7:30pm.
They will read from their most recent novels and answer
questions from the audience.
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2/15/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host
Thomas L. Harrison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Diversified Agency Services (DAS), as the featured
speaker at its annual President’s Associates
Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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2/15/2006 - New York City Police Detective Steven
McDonald and his wife Patty Ann McDonald will speak at
the College of Mount Saint Vincent on Wednesday, March 1,
2006. The McDonalds will lead a lecture entitled
Faith and Forgiveness: A Life’s Journey.
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1/6/2006 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent has
launched an RN to BS degree program beginning in the
spring 2006 semester. The program will allow RNs to
complete their Bachelor of Science degree in nursing
within two years. Classes will begin January 23, 2006.
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1/12/2006 - Noel Fahey, the Republic of Ireland’s
Ambassador to the United States will host a reception in
celebration of the College of Mount Saint Vincent on
Monday January 9, 2006 at the Irish Embassy in Washington
D.C.
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11/21/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent will host
best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Frank
McCourt on January 17, 2006. Mr. McCourt will
read from his read new book
Teacher Man.
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11/21/2005 - This Thanksgiving, three College of Mount
Saint Vincent students are traveling to New Orleans to
participate in the ongoing Hurricane Katrina relief
efforts. They will volunteer with organizations
such as Catholic Charities, Habitat for Humanity, and the
American Red Cross to provide assistance and comfort to
those suffering from Katrina this holiday season.
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10/20/2005 -
The Office of Career
Development and Internships will host a Graduate School
Fair on Tuesday November 15, 2005. The event will
take place in Smith Hall, located on the
College's Riverdale Campus at 6301 Riverdale
Avenue, between 12-2 p.m.
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11/8/2005 -
Daniel S. Shiffman, Assistant
Professor of English at the College of Mount Saint
Vincent, has been awarded a 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholar
grant to lecture at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan
according to the United States Department of State and
the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board. More...
11/8/2005 -
Dr. Susan Apold, Vice
President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at the
College of Mount Saint Vincent, was honored with the
American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) Leadership
award, which recognizes an individual who has provided
consistent and outstanding leadership to ACNP.
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11/3/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent is one of 224 select colleges and universities in
the Northeast that The Princeton Review profiles in the
new 2006 edition of its guide, The Best Northeastern
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10/27/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent is pleased to announce its affiliation with the
Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship program. The College
is one of a select group of New York City colleges
invited to participate in the program.
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10/26/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent honored Gail Vance Civille, `65 and Judge Judith
Hard, `79 with the Ad Laudem Dei award at a reception
held on October 18, 2005 on the College’s Riverdale
campus. More...
10/20/2005 - College of Mount Saint Vincent students won
the Outstanding Educational Program Award at the National
Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Mid-Atlantic
Regional Conference. The award recognized the
College’s week-long AIDS awareness program held
during the first week of last December, in conjunction
with World AIDS Day.
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10/11/2005 - Ernesto Quiñonez will visit the
College of Mount Saint Vincent Wednesday November 2nd to
read from his novel
Chango’s Fire.
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9/27/2005 -
The
Teacher Education Department is pursuing national
accreditation by the Teacher Education Accreditation
Council (TEAC).
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9/21/2005 -
Alsacia Pacsi, of Yonkers, has
received The Promise of Nursing for New York Regional
Faculty Scholarship. The $3,000 award is sponsored
by The Foundation of the National Student Nurses’
Association, Inc.
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9/21/2005 - College of Mount Saint Vincent senior William
Hallowell, of Rochester, NY, has received The Clark
Foundation Fellowship, awarded to students who exhibit
outstanding potential for leadership positions in
community based non-profit organizations. The three
year program awards each Fellow up to $30,000 as they
begin their career in the non-profit arena and pursue a
Master’s degree related to the field at a New York
City college or university.
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9/16/2005 -
The Emmy® Award-winning
television drama series Law & Order recently filmed
scenes for the September 28, 2005 episode at the College
of Mount Saint Vincent.
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9/16/2005 -
Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of Albania, will visit the
College of Mount Saint Vincent on Saturday, September 17.
Mr. Berisha will meet with the Albanian community in
Hayes Auditorium at 1:30 p.m.
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9/8/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent expresses its deepest sympathy towards all those
affected by Hurricane Katrina and is actively responding
to the disaster. The College will assist students from
the New York metropolitan area who have been displaced
from their schools in the Gulf region.
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9/2/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent will host novelist Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, who
will read from his latest novel, The Mad Cook of
Pymatuning: A Novel, on Thursday, September 29.
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8/25/2005 -
The College of Mount Saint
Vincent is one the best schools in the North according to
US News and World Report’s America’s
Best Colleges 2006. The College is featured in the
“Universities-Master's” category with
along with other institutions in the North region that
offer both undergraduate and master's level
programs. More...
8/25/2005 - The College of Mount Saint Vincent has
announced the election of five members to its Board of
Trustees: Tim Cassidy, Edward D. Donnelly, Sister Rose
Frederick Jones ’57, S.C., Thomas J. Kenny, CFA and
Deryck A. Palmer.
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6/28/2005 - In his remarks, Dr. Flynn said, "The
College of Mount Saint Vincent does work of uncommon
importance exceptionally
well.
This
decade offers opportunities greater than the College has
seen in a generation to extend and deepen the quality of
what we do and, therefore, what our students can
achieve.
To
take full advantage of these opportunities will require a
significant investment of resources. I offer you the
opportunity to support the College's future—and
the challenge to build it together."
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8/4/2005 - The Verizon Foundation has awarded the College
of Mount Saint Vincent a $200,000 grant to purchase
computers, software, and related technology for a
state-of-the-art, twenty-four hour