MSMC Magazine

The Fall 2020 semester at Mount Saint Mary College, and at institutions of higher learning throughout the United States, is simultaneously a return to the college experience we remember and proof that we must continue to act with both caution and compassion…

After an unusual semester, Mount Saint Mary College was proud to recognize more than 550 graduates at its virtual Commencement celebration on Saturday, May 16. Of the graduates, 111 earned master’s degrees and 444 earned bachelor’s degrees. The graduating…

Near the end of the Spring 2020 semester, the Mount introduced two new honor societies in recognition of the dedication and skill of dozens of students: Chi Rho Iota for Criminology and Chi Alpha Sigma for student-athletes.  Chi Rho Iota and Chi Alpha…

While students began to find success in their online endeavors, Mount faculty and staff became accustomed to working from home. For many, every day has become Take Your Child to Work Day.  Orin Strauchler, assistant dean of Student Support Services and…

By helping others, the students of James Phillips, associate professor of Theatre, were also helping themselves. The educational videos they produced for Bishop Dunn Memorial School last semester gave the kindergarten and pre-K students interesting content…

Given enough time, even a pandemic can start to feel ordinary. Mount Nursing students, faculty, and alumni began to adjust to the stress of working with COVID-19 patients. And while the switch to online courses took some getting used to, it soon became…

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, Mount Saint Mary College Nursing students fought back on the frontlines. Briana Irwin, a full-time medical-surgical nursing assistant at Saint Anthony’s Community Hospital in Warwick, N.Y., is one of many Mount Nursing…

Inspired by a news story about the shortage of personal protective equipment, Elaine Suderio-Tirone, an assistant professor of Nursing, recruited her teenage daughter, her brother, and her sister-in-law to help her sew and donate cloth masks. In addition…

With service at the core of the Mount’s identity, the college quickly proved that it would take more than a pandemic to stop students, faculty, and staff from aiding local communities.  Among donations to other facilities in the area, the Mount’s School…

When the pandemic was declared, the Mount’s School of Business began searching for a way to use 3D printing technology to aid healthcare workers, explained Tiffany Gagliano ’02, dean of the Mount’s School of Business. A breakthrough came when Peter Gregory…