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5/16/13

Gift Will Go Mostly Toward Scholarships

Emily and Eugene Grant, avid supporters of higher education and dedicated arts patrons, have
 

 
5/13/13

A team of Purchase studio production majors have won the Grand Prize in Shure Inc.’s Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition. 

A panel of
 

5/10/13
President Thomas J. Schwarz announced today that after an extensive national search and screening process, Purchase College has selected Barry
 
 
5/8/13

Documentary filmmaker Sean Dunne ’03 recently premiered his debut feature, Oxyana, at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.

Hailed as
 

4/30/13

The Tony Award nominees were announced today and for the second year in a row, Purchase alumni garnered three of the four nominations in the
 
 
4/26/13

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
        —Proverb

The Purchase tradition of planting a
 

4/24/13

The Purchase Dance Company is pleased to present its first full New York City season, May 22–25, 2013, at New York Live Arts. The Company will
 
 
4/23/13

Christina Blankenship ’13 is a great example of what’s possible at Purchase when students embrace the motto Think Wide Open.

Blankenship has
 

4/23/13

After a ten-month closure for extensive HVAC renovation work, the Neuberger Museum of Art reopens on Sunday, April 28th with the provocative
 
 
4/22/13

The Sketchbook Project, a mobile library filled with sketchbooks created by people—artists and non-artists alike—from all over the world,
 
4/12/13

Molecular and cellular biology research lab suite will help meet needs of growing biotech community.

President Schwarz and Jim Daly,
 

 
4/10/13

Last summer sophomore Elijah Wolf-Christensen released As Tall as the Sun, an EP featuring six of his songs. Little did he know, eight months
 
4/9/13

Claire Jamison, a senior in the acting program, learned last week that she was the recipient of SUNY’s Patricia Kerr Ross Award in the
 
 
4/8/13

The 41st annual commencement ceremony takes place Friday, May 17, 2013 at the Westchester County Center. This year’s honorary degree and
 
4/6/13

Congratulations to three Purchase College seniors who received the SUNY Chancellor's Award on Thursday, April 4. Each year SUNY recognizes
 

 
3/7/13

Purchase hosted Governor Andrew Cuomo today as he made the latest stop on his State of the State tour. He spoke in the Performing Arts Center's
 
3/5/13

Have you seen the shot? That's the question swirling around sports circles this week. The video of a 55-foot buzzer beater by New Rochelle High
 
 
2/28/13

David Grill ’86, assistant professor of theater design/technology, recently served as lighting director for Michelle Obama’s Best Picture award
 
1/14/13

Dance Magazine named Jonathan Royse Windham '11, one of "25 to Watch" in 2013.

Windham, 26, is currently a company member with Gallim
 

 
1/9/13
The Purchase College community is profoundly saddened to learn of the passing of artist, mentor, friend, and professor emeritus Antonio Frasconi on
 
1/3/13

Professor George Kraemer, environmental studies and biology, was named one of Westchester County's Top Eight Leaders in 2013 by Westchester
 
 
1/2/13

The women's soccer team delivered over 80 pounds of canned goods and non-perishables to the Food Bank for Westchester in Elmsford, NY just in
 
12/27/12

Purchase College has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of 100 best values in public colleges for 2012-13. The ranking cites
 
 
12/11/12

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program recently announced recipients of their competitive study abroad grants for spring 2013
 
12/4/12

Five students from the School of Natural and Social Sciences’ Bridges to Baccalaureate Program presented their research at the Annual
 
 
12/4/12

A120 Stacked Pyramid, a 1973 sculpture by artist Jackie Ferrara (American, b. 1929), has been on view in several locations on campus since
 
11/29/12

The National Opera Association (NOA) has once again bestowed the Purchase Opera with first place honors for the spring 2012 production of
 
 
11/27/12

When senior Tova Hadar first encountered the oddly elongated “chairs” installed as part of the plaza renovation, she wondered what human shape
 
11/19/12

New York Live Arts announced earlier this month that dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham BFA ’00 will be their next Resident Commissioned
 
 
11/16/12

A surfer, rock-climber, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and quasi-philosopher, Steve Jumper BA ’09, turned a hobby into a full-time job when he
 
11/14/12

Professor and Coordinator of Theatre and Performance Lenora Champagne works in a realm encompassing many genres—she’s a playwright, performance
 
 
11/14/12

One can argue there are few things as quintessential to the Purchase experience as the Purchase Soul Voices—a premier 60-student vocal
 
11/14/12

The list reads like a menu of options from a new age spa: Self-Empowerment Through Mindfulness Meditation; Yoga for a Natural High; Massage;
 
 
11/14/12

Growing up in Montgomery, N.J., Dara Israel was never able to see herself doing anything but making films, an ambition that proved unpopular in
 
11/6/12

Purchase College Community Responds to the Devastation in Communities Students Call Home

Briana Buttermark ’15, and Valerie Hardt feel
 

 
10/25/12
For the past 25 years, Dr. Judith Spitz, senior vice president of IT Strategy and Planning, and chief information officer at Verizon, has been a
 
10/22/12
Congratulations to Cyrille Aimée '09, a jazz singer internationally praised for her vocal stylings, on finishing first in the finals of the Sarah
 
 
10/18/12
Zero in the System, a feature film by Tim McCann, visiting assistant professor of film, will debut this weekend at the PollyGrind Film Festival in
 
10/12/12
On the sidewalk in front of the Museum of Modern Art on most days of the week, Mark Nilsson ’10 (BFA, painting and drawing) lingers aside a table
 
 
10/11/12
Can kelp, or seaweed, help clean up pollution in the Long Island Sound? Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology George Kraemer and several
 
10/5/12
The School of Film and Media Studies presented the first event in a new series called Great Films, Great Directors last Thursday.

Acclaimed film
 

 
9/24/12
When Julianne Moore accepted her Emmy award last night for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her role in HBO's Game Change, she thanked Leigh
 
9/18/12

Last Thursday, September 13, the Performing Arts Center (PAC) teamed up with the Paideia School 15 in Yonkers, NY to present a workshop for
 
 
9/17/12
Mary Alice Williams, assistant professor of journalism, appeared on Weekend Today yesterday, Sunday, September 16. The show celebrated its 25th
 
9/6/12
Purchase College is pleased to announce it will receive a $2.5 million donation by Peter, Leslie, and Stephen Durst in honor of their mother, the
 
 
8/17/12
With summer's end and a new semester underway, college rankings are beginning to appear. So far, Purchase College has made four lists worth crowing
 
8/8/12
Two paintings by Heather Swenson, BFA ’12, have been selected for exhibition in the Washington D.C. office of Governor Andrew Cuomo.

“As visitors
 

 
6/13/12
Citing his creativity, charisma and insight, Jacob's Pillow Dance announced that acclaimed contemporary dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham '00
 
5/22/12
Dan Romer MusB ’04, a graduate of the Conservatory of Music’s studio production program, wrote the score for a film that won prizes at the 2012
 
 
5/21/12
Arts management major Zoé Gadsden '15 has just completed her first year at Purchase, achieving a 4.03 grade point average. When in the classroom,