News and Events

Purchase Students Earn SUNY Arts Awards

Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.
Jazz Performers Inspired by Poetry

On Wednesday, April 10, an audience packed the Neuberger Museum of Art’s Center Gallery to hear jazz musicians interpret the poetry of Kevin Young.
Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Earns NEA Award

The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing (Poetry) Fellowship is $25,000.
Creative Writer Wins Prestigious Contest

Jiaming “Andy” Tang ’18 earns a Breakout 8 Writers Prize.
Author Neil Gaiman Offered Advice for Students

This year’s Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature, Michael Chabon, welcomed his longtime friend, Neil Gaiman, for a wide-ranging and warm discussion.
Journalism Professor Pays it Forward

Andrew Salomon has endowed a fund for aspiring journalists.
Durst Lectures Feature Top Authors

The only two Americans to have ever won the prestigious Man Booker Prize both spoke at Purchase in 2017.
Acclaimed Novelists Kick Off the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series

Katie Katamura, author of A Separation, and Hari Kunzru, whose most recent novel is White Tears spoke to a rapt audience on September 13.