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Debut Novel by Jiaming “Andy” Tang ’18 Coming in 2024
Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.
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Andrea Patterson ’05 Earns Obie for Sustained Achievement
Patterson earned the award for appearing in three plays during the season.
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Two From Purchase Star in Fresh Take on Chekhov
Parker Posey ’91 and Bill Sage ’88 star in The New Group’s The Seagull/Woodstock, NY.
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Film by Jordan Tetewsky ’16 is New York Times Critic’s Pick
The film demonstrates the collaborative DIY culture found at Purchase—it stars musician Hannah Lee Thompson ’17 and several alums were on the crew.
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Karen Beltran, Esq. ’02 Appointed Yonkers City Court Judge
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swore in Beltran at a ceremony at Yonkers City Hall, just steps away from where she grew up.
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President’s Award for Public Art: Debora Martinez ’22
Hue TV, a conceptual and performance work by Martinez, is the President’s Award for Public Art selection for 2022 and will be on view on campus (and on Instagram) for the remainder of the spring 2023 semester.
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Major NEH Grant Will Support Humanities Initiatives
The $150,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities will support language, literature, and history with a focus on Spanish heritage speakers.
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Debut Novel by Hal Hartley Named Among Year’s Best
Kirkus Reviews calls Our Lady of the Highway one of the Best Indie Books of 2022.
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Annual Shark Tank Competition Awards $5000 Grand Prize
The team behind Purchase Beauty Bar—Chumba Kiplagat ’23, Una Bharat ’23, and Norie Guerra ’23—would bring an affordable salon to campus.
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Chris Perfetti ’11 Nominated for “Abbott Elementary”
The Critics Choice Award nomination is for the role of Jacob Hill in ABC’s smash hit workplace comedy.
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Blake Pfeil ’19 Finds Solace and Beauty in Abandoned Spaces
All-American Ruins, a multimedia project, began as a way to escape the grim reality of the pandemic and avoid crowds flocking to public trails and parks for their dose of nature. -
Purchase Opera Earns The American Prize Honors
The Voice and Opera production of Dialogues of the Carmelites, featuring the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, placed in three categories. -
Four Earn AUDELCO “Viv” Award Nominations
Two alumni and two faculty members were acknowledged for their work in Off-Broadway productions. -
Can Clever Chemistry Eliminate Nuclear Waste?
Professor of Chemistry Stephen Cooke receives a $107,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Energy for uranium and thorium research. -
Purchase Earns a Competitive Fulbright-Hays Award
The grant will fund curriculum development and language immersion in Benin for faculty and area K–12 teachers.
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Nicco Annan ’98 Wins Outstanding Actor Award
The actor earned the NAACP Image award for portraying Uncle Clifford on Starz’s P-Valley.
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Purchase on the Creative Team of Broadway’s Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
Dave Grill ’86 leads the lighting team for the Broadway revival.
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Thomas Warfield ’88 Celebrated for Career Achievement
Warfield has been a creative force for 25 years.
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Keerati Jinakunwiphat ’16 Makes History at NYCB
The choreographer is the first-ever Asian American woman commissioned to create new work at the New York City Ballet.
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Samara Joy ’21 is the Grammy’s Best New Artist!
The jazz sensation also won Best New Jazz Vocal Album.
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Mitski ’13 Collaboration Receives Oscar Nomination
Mitski collaborated with Son Lux and David Byrne on “This Is A Life” for the Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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Darryl Rahn ’15 Wins Battle of the Instant Songwriters
The recurring segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon challenges musicians to compose a song in under an hour.
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Global Scholars Meet with UN Deputy Secretary-General
The students were honored to meet privately with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
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Debut Feature by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz ’16 at Sundance and Berlin FF
Mutt is one of 12 films selected for the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition from thousands of entries.
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Purchase College Bridges Students Win Awards at Biomedical Research Conference
The Purchase College Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program provides support to underrepresented students studying science. -
Senior Filmmaker Screens Work at TIDE Film Festival
A short film by Kunga Choephel will run Sunday, November 20. -
Hunter Hollingsworth ’22 Heads to the Apollo Grand Finale
He’s competing in the legendary theatre’s Amateur Night competition. -
Purchase Noted as a Green College
Purchase College is happy to once again be included in The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges. -
Purchase Named a 2022 Fulbright HSI Leader
Acknowledged for noteworthy engagement with Fulbright programs and one of only five undergraduate schools to receive this honor. -
Two from Purchase Win at Woodstock Film Festival
Ghasem Ebrahimian ’79 won for best cinematography, and Jordan Tetewsky ’16 earned the Ultra Indie Award.