The world premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by playwright Samuel D. Hunter opens in June.
Hoffman won the Berru Poetry Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash for When There Was Light.
Lecturer David Handschuh wins two prestigious New York Press Photographers Association Awards.
Professor George Kraemer and student Maura Vander Putten will study invasive species along hiking trails in the Catskills next summer.
The cast reunited to receive the SAG award for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble.
The accomplished casting director and lecturer in Acting won for casting Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
Allyson Jackson, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, was awarded the $99,480 grant to empower students to help protect the environment.
Hollingsworth is a swing in the groundbreaking new show How to Dance in Ohio.
The Economics Program’s Shark Tank-style event invites entrepreneurs to judge the inventive ideas of students from all majors.
Faculty and alumni rise to the top with GRAMMY Award® nominations.
Professor of Jazz Studies Adam Birnbaum acclaimed in recent interviews for fresh interpretation of Baroque classics.
Purchase ranks among some of “the best academic programs” for audio engineering.
U.S. News & World Report places Purchase College on its list of Top Ten Public Liberal Arts Colleges for 2024 and among the best 139 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation.
The Assistant Professor of Communications directed Their Voice.
The investigative reporter and host explores the fascinating and frightening true story behind bringing the abortion pill to the US in the 90s.
The Award recognizes the impact of her choreography.
The interpretive signs in the Purchase Native Pollinator Garden resulted from collaboration between environmental studies, arts management, and graphic design.
Penguin Books will publish his yet unfinished PhD dissertation in history, an incredible coup.
Chillé is writer and director of Father Figures.
Working with GreenSheen, a leader in paint recycling, thousands of cans were dropped off by community members.
The event also celebrated Professor of Economics Sanford Ikeda, who’s retiring at the end of this year.
The magazine selected deMartin’s first feature film to support through its Production Services program.
The Playwriting and Screenwriting alum is a 2023 Fellow at Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative.
Psychology and sociology double major Hannah Kaebnick is one of two who earned the honors.
The competitive festival celebrates emerging filmmakers from traditionally marginalized communities.
Drama Desk, Daytime Emmy, and Tony nominations are in the mix.
The nearly $3 million grant over five years from the U.S. Department of Education will support programs for Hispanic and low-income students from all backgrounds.
Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.
Patterson earned the award for appearing in three plays during the season.
Parker Posey ’91 and Bill Sage ’88 star in The New Group’s The Seagull/Woodstock, NY.
The film demonstrates the collaborative DIY culture found at Purchase—it stars musician Hannah Lee Thompson ’17 and several alums were on the crew.
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swore in Beltran at a ceremony at Yonkers City Hall, just steps away from where she grew up.
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.
The $150,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities will support language, literature, and history with a focus on Spanish heritage speakers.
Kirkus Reviews calls Our Lady of the Highway one of the Best Indie Books of 2022.
The team behind Purchase Beauty Bar—Chumba Kiplagat ’23, Una Bharat ’23, and Norie Guerra ’23—would bring an affordable salon to campus.
According to the 2022-2023 report, Purchase hits the list at #8 for Top Public Schools nationally.
The striking abstract collage is a major addition to the collection.
The Warded Man was a New York Times bestseller.
According to the Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition, a unique resource for students interested in attending colleges with strong commitments to the environment and sustainability.
Award winning alumni Hal Hartley and Chris Wedge will serve as Jury President and Executive Director and “Bombshell” screenwriter Charles Randolph will deliver the keynote.
Keerati Jinakunwiphat ’16 (dance performance) graces the cover of the latest issue of Dance magazine as first on its list of 25 to Watch in 2021.
We are pleased to announce a new Ella Fitzgerald Scholar, Yancy Garcia. We remain grateful to the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation for their essential support.
The history and studio composition double major is among two Purchase College graduating seniors to receive the prestigious 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot went On the Road with Mitski.
The associate professor of sociology will be in residence at The MacDowell Colony.
Dan Romer ’04 and Saul Simon MacWilliams ’05 recognized for original score.
Assistant Professor in Design/Technology Clint Ramos, Lecturer Dane Laffrey, Lecturer Maruti Evans, and Brian MacDevitt ’80 all received nominations.
April bursts with jazz studies performances in New York City and recordings featured on WBGO Jazz 88.3fm.
Purchase student Abrielle Scharff ’18 placed second in the Coffee Music Project and was offered an opportunity to perform in London.
Purchase students and alumni from the Conservatories of Dance and Music release Odette’s Crown.
Purchase alumni David Grill ’86, Jonah Kaplan ’95, and Stanley Tucci ’82 all made the cut.
The Sixth Annual Backstage Legends and Masters Award event will pay tribute to the founder of Scenic Art Studios on April 24.
The Global Studies class Place, Space and Belonging experienced the transformational renovations at LaGuardia airport’s Terminals C and B.
The sought-after voice and dialect coach helped Da’Vine Joy Randolph prepare for her now Oscar-winning performance, among other awards.
Untitled (2023) is on view in the Humanities Building lobby.
Two students each from White Plains and Port Chester High Schools will receive Westchester Scholar Awards.
Eberhardt is part of the star-studded cast of Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square Theatre.
Congratulations to three members of the Purchase music community on winning four awards at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
The New York Times describes Midnight on Beacon Street as “an impressive debut.”
Jones shared his expertise on working with the likes of Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Hudson and on the power of acting training.
Caught the Bug (2022), an experimental film made by Amelia Wyeth Ponirakis ’23 in her junior year has screened in London and New York.
Recognized by the U.S. Department of State for strong engagement with the Fulbright Program.
A collaboration between the Environmental Studies program and the Sustainability Office sparked a search for species on the Purchase campus.
The producer, songwriter, and recording artist is recognized for his pivotal collaboration with the rapper Ice Spice.
A summer study abroad program
According to the National Science Foundation survey.
The Bessie Award category honors an artist who has made an exceptional leap in their career.
Named one of the “next generation” at Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance.
Mutt by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz ’16, also screened at Sundance, Berlin Film Festival, and New Directors/New Films 2023.
Purchase joins 300 others among the “best and most interesting colleges in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.” in the 2024 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
SUNY Chancellor John B. King welcomed 40 new EOP students to campus to mark the launch of the system-wide Summer Academy.
One of the first 11 recipients of a SUNY/CUNY scholarship to expand and diversify New York’s mental health force.
Falco stars as his mother, and Roche plays his sister on Davidson’s new semi-autobiographical series.
Cave will receive The 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
For Best Lighting of a Play
Biology major and Chemistry minor Sonia Seth is one of two who earned the honors.
A sought-after puppet designer and puppeteer, Ortiz crafted the Milky White cow in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods.
A highly accomplished lighting designer, Croiter earned a nomination for work on Only Gold.
He’ll spend 2023–2024 in Salzburg, Austria exploring immersive storytelling.
The actor earned the NAACP Image award for portraying Uncle Clifford on Starz’s P-Valley.
Dave Grill ’86 leads the lighting team for the Broadway revival.
Warfield has been a creative force for 25 years.
The choreographer is the first-ever Asian American woman commissioned to create new work at the New York City Ballet.
The jazz sensation also won Best New Jazz Vocal Album.
Mitski collaborated with Son Lux and David Byrne on “This Is A Life” for the Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The recurring segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon challenges musicians to compose a song in under an hour.
The students were honored to meet privately with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
The Critics Choice Award nomination is for the role of Jacob Hill in ABC’s smash hit workplace comedy.
Professor of Chemistry Stephen Cooke receives a $107,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Energy for uranium and thorium research.
Awarded by Boston’s Society of Arts + Crafts, the fellowship is given annually to an early-career furniture artist. “Her work in steel is like no other I have seen.”
Higginson appeared with the Sing Harlem Choir she directs.
The authoritative Fiske Guide to Colleges recognizes academics, faculty, campus vibe, location, and raw energy among Purchase’s attributes.
The composer, flutist, and producer will be the eleventh Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow.
Solo exhibition by prize recipient Tomashi Jackson to open at the Museum on April 13
He was named the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at USC Kaufman.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Silas Brown ’10 on his win and to David De Jesus ’04 and Lucy Kalantari ’98 for their work on Grammy®-winning projects.
The move is part of the college’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and social justice.
The first Springboard-curated recipient of Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation AIR Founder’s Residency.
Congratulations to Laura Jobin-Acosta ’20 MM, a composer recently named a recipient of the first-ever IDEA Opera Residencies program by OPERA America.
This summer’s 2020 Obie Awards Ceremony presented Schriever with Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design honor.
Congratulations to the emerging filmmaker, one of ten named a Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow.
The SUNY Chancellor has awarded Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies Ragnhild Utheim and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Lisa Jean Moore a grant for creating a study abroad opportunity that addresses climate change.
Alumnus Spike Wilner, owner of Smalls Jazz Club and Mezzrow, is using creative strategies to reopen. Smalls will be the first NYC jazz club to return to live, on-site performances!
She’s playing a five-night residency featuring her early songs.
And congratulations to all the Purchase alumni and faculty who earned nominations this Broadway award season.
LED lighting project in partnership with New York Power Authority is like taking 140 cars off the road.
In this public television series, she joins the likes of Bill Clinton, Samantha Power, Bono, and YoYoMa in immersive interpretations of a single American poem.
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.
The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College alumni came out in full force to support Kyle Abraham ’00 and his talented dance company at the Abraham.In.Motion Homecoming Gala.
She’s a member of the dance company Diavolo, who made it to the finals of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.
Our newest jazz affiliate artist, Matt Wilson, has released an album featuring the poetry of Carl Sandburg.
Current head of classical composition, Laura Kaminsky named among the Washington Post’s “top 35 female composers in classical music.”
Three students appear in Madonna’s short film Her-Story