MCLA senior Juliana Rodriguez started college in Puerto Rico off and on, but never saw the finish line until she came to MCLA in 2021. Now she's ending one fellowship and preparing for another that will start in June.
The MCLA Sustainability Committee, students, and Aramark Dining Services have partnered to combat the use of disposable cups on campus with the new addition of a customized SAVRcup. The mugs are now available on campus and arrived during last week's Earth Week events.
Roughly a trillion neutrinos pass through the human body every second. Luckily, neutrinos rarely interact, so these ghost particles go unnoticed. However, neutrinos' reluctance to interact is unlucky for the scientists attempting to understand and detect them.
The MCLA Trailblazer Tutor Center has been awarded certification as a Level I certified tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA)
College sweethearts Bernadette Dineen and Satchel Lefebvre '18 met at MCLA in 2015 and are now pursuing their doctorate at Tufts University.
For Dr. Emily Maher, MCLA Professor of Physics, coming together with other women in science is imperative for longevity in the field. That's why she attended a three-day Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) with her physics student Tea Caravello '26 last month at Brown University.
When Casey Messina '18 graduated from high school on Long Island, college was something she didn't consider until experiencing an overnight event for accepted students at MCLA.
A cloud of surgical masks, stacked news headlines, voice recordings, and silhouettes of students surround a single white empty folding chair in the Bowman Hall Gallery space. The exhibit "Waiting Room" was created by 11 students in Dr. Victoria Papa's Fall '22 course Creativity & Survival as an immersive art installation about the pandemic and the student's understanding of intersected trauma. Each year students execute a collective project
"And the Emmy Award goes to ... Ryan Kiernan '03!" The English/Communication major with a broadcast media concentration used his MCLA degree as the springboard to a 19-year career at NBC in Washington, D.C. This fall, his hard work behind the scenes paid off when Kiernan and his team won the 2021-2022 News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement.
Dr. Jean Clarke-Mitchell '00, a member of the MCLA Foundation Board and Trustees Board, participated in a mentor-chaperoned service-learning trip to Accra, Ghana this summer with the Rites of Passage and Empowerment (R.O.P.E.) program. The program offers mentoring focused on affording students opportunities for academic, cultural, and traveling locally and internationally.
