Mercy College Awarded Over $1.4 Million by National Science Foundation

Mercy College was awarded a $1.4 million grant by the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program for a six-year project. The project will prepare 14 in-service master math and science teachers to become Master Teacher Fellows and leaders in their high-need school districts - Elmsford, New Rochelle, Port Chester and Yonkers - with a particular focus on recruiting teachers from underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

State Senate Candidates Square Off In Debate At Sarah Lawrence College

The gloves are off and questions from the audience are welcome during the latest debate Wednesday, April 18 in the special election for George Latimer's vacated state Senate seat. Republican Julie Killian of Rye faces Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer of Yonkers during a 7:30 p.m. debate at Reisinger Auditorium at Sarah Lawrence College.

Cristle Collins Judd to become 11th President of Sarah Lawrence College

YONKERS, N.Y: On Friday, October 6, Sarah Lawrence College, one of the nation's most innovative liberal arts colleges, will install Cristle Collins Judd, PhD, as its 11th president. Dr. Judd joins Sarah Lawrence from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she guided the foundation's program for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.

Living In: Downtown Yonkers: A Cleaner, Greener Place to Call Home

On a recent Friday afternoon, Nathan Hunter, dressed in a carrot costume, supervised the weekly farmers' market on the grounds of the historical Philipse Manor in downtown Yonkers. Across Warburton Avenue, recent graduates of nearby Sarah Lawrence College gathered in a new art gallery, using computer modeling to design bike racks for the city.

Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden Exhibit On View at Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College will present "Artists Talk," a program in conjunction with an exhibit of artist Vinnie Bagwell's Enslaved Africans Rain Garden project, Thursday in the Reisinger Auditorium on campus in Bronxville. Bagwell and spoken word artist Ty Gray-EL will speak about the project that honors the enslaved Africans who resided at the historic Philipse Manor Hall in downtown Yonkers, six of whom were the first to be manumitted by law in the United States, 79 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, according to a release from Sarah Lawrence.

Black History Month Book Fair Comes To Yonkers

The Black History Month Book Fair opened on Thursday at SUNY Purchase College Center for Community and Culture, "PC4," at 16 Warburton Avenue in the Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Arts District. For the two days of the Book Fair, PC4 is converted into a pop-up bookstore and library.

Sarah Lawrence Gets State Education Grant To Recruit Minority Teachers

A substantial grant to help inner city youth become teachers so they can help economically-disadvantaged youth was given to Sarah Lawrence College's Art of Teaching Graduate program. The $103,000 five-year grant from New York State's Teacher Opportunity Corps will help the college expand its work in Yonkers public schools, according to a State Education Department announcement Monday.