The area resembles nearby Bronxville more than it does the rest of Yonkers, except when it comes to the home prices and property taxes. In Westchester, take every address with a grain of salt.
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.
... The Huntington following 10 years as president at Sarah Lawrence, a small, highly regarded liberal arts college in Yonkers, NY. Her tenure at Sarah Lawrence began just before the recession of 2008-9; she is credited with weathering that crisis with ...
The Huntington Library announced that Karen R. Lawrence, former president of Sarah Lawrence College, will become the San Marino institution's next president. Lawrence most recently spent a decade as president of Sarah Lawrence, a small yet highly regarded liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York.
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.
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.
The Times did a feature on Yonkers as part of its "Living In" series, noting it as the location of Sarah Lawrence College and Yonkers Brewing Company. Development along the Hudson River and the Saw Mill River has been coming to the city, replacing vacated industrial sites and hoping to lure people priced out of New York City, according to the Times.
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.
... could make a difference. In the past, Bronxville High School students have volunteered at after-school programs in Yonkers and worked with special needs students in Bronxville and Eastchester. "Sarah Lawrence College professor Kim Ferguson is an ...
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.
... "the call," as he refers to it, Kinnally considered himself a religious person. He was raised Roman Catholic in Yonkers, N.Y. and went to mass regularly as a child. In college, he became enraptured by literature, consuming novels and poetry ...
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.
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.
... pollution in the Passaic River and Newark Bay. Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak in Yonkers, New York will work with Riverkeeper, the Bronx River Alliance, the Hudson River Watershed Alliance and community watershed groups ...
... Showtime, were seen in the historic Rockland County hamlet of Tappan, lohud.com reported. Sarah Lawrence College's Yonkers campus in Westchester was the setting for Richard Gere's new flick "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti," which stars the Bedford ...