Morgan State University is a public historically black research university in Baltimore,Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1890,the university,then known as the Centenary Biblical Institute,changed its name to Morgan College to honor Lyttleton Morgan,the first chairman of its board of trustees and a land donor to the college. It became a university in 1975.
Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick,Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794,Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors,as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia,Caltech,Dartmouth College,and the University of Maine.
Rollins College is a private liberal arts college in Winter Park,Florida. It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several master's programs. Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution,it has an approximate enrollment of 3,000 students,composed of roughly 2,500 undergraduates and 500 postgraduates.
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City,along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets,on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions,public programs,and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New-York Historical Society Museum &Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York &Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. The building is a designated New York City landmark. A renovation,completed in November 2011,made the building more accessible to the public,provided space for an interactive children's museum,and facilitated access to its collections.
Manhattanville University is a private university in Purchase,New York,United States. Founded in 1841 as a school at 412 Houston Street in Lower Manhattan,it was initially known as the Academy of the Sacred Heart. In 1917,the academy received a charter from the Regents of the State of New York to raise the school officially to a collegiate level,granting degrees as the College of the Sacred Heart. In 1937,it became known as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart,and from 1966 to 2024 as Manhattanville College.
Hildreth Meière (1892–1961) was an American muralist active in the first half of the twentieth century who is especially known for her Art Deco designs. During her 40-year career she completed approximately 100 commissions. She designed murals for office buildings,churches,government centers,theaters,restaurants,cocktail lounges,ocean liners,and world’s fair pavilions,and she worked in a wide variety of mediums,including paint,ceramic tile,glass and marble mosaic,terracotta,wood,metal,and stained glass. Among her extensive body of work are the iconographic interiors at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln,the dynamic roundels of Dance,Drama,and Song at Radio City Music Hall,the apse and narthex mosaics and stained-glass windows at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Manhattan),and the decoration of the Great Hall at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington,D.C.
Norman Pearlstine is an American editor and media executive. He previously held senior positions at the Los Angeles Times,Time Inc,Bloomberg L.P.,Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.
Jon Calvert Strauss is an American academic administrator who served as a college president at six different institutions:Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1985-1994),Harvey Mudd College (1997-2006),Manhattanville College (2011-2016),acting president of Iona University (2017) and most recently as interim president of Paul Smith's College (2020-2021).
Barbara Hall Partee is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). She is known as a pioneer in the field of formal semantics.
Talladega College is a private,historically black college in Talladega,Alabama. It is Alabama's oldest private historically black college and offers 17 degree programs. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Quynh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American classical pianist based in New York City. She has performed extensively throughout the United States,Europe,and Asia,to wide critical acclaim. For her Carnegie Recital Hall debut,the New York Concert Review commented:“Ms. Nguyen’s pianism and music making are graced with beauty and exuberance. She is a real artist;a wonderfully communicative performer. What a compendium of intellect,sophistication and taste!”Dr. Quynh Nguyen currently serves on the piano faculty of Hunter College and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City.
Dalit Hadass Warshaw is a New York-based composer,pianist,and thereminist. Previously on the composition and music theory faculty of Boston Conservatory,she currently serves on the composition faculty at Juilliard and CUNY-Brooklyn College. Her works have been performed by dozens of orchestral ensembles,including the New York Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras,the Boston Symphony,the Cleveland Orchestra,the Houston Symphony,the Y Chamber Orchestra,the Colorado Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In April 2006,her piece After the Victory for orchestra and chorus,was premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company. Her first recording,entitled "Invocations" was released by Albany Records in 2011. Her first piano concerto,Conjuring Tristan, was commissioned by the Grand Rapids Symphony in 2014. The work was inspired by Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, as well as by Thomas Mann's novella Tristan. The piece received its world premiere in January 2015,with Warshaw as the soloist.
Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator. She is known for her work as a metalsmith and jeweler,pioneering the use of textile processes from crochet,knitting,plaiting,and weaving in her work in metal. She developed groundbreaking techniques for incorporating metal wire and other materials into her jewelry.
Molly Easo Smith is an Indian-American professor and scholar of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama,and academic administrator.
Barbara Hackman Franklin is an American government official,corporate director,and business executive. She served as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1992 to 1993 to President George H. W. Bush,during which she led a presidential mission to China.
Claire Chase is a soloist,collaborative artist,curator and advocate for new and experimental music. Chase has won the Avery Fisher Prize,which recognizes musical excellence,vision,and leadership. In 2012,Chase was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship—the so-called "genius" award.
Barbara Holdridge,together with her business partner,Marianne (Roney) Mantell,co-founded Caedmon Records in 1952. As an entirely female-owned company Caedmon stressed gender equality and focused on many women's writings. She was a pioneer in the genre of spoken word literary recordings,and is considered to have laid the foundation for modern audio books.
Mother Eleanor O'Byrne R.S.C.J. was a civil rights activist and the fifth president of Manhattanville College. She was best known for her efforts to reform the American educational system in order to provide equity for women and African Americans,as well as facilitating the transfer of the Manhattanville College campus from New York City to Purchase,New York. She later was president of Universidad del Sagrado Corazón.
