MMC HEOP Students Present at Latina/o Studies Conference
Left to right: Mariely Mena, Honory Peña, Edwin Mayorga, BarrioEd Research Project Team, Latina/o Studies Conference, Chicago, IL
Over the course of July 17-19 in Chicago, two Marymount Manhattan students in the Higher Education Opportunity Program presented at the “Imagining Latina/o Studies: Past, Present, & Future” Conference.
MMC students Mariely Mena and Honory Peña both presented on the session “Complicating the Latino Discourse: Conditions, Access and Strategies around Education for Latinos Living in New York City.”
The conference spotlights the dynamic work being carried out in a range of disciplines with particular focus on the interdisciplinary impulse that shapes and motivates work produced under the banner of Latina/o Studies. The students’ participation in the conference was facilitated by HEOP Director Blanca Vega.
Learn more about MMC’s Higher Education Opportunity Program.
Published: August 01, 2014
Math Department Holds The Eleventh Annual Pi-Day Contest
Every year, the Mathematics department holds a College-wide π-Day contest. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit an original sentence, paragraph, poem, or short story that uses the digits of π in order (π ≈ 3.1415926..).
