Discussing Sinkane’s 8th album We Belong, Ahmed Gallab MM ’22 says Purchase helped him become a more confident songwriter.
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters tells the story of Jones’ powerful and healing ballet sprung out of the heartbreaking AIDS crisis.
The inaugural apprenticeship program piloted by Storyline offers a full-time paid position.
Blue Sun Palace is the only US film in the selection.
Vice President Robyn Graygor shares why the club is an essential Purchase experience.
Purchase proudly announces this year’s winners of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence: Caitly Dominici and Sara Richter.
Directed by Sarah Benson for the Atlantic Theater Company.
Logan plays Moni opposite Diarra Kilpatrick on Diarra From Detroit.
The New York Times describes Midnight on Beacon Street as “an impressive debut.”
Artists and Hackers is a podcast on art, code, and community.
Stereogum and others delve into their unique sound ahead of the May 17 release of their debut album Hex Dealer.
The world premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by playwright Samuel D. Hunter opens in June.
Public art consultant, curator, and art historian Emily Blumenfeld was central to the permanent installation Diatom Lace on the East Midtown Greenway along the East River.
The Global Studies class Place, Space and Belonging experienced the transformational renovations at LaGuardia airport’s Terminals C and B.
Hoffman won the Berru Poetry Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash for When There Was Light.
The sought-after voice and dialect coach helped Da’Vine Joy Randolph prepare for her now Oscar-winning performance, among other awards.
Lecturer David Handschuh wins two prestigious New York Press Photographers Association Awards.
Untitled (2023) is on view in the Humanities Building lobby.
Professor George Kraemer and student Maura Vander Putten will study invasive species along hiking trails in the Catskills next summer.
Two students each from Mamaroneck, White Plains, and Port Chester High Schools will receive Westchester Scholar Awards.
The cast reunited to receive the SAG award for Outstanding Performance By An Ensemble.
Eberhardt is part of the star-studded cast of Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square Theatre.
The accomplished casting director and lecturer in Acting won for casting Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
Congratulations to three members of the Purchase music community on winning four awards at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony.
Allyson Jackson, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, was awarded the $99,480 grant to empower students to help protect the environment.
Hollingsworth is a swing in the groundbreaking new show How to Dance in Ohio.
Jones shared his expertise on working with the likes of Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Hudson and on the power of acting training.
The Economics Program’s Shark Tank-style event invites entrepreneurs to judge the inventive ideas of students from all majors.
Caught the Bug (2022), an experimental film made by Amelia Wyeth Ponirakis ’23 in her junior year has screened in London and New York.
Faculty and alumni rise to the top with GRAMMY Award® nominations.
Recognized by the U.S. Department of State for strong engagement with the Fulbright Program.
Professor of Jazz Studies Adam Birnbaum acclaimed in recent interviews for fresh interpretation of Baroque classics.
A collaboration between the Environmental Studies program and the Sustainability Office sparked a search for species on the Purchase campus.
Purchase ranks among some of “the best academic programs” for audio engineering.
The producer, songwriter, and recording artist is recognized for his pivotal collaboration with the rapper Ice Spice.
U.S. News & World Report places Purchase College on its list of Top Ten Public Liberal Arts Colleges for 2024 and among the best 139 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation.
A summer study abroad program
The Assistant Professor of Communications directed Their Voice.
According to the National Science Foundation survey.
The investigative reporter and host explores the fascinating and frightening true story behind bringing the abortion pill to the US in the 90s.
The Bessie Award category honors an artist who has made an exceptional leap in their career.
The Award recognizes the impact of her choreography.
Named one of the “next generation” at Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance.
The interpretive signs in the Purchase Native Pollinator Garden resulted from collaboration between environmental studies, arts management, and graphic design.
Mutt by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz ’16, also screened at Sundance, Berlin Film Festival, and New Directors/New Films 2023.
Penguin Books will publish his yet unfinished PhD dissertation in history, an incredible coup.
Purchase joins 300 others among the “best and most interesting colleges in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.” in the 2024 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
Chillé is writer and director of Father Figures.
SUNY Chancellor John B. King welcomed 40 new EOP students to campus to mark the launch of the system-wide Summer Academy.
Working with GreenSheen, a leader in paint recycling, thousands of cans were dropped off by community members.
Six students and two faculty mentors attended the 2023 Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT in April to present their senior project research.
One of the first 11 recipients of a SUNY/CUNY scholarship to expand and diversify New York’s mental health force.
The event also celebrated Professor of Economics Sanford Ikeda, who’s retiring at the end of this year.
Falco stars as his mother, and Roche plays his sister on Davidson’s new semi-autobiographical series.
The magazine selected deMartin’s first feature film to support through its Production Services program.
Cave will receive The 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
The Playwriting and Screenwriting alum is a 2023 Fellow at Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative.
For Best Lighting of a Play
Psychology and sociology double major Hannah Kaebnick is one of two who earned the honors.
Biology major and Chemistry minor Sonia Seth is one of two who earned the honors.
The competitive festival celebrates emerging filmmakers from traditionally marginalized communities.
A sought-after puppet designer and puppeteer, Ortiz crafted the Milky White cow in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods.
Drama Desk, Daytime Emmy, and Tony nominations are in the mix.
A highly accomplished lighting designer, Croiter earned a nomination for work on Only Gold.
The nearly $3 million grant over five years from the U.S. Department of Education will support programs for Hispanic and low-income students from all backgrounds.
He’ll spend 2023–2024 in Salzburg, Austria exploring immersive storytelling.
Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.
The actor earned the NAACP Image award for portraying Uncle Clifford on Starz’s P-Valley.
Patterson earned the award for appearing in three plays during the season.
Dave Grill ’86 leads the lighting team for the Broadway revival.
Parker Posey ’91 and Bill Sage ’88 star in The New Group’s The Seagull/Woodstock, NY.
Warfield has been a creative force for 25 years.
The film demonstrates the collaborative DIY culture found at Purchase—it stars musician Hannah Lee Thompson ’17 and several alums were on the crew.
The choreographer is the first-ever Asian American woman commissioned to create new work at the New York City Ballet.
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano swore in Beltran at a ceremony at Yonkers City Hall, just steps away from where she grew up.
The jazz sensation also won Best New Jazz Vocal Album.
Hue TV, a conceptual and performance work by Martinez, is the President’s Award for Public Art selection for 2022 and will be on view on campus (and on Instagram) for the remainder of the spring 2023 semester.
Mitski collaborated with Son Lux and David Byrne on “This Is A Life” for the Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The $150,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities will support language, literature, and history with a focus on Spanish heritage speakers.
The recurring segment on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon challenges musicians to compose a song in under an hour.
That’s according to the Princeton Review’s Best 388 Colleges: 2023 Edition.
Kirkus Reviews calls Our Lady of the Highway one of the Best Indie Books of 2022.
The students were honored to meet privately with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.
The team behind Purchase Beauty Bar—Chumba Kiplagat ’23, Una Bharat ’23, and Norie Guerra ’23—would bring an affordable salon to campus.
The Critics Choice Award nomination is for the role of Jacob Hill in ABC’s smash hit workplace comedy.
The Hollywood Reporter included Purchase in its round-up of top American film schools.
Professor of Chemistry Stephen Cooke receives a $107,000 grant from the U. S. Department of Energy for uranium and thorium research.
Awarded by Boston’s Society of Arts + Crafts, the fellowship is given annually to an early-career furniture artist. “Her work in steel is like no other I have seen.”
According to the 2022-2023 report, Purchase hits the list at #8 for Top Public Schools nationally.
Higginson appeared with the Sing Harlem Choir she directs.
The authoritative Fiske Guide to Colleges recognizes academics, faculty, campus vibe, location, and raw energy among Purchase’s attributes.
The striking abstract collage is a major addition to the collection.
The Warded Man was a New York Times bestseller.
The composer, flutist, and producer will be the eleventh Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow.
Solo exhibition by prize recipient Tomashi Jackson to open at the Museum on April 13
According to the Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition, a unique resource for students interested in attending colleges with strong commitments to the environment and sustainability.
He was named the Claude and Alfred Mann Endowed Professor in Dance at USC Kaufman.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Silas Brown ’10 on his win and to David De Jesus ’04 and Lucy Kalantari ’98 for their work on Grammy®-winning projects.
Award winning alumni Hal Hartley and Chris Wedge will serve as Jury President and Executive Director and “Bombshell” screenwriter Charles Randolph will deliver the keynote.
The move is part of the college’s ongoing commitment to sustainability and social justice.
The first Springboard-curated recipient of Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation AIR Founder’s Residency.
Congratulations to Laura Jobin-Acosta ’20 MM, a composer recently named a recipient of the first-ever IDEA Opera Residencies program by OPERA America.
Keerati Jinakunwiphat ’16 (dance performance) graces the cover of the latest issue of Dance magazine as first on its list of 25 to Watch in 2021.
Three former senior project students are co-authors.
This summer’s 2020 Obie Awards Ceremony presented Schriever with Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design honor.
Journalism major Sonia Barkat ’21 recently had a book of plays published, Winter Stars: Three 10-Minute Plays: From Tragedy to Fantasy to Comedy.
Congratulations to the emerging filmmaker, one of ten named a Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow.
The SUNY Chancellor has awarded Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies Ragnhild Utheim and Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Lisa Jean Moore a grant for creating a study abroad opportunity that addresses climate change.
We are pleased to announce a new Ella Fitzgerald Scholar, Yancy Garcia. We remain grateful to the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation for their essential support.
Alumnus Spike Wilner, owner of Smalls Jazz Club and Mezzrow, is using creative strategies to reopen. Smalls will be the first NYC jazz club to return to live, on-site performances!
In a semester that’s proven nothing short of remarkable, we must pause and honor the truly remarkable careers of two founding professors of Purchase College retiring this year, Professors Emeriti Lee Ehrman and Peter Schwab.
The history and studio composition double major is among two Purchase College graduating seniors to receive the prestigious 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Routledge publishes new book by Jordan Schildcrout, Associate Professor of Theatre & Performance
The New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot went On the Road with Mitski.
She’s playing a five-night residency featuring her early songs.
And congratulations to all the Purchase alumni and faculty who earned nominations this Broadway award season.
Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.
On Wednesday, April 10, an audience packed the Neuberger Museum of Art’s Center Gallery to hear jazz musicians interpret the poetry of Kevin Young.
The associate professor of sociology will be in residence at The MacDowell Colony.
Dan Romer ’04 and Saul Simon MacWilliams ’05 recognized for original score.
LED lighting project in partnership with New York Power Authority is like taking 140 cars off the road.
Assistant Professor in Design/Technology Clint Ramos, Lecturer Dane Laffrey, Lecturer Maruti Evans, and Brian MacDevitt ’80 all received nominations.
In this public television series, she joins the likes of Bill Clinton, Samantha Power, Bono, and YoYoMa in immersive interpretations of a single American poem.
April bursts with jazz studies performances in New York City and recordings featured on WBGO Jazz 88.3fm.
Purchase student Abrielle Scharff ’18 placed second in the Coffee Music Project and was offered an opportunity to perform in London.
This year’s Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature, Michael Chabon, welcomed his longtime friend, Neil Gaiman, for a wide-ranging and warm discussion.
The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College alumni came out in full force to support Kyle Abraham ’00 and his talented dance company at the Abraham.In.Motion Homecoming Gala.
She’s a member of the dance company Diavolo, who made it to the finals of NBC’s America’s Got Talent.
Our newest jazz affiliate artist, Matt Wilson, has released an album featuring the poetry of Carl Sandburg.
Current head of classical composition, Laura Kaminsky named among the Washington Post’s “top 35 female composers in classical music.”
Purchase students and alumni from the Conservatories of Dance and Music release Odette’s Crown.
Purchase alumni David Grill ’86, Jonah Kaplan ’95, and Stanley Tucci ’82 all made the cut.
Three students appear in Madonna’s short film Her-Story
The Sixth Annual Backstage Legends and Masters Award event will pay tribute to the founder of Scenic Art Studios on April 24.
It’s the first recording in more than 50 years of this work.
Pedestrians walking near the exterior of the Neuberger Museum of Art have been greeted this fall by dozens of faces staring back—some smiling, some serious.
She stumbled upon the The Beat online during her college search—it was one of the main reasons she decided to attend Purchase.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater welcomes three new members to its company this season, and two have ties to Purchase.
Three alumni from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts’ Acting Program have landed starring roles on hit television shows—and garnered critical acclaim along the way.