Still standing tall in Middleborough, Massachusetts is a beautiful Georgian style home on a 55-acre estate. Houses built in colonial New England were similar in style and structure, but the plethora of unrevealed history contained within the Oliver Estate makes it especially unique compared to the rest.

Despite the current pandemic and social-distancing guidelines, more than 50 teachers, professors, and teachers in training attended a half-day conference on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) teaching and learning. The Mercy College Center for STEM Education (MCCSE) hosted their annual “K-12 STEM Teacher Conference” for the first time virtually, on Oct. 3.

If someone told me two years ago that this is where I’d be now, I wouldn’t believe it. I hope that my little girl self would look up to the person I am now.

Associate professor and co-director of the Mercy College Center for STEM Education (CSE), Dr. Amanda M. Gunning continues to highlight the importance of STEM Education. Her decision to participate in the 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase has led to people from all over the world learning about the Mercy College STEM Teacher Fellows program.

In a world full of skepticism, there are just some concepts too outlandish to discount — or at least that’s what one believer thinks.

Alliyah Steele knew she had to do something. She had seen far too many people living in a panic, worrying about how they would protect themselves and their families. She was determined to make her free time essential.

This worldwide pandemic has made itself comfortable all around us and I’ve noticed how while some are afraid of running out of toilet paper, others have a more emotional reaction.

Due to COVID-19, no one spent this St. Patrick’s Day kissing anyone, Irish or not.

The King of Comedy, Joseph Levitch – universally known by his stage name, Jerry Lewis – was a man of many faces, and silly ones at that.

My mother always told me that good friends were an “extra” in life; that if I was lucky, I’d have one really true friendship that would stand out from all the others and last a lifetime.

For months, Australia has been suffering a great deal of loss because of bushfires that are said to have originally been man-made. While they were supposedly not started with malicious intent, the fires have burned through millions of acres of land – destroying homes and killing handfuls of people and billions of animals, and counting. A recreational fire at a place where the temperature is generally warm, can spread without warning and isn’t likely to be stopped without a fight.

There once was a little girl named Virginia O’Hanlon who posed a very important question to the editor of the New York Sun.

Rather than share the well-known response to Virginia’s letter, I figured I would answer her question again.

With the mane of a lion and a heart of pure gold, Brianna Townsend is a beautiful person, inside and out.

Who is Brianna Townsend, you ask?

So many amazing contributions have been made to our world’s giant library of works, but they wouldn’t be what they are without the wickedly charming icons that live inside each of them. I can’t possibly squeeze all the greats into 10 slots, but here are some of my favorites. I’ll count down from 10 to tell you why…

The amount of history that resides within Salem is astonishing; some of the most fanciful things imaginable have really taken place there. There are so many things to learn and so many things to do. Salem is a place that everyone should visit at least once in their life as it doesn’t ever disappoint.

Joaquin Phoenix is astonishing as Arthur Fleck in Joker.

He was 22 and worked as an electrician for his father’s company. She was 23 and owned a cosmetology business. They had been married just shy of two years and lived in the lower level of a little house in Yorktown Heights, New York. Their first baby was due to arrive any day.

Saturday, Sept. 28, my father and I attended the annual Sasquatch Calling Festival in Whitehall, New York. As huge believers of the beautiful things that our world (and every other world) has deemed “crazy” or “impossible”, we never miss out on a chance to gather with people of our kind to celebrate the utmost taboos.

Dr. Dorothy Larkin, an award-winning and accomplished holistic nurse, has spent 22 years as a Professor of Nursing at The College of New Rochelle. After its closing this past summer, Larkin now works as a Professor of Nursing at Mercy’s New Rochelle campus.

I was in a long-term relationship until Memorial Day weekend 2019. I had fallen head over heels for this guy quickly a few years back and it had been a whirlwind of crazy, both good and bad; but I wouldn’t change a thing.