Events

Learn about the admissions process for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College. Join us for a webinar where we will discuss our genetic counseling graduate program and there will be an opportunity to participate in a Q&A about the graduate application process. You will receive log-in instructions after registration.

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Attend the MFA Writing on-campus Open House to learn more about the program, meet faculty and other members of the Graduate Writing Community, sit in on a sample class, and take a campus tour.

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Dr. Tony Phillips is professor emeritus of Mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook.

Clifford Owens teaches a performance arts class at Sarah Lawrence College.

Four distinguished Mexican musicians will perform a wide range of innovative, virtuosic percussion music.

Meg Day is the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and The Publishing Triangle's 2015 Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University, a 2015 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, and Jacar Press' Julie Suk Award.

This lecture by author Robert Boyers will discuss the uses of memoir for argumentative purposes and consider what is gained when the personal and political are permitted to blend in essays that refuse to settle for the one at the expense of the other. Examples will be provided, and lively discussion with audience members should follow.

What if all there is to write about is… nothing? This lecture will explore the paradoxical richness that may exist in writing so highly constrained that it’s effectively about almost nothing.

The Japan Foundation, New York organizes an annual film series during which Japanese films are screened at educational and cultural institutions across the United States.

Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of 300 Arguments (2017), a work of aphoristic autobiography. Her other nonfiction books include Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015), The Guardians (2012); and The Two Kinds of Decay (2008).

Tishan Hsu is an artist whose practice has attempted to convey an embodied technology. He taught sculpture at Sarah Lawrence from 1994 to 2018.

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night and its sequel, Crown of Thunder.

Interested in learning more about genetic counseling and/or applying to the
Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College?

Please RSVP for our open house! At this event you'll take a campus tour and meet current faculty, directors, alumni, and students. You'll learn more about graduate study at Sarah Lawrence, particularly of the genetic counseling training program, and have an opportunity to ask questions of faculty and students. A light dinner will be served.

Questions? Please contact Assistant Program Director Janelle Villiers at 914-395-2605 or jvilliers@sarahlawrence.edu.

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Dr. Brandon Chew is associate professor of neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Baroque music on period instruments.

Learn about the admissions process for the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College. Join us for a webinar where we will discuss our genetic counseling graduate program and there will be an opportunity to participate in a Q&A about the graduate application process. You will receive log-in instructions after registration.

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR