Going straight from high school to pharmacy school can be a bit jarring, but not for Dr. Courtney Caimano Tackes ’08. She says she was well-prepared thanks to her Holy Names education. “Many students struggle academically when they first start this program, but I had already taken rigorous classes at AHN and developed great study…
Martin Kilbridge sees single-sex education as both a successful way to teach students and as a selling point to families.
Kilbridge has been in private education for close to 30 years as a teacher, principal and now as president of Academy of the Holy Names in Albany.
The school, now in its 140th year, faces the same financial and demographic pressures other private schools in the region do. Read more here.
The Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is helping to build the next generation of healthcare workers — and Albany’s Catholic schools are here to help. Read more.
Dr. Martin Kilbridge, President of Academy of the Holy Names, announced today the launch of AHN’s first student-run broadcast studio: WAHN PantherVision. Housed in the library, the studio, run by members of the school’s Communications Club, broadcasts morning announcements.
See highlights and reactions from the semifinal round.
Holy Names head coach Steve Gigliello trusted his players when they suggested switching to a 2-3 zone defense, and Sophia Bologna trusted that she would eventually find her shot. Read more here.
Four teams looked to punch their tickets to the Section II girls basketball Class A title game at Hudson Valley Community College in two semifinal matchups. The first saw the two-seed, the Academy of the Holy Names taking on the three-seed, Broadalbin-Perth. Watch here.
See highlights from Friday’s quarterfinals round.
The Academy of the Holy Names basketball team made one thing abundantly clear in its postseason debut Friday night: it has the offensive weapons to contend for a section title. Watch here.
The late scientist Dr. Carl Sagan once said, “you have to know the past to understand the present.”
That’s the drive that’s kept the story of Academy of the Holy Names – in all its iterations – alive, and it’s been a passion project for Holy Names Archives Coordinator Mary Ellen Scally Conboy ’61, and Dick Kernan, a former 39-year IT employee of Albany Medical Center.