Iona University to Present Prestigious Iona Legacy Award at 2025 Trustees Scholarship Award Gala
New Rochelle & Bronxville, N.Y. – Iona University is pleased to announce it will honor Dr. Steven J. Corwin, president and chief executive officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, at its annual Trustees Scholarship Award Gala on April 8, 2025. Dr. Corwin will be presented with the esteemed 2025 Iona Legacy Award.
This event celebrates the University’s dedication to service and scholarship by honoring distinguished alumni and community leaders who exemplify the Iona mission of transforming lives through education.
“It is an honor to recognize and celebrate Dr. Corwin, who embodies the Iona mission of service through his leadership at one of the nation’s top health care systems,” said Iona President Seamus Carey, Ph.D. “Thanks to Iona’s collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian, our students have not only gained access to a cutting-edge health science education, but have also benefited from real-world, hands-on clinical experiences that set them apart. On behalf of the entire Iona community, I would like to congratulate Dr. Corwin and thank him for his vision and leadership.”
“I am honored to receive this year’s Iona Legacy Award and proud to be part of the Iona community,” said Dr. Corwin. “Through the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, we are providing a new pathway for successful careers in health care and developing the next generation of exceptional health care professionals who will help us deliver the very best care to patients and improve the health of our communities. I look forward to continued growth and collaboration for many years to come.”
A Premier New School
Established July 2021, the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences offers a new vision for collaborative health care education, modern workforce development and community engagement. Supported by a $20 million gift from NewYork-Presbyterian, the school operates from Iona’s 28-acre campus in Bronxville, located just 1.5 miles from NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester.
At the undergraduate level, students are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in nursing, health and wellness, social work, and speech-language pathology and audiology. At the graduate level, master’s degrees are offered in nursing education, nursing health care organizational leadership, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, occupational therapy, and communication sciences and disorders. A master’s in social work is launching Fall 2025.
The school’s flagship building is the Kelly Center for Health Sciences, named in honor of benefactors Al Kelly Jr. ’80, ’81MBA, ’19H, former CEO and executive chairman of Visa, and his wife, Peggy Kelly ’81, ’84MBA. Spanning three floors and nearly 32,000 square feet, the Kelly Center features an array of interdisciplinary classrooms and state-of-the-art simulation labs, where students gain hands-on training from experienced faculty. It opened January 2023.
This year, Mr. Kelly will serve as the master of ceremonies for the scholarship gala. Proceeds from the event will directly support student success, furthering Iona’s commitment to providing transformative educational opportunities.
Past Iona Legacy Award honorees represent prominent leaders such as His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan ’14H, Francis Cardinal Spellman, New York Governor Malcolm Wilson, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and world-renowned Ice Bucket Challenge co-founder Pat Quinn ’06, among many others.
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ABOUT IONA
Founded in 1940, Iona University is a master's-granting private, Catholic, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. Iona's 45-acre New Rochelle campus and 28-acre Bronxville campus are just 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students and an alumni base of more than 50,000 around the world, Iona is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona is highly accredited, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs. Iona students enjoy small class sizes, engaged professors and a wide array of academic programs across the School of Arts & Science; LaPenta School of Business; NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences; and Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Iona also continues to be recognized in prestigious national rankings. Most recently for 2025, Iona has been named one of the nation’s best colleges by The Princeton Review, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and others. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report recognized Iona as one of top for social mobility in the country, while Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) ranked an Iona degree in the top 5 percent nationally for long-term return on investment. Iona’s LaPenta School of Business, meanwhile, is also accredited by AACSB International, a recognition awarded to just 6 percent of business schools worldwide. In addition, The Princeton Review recognized Iona’s on-campus MBA program as a “Best Business School for 2024.” Iona also offers a fully online MBA program for even greater flexibility. In July 2021, Iona announced the establishment of the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, which is now principally located on Iona’s Bronxville campus in collaboration with one of the nation’s top hospitals. Connecting to its Irish heritage, Iona also opened a new campus in County Mayo, Ireland, located on the historic 400-acre Westport House Estate. A school on the rise, Iona officially changed its status from College to University on July 1, 2022, reflecting the growth of its academic programs and the prestige of an Iona education.