LaGuardia Community College’s newly launched Centers for Economic Development (CED) provide a one-stop shop of business resources to companies and entrepreneurs stymied by the ongoing economic downturn. Dedicated to creating and retaining jobs through specialized programs, worker training and business counseling, the seven entities each specialize in crafting the integral pieces of a successful business.
Especially [...]
This is another story in a series of articles about BMCC student scholars. This ongoing series focuses on students with high grade point averages, who have either overcome personal barriers and /or have contributed to the co-educational life of the college.
By his own account, Ben Mills was never much of a student. It’s a surprising [...]
A dozen BMCC students battled snow and cold weather to get to campus one weekday morning during the winter break, and not for a winter session course, but rather to learn the latest life-saving techniques.
Almost 50 students have now taken advantage of the college’s most basic life support program, which takes place over two eight-hour [...]
January 29, 2009–Dr. Ivan Rivera-Torres, a chemistry professor at LaGuardia Community College, has become a member of the New York Structural Biology Group (NYSBG), making him the first community college professor to join this renowned group of scientists.
“This inclusion represents an exciting challenge and opportunity to help advance my biomedical research program,” he said. [...]
BRONX, NY—Lehman College has launched a new initiative to help Bronx middle and high school teachers improve student performance on the New York State math Regents exams. The Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes (MTTI), funded by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will provide up to 80 teachers with training and leadership development [...]
January 23, 2009 (Bayside, NY) — Queensborough students Brandon Jean-Pierre and Grecibeth Infante boarded a bus at 1:00AM, had virtually no sleep, and arrived—along with millions of other people — on a bitterly cold morning at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to witness Barack Obama be sworn in as the first African-American President [...]
In an effort to help build a future for journalism in the face of massive cutbacks in newsrooms nationwide, the Harnisch Foundation has donated $1 million to the new Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College.
The grant will be evenly divided between two new projects: A state of the art multimedia newsroom/classroom [...]
Heralded as a “Miracle Worker” by federal judge Avern Cohn, CUNY Law alum Kary Moss (’87) has fought to protect the Constitution and Bill of Rights as Executive Director of Michigan’s American Civil Liberties Union
This is the second in a series of articles about BMCC student scholars. This ongoing series focuses on students with high grade point averages, who have either overcome personal barriers and /or have contributed to the co-educational life of the college.
Like many BMCC students, Leslie-Ann Reid-Bacchus spent long years supporting herself with full-time work before [...]
FLUSHING, NY, January 21, 2009 – During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for millions of Americans. Some 5,000 artists in more than 1,000 cities were employed by the WPA, which nurtured a distinctly modern American art expressed via murals, sculptures, and prints. Focusing on the last category, [...]
