This semester, two BMCC students and one recent graduate received Math scholarships from NYSMATYC, the New York State Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges.
This year, NYSMATYC granted scholarships to 10 community college students. Of those 10, three are from BMCC.
The 2011-2012 scholars are Omari-Khalid Rahman, Goran Milic and Salif Kabore.
In Scott Smith’s 1993 novel, A Simple Plan—and the 1998 movie based on it—two brothers and a friend stumble upon the wreckage of a downed airplane in the woods. The pilot lies dead in the cockpit; the plane is carrying $4.4 million. The trio’s “simple plan” to keep the money has catastrophic results, especially for the brothers, Jacob and Hank.
BMCC’s main building is known as the large, brick structure in Tribeca that spans five city blocks.
But—flashback!—it wasn’t always that way.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the “original” BMCC campus was located in midtown Manhattan. Classes were held in various office buildings.
Over 600 BMCC students and alumni showed up in business attire, resumes in hand, to attend the Spring 2012 Career Fair sponsored by ASAP and the Center for Career Development.
Having outgrown its usual space in Richard Harris Terrace, the fair was held in BMCC’s spacious gym, where long rows of employer tables were decorated with the school’s signature orange and blue balloons.
In high school, Queens native Mendy Rodriguez enrolled in a technology class—and for her, that was “it”—she found her calling.
“I really enjoyed the class,” she said, emphasizing it was offered through a non-profit program called MOUSE. “I learned how to troubleshoot printers, laptop, desktops…” Founded in 1997, MOUSE is a youth development organization that empowers underserved students by providing technology support in their schools.
Vincent Acevedo will always remember where he was and what he was doing on August 25, 2006.
“I was an explosives handler in the U.S. Marine Corps, on assignment in Iraq,” he says. “We’d taken over an insurgent stronghold right outside the city of Ramadi, about 65 miles west of Baghdad.”
In honor of Women’s HERstory month, BMCC’s Office of Student Veterans and Organization of Student Veterans hosted the event Women Are Veterans, Too.
The event honored special guest Captain Diane Durham of the United States Coast Guard Academy.
At the BMCC Media Center, Durham spoke to invited guests—mostly veterans—about her experiences as a commanding officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Forward ship.
There are over 9,000 students with disabilities attending CUNY, according to Christopher Rosa, University Dean of Student Affairs and guest speaker at BMCC’s recent conference celebrating Disability Awareness Month, Beyond the Stigma: Mental Health in the Realm of Higher Education.
Quiet-spoken, thoughtful and self-possessed, second-year student Dana Smith doesn’t give the impression of a young woman in a hurry. But as one of seven recipients of an “Out in Two” scholarship, she is already on a fast track to academic and professional success.
A group of vocalists, musicians, and video artists recently paid tribute to spoken word performer Gil Scott-Heron at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
The show was directed by BMCC alumna and Harlem native LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, a nationally published poet, independent curator, and visionary.
“It was a multimedia concert,” explains Diggs. “I’ve always been interested in creating platforms that feature emerging artists.”
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