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Dr. Wayne J. Martin, environmental scientist with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will keynote festival Brooklyn, N.Y., March 13 — Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn’s only community college, has announced that it will host its fourth annual Eco-Festival, April 21-24, 2009. The theme is “living on earth.” The four-day event is free and open to the public. [...]

Brooklyn, New York, February 18 – The Corporation for National and Community Service honored Kingsborough Community College today with a place on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities. “Kingsborough students have been extraordinary in responding to the educational, cultural, and economic needs of our [...]

Brooklyn, NY, November 14 — Kingsborough Community College (KCC) women’s tennis team won 25 of 27 matches to win the New York State Region 15 championships, qualifying the team for the Nationals to be held in Tucson, Arizona, May 2-9, 2009. According to Barry Goldsmith, KCC tennis coach, the consensus among the coaches was that [...]

Brooklyn, NY, November 14 –Dr. Regina Peruggi, president of Kingsborough Community College (KCC) today announced that the college is one of the nation’s top ten community colleges for technology delivery in higher education, according to an annual survey conducted by the Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine. Kingsborough is ranked tenth among the large-sized [...]

Brooklyn, October 6 — Kingsborough Community College (KCC), taking advantage of its idyllic maritime location, has, for the second summer in a row, conducted an environmental science and ocean technology program for middle school students that has drawn rave reviews from students, families, faculty and the community. “These young students had fun and gained valuable [...]

Conference is designed to reach, rouse and ready future public and community health leaders Dr. Regina Peruggi, president of Kingsborough Community College, today announced that the college will host a day-long health leadership conference Friday, June 20. The conference is titled “Finding your Inner Leader – An ‘Aha!’ Conference to Reach, Rouse and Ready Future [...]

Kingsborough Community College (KCC) president, Dr. Regina Peruggi, today announced that Dr. Richard Maraia, chief of the Section on Molecular and Cell Biology, Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, will deliver the address at the 43rd Kingsborough Community College commencement exercises. Dr. Maraia, who is an alumnus of KCC, will also receive [...]

Dr. Regina Peruggi, president, Kingsborough Community College (KCC), today announced that seven KCC athletes were named All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association. The Kingsborough athletes are the following: Robert Mortel placed second in the 4X400 meter relay event at the NJCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Nationals. Faisal Muhammad placed second in [...]

Dr. Regina Peruggi, president, Kingsborough Community College (KCC), today announced that the KCC men’s tennis team placed fourth in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III Men’s Tennis Championships with a score of 21 team points. With a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 score, defeating Ross Armstrong and Farid Vatan of Montgomery — College-Rockville, KCC’s duo [...]

I speak for the entire Kingsborough Community College community when I say how deeply saddened we are by the tragic death of Kingsborough student Youzdjan Bekir. Our hearts go out to his family and friends, as we share their grief and sadness. At approximately 12:40 p.m., Thursday, May 8, as Mr. Bekir left the campus [...]

Former Tuskegee Airman Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. will speak at Kingsborough at a special program sponsored by Services to Enhance Reservists and Veterans Education (S.E.R.V.E.) entitled “The Power of One—Celebrating the Heroic History of African-American fliers,” Thursday, April 10. The program will be held at M146 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is [...]

Professor Reddy and his two students will be associated with members of the BNL scientific and professional staff in an educational training program developed to give research experience in area of chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, nuclear medicine applied mathematics, high-and low-energy particle accelerators and science writing.

School Honored for Distinguished Community Service The Corporation for National and Community Service named Kingsborough Community College to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. Although eleven New York Colleges were placed on the Honor Roll, Kingsborough is the only City University of New York [...]

Part of Competitive Grant Program Addressing Student Success Kingsborough Community College announced today that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant to develop a Health Careers Learning Communities program to increase the number of high school students who aspire to enter college by educating them and helping them prepare for any one of seventeen different [...]

Dr. Lisa Rainwater, policy director for Riverkeeper, and Reverend Patricia Ackerman of the Garrison Institute are Keynote Speakers Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn’s only community college, today announced that it will host its third annual Eco-Festival, April 8-10, 2007. The theme for Eco-Festival 2008 is “grassroots environmental action.” The festival is designed to provide a unique [...]

The Center for Digital Government recently notified CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise, located at Kingsborough, that it is the winner of the 2008 Best of New York Award for the project demonstrating the most innovative use of technology. Dr. Stuart Schulman, executive director of CUNY Kingsborough’s Institute for Virtual Enterprise and Kingsborough’s Center for Workforce [...]

It is with great pleasure that I announce the beginning of Kings-borough’s celebration of Black History Month. I ask you to join me in celebrating the African-American community and African-American leaders who dedicated their lives to the advancement of freedom and equality in our nation when freedom and equality were only a distant dream. We [...]

Robert Putz, professor of math and computer science at Kingsborough, was one of several teachers and professors who spent two weeks in New Orleans this summer to help rebuild houses, paint schools and tutor children in an effort to advance the restoration of the city which is still suffering from the devastation caused by Hurricane [...]

Since Dr. Regina Peruggi, president of Kingsborough Community College, announced the launching of a best-selling author series in 2005, 10 authors have visited the college and entertained large audiences in the Performing Arts Center and the MAC Playhouse. The author lectures, hosted by Brooklyn’s only community college, are offered to the entire community free of [...]

Sokkun Luc and Sokha Pex, two Cambodian cousins whose families fled the lethal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975, were awarded CUNY’s Peter Jennings G.E.D. Laurel Award Scholarship last month for their diligence and persistence in learning English and earning their high school equivalency diplomas. The two cousins, now studying at Kingsborough and pursuing associate degrees, [...]