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Staying at the Schloss Leopoldskron, where The Sound of Music was filmed; attending lectures given by world-renowned scholars; walking throughout the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp. These were just some of the powerful experiences that students had during the recent Salzburg Global Seminar trip to Austria. The seminar is the 56th International Study Program on Global Citizenship and included students from three [...]

Volunteers from Queensborough Community College are fielding calls this week for the Daily News/CUNY Citizenship Now! hotline. The 11th annual call-in runs April 22 – 26, providing free, high quality, and confidential immigration law services to help individuals and families on their path to U.S. citizenship. Information is provided in English, Spanish and more than 20 other [...]

(Jasmine Hatcher, Class of 2006, with Dr. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine and members of her family at Queensborough’s 45th commencement ceremony.) Jasmine Hatcher, who graduated with an Associate in Science degree from Queensborough Community College in 2006, has been selected to receive a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Her selection was [...]

Students in the Engineering Technology Department were awarded First Prize in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Project category of the College Project Exhibit at the 2013 Engineering Expo, held at White Plains High School in New York on April 7. The project was begun in the fall of 2012 with the goal to design an electronically [...]

It was Thursday. A beautiful spring day. I woke up for school and my mom drove me to the bus stop. So begins I Hope Nobody Sees Me, Memoirs of a teenage stroke survivor (2013, First Edition Design Publishing). The author, Nicolas Sully, is a second semester student at QCC, majoring in Health Sciences. “My sneaker weighed a [...]

A One of a Kind (Love Affair) will be re-kindled when The Spinners, one of the biggest soul groups of the 70’s, will Make Such Sweet Music at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), on Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m. The Spinners will enthrall the audience with crowd pleasing favorites including Cupid, I’ll Be [...]

When Nicole Yu enrolled at Queensborough in the spring of 2010, her plans were to major in Nursing. One of her pre-clinical Nursing courses – Introductory College Chemistry -  opened her eyes to other areas of science. “I was encouraged by my professors to explore my interests and so I took additional chemistry classes,” said Nicole. [...]

Queensborough’s Fed Challenge Team participated in the third annual Community College Fed Challenge Scrimmage with North Shore Community College and Gateway Community College, which hosted the event on April 1 and 2 in New Haven, CT. The goal of the scrimmage is for students to learn about and understand the complexities of the monetary process [...]

Beginning this past fall, some 25 students from the Departments of Health, Physical Education and Dance and Engineering Technology have been conducting research in preparation for the introduction of Tiger Trails, a main component of the Get Active, Be Healthy Learning Community. With the use of equipment called measuring wheels, students are determining the circumference of [...]

Queensborough Community College’s innovative “Early Alert” system was featured in Crain’s New York Business magazine as a model for identifying and reaching out to students with declining performance. “With a $250,000 technology grant for servers, software and support, one IBM project manager built the early-alert system for Queensborough,” writes Cara Eisenpress in the magazine. “Using the new [...]

The Office of Academic Affairs at Queensborough Community College presented a series of Common Read events surrounding The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a non-fiction book by Rebecca Skloot. The book features a poor African-American tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge or consent in 1951, became one of the most important tools in medicine. [...]

Hal Linden, whose career as an actor, singer and musician has spanned more than 65 years, will command the stage at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) on April 28. He will be accompanied by the powerful, all-woman band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra. Perhaps best known for his portrayal of police captain in the TV [...]

Rich Little—“The Man of a Thousand Voices”—will regale audiences with his famous ability to impersonate politicians and entertainers at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 3:00pm. Rich Little’s amazing career on stage and in television has spanned more than four decades. His act has been the spotlight at presidential [...]

The internationally famous Tamburitzans will return to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 3:00pm. Through dance, music and songs, the Tamburitzans—all full-time students at Duquesne University— will capture the indomitable spirit of Eastern Europe and neighboring cultures. Language is no barrier, as these performances strike a universal emotional chord: [...]

QCC welcomed the first day of spring by cheering for students at its 6th Annual Walk to Aspire on March 20. Walk to Aspire raises money for student scholarships, allowing hardworking, eager students to come to Queensborough and gain the “Edge for Success.” Dr. Diane B. Call, President of Queensborough, announced that 21 teams comprising [...]

Laura Bruno has been appointed Director of Enrollment Management in the Office of Admissions and Recruitment at Queensborough Community College. Prior to joining QCC, Bruno served as Associate Director of Admissions at York College where she was responsible for designing and implementing the overall strategic enrollment plan, and served as the Admission functional and training lead for [...]

The Hit Men come out from behind the scenes to perform the soundtracks that they made famous! Spanning three decades of the best in popular music the members of this group are the original performing and recording artists of mega-star acts including Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Critters, [...]

Giselle, the consummate Romantic ballet will be presented by the Russian National Ballet at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) on March 17 at 3:00pm. A mysterious, gentle, and melancholy story of innocence, betrayal, and ultimately love, the role of Giselle is one of the most sought-after in ballet. To win the role, a ballerina [...]

The QCC Men’s Baseball Team traded uniforms for white coveralls and face masks as they headed to the Rockaways to help continue relief efforts after Hurricane Sandy. Thirty students—along with Coach Roger Mischel and Assistant Coach Joe Mikoleski— divided into groups and visited five damaged homes in the area for mold removal and demolition. The work spanned [...]

Queensborough Was Among 21Teams from 16 Colleges and Universities at the Competition Like all of his teammates, Benjamin Alagna studied diligently to prepare for the American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) Regional tournament at Yale University, held on February 23 and 24. To portray a US Coast Guard investigative officer/witness for the plaintiff in a wrongful [...]