Hilario Barrero, assistant professor of modern languages, is the recipient of a 2005 Feliks Gross Endowment Award. Given by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, the award, now in its sixth year, honors emerging scholars for their research and scholarly achievements.
Nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks threw its campus into disarray, Borough of Manhattan Community College officially unveiled a gleaming, renovated student commons yesterday.
Nearly four years ago, Borough of Manhattan Community College was devastated by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was the only college in America to lose a building, when 7 World Trade Center collapsed upon BMCC’s Fiterman Hall, and it temporarily lost use of its main campus for three weeks because of its proximity...
March 11, 2005 The architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was selected by the University to provide professional services for clean-up and demolition and design of a new building to replace the damaged Fiterman Hall. The architects and their team, which includes Tishman Construction Corporation and the LiRo Group, were approved by...
Borough of Manhattan Community College is piloting a new Nursing Now program in February to address the acute shortage of nurses in New York.
Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York, the region’s leading community college for healthcare education, announced today that it will host a one-day conference that will explore how rapidly evolving technologies will shape the future of healthcare. The conference, called Health Tech New York, will be held on BMCC’s lower...
This multimedia presentation was conceived by Adele Shtern, interdisciplinary artist, graphic designer and adjunct associate professor in the music and art department at BMCC; Nan Youn Oh (BMCC ’05) created the flash presentation. It includes an interactive slide show of digital art by Professor Shtern and students of varying levels from her Art 206 Typography...
Next month's Republican National Convention may have an impact on BMCC and its students. The Convention will take place from Monday, August 30th through Thursday, September 2nd at Madison Square Garden. Other than some street closures in the vicinity of the Garden, the convention and its delegates should have little direct impact on the college...
Construction on BMCC’s new ramp, which began last November, is nearing completion. The ramp, whose grade will be less steep and easier for people in wheelchairs to use, will fully comply with regulations in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The terrorist attack of 9-11, and the consequent loss of Fiterman Hall, had a dramatic impact on Borough of Manhattan Community College. One of the most visible reminders of that impact was the loss of space in the student dining room and the Richard Harris Terrace to temporary classrooms.