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Documentary Film Makes an Impact in the Classroom

July 11, 2016 Rosemarie Reed is an adjunct professor at BMCC and filmmaker whose biographical documentaries focus on individuals “who have made great contributions but aren’t household names,” she says. “One friend told me, ‘you make films about the most famous people that no one ever heard of’.” These lesser-known individuals include scientists such...

BMCC Hosts 51st Commencement with Largest Graduating Class in the College’s History

May 18, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) conferred more than 4,200 associate degrees during morning and afternoon Commencement ceremonies at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, on June 3, 2016. This was the largest graduating class in the college's history. The morning ceremony began at 11:00 a.m. and the...

Unlocking Secrets of the World’s Water Resources

April 20, 2016 Obeng Kwaku Buo, an engineering science major at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) is from Ghana, and grew up in the capital city of Accra, on the Gulf of Guinea. He visited New York for the first time in 2011, to visit family in the Bronx, then headed back to...

BMCC Undergraduate Research Poster Winners Announced

February 17, 2016 The 2016 BMCC Undergraduate Research Symposium, Faculty Panel Discussion and Poster Sessions I and II were held February 17 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the college’s main campus building in Lower Manhattan. The day kicked off with student oral presentations in Theatre 2. Six students took the stage to...

Lee B. Stephens III, BNY Mellon Executive VP, Speaks in Leadership Breakfast Series

November 5, 2015 On Wednesday, November 4, Lee B. Stephens III, Executive Vice President at Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon), spoke in the Leadership Breakfast series held in the Conference Center at Fiterman Hall. Over a hundred students, faculty and staff filled the audience as BMCC President Antonio Pérez introduced Stephens, who...

Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

September 2, 2015 In July 2015, two BMCC Business Administration majors, Alex Guarino and recent graduate Sayaka Ohshima, attended the Babson College/Banco Santander Entrepreneurship Program at the Babson College Executive Center in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Guarino said the experience “made me want to work in finance. Many of the professors work on Wall Street and...

‘Birds Float’

April 11, 2013 As any biologist will tell you, “Birds float.” “They’re designed to be light, so they can fly,” says science professor and paleontologist David Krauss. The downside to buoyancy, though—at least from a paleontologist’s point of view—is that birds are less likely to sink to the bottom of a body of water...

The President Meets “Olga”

Showcasing his knack for animal voices, BMCC’s President Antonio Pérez read Olga the Brolga to students at the Early Childhood Center.

All in the Mind

There's more to the study of psychology than theory, says professor Janice Walters.