September 16, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) will host Transcending Punishment: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Inequality & Social Justice on October 7-8 at the BMCC campus. Conference speakers and panel sessions will focus on scholarly and practical approaches to social justice, according to Michelle Ronda, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, BMCC, who is...
BMCC Professor of Science Quinn Minor September 14, 2016 “If there were no dark matter, life wouldn’t exist,” says BMCC Professor of Science and astrophysicist Quinn Minor. He just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award of $235,407 to study cold, or slow-moving dark matter, and explains its role in our existence. Early stars...
June 15, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) has joined a nationwide initiative to make open educational resources (OER) — free, online textbooks — available to students, building their retention and graduation rates. The OER Degree Initiative is led by Achieving the Dream, Inc., and involves 38 colleges in 13 states. BMCC, along...
Jennifer Campos, Peter Jennings Scholarship winner June 10, 2016 Jennifer Campos, who just earned her High School Equivalency diploma through the Adult Literacy Program in the Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development at BMCC, is a winner of the 2016 Peter Jennings Scholarship. She will be honored along with nine other awardees at...
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...
May 10, 2016 (New York, NY) May 10, 2016 – BMCC Tribeca PAC’s Lost Jazz Shrines series is dedicated to restoring the memory of legendary New York City jazz venues to the consciousness of the world with a thorough remembrance and celebration, led by Artistic Director Willard Jenkins. This year, join us on Saturday,...
January 4, 2016 The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center will host its annual evening of laughter on Friday, February 5 at 8:00 pm with acclaimed headline local comedian Rick Younger and additional comedians Pam DeButts, Jim Mendrinos, Jimmy Son, and Nicky Sunshine. Tickets are $15 each or $10 for students. Tickets can be purchased...
December 22, 2015 On December 22, a dozen teams of ninth graders at the Manhattan Early College School for Advertising (MECA) presented their end-of-semester product launch campaigns. These included a logo, tagline, media plan and original ads. Using PowerPoint and animated graphics, the students introduced their inventions, such as a product that transforms a...
June 22, 2015 BMCC Nursing Chair Jacqueline Nichols received the Caribbean American Healthcare Award on June 25 at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn. The award is presented annually by Caribbean Life, an online news organization for and about the Caribbean community in New York City. The event’s 34 honorees include doctors, nurses, administrators and...
The Students in Service to Women Recognition Award, sponsored by the Women's Resource Center Council, is presented to nine recipients. April 8, 2015 The first annual Students in Service to Women Recognition Award was presented to each of nine recipients March 30 in Richard Harris Terrace, on the main campus of Borough of Manhattan...
