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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BMCC students learning how to build a winning robot. March 12, 2015 Sitting on the back of a plain brown table at the back of a BMCC lab sits an 8” x 12” plastic board covered by a cluster of wires. At first glance, the odd looking object looks like a stripped down two...
