January 17, 2018 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Professor of Art Sarah Haviland will investigate ancient and contemporary human-bird imagery and myth in Taiwanese culture, as the college’s latest Fulbright Scholar. Professor Haviland will travel to Taiwan in August 2018 and teach an intensive workshop that fall at the Taipei National University for...
February 16, 2017 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) President Antonio Pérez will present his annual State of the College address to the college community on March 7, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., in Theatre 2 on the college’s main campus, 199 Chambers Street. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend and...
November 12, 2015 An Inaugural BMCC Foundation/President’s Circle for Educational Excellence reception on November 11 in the Shirley Fiterman Art Center thanked BMCC student veterans for their service, and honored President’s Circle for Educational Excellence donors whose contributions provide scholarships and strengthen veteran services and other programs at the college. President Antonio Pérez, Provost...
Thirty years ago on November 4, Iranian militant students seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days. Barry Rosen, BMCC’s Executive Director of Public Affairs, was a State Department press attaché in Tehran in 1979 and was one of the hostages held by militant students.
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...
February 6, 2015 “No pain, no gain.” Students who have struggled in a math class can relate to that expression. Some also know that even with “pain,” there might be no gain. Just ask non-STEM majors—those who are not majoring in math, technology, engineering or science—who are having a hard time in their general...
March 13, 2014 BMCC Liberal Arts major Sumaiya Sarwar will graduate with honors this June and go on to pursue a Bachelors’ degree in Women’s Studies. Along the way, she has been elected to the Phi Theta Kappa honorary society and served as president of BMCC’s Sisterhood Society. But the road Sarwar has traveled...
President says college community must recognize and address challenges exacerbated by the worst pandemic in a century.
September 27, 2017 The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Academic Affairs sponsored an afternoon gathering of two student cohort groups—the Pipeline Opportunity for Inter-Collegiate STEM Education (POISE) program and the Gallatin Undergraduate Initiative for Discovery in Education (GUIDE) program on September 21. Both pipeline programs...
Professor Matthew Ally leads students in an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness. March 21, 2013 As it turns out, one of Professor Ally's students was a half-second later for class than he thought. The other students in Great Issues in Philosophy were responding to a question their professor, Matthew Ally had posed:...
