October 7, 2014 On Sunday, October 5 at Pier 26 in Tribeca, BMCC students and professors took part in the NYC Marine Science Festival, Submerge! This day-long community event was presented in partnership with the New York Hall of Science and included environmental science demonstrations presented by BMCC faculty, staff and student researchers. These...
2016 Out In Two Award Ceremony Click here for more photos October 19, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) welcomed 35 students to the Out in Two scholarship program during the Fall 2016 induction ceremony and luncheon October 18 in Theater II at 199 Chambers Street. The scholarship, founded by BMCC President Antonio...
February 26, 2016 Each day, millions of people make their way through New York City’s bus, train and air transportation hubs. Keeping a close eye on their movement are thousands of cameras, positioned on every corner, stairwell and open space. But what happens when an elevator breaks down? Where do crowds exit to the...
July 4, 2017 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students participated in a number of external volunteer opportunities, internships and also real world training exercises throughout the past academic year. One group of students took part in the Goldman Sachs Local College Collaborative Program, a six-month exercise where teams from select colleges are assigned...
May 27, 2015 The 2015 Honors Convocation Ceremony was held Tuesday, May 26 in Theatre II at the BMCC main campus. VP for Student Affairs Marva Craig and Provost & Sr. VP for Academic Affairs Karrin Wilks opened the event. BMCC President Antonio Pérez welcomed the audience, and Provost Wilks along with department chairpersons...
Jill Strauss, PhD, teaches Conflict Resolution and Communications in the Speech, Communications and Theater Arts Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). Her research involves Restorative Practices and the visual interpretation of narrative and difficult histories. She completed her PhD at Ulster University in Northern Ireland in 2010, where she designed an innovative fieldwork...
July 20, 2016 Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY and the BMCC Foundation mourn the passing of our friend and long-time supporter Herbert Rosenfield, a founding member of the BMCC Foundation Board of Directors, on which he served for more than 30 years. Mr. Rosenfield, who passed away on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at the...
Sharon Reid as Director of the Office of Internships and Experiential Learning. February 6, 2018 The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Office of Academic Affairs welcomes Sharon Reid as Director of the Office of Internships and Experiential Learning. Reid comes to BMCC from The New School where she had served as Assistant Director of...
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...
March 8, 2017 Professional actors read 10-minute scenes from film and television scripts written by current and former Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) students at the BMCC Time Warner Screenwriting Fellowship program’s Script Reading Gala held the night of March 2 in BMCC’s Theater 2. The screenwriting fellowship was made possible by a...
