Across Mannakee Street from Montgomery College’s Rockville Campus hides a relic of hope from the days of segregation. Once an old flat-roofed two-story brick high school, the building today houses the Montgomery County Public Schools administrative offices; but inside, hints of its past remain. The basement cafeteria is preserved much as it may have looked […]
[rev_slider ArtWalk2015] The Rockville Art Department’s ArtWalk takes place each April on the campus grounds. Works by individual students and class collaborations—visual, participatory, and always outside—remain on display for one week. This year’s ArtWalk featured more than 25 installations and events, including temporary tattoos, screen printing, drawings, sculptures, and performances. More than 200 students participated. […]
[rev_slider Stone] Inside Studio #227 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Jennifer Brewer Stone ’01 experiments with color, form, and mixed media under fish-bowl conditions. For her new Textural Series, she thins brightly colored oil paint with linseed oil, testing consistency, and then blends it with molding paste. Using a palette knife, she spreads […]
“I believe in the fierce urgency of now,” says Theatre Professor KenYatta Rogers. The transaction between me and the person that is in front of me on stage or in the classroom is the most important thing at that time.” Rogers, who calls his work with students “more of a mission than a job,” was named […]
Professor KenYatta Rogers narrated the documentary film, “Community Cornerstones: African American Communities in Montgomery County, Maryland,” produced for Heritage Montgomery by Barbara Grunbaum and edited by MCTV producer Francine Wyron. The hour-long program features oral histories of county elders in local communities that developed after the Civil War. heritagemontgomery.org
Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, the first new hospital in Montgomery County in 35 years, opened last October on the Germantown Campus. It is the only hospital on a community college campus in the United States. Located off I-270 at Observation Drive, the 93-bed, six-story facility provides emergency, surgical, maternity, neonatal, and psychological care for up-county […]
Surrounded by woodlands and “technology corridor” neighbors that include Hughes Network Systems, the Department of Energy, and numerous bioscience and technology companies, the Hercules Pinkney Life Sciences Park at the Germantown Campus already comprises more than 25 business tenants in three facilities: Holy Cross Germantown Hospital; the new Bioscience Education Center (opened in fall 2014); […]
Following the US Secretaries’ visits to campus, the White House sent Mark Mitsui, deputy assistant secretary for community colleges at the US Department of Education, on behalf of President Obama. Mitsui participated in the Department of Applied Technologies construction management program panel discussion on career and technology education. Two MC workforce development programs were highlighted: […]
The College is funding Internet-accessible cybersecurity lab infrastructure in support of the expanding cybersecurity program. A new Science Learning Center in the Bioscience Education Center in Germantown opened for business during the spring semester.
US Labor Secretary Tom Perez, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, and a cadre of cybersecurity professionals and elected officials gathered for a panel discussion on cybersecurity and workforce development goals late last year. The event followed a $15 million Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant award to MC and partner institutions. In […]
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