In celebration of Montgomery College’s 70th anniversary, the Alumni Office and the Athletic Department welcomed home more than 40 former student-athletes from six different teams in February. Alumni from men’s and women’s basketball, football, tennis, women’s soccer, and track and field enjoyed a catered reception and an introduction to the fans between the women’s and […]
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris, 17, and Dylan Klebold, 18, shot and killed 12 fellow students and one teacher, injuring another 21, before they both committed suicide at Columbine High School in Colorado. At the time, it was recorded as the deadliest high school shooting in US history. In the 17 years since this […]
Part one of a two-part series celebrating Montgomery College’s 70th Anniversary. “Veterans… included some of the best students I ever had in a class. They were serious about their education. They were older and more mature than those coming straight from high school.… Courses that might prove difficult for them were not evaded or dropped…The […]
At 6 a.m. on a bitter-cold Saturday morning in February, Ed Riggs ‘69 is behind the wheel of his Honda Civic for the hour-long drive from his home in Maryland to Liberty Mountain Resort in Pennsylvania. As a senior member of the ski patrol team, he will spend the day monitoring the mountain, preventing accidents, […]
As a kid, biology major Michael Parsons told his mother he wanted to play ice hockey. She agreed but insisted he learn to figure skate first so he would have strong skills on the ice. He has not stopped skating since. At the 2016 World Junior Championship, Parsons won the silver medal for ice dancing […]
Few people are comfortable talking about death—let alone preparing for it. But procrastination doesn’t do any good, says author, speaker, and funeral planning expert Gail Rubin ’78. Through her radio talk shows, books, blogs, and speaking events, Rubin helps people start conversations about the taboo topic. “Just as talking about sex won’t make you pregnant,” […]
5 Tips on What You Need to Know to Save Money, Time, and Sanity 1. Empty storage units. Did you rent a storage unit to “temporarily” store some must-keep items that didn’t have a place in your home? Take a hard look at what’s in those units. Are those items even worth the rent? Clear […]
In the small, well-lit corner lab, Lyudmyla Panashchenko ’05 places a capacitor into the Zeiss scanning electron microscope, or SEM, and closes the chamber. When she activates it, the SEM will pump the chamber with the sample down to a vacuum and trace a focused electron beam over the sample and generate a high resolution […]
In August 2015, the College hired Ms. Shawn Harrison as the director of public safety and emergency management. A 35-year veteran of law enforcement, she spent the first 26 years at the Baltimore City Police Department in various capacities including patrol, sexual assault and child abuse investigator, internal affairs, police academy instructor, and executive protection […]
The award-winning cartoonist Richard Thompson, widely known for his syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac cartoons, died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease on July 27, 2016. This is personal. I knew and loved Richard Thompson long before he became famous. We worked together on the staff of The Spur, the student […]
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