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K to College

K to College

The women’s basketball team led 26 kindergarteners at Beall Elementary School in stretches and small activities to introduce the youngsters to the formal educational opportunities that await them in college. The Raptors, Coach Lakisha Nickens-Gaither, and students enjoyed the activities, made possible through the new K to College program, a partnership between Montgomery College and […]

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Journal Wins National Book Award

Journal Wins National Book Award

The Sligo Journal won the 2015 Florida Book Festival Award for Compilations/Anthologies. The journal is an arts and literary publication featuring work by MC students and local poets of Takoma Park/Silver Spring. The award is a national book award that recognizes excellent writing in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, how-to, spiritual, and […]

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Learning To Teach

Learning To Teach

Students bound for teaching careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education can now try out teaching early in their academic careers via the new Learning Assistant (LA) program. Funded by a National Science Foundation Noyce Grant, the program allows MC to hire and train students to work with a faculty mentor, one on […]

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Montgomery College Libraries Spreading the Words

Montgomery College Libraries Spreading the Words

Then An excerpt from the 1959 Accolade, Montgomery College’s yearbook: Our New Library Shivers ran rampant as the wind chilled the spectator bones: ground was being broken for the new library, January 1958. Nine months later, in October, the first new building on the M.J.C. campus was officially opened and many of the students wended […]

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Broad Strokes for Aspiring Artists

Broad Strokes for Aspiring Artists

Then… In 1957, Edgar and Shirley Lipman opened an art supply store, offering classes to customers and the community. By 1965, in response to the demand for the popular courses, the owners expanded the school, forming the Maryland School of Art and Design. In 1971, the Maryland College of Art and Design was incorporated. For […]

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Bioscience Education Center

Bioscience Education Center

Two ribbon cuttings at the Germantown Campus marked the beginning of the fall semester: the Bioscience Education Center, opened in August, and the Holy Cross Hospital Germantown, opened in October. The buildings, located on Observation Drive, the campus’s main thoroughfare, anchor the new Hercules Pinkney Life Sciences Park, a science and technology business partnership, named […]

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STEM

STEM

On RAMP to STEM, a program funded by the National Science Foundation, helped 14 students with STEM majors (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) transfer to some of the best STEM programs in the country this fall: University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering, University of California-Berkeley’s bioengineering program, and Georgetown University’s biochemistry program. Trinh Nguyen […]

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Cyberwatch Student Club

Cyberwatch Student Club

The Cyberwatch Student Club won two major competitions last year—first place in the Community College Division of the Digital Defense Challenge, an international competition organized by the Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center—and fifth place at Global CyberLympics North American Competition. The club’s faculty sponsor, Dr. Chiyun-Kwei (C.K.) Chian, professor of networking and cybersecurity, earned […]

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Portraits of Life

Portraits of Life

The College-produced “Portraits of Life: Holocaust Survivors of Montgomery County, Maryland” exhibit traveled to Delaware’s Wilmington Public Library, where it was on display through November 26. “Portraits of Life,” a program of the Paul Peck Humanities Institute, teaches about the Holocaust from a first-person point of view. In the last three years, the 37 photographic […]

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Oh, The Places They Can Go…

Oh, The Places They Can Go…

A new articulation agreement with the University of Maryland Baltimore County makes the path to a bachelor’s degree a little smoother for MC students interested in gerontology, mental health, and social work. Four new articulation agreements established in September between MC and Shepherd University assist students majoring in computer science, engineering, and mathematics programs who […]

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