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MC and MCPS Expand Degree, Diploma Opportunities
The Early College program is offered at each Montgomery College campus, providing qualified students the opportunity to earn an associate’s [...]
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New Scholarships for Maryland’s Community College Students
In May 2018, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed into law the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarships act to help eligible [...]
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DHCA and Montgomery College Address Critical Need for Workers in Senior Housing Facilities
By 2040, one in five residents in Montgomery County will be 65 and older—and one out of three will be [...]
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MC Volleyball Serves Up Undefeated Season—First Ever Title
Montgomery College’s women’s volleyball team capped an undefeated season with a first-ever MD JUCO Division II title. The Raptors finished [...]
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College’s Gudelsky Institute for Technology Celebrates 25 Years
The Montgomery County Council last week held a proclamation ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of MC’s Homer S. Gudelsky [...]
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Helping Drivers with Special Needs Get Behind the Wheel
Driving is a rite of passage into adulthood for most teenagers—and children with special needs are no different. According to [...]
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Meet Montgomery C. Raptor, aka Monty
Campaign season kicked off in September—to name the MC mascot. The month-long social media campaign conducted by MC’s marketing department [...]
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County’s First Couple Remember Their Roots, Rally for ACES
Before retiring, Montgomery County executive Ike Leggett and wife, Catherine, help raise $1.7 million for underrepresented students. Isiah “Ike” Leggett, [...]
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Germantown Campus Turns 40
“The work that we are doing now is a continuation of what was started—to ensure the future of a thriving [...]
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You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
Glen Swanson ’18 politely greeted the two uniformed officers who knocked on the door of the small Germantown apartment he [...]
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Doing Time Wisely
Montgomery County inmates hit the books, earn GEDs with MC instruction on site at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in [...]
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MC+MCPS=MC2: Middle College Program (MC2) Lets Students Earn an Associate’s Degree While in High School
When Northwood High School’s Dominique Desmarattes crosses the stage at DAR Constitution Hall on June 6, she will finish a [...]
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Sweet Dream
Sarah Dwyer left a corporate career to build a business that makes her smile. It makes her customers—and her team—smile, [...]
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Good Vibrations
Dennis Beach ’91 transforms plywood, epoxy, and paint into geometric sculptures, paintings, and kinetic designs that echo natural forms and [...]
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Alicia Carroll: Travel Nurse Thrill Seeker
Alicia Carroll ’07 travels light. When she moved to South Carolina in February for a position in the neurotrauma ICU [...]
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Awesome Awasom
Lumnwi Audrey Awasom, 21, always wanted to do something big for the community. During her sophomore year at MC, she [...]
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From Medic to LPN: Program’s First Active-Duty Soldier Graduates
When Sukwon Koh ’18 left South Korea to study as an international student in 2004, he had no plans to [...]
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Testify!
President DeRionne Pollard gave testimony on Capitol Hill and in Annapolis in February as part of an effort to persuade [...]
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Raptors Basketball Teams Finish Fifth in the Nation
The Raptors men’s and women’s basketball teams both finished fifth in their 2017–2018 NJCAA Division III Championship tournaments. This season [...]
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Color Trending
MC is at the height of fashion this year, according to color experts at the Pantone Color Institute. The institute, [...]
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Web Updates
Alumni Association If you have visited montgomerycollege.edu/alumni recently, you’ll notice that things have changed. We have redesigned our Alumni Association [...]
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Giving Peace a Chance
One week after the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Professor Pat Ruppert asked [...]
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Lit Picks
MC librarians at all three campuses know a thing or two about good books. And—no surprise here—they had a lot [...]
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All That Data: New Program Helps Meet Workforce Demands in a Data-driven World
All organizations and enterprises—profit, nonprofit, private, public, etc.—need to find efficient methods to turn data into usable information. And they [...]
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Latitude Adjustment: Alumna Has Healthy Outlook on Her New Life in America
She brought one suitcase with her from Bulgaria. After the 12-hour flight from Istanbul via Amsterdam, she was nervous and [...]
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Speaking of Fluency: Language Skills in High Demand
“People were lined up for hours,” says Kenia Avendano-Garro ’10, who was the sole American and only female in her [...]
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Amateur Astronomer Describes an Experience Eclipsing All Others
MC professors encourage students to be lifelong learners and to reach for the stars when setting goals. David Matheny ’16 [...]
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Radical DepARTure: Pen & Ink Artist Leaves Programming Behind
Derrick Douglass ’11 wants to hold moments in time so he—and anyone else—can examine them more closely. Rather than [...]
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Fabulous at 50: Nursing Program Improving with Age
The same year eight-track tape decks were introduced in Ford cars, a postage stamp cost five cents, and “Beam me [...]
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And the Award Goes to …
The Carnegie Corporation of New York named MC President DeRionne P. Pollard a recipient of its Academic Leadership Award. Pollard [...]
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New Center for Justice Supports Student Activism
When Patty Pablo ’18 went to bed on August 13—after the nation spent the weekend watching white supremacists trudge through [...]
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Food for Thought: Students Struggle with Basic Needs
A Mobile Market program now brings fresh food to campus for students and members of the community experiencing food insecurity. [...]
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College Partners with County and Nonprofits To Host First Conference for Single Parents
Erica Brizuela has a two-year-old son, works as a waitress, and takes classes at Montgomery College. Single parents like Brizuela, [...]
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Q & A
Insights talks with Martha Schoonmaker, executive director, Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology at Montgomery College (PIC MC). Q: [...]
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Retired Professor’s Holocaust Memoirs Book Wins Award
Professor Emerita Myrna Goldenberg’s latest book, Before All Memory Is Lost, received the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Holocaust [...]
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CS Students Help Keep County Networks Safe, Earn Scholarships
Though many might think of computer science as the kind of profession where work is left at work, Bryan Solis [...]
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Groundbreaking: Rockville Student Services Center
Montgomery College broke ground in June on a 130,000-square-foot Student Services Center, which will provide a centralized location for all [...]
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
“MC is a welcoming institution, and the College’s refreshed entrances at the Rockville and Germantown campuses showcase our hospitality even [...]
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Presidential Dialogues: Defining America—Dialogues Across Difference
Join President Pollard for a series of conversations focused on American identity. All events are free and open to the [...]
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Grand Reopening of Student-Run Café
The MBI Café, a student-run coffee shop on the Rockville Campus, celebrated its grand reopening in a new and bigger [...]
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1946–1947 A Year of Firsts… and Simpler Times Celebrating Montgomery 70th Anniversary Series Part 2 of 2*
Enthusiasm among the first class of 186 students was high during the College’s first semester in 1946, as evidenced by [...]
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Past Presidents Reunited for Special 70th Anniversary State of the College
At the sixth annual State of the College in March, Dr. Pollard was joined by three former College presidents: Dr. [...]
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Embracing Change in Demographics
“We are browner, older, and less wealthy than ever in the history of this county. How do we … ensure [...]
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Science Center Complex: ‘Money Well Spent’
Rockville Campus celebrated the opening of its newly renovated Science Center West building early in February. Soaring windows and spacious [...]
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Parking Improvements
On the first day of spring semester MC officially opened the long-awaited parking facility at Rockville, a 918-space, seven-level garage. [...]
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Governor Hogan Delivers State Economic Update from Germantown Campus
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan traveled to the Germantown Campus on February 28 to deliver the 2017 Economic Development Update for [...]
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Kudos
Professor Jean Freedman recently published the first full-length biography of music legend Peggy Seeger, entitled Peggy Seeger: A Life of [...]
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Community Engagement: Public Forums on Campus Modernization and County Education Budgets
On March 21, Dr. Pollard and Takoma Park Mayor Kate Stewart led the first in a series of three Community [...]
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MC in the News
Fox News’s “New Yorkers Working with Doctors Without Borders” featured Michelle Mays, MA, RN, BSN, and Montgomery Scholar ’02. Hechinger [...]
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New Active-Shooter Training Video
MCTV completed a 15-minute video for the MC community on how to prepare for an active shooter incident. The video [...]
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India Lessons
Eighteen members of the Montgomery College community traveled to India during spring break as part of the Global Humanities Institute’s (GHI) [...]
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Fact or Fiction
The MC Libraries launched a guide to educate students on spotting fake news articles: libguides.montgomerycollege.edu/fakenews. The guide introduces students to [...]
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Eric Burdon & The Animals Performed at the Parilla Performing Arts Center To a Sold-out Crowd
Rolling Stone hails Eric Burdon as one of the 100 greatest voices of all time. A member of the Rock [...]
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Women’s Work: Artists Impacting Social Change
“Women’s Work: Artists Impacting Social Change” exhibited in the Sarah Silberman Gallery in the Art Building in March. The exhibition [...]
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Artist Amy Hughes Braden
Artist-in-residence Amy Hughes Braden gave a talk on her work as a painter who likes to make work quickly and [...]
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3rd Annual Artw@lk
Students’ art works were displayed around campus, indoors and out. The event, “artw@lk: Take Part in the Arts!” complements a [...]
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A Wake Up Call for the Sleep Deprived
Between 50 and 70 million US adults have sleep or wakefulness disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). [...]
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Losing To Gain
He stopped by Taco Bell so often the employees knew his $20 order by heart. Some days he went twice. [...]
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Manjula’s Mission
Shrouded by November’s predawn darkness, Manjula Dissanayake ’03 gets into the Uber car that will take him to Dulles International [...]
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In a Class by Themselves
How Two Harvard Business School Students Discovered Their MC Roots As a first-year senior lecturer at Harvard Business School last [...]
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Forty Seasons of Summer
Summer Dinner Theatre Celebrates 40 Years No story about the College’s Summer Dinner Theatre would be complete without a chat [...]
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Glory Days
In celebration of Montgomery College’s 70th anniversary, the Alumni Office and the Athletic Department welcomed home more than 40 former [...]
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Keeping MC in the Loop
In 2013, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk proposed a revolutionary mode of transportation—hyperloop: a vacuum tube with pods that [...]
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College Powers Solar Jobs with Renewable Energy Park
The College is building a first-of-its-kind Renewable Energy Park at the Rockville Campus that will provide both theoretical and practical [...]
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College and Infosys Public Services Form Partnership
Montgomery College is collaborating with Infosys Public Services on a partnership that creates new training and job opportunities in the [...]
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College Budget Gets Boost from Montgomery County
Montgomery College’s FY17 budget got a $6.5 million boost from Montgomery County—a 5.1 percent increase over last year’s contribution—allowing the [...]
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Montgomery College Awarded $1.1 Million TRIO Grant to Improve Adult College Readiness
Montgomery College is one of only three organizations in Maryland awarded a TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers (TRIO EOC) grant to [...]
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Coordinator of Architecture Program Earns Paul H. Kea Medal
Randy Steiner, AIA, coordinator of the architecture program at Montgomery College, recently earned the Paul H. Kea Medal, the highest [...]
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Opening Pathways to MC Via Multilingual Outreach
Community engagement at MC means informing, consulting, participating, working in partnership, and reaching out to people who may not have [...]
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Architecture Students Receive Industry Awards
Amalie ElFallah ’16 and Kaira Farrell ’16 recently earned honors for excellence in student architectural design by the Maryland Chapter [...]
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Montgomery College Earns Top-20 Ranking as Best for Vets
Montgomery College earned a top-20 ranking as Best for Vets at two-year schools by Military Times. Rankings are based on [...]
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Women’s Soccer Team Wins Region Championship
The women’s soccer team defeated Howard Community College 2–1 in the Region XX tournament to claim the 2016 Region XX/District [...]
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Are We Safe?
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris, 17, and Dylan Klebold, 18, shot and killed 12 fellow students and one teacher, [...]
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Veterans Welcome at “First Junior College in the State”
Part one of a two-part series celebrating Montgomery College’s 70th Anniversary. “Veterans… included some of the best students I ever [...]
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Professor on Patrol
At 6 a.m. on a bitter-cold Saturday morning in February, Ed Riggs ‘69 is behind the wheel of his Honda [...]
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Competitive Edge
As a kid, biology major Michael Parsons told his mother he wanted to play ice hockey. She agreed but insisted [...]
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Unfinished Business
Few people are comfortable talking about death—let alone preparing for it. But procrastination doesn’t do any good, says author, speaker, [...]
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Downsize and Organize for a Better Life—and a Better Death
5 Tips on What You Need to Know to Save Money, Time, and Sanity 1. Empty storage units. Did you [...]
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NASA, We Have a Problem
In the small, well-lit corner lab, Lyudmyla Panashchenko ’05 places a capacitor into the Zeiss scanning electron microscope, or SEM, [...]
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Veteran Police Officer Takes Top Security Position
In August 2015, the College hired Ms. Shawn Harrison as the director of public safety and emergency management. A 35-year [...]
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Cartoonist Richard Thompson Made Us Laugh
The award-winning cartoonist Richard Thompson, widely known for his syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac and Richard’s Poor Almanac cartoons, [...]
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She’s Not in Kansas Anymore
[rev_slider Lasko] When she picked up the phone, her manager asked, “How many seats do you want?” That’s how Sarah [...]
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Naturalist Aide Quame DeJonge ’17
On most Saturdays and Sundays, visitors to the Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton Regional Park will encounter Quame DeJonge (Dee-yong). [...]
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Kitchen Confidential
Did you ever take a cooking class at Montgomery College led by Carla Hall, a finalist on Bravo-TV’s Top Chef? [...]
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Recipes for Success
On almost any street corner in America, you will find a restaurant. It has become a staple of family eating, [...]
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An Architectural Fixture
[rev_slider Jacobsen] For someone who’s called a minimalist, his portfolio brims with details; for a man of modest physical stature, [...]
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Midas Touch
William Adair ’68 is a artist, master gilder, frame conservator, and frame historian who cut his creative teeth as an [...]
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Building for the Future
Rockville’s Science West Building renovation is on track to be ready for classes by the spring 2017 semester. Work also [...]
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New Course In Demand
The Clinical Trial Project Management course continues to grow. Last September, 35 students (up from an average enrollment of 20) [...]
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Technology Enhances Teaching
Students can now interact with faculty or peer tutors using Skype, the free video chat application. Tutorials are available in [...]
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“PIC-MC”
“PIC-MC”. That’s the new acronym for the Hercules Pinkney Life Sciences Park at Montgomery College, now called the Pinkney Innovation [...]
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MC in the News
“There is a notion of academic elitism where community colleges are considered inferior to other institutions but we reject that. [...]
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Ethiopia Findings
A group of 27 students and faculty traveled to Gondar, Ethiopia, in January as part of the Study Abroad Program. [...]
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Before You Travel
Dr. Gregory Malveaux’s new book, Look Before Leaping: Risks, Liabilities, and Repair of Study Abroad in Higher Education, (Rowman & [...]
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Guyana Prize for Literature Award
Dr. Stanley Niamatali, professor of English, won the Guyana Prize for Literature in the category of Best First Book of [...]
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Student Architects: Designing for the Real World
Students presented architectural designs for an “Outdoor Office Modules” project, to be built in downtown Silver Spring by Peterson Companies. [...]
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Top Honors
Montgomery College was named a Top School in Military Advanced Education & Transition’s 2016 Guide to Colleges & Universities. The [...]
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Global Humanities and Xian University
Sixteen faculty, staff, and administrators traveled to China this spring. The trip included cultural explorations of Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, [...]
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ATD Invitation
“Nearly one-half of all students seeking higher education choose a community college. Fewer than half of those students actually finish [...]
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Honoring Dr. Ackerman
The College Board of Trustees formally recognized the 43-year career of Dr. Judy E. Ackerman, vice president and provost of [...]