VY NGUYEN recipient of Berkeley City College’s 2017 President’s Medallion. Read Vy’s story.
Patrick Kruger is the Valedictorian of Berkeley City College’s Class of 2017. Patrick was one of the writers behind The BCC Voice where he served as Editor-in-Chief for two terms. Read more about Patrick Kruger.
The Fourth of July Holiday is Tuesday, July 4, 2017. BCC will be closed in observance of this holiday.
Graduation 2017 Pictures are here! Check them out on the BCC Graduation website:
https://www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/grad/graduation-2017-images/
Congratulations to Berkeley City College President Rowena Tomaneng on the completion of the doctorate degree in International/ Multicultural Education, with a concentration in Human Rights Education. The BCC family is proud to call you Dr. Tomaneng!
Join us in celebrating the hard work of Drawing and Composition students of Fall 2016-Spring 2017, 5-7pm on Friday night, May 26, on the fourth floor. The temporary exhibition (read once-in-a-lifetime, unforgettable experience) will showcase Beginning students’ Final Projects, 6 foot human-animal hybrids in pencil that will line the halls; the title of the show is “Conference of Creatures”, and indeed, these drawings bring imaginative creatures to life. The show will also highlight Intermediate and Special Project student work.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Braman, Instructor of Art History and Fine Arts, jbraman@peralta.edu
Berkeley City College will be closed on Friday, May 19, 2017 for Malcolm X’s Birthday Observance.
Find out more about Malcolm X
Berkeley City College Professor Linda McAllister will be honored by Teachers 4 Social Justice at its 9th annual “Thank a Teacher for Social Justice” award celebration. The ceremony will be held on Friday, May 12, 2016, 6pm-10pm at the Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA. The award is a recognition of educators who have been doing social justice work in their respective communities for 3+ years and are being recognized for their impact and contribution to building a better world.
The award highlights professors who are doing powerful education-based social justice work in their classroom or community. Nominated by a student, Erika Castano, McAllister is described as “an example of as a nurturing professor and compassionate human being.” Castano writes, “As a non-traditional student, I thought that I’d never be able to graduate or get a degree. I asked her if I’d be able to wear “a pointy hat and a fancy robe.”
She smiled and said, “Of course! You mean cap and gown, right?” Then she said that she believed in me, and she would be at my graduation. We had this conversation last year and I’m graduating this Spring ‘17. “
Congratulations, Linda! For more information about Teach 4 Social Justice and the Thank A Teacher for Social Justice award, go to Thank-A-Teacher Awards Celebration 2017!
Dr. Arlene Blum, biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is a Visiting Scholar in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute. The Institute brings government, industry, scientists and citizens groups together worldwide to support chemical policies to protect human health and the global environment. Their research and policy work has contributed to stopping the use harmful chemicals in children’s sleepwear, furniture, electronics and other products globally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/magazine/arlene-blums-crusade-against-household-toxins.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IDlb4N-_u4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKFjbt9DWJU
All of the seminars are free and open to the public.
This lecture series is put on by the BCC Science/Biotechnology department as a component of a grant we received from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Since spring 2012 more than twenty guests spoke about the latest discoveries and progress in biology, biotechnology, physics and medicine:
www.berkeleycitycollege.edu/biotechnology/past-seminars
Sponsored by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and Berkeley City College.