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December 2007

• LaGuardia Community College Professor Receives Prestigious National Science Foundation Grant for Photography Project in Antarctica
• LaGuardia's Phi Theta Honor Society Received Special Commendation
• Professor Joanne Pierre-Louis of the Social Science Department has been awarded a $3,000 summer stipend from the New York City Louis Stokes Alliance to develop the proposed course this summer and begin teaching it in the fall.
• Dr. Carlos Hiraldo of the English Department has Article Published in a National Journal
• Four LaGuardia Community College Students Receive Prestigious Kaplan Educational Foundation Scholarships
• LaGuardia's Allied Health Training Initiatives Receive Best Practice Award from the NYC Employment and Training Coalition
• LaGuardia Community College's Nursing Program Scheduled for Accreditation Visit From March 17-19
• LaGuardia's Nursing Grads Get Near Perfect Pass Rate on the National Licensure Exam
• Vice President Peter Grant Jordan Has Been Appointed to the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Journal's Editorial Board.
• Professor Vanessa Bing and Special Assistant Rosemary Talmadge have Published an Article on LaGuardia's Difficult Dialogues Project in an Association of American Colleges and Universities publication.
• The article, “Speaking of Religion: Facilitating Difficult Dialogues,” which was published in the AAC& U's Diversity and Democracy, describes the project's yearlong pedagogy seminar and the series of dialogues on religion that took place in the Queens community.
• Professor Nancy Erber's Book, Queer Lives, Has Been Recently Published.
• LaGuardia Community College Awarded $125,000 Grant From the MetLife Foundation
• Dr. Bret Eyon and the Center for Teaching and Learning Receive Award
• Professor Arthur Simms Has Artwork on Display at the Brooklyn Museum

November 2007

• The LaGuardia Community College Foundation Receives A $100,000 Gift for Scholarships
• Adjunct Professor Bessie W. Blake Received a National Book Award
• LaGuardia Students Win a Federal Reserve Bank Competition
• Student Leadership Conference to be Held on November 9

October 2007

• LaGuardia Community College Offers Free GED and College Prep Classes to Veterans
• LaGuardia Offers Two Free College Prep Workshops in November
• LaGuardia'ss Workforce1 Career Center Holding Free Workshop on Careers in Retail on November 14
• Professor Cris Cristofaro Exhibits Work at NYU Gallery Through Nov. 26
• Tribute to Women Jazz Composers of Queens At the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on November 16
• LaGuardia Holds Educational and Cultural Events Throughout the Month of November
• Break of Reality, a Classical Band that Rocks, will Perform at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on November 2
• The LaGuardia Center for the Performing Arts Holds a Halloween Magic Show on October 27
• Professor Thomas Fink Has Poem Published in The Best American Poetry
• LaGuardia and HIP/Centralized Laboratory Services Unveil the College's New Nursing Resource Center on October 16
• LaGuardia and HIP/Centralized Laboratory Services Unveil New Nursing Resource Center on October 16
• LaGuardia Offers Free Six-Week Job Training and Computer Literacy Program for Displaced Homemakers
• LaGuardia Offers a Walking Tour of Queens on October 6
• LaGuardia's Workforce1 Career Center Holding Free Workshop on Careers in Retail on October 25
• LaGuardia's Workforce1 Career Center on October 25 is Conducting Job Interviews for the Association for the Help of Retarded Children
• LaGuardia's Workforce1 Career Center Holds Virtual Retail Job Fair on October 23
• Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular Comes to The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on October 19
• A Show About a Latina's Experience With Breast Cancer Will Be Performed at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on October 26
• LaGuardia Hosts Complementary and Alternative Health and Healing Fair on October 13
• Cuban Singer Albita Rodriquez to Perform October 6 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
• Professors Arkin and Wilson Receive a $10,000 CUNY Grant
• LaGuardia's NY Designs unveils its new Prototype Lab on October 3
• LaGuardia Receives Over $1.25 Million From the Federal Government for Veterans Education