Monday, July 18, 2011

Recent Rockland Community College Achievements


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Ramapo, NY – Recent performances, publications, presentations, awards and other notable achievements of Rockland Community College students, faculty and staff.
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Nursing Student Diane Spuler won the Rockland County Nurse Recognition Day Scholarship.

Max Tassy won the 84th annual Golden Gloves Competition at Madison Square Garden.

Herve Alexander won First Place in the May 25th Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater in Manhattan.

John Nash won the "My Movie Pitch," contest, with his movie Mr. Stache.  The short film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.  The contest is sponsored by the Tribeca Film festival and American Express.
At the Beacon Conference at Lehigh-Carbon Community College, RCC students Chris Saffran and Laura Duran were named Best Overall Presenters in their categories. Saffran presented, "The Digital Natives are Restless," in the Social Sciences category. Duran presented "Shakespeare's Ariel and Caiban: The Others," in the Literature (Drama and Poetry) category. The aggregate of campuses sending students to Beacon represent 100,000 students. From this group, 66 students were invited to present at Beacon, and nine were from RCC.

FACULTY and STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS

Adjunct Nursing Instructor Christine M. Davies, RN, BSN, MA, CLNC was awarded the “Outstanding Student of the Year,” award at Pace University, where she has maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout her graduate studies while receiving a Master’s of Art in Nursing Education.   Davies was also inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society and was honored at Commencement. 

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