Katia Hardesty, Erin Aslami and Jacqueline Yang. PARAMUS, N.J. – From more than 250 submissions of high school juniors and seniors, six Bergen County students claimed first-place honors in the 40th annual Bergen County High School Writing Contest sponsored by the Bergen…
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James Keehbler and Lynn Schott. PARAMUS, N.J. – Put it in the books: for the second time, Bergen Community College librarian Lynn Schott has won the President’s Award from the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA). Schott accepted the award at the organization’s…
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Garrett Pynn competing at a meet this spring. PARAMUS, N.J. – The 2016 Summer Olympics may not begin for another few months, but Bergen Community College student-athlete Garrett Pynn has already brought home track-and-field gold. Pynn, of Edgewater, won the discus event…
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PARAMUS, N.J. – Gallery Bergen seeks art showcasing the political process for an exhibition this fall coinciding with the November elections. The gallery, located in West Hall at Bergen Community College, invites artists to submit paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, posters, cartoons, graphics,…
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PARAMUS, N.J. – Bergen Community College’s 24th annual “Young Playwrights Festival” will feature six one-act plays by local students Thursday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. Performed by the College’s theater arts students in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre at the institution’s main…
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Theranda Jashari. PARAMUS, N.J. – The fifth Bergen Community College student in three years has earned a share of the nation’s largest private scholarship for transfer students. Theranda Jashari, of Garfield, will receive up to $40,000 a year to complete a bachelor’s…
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The Bergen Community College class of 2016 travelled the path of 46 years of predecessors, shaking the hand of President B. Kaye Walter, Ph.D., before receiving their degrees May 19. This time, however, a decidedly different venue –…
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PARAMUS, N.J. – With more than 300 guests representing education, government, healthcare and industry in attendance, Bergen Community College officials cut the ribbon on the $25.5 million Health Professions Integrated Teaching Center May 17. The facility represents the institution’s project as part…
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Roger Opstbaum, Ph.D., and Susan Klarreich, Ph.D. PARAMUS, N.J. – Susan Klarreich, Ph.D., and Roger Opstbaum, Ph.D., have become the 44th and 45th Bergen Community College faculty members to earn the rank of “professor emeritus” – an honor awarded to retired faculty…
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Noémie Broussoux-Coutard and Theranda Jashari. TRENTON, N.J. – Bergen Community College students Noémie Broussoux-Coutard and Theranda Jashari have earned spots on the all-state academic team. Sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society of two-year colleges, the Coca-Cola Foundation and the New…
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