Tag: Arnold
Cole’s Bistro Opens At AACC
Cole’s Bistro, a restaurant run by advanced culinary students, is creating special dinners open to the public once a month, beginning in November. The dinners are a collaborative project between Anne Arundel Community College and the Woodland Job Corps Career Development Center’s advanced culinary students. Job Corps operates only two advanced culinary programs in the [...]
Printmaking Open House At AACC
Join Anne Arundel Community College students, faculty and community members at a Wednesday, Nov. 16, Printmaking Open House featuring demonstrations of fine art print processes and displays of artworks. The free event, sponsored by the AACC Printmaking Club, runs 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in the Printmaking Studio in the Cade Center for Fine Arts [...]
Stabbing In Arnold
<–To share this with google, your facebok friends, and twitter followers, please click the icons to the left. Late last night, 17 year old male walked into the Anne Arundel County Fire Department’s Arnold station suffering from multiple stab wounds to his back. He was treated and immediately transported to the hospital with critical injuries. [...]
7 AACC Students Receive Architecture Awards
Seven students in Anne Arundel Community College’s Architecture and Interior Design program received awards in the 2011 Chesapeake Bay Chapter American Institute of Architects Student Award competition. “This year the chapter gave out more awards than any previous year, a fact that the judges said was due to the tremendous quality of the projects submitted. [...]
Unveiling The Mystique Of The American Muslim Woman
The Anne Arundel County Commission for Women will host a special event, “Unveiling the Mystique of the American Muslim Woman,” on October 22 at Anne Arundel Community College’s Pascal Center. The event, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will feature presentations by several esteemed speakers from the U.S. Naval Academy, Georgetown University, and the International [...]
The Sports Moment That Changed The World
Join former Olympian and civil rights icon John Carlos as he and renowned sportswriter/author Dave Zirin take center stage at Anne Arundel Community College to discuss “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed The World.” The men will discuss the impact of Carlos’ symbolic Black Power gesture (shared by fellow African American Olympian [...]
2 Hand Grenades Discovered In St. Margarets
County fire crews are responding to 1813 St. Margaret Road on the Broadneck Peninsula where authorities have found two explosive devices reported to be hand grenades. Developing.
AACC Architecture Students Win Four State Awards
Anne Arundel Community College architecture students won both top awards and two Citation Awards in the 2011 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Maryland Student Design Awards Competition for community colleges. The AIA has been the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals and allied partners since 1857. Its competition occurs each year in [...]
13 Area Students Named National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists
Thirteen students from five Anne Arundel County public high schools have been selected as semifinalists in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship competition. Annapolis led the way with four semifinalists among county schools this year, while Broadneck and South River high schools tied with three semifinalists. Severna Park had two students on this prestigious annual list, [...]
Annapolis Rotary Announces Scholarship Winners
The Rotary Club of Annapolis recently presented three $1,000 scholarships to, from left: Hayley Virginia White, daughter of Bruce White and Ginny White of Arnold, a graduate of Broadneck High School, who is majoring in neuroscience and theater at the University of Pittsburgh; Jacqueline Frances Hanna, daughter of Denise Hanna and Bill Hanna and stepdaughter [...]
AACC Named 2012 Military Friendly School
For a third consecutive year, Anne Arundel Community College was named a Military Friendly School. The annual list of Military Friendly Schools honors the top 20 percent of 8,000 U.S. colleges, universities and trade schools surveyed by G.I. Jobs on programs and services for America’s veterans. Schools named to the list offer additional benefits to [...]
Verizon Gives $19K Grant To AACC
The Verizon Foundation’s Jason Groves (center) presented a $19,765 grant to the Anne Arundel Community College Foundation to support AACC programming that aims to improve adult literacy. Accepting the donation on behalf of AACC are Melissa Beardmore, vice president for learning resources management (left) and Faith Harland-White, dean of the School of Continuing and Professional [...]
Cars 2 To Be Shown Under The Stars At AACC
Kids of all ages will enjoy a family-friendly night out on Friday, Sept. 16, as the Anne Arundel Community College Student Association Campus Activities Board presents “Cars 2” for its fall “Movies Under the Stars” event. The rated G, animated Disney movie starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Cade Center for Fine Arts amphitheater on [...]
AACC Earns Top Scores For Police
For the second year in a row, Anne Arundel Community College’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Police Academy degree and certificate programs received a 100 percent pass rate at a recent audit by the Maryland Police and Corrections Training Commissions (MPCTC). Tyrone Powers, Ph.D., director of the Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Institute, said part [...]
Anne Arundel Community College To Close August 30th
<–Please share this post using the icons to the left. Many are still without electricity and depend on Facebook and Twitter to get the information. Due to recovery efforts, Anne Arundel Community College will be closed on Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Please check back on Tuesday for details about any future closings as a result [...]
Recovering Addict From AACC Wins National Honor
Recent Anne Arundel Community College graduate Daniel D. Brannon of Annapolis was honored in Washington, D.C., this week as a Pearson Prize National Fellow and is one of 20 recipients of the $10,000 Pearson Prize for Higher Education. The Pearson Foundation gives these awards to recognize exemplary students at two- and four-year colleges and universities [...]
Ticket Sales For ‘Love Letters’ Underway
Ticket sales are under way for performances of the “Love Letters,” a Pulitzer Prize nominated play cast with Anne Arundel Community College administrators as a scholarship fundraiser tied to the college’s 50thAnniversary celebration. The play by A.R. Gurney will showcase a different set of actors for the Sept. 9, 10 and 11 performances in the [...]
AACC’s Peer Learning Partnership
Join a group that loves learning for the fun of it! Anne Arundel Community College’s Peer Learning Partnership (PLP) is a community of lifelong learners who meet year-round for exceptional noncredit classes, dynamic discussion groups and lively cultural and social events. Get a preview of the 12 winter 2011 PLP courses at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, [...]
AACC Brings Home More Honors
Anne Arundel Community College for a second consecutive year was named one of the top colleges in the nation to work for and also, for a second consecutive year, made the Great Colleges “Honor Roll.” The “Honor Roll” recognition by the Chronicle of Higher Education was awarded to 42 of 111 institutions designated as “2011 [...]
Local Authors To Teach Mystery Writing
Local authors Rosemary and Larry Mild are offering a course on “Writing Mystery, Suspense & Thriller Fiction” at Anne Arundel Community College, 101 College Parkway, Arnold. The course will run five sessions on Tuesdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m., beginning September 13. Registration is now open. Learn to create compelling characters and strong plots through writing [...]
Encore Chorale Announces Fall Season
Calling all former high school and college choristers, church, synagogue and community choral singers! Come experience a rehearsal with the dynamic Encore Chorale conducted by Jeanne Kelly, past conductor of the United States Naval Academy Women’s Glee Club, Georgetown University Concert Choir and Senior Singers’ Chorales of the Levine School of Music. Singers improve their [...]
Arnold Senior Center August Activities
The Arnold Senior Activity Center has announced a list of events for the month of August. Call 410-222-1922 for information. Ryan Helfenbein, a columnist for Outlook by the Bay magazine, will present “Ask the Undertaker – Considering Cremation?” at 10 a.m. Aug. 10 at the Arnold Senior Activity Center, 44 Church Road, Arnold. The rise [...]
