MCC Biotechnology Director Stan Kikkert told CBS5 that he found thousands of different types of bacteria in a sample of run-off flood water following the recent storm. Excerpt: "We see lots and lots of different colonies - different shapes and colors," said Kikkert. "That tells us right there, it gives us a hint of the diversity that's present in the standing water." Two segments…
Excerpt: Giving children the experience of meeting their favorite fairy-tale characters no longer has to be a vacation. Spoonful of Sugar Events makes it possible to have princesses right at your doorstep. Spoonful of Sugar Events was created by 21-year-old Danielle Jake, a lifelong Ahwatukee resident, and 19-year-old Ryann Franklin. The two young entrepreneurs decided to start the business this…
Storm chaser Reed Timmer will speak about his experiences at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at MCC. Mr. Timmer is one of a few to document an F5 tornado as well as Hurricane Katrina, according to a press release.
The dental hygiene program at MCC is seeking patients who have not received entail care in three or more years to participate in its clinical education program.
Case Study Excerpt: "The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AzAMI) of Mesa Community College (MCC) is helping meet the need for qualified, employable workers in the advanced manufacturing sectors, industries vital to Arizona, by building on workers’ prior experience, aligning training to industry needs and using innovative approaches to learning including Tooling U-SME…
Veteran Services at Mesa Community College is honoring U.S. troops with a moment of silence and flag-raising ceremony 8:30-9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Veterans’ Rose Garden at the college, 1833 W. Southern Ave. The garden entrance is the driveway closest to Dobson Road on Southern.
Excerpt of letter to the editor by Wayne Block, MCC SID: "My school, Mesa Community College, and, I am sure, Phoenix College and all junior colleges in Arizona have dozens of athletes who were in the top 10 percent of their high-school class, National Honor Society members and honor-roll members. In fact, one recent football player is now at Cornell, a school not likely to accept…
Excerpt from Letter to the Editor: "The benefits of college athletics, as well as high-school sports, are far too numerous to outline here and have been expressed many times over the years. My outrage at his letter has primarily to do with his closing comment "Eliminate (PC) sports and maybe those athletes mentioned will get with the program and up those grades and pull themselves up out of the…
Community college book club to discuss 'Eating Animals'
The Hechinger Report, a publication devoted to reporting about education, has published a major article on Maricopa's innovative ideas and activities.
Tony Cirelli, baseball coach at Mesa Community College, has been named National Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Division II Conference Coach of the Year by his peers in Arizona.
Eighteen student-athletes and seven teams at MCC were honored by the NJCAA as all-academic for the 2013-14 school year.
MCC held a ceremony July 9 to decommission U.S. and Arizona state flags at its Red Mountain Campus.
The Mesa Community College Rose Garden is one of 12 American Rose Society testing sites and is the only one in the desert Southwest. MCC's garden is considered unique because the Sonoran desert has two blooming cycles, unlike any other place in the U.S. The first cycle is between April and June. The second is October through December.
Former Mesa CC coach, six-time All-American to lead BenU Mesa cross country program August 4, 2014 -- Benedictine University Newsroom Lisle, Illinois ~ Benedictine University at Mesa has named former Mesa Community College coach and six-time All-American runner Paul Spencer Peterson II to head the startup of its men's and women's cross-country program…
The election for two new at-large seats on the Maricopa County Community College District board is uncertain after the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the law adding the seats is unconstitutional. The ruling, handed down Wednesday [July 23, 2014], will probably mean that the candidates for the at-large seats on the district's governing board will not appear on the November ballot.
Anthony Presnell, who coached Red Mountain High School and acted as an assistant for Mesa Community College, continues to build on already successful career.
Three MCC students graduating with Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degrees in Mortuary Science will be taking over local family businesses.
As part of the State's FY 2015 budget, the Maricopa Community Colleges received $1.4 million to bolster educational efforts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Workforce areas. This additional funding is the first State appropriation for Maricopa in areas of the STEM and Workforce since 2009. Mesa Community College will receive $400,000 for the Additive Manufacturing Program…
Two International students — Girish V and Mahesh Andani — will fly to the US on a fully-paid scholarship to do a one-year certificate programme in Business Management/Administration and Early Child Education respectively at Mesa Community College in Arizona.
Fueled by her passion for vintage cars, Nyki Robinette is learning to repair and fix new and old hot rods, with her daughter! Seeing the sparks fly, Nyki was trained in the welding program at MCC and now works at Big J Seamless, a mechanical contracting company. From welding pipes at work to welding a 41 Cadillac in her home garage, Nyki’s thirst to learn more…
The Maricopa County Community College District has been awarded $1.4 million for STEM programs. $400,000 will go to Mesa Community College for 3-D printing and manufacturing programs.
Arick Dombrowski is a 34-year-old funeral director at Johnson’s Mortuary in Yuma. Dombrowski is a native of Somerton, Arizona and attended Yuma’s Cibola High School before going on to get his mortuary degree at Mesa Community College. In this installment of Arizona Edition’s Work Stories, Arick talks about his profession and the outlook it puts on…