November 28, 2016
President John Nader accepted AASCU’s Excellence and Innovation Award in Regional and Economic Development last month. The award is based on two projects: the Broad Hollow Bioscience Park and the Smart Grid Corridor Project. A video about the award winners is now available online. Watch video (President Nader appears at 5:05). AASCU’s Excellence & Innovation awards,…
November 21, 2016
Have a safe, happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Classes are cancelled from November 23-26 in observance of the holiday.
November 21, 2016
Forty-eight FSC dental hygiene students and five department faculty recently visited the corporate offices of Henry Schein Inc. to perform free oral cancer education and screenings. By the end of the day, 229 Henry Schein employees had received treatment. Henry Schein – a major supplier of dental, medical and veterinary products – is a booster…
November 21, 2016
FSC students Katie Donnelly, Nikola Georgiev and Samantha Stettnisch were awarded scholarships at the 2016 Long Island Business Hall of Fame Gala presented by the Farmingdale College Foundation. Donnelly ’17, a Bioscience major, received the Estee Lauder Companies Scholarship; Georgiev ’17, a Computer and Electrical Engineering Technology dual major, received the Barnes & Noble STEM…
November 14, 2016
Did you attend last week’s Celebration of Scholarship event? If not you missed an impressive display of more than 50 scholarly accomplishments from the past year, spanning the Arts and Sciences, Engineering Technology, Business and Health Sciences. For those who made the event, it was an opportunity to discover what’s happening outside their disciplines and…
November 14, 2016
Beth Giacummo, one of Long Island’s leading artists, arts activists, curators and educators has joined Farmingdale State College as director of Memorial Gallery. Giacummo has been a booster of the arts on Long Island for many years, and also holds the position of Curatorial & Exhibition Director/Sr. Curator at the Islip Art Museum. Her background…
November 14, 2016
Long Island sculptor John Cino is exhibiting at Memorial Gallery in Hale Hall beginning Tuesday, November 22 and running through February 13, 2017. The show – “The Sacred or the Profane” – is open for viewing weekdays, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Cino will discuss his work Tuesday, November 29, in Gleeson Hall Room 104,…
November 7, 2016
When the White House calls, people listen! Such was the case this past September, when Dr. Beverly Kahn received word that the White House was soliciting First in the World Grant recipients (of which FSC is one) to produce a video for a White House event. At that point, Dr. Erica J. Friedman, assistant project…
November 7, 2016
FSC’s Protect New York (PNY) is partnering with SUNY’s new College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity (CEHC) to elevate the level of public safety in New York. PNY is a think tank hosted by FSC that focuses on safeguarding people from terrorism and disaster through research, data and best practices, with the goal…
