As the oldest sibling and cousin in her family, Kenia Sanchez, ’25, began accompanying her Spanish-speaking parents and relatives to doctors’ offices and other appointments when she was a child to serve as a translator. Even at a young age, Sanchez took note that almost all the doctors her family visited were white and male, and […]
When Rena Varghese, Esq., reflects on Women’s History Month in relation to her own personal and professional journey, her mother immediately comes to mind. Her mother, Mary, who grew up in India, heard about the opportunity when she was a teenager for Indian nurses to work in the United States. At 16 she left her […]
For nearly the first two decades of Tunisia Solomon’s ’18, life, flying was not on her radar. The Applied Mathematics major and Economics minor, who graduated summa cum laude from Farmingdale State College as the valedictorian of the Winter 2018 class, balanced a near-overflowing plateful of activities, including running a math tutoring business and playing the […]
Art has been a part of Carol Sung’s ’23, life since she was young, starting with crayons and markers at 4 and steadily evolving through colored pencils and other mediums to the digital tools she now uses. Sung entered Farmingdale State College intending to study Graphic Design as her father did; however, he urged her to […]
Before the global pandemic changed the world dramatically, nearly 100 Farmingdale students annually participated in the Study Abroad program. The program is now up and running again, and looking for interested students. Students who enroll in the 2023 Study Abroad course will travel to Florence, Italy this summer. They will savor the history, art, thought, […]
James Gunn has announced a portion of content to come for the DC Cinematic Universe DC Comics is a fixture of American, global pop-culture and it is here to stay. James Gunn and Peter Safran, tasked with leading the newly formed DC Studios, revealed plans for their new DC Cinematic Universe (DCU) with Gunn taking […]
Students prepare “Job Documents Portfolios” and conduct “Mock Interviews” in Professor Jeaniffere Vila’s EGL310 Technical Writing course. Many students report back to Professor Vila that their success securing jobs in the “real world” is due, in part, to the lessons learned and skills acquired from this project.
Seasonal Depression (Seasonal Affective Disorder) Seasonal Depression, also called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), is a type of depression. It’s triggered by the change of seasons and most commonly begins in late Fall. Symptoms include feelings of sadness, lack of energy, loss of interest in usual activities, oversleeping and weight gain. Treatments include light therapy, talk […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic has raged on for the better part of two years, changing the way we think and act as a society as we grapple with the crisis. An air of caution now hangs around us as the world heals, with public health mandates continuing to loosen after waves and waves of the virus. […]
Esther Joy Sherry has created a survey based on her research on the relationship between Environmental Stability and Social Media. Esther is an Interaction Design, IXD, student at Farmingdale State College and having this survey completed will help her answer her senior project question, “How can we use Web 3 to create social systems to […]
