The Student Government Association’s vice president of campus activities resigned from the position on Nov. 20. Vanessa Cardozo, a third-year nursing student, said she is dropping all of her classes as well. Cardozo, who served on SGA’s Executive Board, said her decision...
Three students from AACC’s creative writing classes read their award-winning poems and short stories at an event on Tuesday. Liza Linder, who won the AACC League for Innovations award, read “The Movement of Sheets,” Marissa Falcone, who won the Benjamin Staisloff Environmental...
The Riverhawks volleyball team completed its 2023 season with a 10-12 record after losing a play-in game for the playoffs. Head coach Tanecha Rice said it was a good season despite the outcome. “I feel like the season did go well and I thought it would in a sense,” Rice said....
AACC’s soccer teams have finished their 2023 seasons. Women’s soccer ended with an 8-5-3 record, losing to Community College of Baltimore County Essex by one goal in overtime during the NJCAA Region 20 Division II championship game. Men’s soccer finished the regular season...
AACC’s Facilities Department closed Siegert Stadium and the track around it on Nov. 14 to replace the floodlights. The field will reopen temporarily on Nov. 22 and 23 for the AACC Turkey Trot and for good by the end of the semester. AACC will replace the light bulbs with LEDs...
The Super Science Club saw airplanes, rockets and hot air balloons during a field trip on Saturday. Nine AACC students, faculty and community members toured the Dulles National Air and Space Museum, and then ate at a nearby Shake Shack. “It was beautiful,” Effie Gentry,...
Students drank tea and wrote affirming notes to themselves and family members during a wellness event on campus Tuesday. Lauren Wilson, the student orientation assistant for the Office of Student Engagement, organized the event to allow students to destress and affirm themselves. “I...
A legal psychologist said at a Monday event on campus that many people will confess to crimes they didn’t commit if they are pressured by police. Towson University psychology professor and researcher Jeff Kukucka told students in the Health and Life Sciences Building lecture...
AACC’s part-time faculty voted to unionize on Oct. 30, supported by the SEIU Local 500 organization. After Maryland’s Public Employee Relations Board approves the union, the adjuncts will begin negotiating with AACC administrators. “It's something that has been a long...
The Ceramics and Culinary Departments teamed up for a charity fundraiser on Thursday to raise money for AACC’s HelpLink, which offers emergency financial aid to students. Students, staff and faculty donated $10 each for a serving of soup or chili prepared by culinary students...
An AACC survey of 586 Anne Arundel County residents in October showed crime as the top local concern. The survey, conducted by AACC’s Center for the Study of Local Issues, said county residents, including AACC students, think crime is a “key problem facing the county.” Political...
A group of students visited the National Zoo in Washington on Nov. 4 to say goodbye to the giant pandas before they returned to China on Wednesday. Six students, mostly members of AACC’s Super Science Club, had the chance to observe two adult pandas, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian,...
AACC student business owners participated in a trade show hosted by the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute on Tuesday. HawkTrade, which is hosted every semester, started as a student service learning project in Stephanie Goldenberg’s marketing class. Goldenberg, the academic...
