Nick Kolbasook's summer job has brought him back to a place he's very familiar with, but he's wielding tools instead of textbooks. He's an Onondaga Community College student who is also leading a demolition team for E. Smith Contractors, LLC, which is gutting the first floor of Ferrante Hall on…
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul came to the Onondaga Community College campus January 29 to rally support for her proposal for free community college. New Yorkers between the ages of 25 and 55 who pursue an associate degree in high-demand fields would be eligible. She was followed at the…
Nidaa Aljabbarin has been selected to receive the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s prestigious Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The highly competitive national scholarship will provide Aljabbarin with up to $40,000 a year to complete her bachelor’s degree, and up to $75,000 of funding…
The Syracuse Press Club presents a prestigious scholarship to one student each year. Usually the recipient is enrolled at a four-year school.
Last Saturday night at the Syracuse Press Club's annual awards banquet, the …
If you don't live in the world of research, you may not understand the magnitude of this story. Onondaga Community College student Elliott O'Connell will soon have the results of his summer research published in a peer-reviewed journal. Articles which appear in peer-reviewed journals first go…
RJ Tinsley is one month into his summer-long paid internship at Micron, and the experience is even better than he could have imagined. "I've loved every second here so far. Not only has Micron been great to me, the city, geography, climate, and population of young professionals here have been…
When Dr. Reginald T. Braggs visited Onondaga Community College students interning at Micron this summer, he was impressed with what he learned. "What I found is that not only are our students flourishing, their supervisors are thrilled with the level of competency our students have on the job…
Onondaga Community College representatives spent the first Saturday in May getting young students excited about hands-on learning at Maker Faire Syracuse!
More than a dozen students, faculty, and staff from OCC's School of Technology,…
Cameron and Colin Pare were preparing for the spring semester at Onondaga Community College when the infamous events of January 6 happened. As the United States Capitol was being stormed the Pare's knew their lives were about to change. "I was watching the news and I was about 80% sure…
Luke Bunner was more than 4,000 miles away from the World Trade Center in New York City when the towers were attacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001. Like so many, he has vivid memories of the day. Bunner was a member of the United States Army stationed in Anchorage…
Onondaga Community College will begin a nationwide search for its next President. Dr. Casey Crabill will retire following the 2021-2022 academic year after nine years on campus. She confirmed her decision to retire during today's Board of Trustees meeting. Also today, the Board voted to hire the…
Onondaga Community College's SRC Arena was briefly transformed into a Federal Courtroom November 9 when it hosted a Naturalization ceremony. Nearly 100 candidates for citizenship were sworn-in as American citizens by U.S. District Court Judge David E. Peebles.
The new citizens immigrated…