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Mohammad Afsar has turned challenging situations into valuable life lessons. Those experiences have brought him to Onondaga Community College where he has become a valuable member of the campus community.

When Afsar was growing up in Bangladesh, he was injured in a serious bicycle accident and was taken to a clinic. "It was during a time in the day when there was no electricity there and the clinical doctor was at prayer. I was sitting there with a t-shirt wrapped around my open wound, waiting for care."

Spring Registration is officially open! When it comes to registration, procrastination really doesn’t pay off. Keep yourself on track by registering sooner rather than later. We know that the process can be daunting, so we’ve put together a few tips. 

Each Friday during the month of November we are recognizing one of our outstanding Student Veterans who served our country as a member of the United States Military, and is now pursuing a degree at Onondaga Community College. Today we introduce you to Rebekah Wade.

The latest eye-catching Gallery exhibit, titled "Moth to Flame," features the work of Daniel Buckingham and Fred Tschida. Buckingham is a Professor of Sculpture at Pratt Munson-Williams-Proctor College of Art and Design in Utica. Tschida is a neon artist and Professor of Glass who taught at Alfred University until he retired in 2015.

Students in two of Onondaga Community College's Opportunity Programs showed off the product of their summer research during a Science Symposium at Storer Auditorium. "I felt like a scientist's assistant telling people about my part in the overall experiment. When people came up to me asking questions I was very excited," said student Jamiya Chandler.

The students in Syracuse's Dr. Weeks Elementary School had huge smiles on their faces Monday, and Onondaga Community College's chapter of international honor society Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) can take credit for it. A circus performer from CirqOvation delighted students in grades Pre-K through 5 with his entertaining act in front of the entire school, and then kept the fun going throughout the day with workshops with individual grades. "We started working on this over the summer," said OCC PTK student Nick Chai.

Going through high school during Covid drained Kimberly Seipio. So when she graduated from Henninger in 2021, she decided she needed a year off. "If I would have gone right to college I wouldn't have been in my best mental state. I would have been wasting my time and money because I didn't know what I wanted to go to school for."

The President of the United States came to the Onondaga Community College campus October 27, 2022.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Inside a packed Allyn Hall Gymnasium, President Joe Biden spoke about Micron's decision to invest $100 billion dollars in the region by building a microchip-making plant in Onondaga County. He called it, "One of the most significant investments in American history. And it's going to ensure that the future is made in America."

Onondaga Community College's chapter of international honor society Phi Theta Kappa welcomed nearly 100 new members during an induction ceremony held October 25 in Storer Auditorium. Students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.5, and have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours at OCC.

Fall 2022 inductees include: