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Three years ago at this time Devlin Babcock visited Onondaga Community College's Transfer Fair. He was a Student Veteran working toward his Engineering Science degree. He stopped at the Cornell University table and learned about their College of Engineering. Babcock liked what he heard and transferred there after completing his associate degree in May 2020.

On October 5 Babcock came full circle when he returned to OCC's Transfer Fair as a representative of Cornell University. "It was cool coming back here. I visited the Veterans office. It was nostalgic walking around campus."

The P-TECH program has given Curtis Taylor the opportunity to turn two of his strengths into a career path in a short period of time. "I always loved taking things apart, like motors. And I like math. P-TECH and Mechanical Technology put those things together for me."

Each year Onondaga Community College recognizes distinguished graduates who have made a difference in their community and professional life, naming them  "Alumni Faces" honorees. On the night of Thursday, October 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Frederick Marvin and Ernst Schuh Recital Hall in the Academic II building, we will pay tribute to the Alumni Faces Class of 2022. In the weeks leading up to the event we are proudly profiling our honorees on our website and social media.

Frances Perez-Nunn has an amazing drive to better herself through higher education. She's a student at Onondaga Community College who commutes three days a week from Albany. That's 150 miles each way! Why does she make the 2-and-a-half hour drive twice a day? "There are plenty of other community colleges between here and there, but none offer an ASL (American Sign Language) program like OCC does."

Eli Hunt has a genuine appreciation for his surroundings and the history behind them. That's what motivated him to put his time and effort into an Honors Project focused on the ecological and geological history of the Onondaga Community College campus.

The finished product is a large, glossy poster which was hung recently at the Furnace Brook Center by Hunt along with Professor Justin Fiene. "I'm really proud of how this came out but I'm not surprised," said Professor Fiene. "I knew we would get something good from Eli."