Katherine Wallace-Fernandez

Reporter Alumna Lands Job in Gainesville

August 23, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Journalism, Student Journalist, Alumna

Gabrielle Arzola, who served as briefing editor for The Reporter, has landed a job as a multimedia journalist for CBS in Gainesville. Arzola, 21, started the position on July 5. Her duties include writing, producing, shooting and reporting. “I really want to learn,” Arzola said. “I really want to… Read the rest at our website.

Mother and son graduating together at commencement.

News

Thousands Attend Commencement Ceremonies

June 9, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez commencement, Graduation

Andy Oquendo’s educational pursuit took an abrupt detour in November of 2010 after a tragic car accident killed his 13-year-old brother and left him in a coma for two months. More than six years later, Oquendo, who is still impaired by the accident, showed his strength by being one… Read the rest at our website.

Photo of student Tamara Gomez. Jack Kent Cooke

News Padrón Campus Wolfson Campus

MDC Students Win Prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarships

June 9, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship

Miami Dade College students Reynier Montalvan and Tamara Gomez-Ortigoza were awarded the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarships. The scholarship covers up to $40,000 per year. Costs include tuition, books and living expenses through the completion of the students bachelor’s degree. Winners are selected based on exceptional academic achievements… Read the rest at our website.

SAS student Mark Merwitzer posing for the camera.

News Wolfson Campus

SAS Student Aims To Make Driving Safer

April 13, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez 0 Comments Student Spotlight, School for Advanced Studies

Seventeen-year-old Mark Merwitzer frequently wears a suit to meet with lobbyists to fight a social ill that is second nature to many teens — texting while driving. Merwitzer, a junior at the School for Advanced Studies at Wolfson Campus, is advocating to pass Senate Bill 144, which would make… Read the rest at our website.

Kendall Campus News

Janet Reno’s Home Expected To Be Donated To Miami Dade College

April 13, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Environmental Center, Janet Reno

Plans to preserve former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno’s ranch as an extension of the Environmental Center at Kendall Campus are ongoing. “We’re in the process of finalizing the deal,” said Alan Greer, the attorney representing the family in the transfer of the property. The residence sits in between… Read the rest at our website.

News Padrón Campus

IAC Starts Labeling Its Gluten-Free Menu

March 31, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez 0 Comments Food, InterAmerican Campus, gluten-free

Off The Grill, the food service provider at InterAmerican Campus, now offers a menu that touts gluten-free options. The IAC is not the only Miami Dade College campus that offers gluten-free choices, but it is the only campus that labels them. “I can now identify what I can eat,”… Read the rest at our website.

Forum

How Femininity In Men Is Perceived

March 17, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez femininity, men

In an interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, actress Meryl Streep shared that it wasn’t until she played a tough and cold hearted boss in The Devil Wears Prada that she ever had a man tell her he empathized and related to one of her characters. Streep has played… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing Wolfson Campus

Wolfson Student Named Achieving The Dream’s Dream Scholar

March 17, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Student Spotlight

Student Government vice president at Wolfson Campus Enrique Sepulveda was named Achieving the Dream’s Dream Scholar on Feb. 21. Through Sepulveda’s nomination, Miami Dade College received the Achieving the Dream’s Leah Meyer Austin Award for the first time, in recognition for the increase in student graduation rates—from 31 to… Read the rest at our website.

Briefing

Author To Discuss Poetry Collection With Students

February 24, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Poetry, women's history month

Author Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello will visit various Miami Dade College classes to discuss her poetry collection Hour of the Ox, starting on March 13 as part of Women’s History Month Speaker Series. She will visit English, literature and creative writing classes to read poems, discuss interpretations and historical context,… Read the rest at our website.

Caroline Barjon-Ramos attempting to pet one of many cats.

Forum Kendall Campus

The Extraterrestrial Cats At Kendall Campus

February 10, 2017 Katherine Wallace-Fernandez Cats

I was giving away a piece of my sandwich to a cat when I noticed its expression and was struck with a sense of inferiority. A type of inferiority that told me I was nothing but one of the mere contraptions producing small bits of food on an outstretched… Read the rest at our website.

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