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The movie The Burnt Orange Heresy will be showing at MIami Film Festival.

Stage Set For 37th Annual Miami Film Festival

February 21, 2020 Roxy Garcia Film, Cinema, Movies, Miami Film Festival, MFF

Movie buffs will be abuzz at the 37th annual Miami Film Festival from March 6-15. The international festival, hosted by Miami Dade College, presents critically acclaimed films at several movie houses across Miami, including the Olympia Theater, Coral Gables Art Cinema, Tower Theatre and Silverspot Cinema. Films range from… Read the rest at our website.

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Miami Fashion Institute Graduate To Debut Clothing Line

February 21, 2020 Alexa Hernández Fashion, Miami Fashion Institute, MFI, clothing line, fashion week

Beatrice Rose Glover sewed her first pillow when she was 13 after her aunt taught her the basics. She spent the next three years designing shirts and dresses, stitching together clothes she repurposed from the closets of her eight siblings. After finding clothing scraps littered across the house, Glover’s… Read the rest at our website.

Lady Sharks basketball team posing for the camera.

News Sports Kendall Campus Men's Basketball Women's Basketball

Basketball Teams Face Different Late-Season Realities

February 21, 2020 Jose Tovar Basketball, Women's Basketball, Men's Basketball, season

Expectations were high at the beginning of the season for the Miami Dade College men’s and women’s basketball teams. Both squads featured revamped rosters with players coming from a myriad of countries and cultures such as Latvia, Japan and Jamaica. There were only two returning players: point guard Daliyah… Read the rest at our website.

Kendall Campus Baseball News Sports

Transfer Making Waves For Sharks

February 21, 2020 Jose Tovar Baseball, Student Profile, athlete

From a small town in Georgia to the bright lights and sunshine in South Florida, outfielder Ian Jenkins has always found a place to hit home runs. The transfer, from the University of South Carolina, is one of the Miami Dade College baseball team’s top additions. Through twelve games,… Read the rest at our website.

Students Franchesca Carr, Lydia Hussain and Samarah Martin sitting in front of the Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum.

News A&E Homestead Campus

MDC Students Help Homestead Museum Preserve Local History

February 21, 2020 Adriana Dos Santos Homestead Campus, History, Homestead Museum

Lydia Hussain goes through phone records and newspapers from the 1900s at the Homestead City Hall Museum. She, along with other students from Miami Dade College, then inputs the data into an online database. The 17-year-old journalism student at Homestead Campus volunteers at the museum at least two times… Read the rest at our website.

Kendall Campus Softball News Sports

Freshman Emerges As A Leader For Lady Sharks

February 21, 2020 Daniel Tamariz athlete, Student Spotlight, Softball, Student Profile

To Nicole Gonzalez, softball is more than a game—it is a blueprint on how to live her life. “To me, softball is more than just a sport,” Gonzalez said. “It taught me how to be responsible, and how to work with other people.” Gonzalez first picked up the bat… Read the rest at our website.

Paige McPherson training for the 2020 summer Olympics.

Kendall Campus News

Kendall Campus Alumna Fighting For Gold At 2020 Summer Olympics In Tokyo

February 7, 2020 Adriana Dos Santos Alumni Spotlight, Olympics, Summer, martial arts

As a three-time Olympian with two silver medals in taekwondo, Juan Moreno knows a bit about the sport. So when he began training Paige McPherson for the 2012 Summer Olympics, he knew he had a champion in the making. He was right. The 29-year-old, who won a bronze medal… Read the rest at our website.

News Kendall Campus

Lawsuit Alleges Professor Told Disabled Student His Brain Was Broken

February 7, 2020 Heidi Perez Kendall Campus, Disability, lawsuit

A disabled student is suing Miami Dade College in federal court, claiming a professor refused to give him additional time on exams and said that his brain was broken, according to a lawsuit filed in November. Court documents claim Kendall Campus professor Chin Yu Kuo told Adrian Dominguez, who… Read the rest at our website.

Photo of Kency Herrera, one of many undocumented students.

News

Senate Bill Would Grant Financial Aid To Undocumented Students

February 7, 2020 Alexa Hernández Florida, DACA, senate, bill, undocumented

Finding universities that accomodate undocumented students has felt like looking for a needle in a haystack for Kency Herrera. The 19-year-old nursing student at The Honors College at Wolfson Campus has stayed afloat this year through the program’s full-ride scholarship, but has seen first-hand how few transfer schools provide… Read the rest at our website.

Pictured left-to-right are Gregory Sobel, Gina Duran and Stephen Nesvacil.

North Campus Kendall Campus News

North Campus Planting Seeds For Composting Project

February 7, 2020 Roxy Garcia waste, Kendall Campus, North Campus, Environment, compost

Shannon Harry pays a visit to Kendall Campus’ cafeteria at 1 p.m. every Wednesday. She takes egg shells, banana peels, coffee grinds and fruit pits left behind from the lunch preparation to lather onto a thick layer of brown leaves and dirt. Crafting the compost pile at Kendall Campus’… Read the rest at our website.

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