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Germanna Community College Forty employers will be available to talk to jobseekers from 10 am to 2 pm Monday at Germanna's Daniel Center. The Daniel Center is located near the intersection of US 29 and Route 3 east of the town of Culpeper, about 30 miles west of Fredericksburg. A similar event in Chesterfield County recently attracted a crowd of 3,200, according to The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Source: www.bostonherald.com
Retailers are joining the Facebook and Twitter bandwagons for this year’s Black Friday. Companies from Staples to Toys “R” Us are using the social networking sites to give loyal customers the first looks at sales and other deals for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving...
Germanna Community College A three-credit class will cost $22 more in the Spring.
GCC prez says state community college board tuition hike decision regrettable, but necessary | Culpe
Source: www2.starexponent.com
Continuing cuts in state funding made tuition increase only way to avoid cutting programs
Germanna Community College So we Americans are FAT? When a YouTube poster said Kataryna Volkskova, a Ukrainian GCC student who learned English via the college's English as a Second Language program, speaks so well she must really be American, a foreign poster replied that she couldn't possibly be American because she's "slender." I resemble that remark.
Source: www.youtube.com
When Kateryna Volkovska came to America two years ago, she spoke little English. At 17, she had already been attending the Ukrainian Academy of Law, so no public high school would take her. ESL classes at Germanna have made her fluent in English, and she's now taking criminal justice classes at GCC....
Source: fredericksburg.com
Germanna plans three-level parking garage with new academic building at Spotsylvania campus
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) appeared Saturday to secure the 60 votes needed to move an $848 billion health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate, as the last two holdouts in his Democratic caucus said they will not join in a Republican filibuster.
Germanna Community College Elite athletes distinguish themselves through hard work, grit and, most importantly, raw talent. However new research, along with a study conducted by New Scientist, points to another trait of the most accomplished jocks: a handsome face.
Source: abcnews.go.com
Research indicates more attractive sportsmen are more likely to win.
Cheryl Huff Fantastic crowd of students and faculty at GCC's TEACH IN for awareness of the violence to women and children in the war in the DR of Congo. Knowledge, action and hope will make a difference and we all learned so much tonight! Thank you to all the participants - it was very special.
Tami
You can make sure that this child has a present
this holiday season. Bring a hat and gloves, toothbrush and toothpaste,
and some small toys, books or coloring supplies to the Counseling
Office on anycampus. Deadline is December 10th. Email
studentactivities@germanna.edu if you have any questions.
Tami
Students and Faculty of Germanna CC,
If any of you are interested in competing in a battle of wits and creative design, register for Germanna's 1st Annual Egg Drop!
The Engineering Department is hosting a contest in which individuals or groups of students and faculty can compete in designing an apparatus that keeps an... egg from breaking after falling 3 stories!
It's a competition of scientific design, but also of creative appeal!
Points are awarded for both a successful drop and for artistic creativity and aesthetics, so people of a variety of strengths can participate in this fun event!
Rules and Scoring guidelines are included on the Registration page:
http://www.germanna.edu/engineeringtech/
or go to the Engineering Department page for the link and other information about the Department: <http://www.germanna.edu/engineeringtech/
Register as an individual or a group of students or staff who would like to exercise their intellectual capabilities in this exciting event!
The trophy of the contest is awarded to the Department being represented by the winner--make sure it's you!
Good Luck!Read More
If any of you are interested in competing in a battle of wits and creative design, register for Germanna's 1st Annual Egg Drop!
The Engineering Department is hosting a contest in which individuals or groups of students and faculty can compete in designing an apparatus that keeps an... egg from breaking after falling 3 stories!
It's a competition of scientific design, but also of creative appeal!
Points are awarded for both a successful drop and for artistic creativity and aesthetics, so people of a variety of strengths can participate in this fun event!
Rules and Scoring guidelines are included on the Registration page:
http://www.germanna.edu/engineeringtech/
or go to the Engineering Department page for the link and other information about the Department: <http://www.germanna.edu/engineeringtech/
Register as an individual or a group of students or staff who would like to exercise their intellectual capabilities in this exciting event!
The trophy of the contest is awarded to the Department being represented by the winner--make sure it's you!
Good Luck!Read More
Source: www.germanna.edu
no size limit(other than fitting through window; device must also be able to be dropped using a trash picker-upper, which is only a few feet long)
Germanna Community College
Germanna students and faculty will lead an awareness-raising Democratic Republic of the Congo "TEACH IN" about rape being used as a weapon of war in that nation from 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 at Sealy Auditorium on the Fredericksburg Campus in Spotsylvania. .
In addition to talking about the effect the conflict ...in the Congo is having on women and girls there, GCC students will be giving presentations about the arts there- the music, dance, photography and crafts. Students will also read a short story written by a Congoese woman writer.
Donations to help victims in the Congo will be accepted.
"We want to show the country as having a wonderful history as well," said Mary McKearney, a GCC faculty member who teaches Women in Humanities.
According to a report Tuesday in the New Haven (Conn.) Register, about 200,000 rapes have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1996, including an estimated 3,500 this year alone, focusing attention on gender-based violence as a weapon of warRead More
In addition to talking about the effect the conflict ...in the Congo is having on women and girls there, GCC students will be giving presentations about the arts there- the music, dance, photography and crafts. Students will also read a short story written by a Congoese woman writer.
Donations to help victims in the Congo will be accepted.
"We want to show the country as having a wonderful history as well," said Mary McKearney, a GCC faculty member who teaches Women in Humanities.
According to a report Tuesday in the New Haven (Conn.) Register, about 200,000 rapes have been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1996, including an estimated 3,500 this year alone, focusing attention on gender-based violence as a weapon of warRead More
Source: www.youtube.com
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 24 June 2008 -- In a momentous step forward for the protection of women and girls in DRC and around the world, the UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease.
Germanna Community College Passed along by Germanna Dean of Nursing Mary Gilkey. Don't let your guard down. Take precautions against H1N1.
Source: hamptonroads.com
Three more deaths in Virginia associated with swine flu have been confirmed, including a Norfolk woman with underlying health problems. The other two deaths involved a man from the Richmond health district and a woman from the West Piedmont health district. ...
Germanna Community College One small step for cat-like computers coughing up hairballs; one giant potential future step for human-like computers sitting on the couch watching 'American Idol' and eating chips....
Source: news.discovery.com
IBM announced this week that it has a computer system that can simulate the thinking power of a cat's brain with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses.
Germanna Community College The Employment Resource Fair hosted this week by Germanna's Center for Workforce and Community Education helped jobseekers get a leg up on the competition. Now they can use what they learned at the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Job Fair at GCC's Daniel Center near the intersection of Routes 3 and Route 29 in Culpeper that will feature 40 employers and is expected to attract thousands of area people looking for work
Source: fredericksburg.com
Area employment experts give tips and cite trends during panel discussion at Germanna Community College
