Queensborough Community College Archives

Street sign in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, honoring Julio Rivera: Julio Rivera corner

A Play Explores the Aftermath of a Gay Man’s Murder in Queens

June 25, 2019

A play dramatizes the murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The killing was the first hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s. Read more ›

Diversity, Decision-Making, and a Community College Class Project

May 10, 2019

| Queensborough Community College

A professor used a community college classroom to find out how diversity affects editorial decision-making. Read more ›

Research in Real Time: 3D Printing Lab

December 4, 2018

| Queensborough Community College

Need a model of an ear, pancreas or kidney? How about a model of a space station, or a theatrical mask? The Advanced Manufacturing Lab at Queensborough Community College can help. Read more ›

ARBEIT MACHT FREI, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Lesser Poland, Poland, April 2015

Not Just History: Strategies for Teaching about Genocide

November 6, 2018

| Queensborough Community College

A new book offers strategies for teaching community college students about genocide by connecting the history of mass atrocities to contemporary issues, social justice, the arts, and other interdisciplinary approaches. Read more ›

What African-American Marching Bands Teach Us About Black Culture

May 21, 2018

| Queensborough Community College

Professor Jules Allen traveled the country for five years photographing African-American marching bands, a culture that “breathes the soul and spirit of Africa within the modern world.” Read more ›