Winners were pictured above:†Morgan Capps, Kelli Knepp, Zachary Davis, Miranda Mendoza, Tyler Reynolds, and Shelby Blevins
For those interested in what Northeast Texas was or could be, the Whatley Foyer of the campus of Northeast Texas Community College was again the place to be as local poets and commentators took the challenge to define the region.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce was a unique and rewarding research training opportunity for community college students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).††Seventeen students from community colleges in Northeastern Texas and Southwestern Arkansas were selected for the 2014 joint program in chemistry, physics and astronomy.††Each participant worked directly under a faculty mentor on a collaborative research project that matched the sp
For those interested in what ?Northeast Texas? was or could be, the Whatley Foyer of the campus of Northeast Texas Community College was again the place to be as local poets and commentators took the challenge to define the region.
For the seventh year in a row, Cypress Bank has funded a high-end laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students. This year?s recipient, Gabriela Quezada, was an art student at the University of Maryland. She is a native of El Salvador.† Cypress, the oldest Camp-County based bank, has three other branches, in Mount Pleasant, Commerce and Lone Star.
How can one best answer that enduring question: where are you from? How is Northeast Texas unique?† Does where we live even matter?
These and other questions will be at stake at the Seventh Annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, Sept. 5 at 11 a.m. in†the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at Northeast Texas Community College.†The public is welcome to attend this free event.
The Reading will feature readings from the six winners of the 2014 Northeast Texas Poetry competition.
The Northeast Texas Webb Chapter, part of the collegiate student auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association, earned special gold-red-black cords for graduation this spring.† They were the only chapter in the state that won both a Caldwell Group Award, and a Chapter Award in the last two years.
Shown from left to right are:†Matthew Jordan†(the mainstay behind the NTCC Honors/Webb Caddo Project), †Stephen Milburn†(a Texas Senator, Tom Connally in the Honors/Webb-produced Morris Sheppard Film),†Lauren Fennimore†(Pauline Patman in the Wright Patman film),†
John Updike once noted that anyone seriously interested in doing something better or right will be creative.† On the morning of May 2, while some students were studying for finals, 20 students†gathered†to compete in the Seventh Annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest.†The event was held at the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts.
Their object was to convey to well-educated adult judges from our community something that the latter did not already know.† Each of the twenty students had an idea they had developed.
At a time when Northeast Texas Community College sophomore Presidential Scholars have been winning unprecedented prizes, Kayleah Cumpian of the freshman class has registered an unmatched series of wins as well.
Cumpian has recently applied for and won a scholarship to attend a workshop at Duke University entitled ?Applications of Mathematics to Physiology and Medicine.?† Cumpian will be one of a select group of scholars from around the country to win this opportunity, supported by the National Science Foundation, this May 21-28.
Cumpian?s competitive resume made her a fina
The Northeast Texas Community College Webb Society, a student chapter of the Texas State Historical Association, won its first Chapter of the Year Award on March 8 in San Antonio.
