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Gateway Community College (GCC) student Lauren Manuck has been cooking since she was a little girl. Whenever her mother was making dinner, Manuck would pull over a kitchen chair, scoot next to her mom and help. Those early lessons paid off December 10. Manuck's entry, a delicious Sun Dried Tomato Crostini, won her the $200 first prize in the GCC Dietetic Technology Program’s...

The International Club hosted December 4 an International Discussion with Signora Anna Gambacorta Sincavage from Skappo and Skappo Merkato, an Italian wine bar and gourmet food market in New Haven. Signora Anna discussed Italian culture, tradition and her personal experiences on being Italian and an immigrant to the U.S. She shared stories about the Italian language, music, ...

A program at Gateway Community College (GCC) designed to support students with high functioning autism is now in its second year, following a very successful pilot program. GCC’s Step Forward Program, a transition program for young adults with mild cognitive disabilities, now includes a High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder Program, one of few such programs in the state...

Through the Birch Group and the College of Technology, Connecticut college students in technology and engineering programs can apply to participate in an annual program to work with other students from community colleges and 4-year colleges on life support and sustainable living (LSSL) projects. This program has been available to Connecticut college students for several year...

Sixty-one academically outstanding students were inducted November 30 into Gateway Community College’s (GCC) Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society in a ceremony at the Church Street campus. The mission of the Phi Theta Kappa is to recognize and encourage the academic success of students attending two-year colleges. Members have the opportunity to participate in honors and leadershi...

Chris Warner makes pancakes for his grandfather each Saturday morning. Sometimes, as he races to his Entrepreneurship class at Gateway Community College (GCC), having skipped breakfast, he wishes he’d had those pancakes. The hunger pangs led to an idea for a business - Pancake Power – a food cart that sells pancakes and coffee to the 25,000 students, doctors and business pro...

ationally, less than four percent of young people who grow up in foster care graduate from college; in Connecticut, just eight percent do. More than 70 social workers, counselors, grant providers, and Gateway Community College (GCC) faculty and staff gathered October 15 for the Foster Youth Initiative’s Convening of Partners. Their goal: to collaborate on finding new ways to...

Gateway Community College’s Library and Learning Commons hosted the first of what it hopes will be many traveling exhibits and educational exchanges with academic and cultural institutions in New Haven and the region. “Solving the Puzzle: Lyme Disease, West Nile Virus & You” is part of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s education program on emerging infectious ...

Congratulations to GCC Humanities Professor Franz Douskey on his newly published book  Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years,  with Tony Consiglio, now available in hard copy and audio. You can hear Franz describe how he got Tony "the Clam" to open up about Sinatra, in this exclusive  interview . Professor Douskey’s work has been published in more than 150 journals, including...

More than 100 people turned out November 27 at Gateway Community College (GCC) to hear Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman speak on a wide range of issues. Wyman addressed Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s administration’s plans to trim the state budget deficit, create new jobs and close the educational achievement gap. Wyman also had warm praise for the role GCC plays in Connecticut...

This holiday season, helping those in need has never been easier—or tasted so good. Gateway Community College is partnering with Town Green Special Services District to sponsor a Cookie Crawl at Shine On9. Tickets cost $15. The crawl will take place Friday, December 7 from 6-8PM. It will begin at The Grove, 71 Orange Street. Gateway’s Culinary Department will bake 13 differ...

The GCC community is celebrating the five-year accreditation of the Early Learning Center (ELC). In seven out of 10 accreditation standards, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) gave the ELC a score of 100 plus, the highest possible rating. On the other three standards, the center scored in the 90s, a remarkable review from a national accredit...

Seven people who have made exceptional contributions to Gateway Community College (GCC) and the New Haven region will be inducted into the GCC Hall of Fame Saturday, November 17, at 5:30 p.m. at GCC, 20 Church Street, New Haven. “The Gateway Gala: A Bridge to Excellence” will feature a reception, silent auction and dinner and will honor Matthew Nemerson, president and CEO of...

Megan Eaton says that she has always been extremely shy. Just walking in the door at the Grove Friday night at the kickoff of Startup Weekend New Haven was a huge step. She wasn’t certain if she could summon up the nerve to pitch an idea or become part of a team or if she would just watch. Mike Roer, her Entrepreneurship instructor at Gateway Community College (GCC), had qui...

Gateway Community College (GCC) moved swiftly to rally around the victims of Hurricane Sandy, helping on three fronts. On November 5, GCC President Dr. Dorsey L. Kendrick announced that GCC had joined forces with the American Red Cross and the Connecticut Food Bank to collect food and funds. She also noted that proceeds from the Nutmeg Symphonic Pops Orchestra’s Fall Concert...

Gateway Community College (GCC) in partnership with the state Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership has developed the first Patient Navigator Program in the state, in collaboration with Project Access-New Haven, Columbus House and the Partnership for Strong Communities. Patient Navigators are professionals who work in hospitals, doctors’ offices...

They arrive with an idea, a creative spark and the willingness to roll up their sleeves and work as a team for 54 hours until they turn that idea into a working business model. They are a new generation of entrepreneurs competing in StartupWeekend New Haven, a global grassroots movement of active entrepreneurs learning how to create tech-based startups and launch successful ...

Gateway Community College’s (GCC) Nuclear Medicine Technology program has been awarded Continued Accreditation for the next seven years by the Joint Review Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology. GCC officials said they were thrilled that the program received the seven-year accreditation as it represents the maximum award given.  “I am very proud o...

They are the drivers of tomorrow and 200 of them, high school students from around the state, had the chance to check out hybrid and fully electric cars, take part in lectures on how those cars work and learn about how alternative fuel use can lead to a reduction in oil consumption in the country. It is all part of the biennial National Alternative Fuel Vehicles (ATV) Odysse...

Sixty five years ago, World War II veterans came back from war and many needed work.  Two women, Frances Roth, a New Haven attorney and Katharine Angell, the wife of Yale’s then-president, worked together to create a culinary arts school to see to it the men had a trade. The school – the first of its kind in the country - opened on Prospect Street.  Within four years 600 vet...