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2010 Jazz Fest Welcomes Renowned Trombonist
Mar 12, 2010 – Music lovers will delight at the 2010 Collin College Jazz Festival Friday-saturday, March 26-27. This year's special quest is Tom "Bones" Malone, the celebrated trombonist who has performed with the Blues Brothers and with the house band on "The Late Show with David Letterman." Collin College's Jaztet One, Texas Instruments Jazz Band, Collin's Latin Jazz Ensemble and Collin's Jazz Lab Band also will perform.....[MORE]
2010 Collin Cabaret Set For Friday, April 9
Mar 12, 2010 – As Collin College celebrates its 25th anniversary, guests at 2010 Collin Cabaret, the Foundation's Annual Scholarship Benefit Gala, will be entertained with "A Silver Tribute to Excellence in Education". This year's Collin Cabaret will be held at 6:45 p.m., Friday, April 9, at the Marriott Legacy Town Center, 7120 Dallas Parkway, in Plano....[MORE]
Workshop Irons Out Wrinkles Of College Financial Aid
Mar 11, 2010 – Financial aid is a big talking point for students and parents of college students. "How to Apply for Financial Aid" is set for 6:30-8 p.m., Thursday, March 25, at the Central Park Campus Conference Center, 2200 W. University Drive in McKinney. The event is free and open to the public. Students do not need to attend Collin College to attend the workshops....[MORE]
Speaker Series Brings In Renowned Physicist, Mathematician
Mar 10, 2010 – “Innovation” is the name of the game for the 2009-10 Distinguished Lecture Series at Collin College. The latest lecture is set for 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, at the Spring Creek Campus Conference Center with Dr. Peter Woit, senior lecturer in the mathematics department at Columbia University. A physicist and mathematician, Dr. Woit graduated in 1979 from Harvard University with bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, and then went on to get a doctorate in theoretical physics from Princeton University....[MORE]
Apply Today For Free Math Summer Bridge Program
Mar 10, 2010 –High school seniors who are not ready for their first college math class, and those wanting to boost their college math placement test scores, are invited to apply for acceptance into Collin College’s free 2010 Math Summer Bridge program from June 14-July 1. Sessions are scheduled to run from 10:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. or from 7-9 p.m., Monday-Thursday at the Spring Creek Campus in Plano....[MORE]
Professor To Tie Mathematics To Music, Art, Religion
Mar 10, 2010 – No matter how much it scares us, mathematics intersects with various parts of our lives. That’s the crux of Chip Galloway’s lecture, “Math History: Beauty and Order in Numbers and Geometry,” at 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, at the Spring Creek Campus, Room BB107. Galloway is a professor of mathematics at Collin College and his free lecture is part of the Scholarly Research and Life Speaker Series....[MORE]
Collin College Students Find Asteroid
Mar 9, 2010 – Competing with students from nine countries on four continents, three Collin College students Adrian Boysselle, David Golynskiy and Deepak Joseph discovered a main belt asteroid, located in the region between Mars and Jupiter. The students will receive NASA research awards for discovering new asteroid 2010 CK12 as part of the International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC). In addition, the Minor Planet Center, an office of the International Astronomical Union located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will publish their names with their findings....[MORE]
Autuer Series Takes Woody Allen Classic To The Movies
Mar 9, 2010 – Film and Woody Allen fans are in for a treat as the Collin College Auteur Film Series hosts a free screening of The Purple Rose of Cairo. The screening is set for 7 p.m., March 23, at the Spring Creek Campus Conference Center, 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway in Plano....[MORE]
Collin Theatre Center Presents Little Women: The Musical
Mar 2, 2010 – Little Women is a musical based on Louisa May Alcott's own family experiences (and novel), which follows the adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March as they grow up in Civil War America. This beloved story of the March sisters is timeless and deals with issues as relevant today as when they were written....[MORE]
CE Offers Solar Power Installer Training
Mar 1, 2010 – Collin College Continuing Education is offering its popular weeklong solar installer training March 22-26. Class times are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Courtyard Center for Professional and Economic Development, 4800 Preston Park Blvd. in Plano. The course will entail basic knowledge of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, modules and system components; electrical circuits; and PV system design estimation and code requirements....[MORE]
Annual Event Seeks Student Research
Mar 1, 2010 – Collin College students seeking real experience in research presentation should consider the annual Cultivating Scholars event. Cultivating Scholars: Research Across the Disciplines invites any and all Collin College students to register to present their own research as part of the event that provides a venue for undergraduates to hone their presentation skills and share their work with other students, professors and guests.....[MORE]
