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Bergen Community College: Student Scholars Shine At Beacon Conference

Nearly 50 students, including 12 from Bergen, received invitations to the conference and competed in the panel competitions.

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Press release from Bergen Community College:

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Nearly 50 students, including 12 from Bergen, received invitations to the Beacon Conference and competed in the panel competitions.

Supported by faculty mentors, the conference’s interdisciplinary approach allows students from the gamut of academic disciplines – from biology to literature – to submit their research, essays and analysis for possible inclusion in the conference. Faculty evaluators advance the top three projects in each category to panel competitions at the conference.

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Winners received $100 awards. Faculty from regional community colleges served as competition judges. Bergen students placed first in five categories, the most for any college with students competing in the event. Bergen’s winners were:

  • Vincent Jericho – “The Evil Within: Moral Decay and “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Mentor – Professor Mark Altschuler.
  • Hanieh Kachooee – “The Feminization of Poverty in Iran.” Mentor – Professor Lisa Mayer, Esq.
  • Francesco Maneri – “Divided Inside: Examining the Failings of Nationalism Before & After the Unification of Italy.” Mentor – Professor Sarah Shurts, Ph.D.
  • Catherine Park – “The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma Within Families.” Mentor – Professor Laura Ochoa, Ph.D.
  • Dylan Rehm – “Funding Academic Success in Low-Income Communities.” Mentor – Professor Seamus Gibbons.

    • Bergen professors Kelly Keane, Ph.D., and Seamus Gibbons led the organization of this year’s conference as co-directors.

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    Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.

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