TMCC College News and Events RSS FeedRecent news and events at TMCC. Truckee Meadows Community College offers more than 50 degree and certificate programs, convenience, flexible schedules and affordability in the Reno/Sparks area.TMCC Entrepreneurship Club Students to Lunch at the Governor's Mansion- September 23, 2008 Students at TMCC who are members of the entrepreneurship club will be using the Governor’s Mansion on Wednesday Sept. 24 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. for a lesson business lunch meetings. Students will focus on the proper etiquette to use during network lunches. The students will be assisted by members of the TMCC Business Studies advisory board. Jeannine Higgins, owner of Voila Catering, generously donated lunch. Nevada First Lady Dawn Gibbons invited the group to use the mansion. For more...http://www.tmcc.edu/news/readarticle.asp?articleid=990 TMCC 2nd Annual Poetry Reading- September 23, 2008 Listen to, or join in, as members of the TMCC and RenoSparks community take center stage on Wed., Oct. 29, from 2 – 5 p.m. on the Dandini Campus in the V. James Eardley Student Services center, to give vocal life to original and favorite poems. Join with words of your own or words that you treasure. For more information please contact Neil Siegel at 775-674-7608 or send him an e-mail nsiegeltmcc.eduhttp://www.tmcc.edu/news/readarticle.asp?articleid=992 Nevada Historian Discusses the State's Environmental Impact- September 23, 2008 Jim Hulse, a retired professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno will discuss Nevada’s history and what he calls its environmental problems. On Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. on the Dandini Campus in SIER 108 Hulse will summarize the environmental changes that have been made by the cattle, mining and railroad industries of the 19th century and their impact on the 20th century. His lecture will also analyze Nevada's water problems, the increasing hazard of wildfires, the expansion.http://www.tmcc.edu/news/readarticle.asp?articleid=991 TMCC Receives $100,000 for Solar Technology Lab- September 5, 2008 Truckee Meadows Community College announced plans for a new renewable energy program at the TMCC IGT Applied Technology Center at 475 Edison Way. “We are answering the need this community and businesses have for skilled workers by providing opportunities for technical education, careeroccupational education and adultcontinuing education,” said Dr. Maria C. Sheehan, TMCC president. “This new program will have the capacity to adapt to rapidly changing technologies and.http://www.tmcc.edu/news/readarticle.asp?articleid=987 TMCC Observes Nevada Day Holiday- September 5, 2008 Truckee Meadows Community College will close all sites and campus for the Nevada Day Holiday on Fri., Oct. 31. Closed sites include TMCC Dandini Campus; TMCC High Tech Center at Redfield; TMCC Applied Technology Center; TMCC Meadowood Center; and TMCCNell J. Redfield Foundation Performing Arts Center.http://www.tmcc.edu/news/readarticle.asp?articleid=986 |