January 25, 2017
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Mentor Program for Women, Minorities
Thanks to two federal grants,
Portland Community College is
doing its part to address the is-
sue of increasing access to the
sciences for underrepresented
students.
This fall, the college won near-
ly $2 million in grants from the
National Science Foundation’s
Scholarships Science, Technolo-
gy, Engineering & Mathematics
(S-STEM) program.
The money will help PCC
grow educational opportunities
for low-income women and mi-
nority students. PCC was award-
ed $879,337 for its Mentoring in
Manufacturing Technology Pro-
gram and earned an additional Dorina Cornea-Hasegan
$997,253 for the Realizing En-
gineering Technology Achieve-
ment Project. Both five-year
grants are focused on retention
and success for these students,
and help them pursue high-tech
degrees and employment.
“When it was announced, I
was thrilled for our students,”
said Dorina Cornea-Hasegan,
who will run the mentoring pro-
gram and serve as the coordinator
of the new Rock Creek Campus
Science, Technology, Engineer-
ing, the Arts and Mathematics
(STEAM) Lab. “Not many of
these proposals get funded across
the nation, so PCC really won the
lottery twice in 2016.”
Constructing Identity
through art, the collection seeks
to visually represent themes that
speak not only to the African
American community, but also to
the broader American community.
Constructing Identity will be
showing at the Portland Art Muse-
um, 1219 S.W. Park Ave., opening
Jan. 28 and continuing through
June 18. The show is accompa-
nied by a catalog, an all-day sym-
posium in February and additional
programs and community partner-
ships. Check the Portland Muse-
um’s website for upcoming events
at portlandartmuseum.org
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Bailey and Mickalene Thomas.
A highlight of the exhibit will
be work by artist and teacher Kara
Walker, a MacArthur Founda-
tion art genius, whose paper cut
silhouettes have been sparking
thought-provoking discussions in
galleries around the country since
she first showed them 23 years
ago.
Constructing Identity confronts
the legacy of slavery while it cel-
ebrates the beauty, compassion,
strength and persistent culture of
African Americans. The works
are part of the Petrucci Family
Foundation, a collection of art to
bring focus to the full range of
African American art and its es-
sential place in the history and
discourse of American art.
As part of a growing and more
thoughtful dialogue about the
African American experience
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