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Co-sponsored by Macomb Community College and the College for Creative Studies (CCS), the Macomb, St. Clair and Lapeer Region Scholastic Art Awards will hold its 2012 Regional Honor Exhibition at the Lorenzo Cultural Center, Jan. 31- Feb. 14. More than 500 works of student art will be on exhibit Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m.

Macomb Community College has received a grant from the Metro Health Foundation for the 13th consecutive year to support nursing scholarships. The Foundation is providing a grant for $10,000 to help create eight scholarship awards.

Quote books and websites are bursting with wit and wisdom about the enduring connection between enthusiasm and success. But with burnout an occupational hazard in college teaching as in many other fields, Macomb Community College in southeastern Michigan has begun investing in innovative faculty projects to help ensure that neither is left to chance.

Focusing on “community made, community grown,” the Michigan Harvest Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Lorenzo Cultural Center. The free family-oriented celebration features local vendors of food and agricultural products, demonstrations, activities and a keynote presentation at 1 p.m. by Lisa Diggs, founder of Buy Michigan Now.

The Lorenzo Cultural Center is hosting a unique opportunity to learn about what’s wrong with the way we eat from best-selling author and New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman on Thursday, November 17, at 7 p.m.

Macomb Community College’s veterinary technician program is inviting animal lovers and pet owners from around the region to join their students and faculty for the 8th annual People, Pets and Vets event, Saturday, November 5, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., E Building, Center Campus, Clinton Township.

On Thursday, October 27, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., the Lorenzo Cultural Center will offer a tour of Michigan wines, including Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gamay Noir and Merlot, led by Andiamo sommelier Heather Dean.

On Thursday, Oct. 20 at 1 p.m., the Lorenzo Cultural Center will host an informative presentation for the community about the Macomb Food Program Pantry Network as part of its Michigan Harvest program series. In recent months, the Pantry Network System has been in high demand due to unemployment and underemployment throughout the county.

Just in time to address recent headlines regarding the increase in pollutants found in Michigan fish, the Lorenzo Cultural Center will host an in-depth presentation on how to choose, clean and cook Great Lakes fish for healthy consumption as part of its Michigan Harvest program series.

The Lorenzo Cultural Center is looking to secure additional vendors from the community for the Michigan Harvest Festival on November 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival is the concluding event to the current cultural center series, which is featuring a series of five exhibits and more than 30 presentations and activities.

Through a unique collaboration, Macomb Community College and the Macomb Community Domestic Violence Council (MCDVC) have developed a comprehensive domestic violence education and prevention program, certifying more than 30 Macomb County residents to date. The concept for the program, the Domestic Violence Peer Ambassador Project (DVPAP), was developed at the MCDVC’s 2009 Domestic Violence Prevention Summit and then implemented community-wide after Macomb College incorporated it into its Macomb Multicultural International Initiatives (MMII) program.

Through exhibits, interactive presentations and some of the state’s best agricultural offerings, families will have plenty to discover during the Michigan’s Harvest: Food, Farming and Community program series at the Lorenzo Cultural Center at Macomb Community College Sept 24 – Nov. 19.

A program at Macomb Community College to return laid-off or unemployed designers to the workplace has received the Outstanding Corporate Training Project Award from the Michigan Association of Continuing Education and Training, a statewide consortium of community colleges with a mission to lead the transformation and integration of workforce development, economic development, continuing education and community services in Michigan.

When Ajit Mahida and Gayle Rickert graduated recently from the grant-funded Health Information Technology (HIT) program at Macomb Community College, neither had to worry about looking for a job. Both had secured new employment prior to their graduation.

Open registration begins July 19 for all students interested in taking fall 2011 classes at Macomb Community College.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is bringing a special evening of music to Macomb County, presenting a free concert on Wed., June 8, 7:30 p.m., at the Macomb Center of Performing Arts, a community enrichment program of Macomb Community College.

Macomb Community College will celebrate the accomplishments of those graduates completing degree requirements at the end of the winter 2011 semester, to which it is awarding approximately 1,550 associate degrees, at its 85th commencement on Friday, May 13, 7 p.m., at the Macomb Sports & Expo Center on its South Campus in Warren.

Supported by a $428,000 grant from the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan, Macomb Community College has kicked off a regional initiative designed to advance the development of the defense sector in the region.

She knew him as grandpa, but the rest of the world called him President Eisenhower. Susan Eisenhower offers her personal perspective on Ike and his presidency, with special emphasis on America’s relationship with Russia in the 1950s and Cold War fears in The Russians are Coming! Eisenhower and the Cold War on May 5 at 7 p.m. at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb Community College’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.

At its regular April meeting this evening, the Macomb Community College Board of Trustees appointed Charley G. Jackson, Jr., to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Trustee Frank DeSantis.

Korean War veterans, as well as all veterans, those who currently serve in the military and community members are invited to a special Tribute to Service on Saturday, May 7 at 2 p.m. at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb Community College’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.

Educators, engineers and electric vehicle manufacturers and proponents will convene at Macomb Community College next week for a two-day conference that explores how higher education can best serve the emerging electric vehicle industry as the push toward fossil fuel alternatives intensifies.

Kim Renas, a Warren resident and Macomb Community College’s head indoor track and cross country coach, men’s and women’s teams, has been named National Junior College Athletic Association Coach of the Year for 2011.

Macomb Community College has been named a Models of Efficiency – Spring 2011 honoree by University Business Magazine for initiating a paperless, electronic system for its 12,000 financial aid and sponsored students to purchase books against their accounts.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson will focus on how a little-known freshman senator driven by Cold War paranoia could quickly amass power to intimidate senior colleagues, the media and two respected presidents in McCarthyism to Terrorism on April 14 at 7 p.m. at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb Community College’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.

Registration is open for all students interested in taking spring/summer 2011 classes at Macomb Community College.

Macomb Community College’s Board of Trustees is accepting applications to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Trustee Frank DeSantis for personal reasons. The board will be appointing a replacement during their next regularly scheduled meeting on April 26, 2011.

The University Center at Macomb Community College will hold an open house Monday, April 18, 4:30 – 7:30 p.m., to spotlight the bachelor’s-degree completion and advanced degree programs available through the nine partner institutions located on site.

Remembering the music scene in Detroit is part of The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, a program series running through May 7 at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.

Beginning in fall 2011, high-achieving freshmen entering Macomb Community College and Macomb transfer students will have an opportunity to join the Irvin D. Reid Honors College of Wayne State University (WSU).

1950s America was an unprecedented era of affluence, as well as expected societal conformity. But within the sense of uniformity that pervaded American society at the time, seeds of dissent were growing.

The influence of women in daytime program development in the emerging medium of television and the portrayal of women in 1950s media are examined in two different presentations during The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, the current program series at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.

The conclusion of World War II led to the prosperity of the 1950s, with consumerism on the upswing, manufacturing booming and unparalleled population growth. The latest program series, The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, which runs through May 7 at the Lorenzo Cultural Center, on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township, features several events that examine Detroit’s growth and development during the decade.

To help effectively target workforce re-skilling and retraining, Macomb Community College has completed a report focused on the professional and technical workforce needs of the emerging southeast Michigan defense sector.

The scourge of polio – and the public health crusade that defeated it – will be featured in Polio: A Look Back at American’s Most Successful Public Health Crusade, part of The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age program series at Macomb Community College’s Lorenzo Cultural Center.

With a reputation that extended well beyond the entire city block it occupied on Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit, J.L. Hudson’s Department Store was a Detroit icon that created an experience that was so much more than shopping. Hudson’s was a destination that offered shopping, dining services and entertainment, along with an auditorium, a circulating library and holiday exhibits that have become cherished memories for many with its Toytown displays.

Jeff Wolf, Macomb Community College culinary professor, and his ice carving students have been a fixture at local ice carving events for more than 10 years. But this year, Wolf ventured farther afield -- to Alaska -- to compete in the BP World Ice Art Championship, where he and Sean Ess, one of his students, earned not only fourth place but the respect of the international ice carving community as well.

In response to a series of political military setbacks in the late 1940s and early 1950s, cultural and political hysteria grew in the U.S. in reaction to a perceived growing Soviet threat. The latest program series, The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, which runs through May 7 at the Lorenzo Cultural Center, on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township, includes several events that examine communism and McCarthyism during the 1950s.

Living with a new destructive reality fueled by nuclear arms, the 1950s are often characterized as the decade in which school-age children were taught to “duck and cover,” and families constructed and stocked fallout shelters. The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, which runs through May 7 at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb’s Center Campus in Clinton Township, features a full range of presentations, activities and exhibits that reflect life in the decade, including how American society dealt with the growing nuclear threat.

It’s been called “The Forgotten War,” but fighting in the Korean War was very real for members of the Canadian military in the 1950s. Canadian Forces Major Ross Allan describes the effects of the war and its impact on Canada’s view and place in the world in his presentation, Canadian Experience during the Korean War, March 13 at 2 p.m., as part of a new program series at the Lorenzo Cultural Center at Macomb Community College (Mich.).

Paul Boyer, a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian with a Ph.D. from Harvard University, offers an in-depth look at American society in the 1950 in The 1950s: American Life in the Shadow of the Bomb, on March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb Community College’s Center Campus in Clinton Township.