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Campus Current

English professor Steve Canaday, center, teaches seminar-style classes through the BLAST program.

Students lead class discussions in seminar-style courses

Sam Gauntt, Editor-in-Chief April 6, 2023

Approximately a dozen AACC professors have converted their humanities courses into seminars that focus on class discussions rather than lectures. Faculty from St. John’s College in Annapolis instructed...

AACC will hold four student performances in May. Shown, members of the AACC Symphony Orchestra at a rehearsal.

Music departments to host 4 spring performances

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor April 5, 2023

Four student music ensembles will perform concerts at the end of this semester. The Small Jazz Combo will perform on May 9; the Large Jazz Combo will perform on May 6; the Symphony Orchestra will perform...

Zack Buster, a second-year communications student, stepped down as Campus Current's editor-in-chief on March 31 to run for Student Government Association president.

Editor in chief of Campus Current resigns

Megan Cunningham, Photo Editor April 4, 2023

The editor-in-chief of AACC’s student newspaper resigned March 31 to run for Student Government Association president. Zack Buster, who has been editor of Campus Current since fall 2022, left the paper...

Theatre at AACC will perform Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in April. Shown, a group photo of the cast.

Theatre AACC to put on ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor April 3, 2023

Theatre at AACC will perform the existentialist tragicomedy “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” in April. The production of Tom Stoppard's 1966 play, which will run April 14 to 16 and April...

AACC performing arts professors work off-campus in theater, music and dance. Shown, music professor Anna Binneweg conducting an orchestra.

Web Exclusive: AACC professors perform off-campus

Tomi Brunton and Éva Parry March 31, 2023

Some of AACC’s performing arts professors work off campus on professional theater productions or as part of dance companies, jazz groups and symphonies. Sean Urbantke Theater professor Sean Urbantke...

Librarian Sophie Reverdy, left, teaches students and staff to edit Wikipedia articles at an event on Wednesday.

Students, faculty learn to edit Wikipedia articles

Aidan Gunn, Reporter March 30, 2023

Students and faculty learned how to edit Wikipedia pages at a Women’s History Month event in the Truxal Library on Wednesday.  At the Wikipedia Edit-athon, librarian Sophie Reverdy taught students...

Brooks DuBose, editor of the Capital Gazette, will speak at a Campus Current event on April 4.

Capital Gazette editor to speak at AACC

Sam Gauntt, Managing Editor March 29, 2023

The editor of the Capital Gazette, the daily newspaper serving the Annapolis area, will speak with Campus Current’s editor-in-chief at a live, on-stage interview on April 4.  Brooks DuBose, editor...

Michelle Thaller, right, speaks to a crowd of students and faculty on Tuesday about the history of women in astrophysics and science.

NASA assistant director speaks on women in astrophysics

Payton Thompson, Reporter March 29, 2023

An assistant director at NASA spoke to students and faculty on Tuesday about the history of women in astrophysics.   Michelle Thaller, an astrophysicist and assistant director of science communications...

Communications professor and event organizer April Copes speaks at Soapbox Sisters on Tuesday.

Students perform poems, speeches at Soapbox Sisters

Andrea Bridgett, Reporter March 29, 2023

Students and faculty performed poems and speeches from historical and contemporary women at a Women’s History Month event on Tuesday. Communications professors April Copes and Haley Draper organized...

Students in one English Language Learning class use the graphic novel "Puerto Rico Strong" created by Marco Lopez, (shown) as their textbook and are working creating an accessible audio book version.

ELL students use comic as textbook, create accessible audiobook

Zack Buster, Editor-in-chief March 18, 2023

Students in one English Language class are using a graphic novel as their textbook. Two of instructional specialist Owen Silverman Andrews’ High Intermediate Reading and Writing students also are...

Poet Steven Leyva performs at the "Writer's Reading" event on the Arnold Campus on Thursday.

Poet performs at ‘Writer’s Reading’ event

Sam Gauntt and Jason Kalshoven March 17, 2023

A New-Orleans-born poet told a crowd of students and faculty on Thursday he views his poems as “little pieces of theater.” Steven Leyva, who teaches at the University of Baltimore, read poetry from...

AACC repaired the largest telescope in the observatory this semester.

AACC repairs largest telescope

Tomi Brunton, Associate Editor March 16, 2023

The largest telescope in the AACC observatory is up and running again after breaking down about a year ago. The lens, which has a diameter of 14 inches, was inoperable because of a broken gearbox in the...

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