What's Happening at Cañada: Week of February 10, 2020
Tue, 11 February, 2020 at 10:27 am
February 11
Cañada College Blood Drive
10 a.m. – 2: p.m.
Bloodmobile near the Bookstore
Every 2 seconds, someone needs blood. Most of
us will need blood in our lifetime. Save a life and
donate blood! Sign up on the Cañada College Blood Drive- Appointment
Link. For questions, please contact salima@smccd.edu
February 12
Get
Money for School
2:30-3 p.m. & 6-6:30 p.m.
Learning Center Lab (Building 9, Second Floor)
Learn about scholarships for undocumented students. Get started
with your Cañada scholarship application, Dream Act and your personal
statements. For more information, contact Saul Miranda at mirandas@smccde.edu.
STEM
Speaker Series: Coming Out in STEM: How Being Queer Makes Me a Better Stem Cell
Biologist
5-6 p.m.
Building 6, Room 101/102
Carolyn is a Ph.D. Student in Stanford’s Stem Cell Biology and
Regenerative Medicine program, and they are wholeheartedly captivated by
developmental neurobiology. They completed their undergraduate degree at
Wesleyan University, where they worked in the lab of Dr. Laura Grabel to derive
inhibitory interneurons from human embryonic stem cells. At Stanford, Carolyn
seeks to understand how we can more accurately model early human brain
development in vitro. When not in lab, Carolyn is also a coordinator of the
Stanford Prison Education Project and is on staff at Stanford Queer Student
Resources.
February 13
Men’s
Baseball vs Shasta College
2 p.m.
Colts Baseball
Field
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Shasta
College!
Film Screening – Healing Justice
4 p.m.
Building 3,
Room 142
Please join us for a screening of the film Healing Justice. This film is designed to spur dialogue and we will have time
following the screening for discussion. As we continue our work to implement
major initiatives such as Guided Pathways within an equity framework, it is
crucial that we have an informed understanding of the structural barriers our
students face.
February 14-17
Declares Recess for Lincoln’s Birthday &
President’s Day
February 14
Men’s
Baseball vs Feather River College
10 a.m.
Colts Baseball
Field
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Feather
River College!
Men’s
Baseball vs Shasta College
2 p.m.
Colts Baseball
Field
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Shasta
College!
Men’s
Basketball vs City College of San Francisco
7 p.m.
College of San
Mateo Gym (Building 8)
Cheer on the Colts as they take on City College
of San Francisco!
February 15
Men’s
Baseball vs Shasta College
1 p.m.
Colts Baseball
Field
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Shasta
College!
February 18
Men’s
Baseball vs Laney College
2 p.m.
Colts Baseball
Field
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Laney
College!
February 19
Men’s
Basketball vs Skyline College
7 p.m.
College of San
Mateo Gym (Building 8)
Cheer on the Colts as they take on Skyline
College!
STEM
Speaker Series: “The Fruit Fly’s dREAM”
5-6 p.m.
Building 6, Room 101/102
Harmony Folse is
a master's student in Genetics at Stanford. They are working in the Lipsick and
Fuller labs studying the reproductive development of fruit flies. They have a
passion for mentoring and science education and hope to become a full-time
community college professor in the future.
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