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MCC Daily Tribune

Honors Students Accepted at the 2023 Beacon Conference for Student-Scholars at Two-Year Colleges

Four of our Honors students have been accepted to compete at the Beacon Conference for Student-Scholars at Two-Year Colleges, which will be held at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY on June 2nd.

The Beacon Conference was established to recognize, celebrate, and showcase the academic achievements of outstanding students at community colleges in the mid-Atlantic region. It is held each year on the first Friday in June, and it encompasses a wide range of disciplines.

Each of our students submitted a research essay to be judged by an expert in a given subject area category. The top three papers in each category are invited to present their work as scholarly presentations to compete for “Most Outstanding Paper and Presentation” in that category.

Scott Rudd, Professor, English/Philosophy Department, mentored each student throughout the submission process and their research was completed in the Honors sections of his Humanities courses, HMN 220 and HMN 221, and his HON 295 course, Justice and Prejudice.

MCC has never sent so many students in one year to this highly competitive conference.

Please join me in congratulating the following students for their outstanding work:

  • Emili Gibson
    “The Art of Fashion as Sociopolitical Weaponry” (Social Justice category)
  • Isaiah Gonsalves
    “The Internment of Japanese Americans and the Declaration of Martial Law in Hawaii: The Impact of Racial and War-Related Prejudice After the Attack on Pearl Harbor” (History category)
  • Zachary Maier
    “The Anthropomorphic God: The Human Experience and the Symbolic Gap” (Philosophy category)
  • Rebecca Soriano
    “God the Mother and the Feminine Christ: Representations of the Madonna and Jesus as Divine Maternal Nurturers in Medieval and Renaissance Art” (Arts category)

Thomas Blake
MCC Honors Institute
05/02/2023