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Many people dream about leaving a secure job to explore different interests.  For Gateway Community College (GCC) alumnus Valin Ingram, there is no time to waste merely dreaming about a new path.   Valin, a Patient Care Technician at Yale-New Haven Hospital, will soon begin work as an Area Manager at Amazon in Wallingford.  The position, housed in the logistic department, w...

By Carlin Fitzpatrick, GCC Student Bob Berkowitz, a former CNN White House correspondent, ABC News reporter, and "Today" show host exposed the naked truth about what it takes to be a successful journalist during a recent talk with Gateway Community College students. On Nov. 17, Berkowitz sat for an interview with the Journalism 1 class at Gateway and answered a wide range ...

By Madeline Greene, GCC Student On Wednesday October 20th, one of Gateway’s journalism classes interviewed former WTNH news correspondent and current Director of Multimedia Communications for Hartford Healthcare, Jocelyn Maminta. Maminta encouraged the students in attendance to seek out careers for which they are passionate, shared stories about her involvement in nonprofit...

Growing up in a Spanish-speaking home, Fanny Andujar frequently helped translate for her mother, who is from Paraguay, helping her connect to local community resources to support her family.  Years later through her studies, Fanny learned to help others maneuver through what can seem like a complicated maze to get much needed support. As a medical assistant, Fanny recently ...

Without a clear plan after high school graduation in 2011, Taylor Garcia found herself employed as a care giver. Taylor pictured herself working in a business setting in data management. She saw a connection between her interests and skill in dealing with people translating into the field of business. Yet with no experience or specific skills, making the transition into a b...

The Connecticut Society of Radiologic Technologists (CSRT) hosted the Radiologic Science Registry Review competition, known as the Kahoot College Bowl, in which Radiography students from Quinnipiac University, University of Hartford, Middlesex Community College, Gateway Community College (GCC), Manchester Community College and Naugatuck Valley Community College compete to an...

The Yale Center for British Art has partnered with Gateway Community College (GCC) to launch the Gateway to British Art Prize. The aim of this initiative is for students across academic disciplines to select one artwork from the Center’s collections (this year using the museum’s extensive online collection) and to write about it in a thoughtful, persuasive way. The award re...

The COVID-19 pandemic could not crush the entrepreneurial dreams of former Gateway Community College student Ephrat Lieblich, the new co-owner of Ladle & Loaf, a Kosher Middle Eastern fusion restaurant that recently opened in New Haven. Ephrat, who completed a certificate in Digital Media & Web Design Training in 2019, opened the restaurant this past November with h...

Gateway Community College’s Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society inducted 35 GCC scholars on Nov. 6 into one of the country’s most respected PTK chapters, the Alpha Xi Theta chapter. The inductees join more than 450 GCC students who have been inducted into PTK since the chapter started. The new inductees are: Wisteria MacDonald, David Meza-Sandre, Cashaya Sanchez, Linda LaLun...

Gateway Community College student Shamecca Davis of Rootuals took second place and a $500 cash award in the inaugural Minority Small Business Showcase held Oct. 17 at the SoNo Collection mall in Norwalk. Rootuals offers natural hair care services that promote healthy hair, "one rootual at a time." Former Gateway student Damail Dunlap of the Damali Society (makeup accessories...

Gateway Community College student Kimberly Alvarez has been selected as a Spring 2020 Oberndorf Lifeline to Completion Scholar. The $1,000 scholarship is designed to assist Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society members in overcoming unanticipated financial barriers preventing the completion of the college credential, an associate degree or certificate while enrolled in college. Alv...

There’s good news for Gateway Community College students who did not fill out a FAFSA: They may still be eligible to receive a CARES Act Cash Assistance. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law by President Trump in March 2020. This economic relief package is aimed at protecting the American people from the public health and econom...

Essex resident and Gateway Community College graduate Kathrin Schroeder received Gateway’s Nutrition and Dietetics Overall Clinical Excellence Award this June. The international student, who hails from Germany, was also chosen as the Nutrition and Dietetics Student of the Year by the CT Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Schroeder came to the United States as an au pair an...

Gateway Graduate Named Student of the Year, President of Honor Society Despite Disability, Personal Struggles When it came to achieving her dream of becoming a nurse, Rahteisha “Teisha” Pittman didn't let anything get in her way: not an abusive relationship, renal failure, kidney dialysis, and certainly not the COVID-19 pandemic. The long journey neared its end as Pittman ...

The road to college and career can be long and winding. For soon-to-be Gateway Community College graduate Sheena Infante-Davis, it was steep and rocky, as well. Sheena, who majors in Restaurant Food Services Management, started at Gateway in 2011, right out of high school. By then, she had experienced more than most people do during their lifetimes. At the time, she was thi...

Barnetta Haywood’s daughters call her the “queen of quotes” and for good reason. Haywood, a New Haven resident who graduates from Gateway Community College this June with an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, can’t help but share inspirational maxims, even in casual conversation, because, as she puts it, she “lives through affirmations.” “I want to be a living...

CARES Act funding is currently being distributed. Qualified students who have already signed up for direct deposit should see the funds automatically deposited in their accounts sometime during the week of May 25, 2020. Qualified students who do not have direct deposit can expect to see a check mailed to the address on file sometime after June 1st.  On March 5, students wer...

Though they’ve only been together since early January, Ariana Parker and Ned have already forged a deep and abiding relationship, especially when Ned is off duty and can just wag his tail and act like the “big, loveable teddy bear” he really is. “He’s very focused, very alert, and he works very well in a harness,” Parker said of her first seeing-eye dog. “But he is also ver...

There are about 7.8 billion people on the planet and at the rate she’s going, Julia Seraphine will be in electronic contact with most of them in about 10 years. Seraphine, 21, graduated magna cum laude from Gateway Community College in New Haven in May of 2019. With an associate’s degree in Liberal Arts and certificates in Fashion Retail Management and Entrepreneurial Studi...

Twelve students from Gateway and Housatonic Community Colleges won awards and honors at the Entrepreneurship Foundation’s 23rd Connecticut Business Conference and Competition, an entrepreneurial challenge that featured about 150 college students from across the state. The Fall 2019 competition, which was held on the GCC on Dec. 6, attracted student entrepreneurs and faculty...