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CBC Nuclear Technology students will have a new building
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 by KNDU TV
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Construction of the Center for Career & Technical Education
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CBC is on TV
The College Relations office has a new show, Campus to Community, on Charter's channel three. Each month a new "episode" will feature guests from campus including employees and students. Each show is 15 minutes long and airs twice to fill a 30-minute spot.
Catch the show at these times:
Monday-Friday: 12:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Saturday: 11:30 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Sunday: noon & 6 p.m.
Or, watch it now on Facebook or YouTube.
CBC Unveils Center Named After Former President Lee R. Thornton
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Former CBC President Lee Thornton (far left) watches as Wayne Martin, CBC Board of Trustee Vice-Chair unveils the newly named 'Thornton' Center.
View Photo Gallery -Photo Dawn Alford |
PASCO -- The Science and Technology Center at Columbia Basin College has a new name. The building is now called the Lee R. Thornton Center for Science, Diversity, and Technology. It's named after Lee Thornton who was the President of CBC for 13 years.
Thornton just retired this June, but he had the vision for this building and that was realized in 2005 when the $20 million building first opened. The building has new classrooms, science labs, technology labs, and a courtyard.
Thornton says it's a unique building and he likes being associated with unique things. Thornton explains, "I'm very happy to have my name associated to this building because, as I mentioned in my remarks, it's a very unique building that really symbolizes our mission in a number of different ways."
Lee Thornton may have retired but he says his spirit is still at CBC and now his name will be there forever. He lives on the west side now and is still in the education industry, working as a consultant for the Northwest Commission for Colleges and Universities.
The above video with transcript was aired on the October 13, 2008 KNDU TV newcast.
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Dr. Gary Spanner |
PNNL's Spanner Selected Outstanding Alumnus
An indelible mark: That's what Dr. Gary Spanner has left with his professional achievement, civic leadership, community service, and support of Columbia Basin College. Those are the reasons Spanner has been selected as this year’s Columbia Basin College Foundation Outstanding Alumnus.
Spanner is the manager of the Office of Small Business Programs at Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. He applies PNNL's technological resources to support technology-based economic development throughout the Pacific Northwest and the nation. Much of his focus has been on small business support, developing innovative programs that help business start, grow, diversify and even relocate to the Tri-Cities. He is chairman of the Tri-Cities Research District, a 1,600 acre area in North Richland surrounding PNNL that is being developed to provide home to new and growing technology businesses. More...
Apollo Astronaut Helps CBC Reach for the Stars
Michelle Dupler, Tri-City Herald
Video From Press Conference
Rich Cummins, Columbia Basin College President, introduces Charlie Duke. The retired Apollo astronaut visited Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, to help with fundraising efforts for a proposed planetarium on the campus in Pasco, Wash.
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PASCO -- Columbia Basin College is reaching for the stars with the help of a man who walked on the moon.
Officials enlisted the help of Charlie Duke, the 10th man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo series of lunar missions, to whip up excitement about a proposed planetarium on the college's Pasco campus.
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Ret. Astronaut Charlie Duke speaks during a news conference. CBC Observatory Director Mike Durst, President Rich Cummins, and Interim Dean for Math & Science Gary Olson stand to Duke's side. |
The planetarium would be built next to the Moore Observatory and would offer 60 to 80 seats under a dome surface that would give viewers an IMAX-like experience, CBC President Rich Cummins said at a news conference Thursday.
The idea is to create a place that will spark children's imaginations and inspire them to study math, science and engineering. Cummins would like to see every school-age child in the Mid-Columbia visit the planetarium at least once a year.
Cummins hopes to cover the estimated $1.7 million to $2.2 million cost of building the planetarium mainly through fundraising and grants. More...
The above article was published in the September 12, 2008 Tri-City Herald.
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