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Little Italy comes to Long Island! At the 48th annual Feast of Mother Cabrini you can eat your way through the ¼ mile lit food promenade, enjoy festive live music, take a ride on one of the 25+ thrill rides or test your skills in the midway.
Stay for the rides, watch the fireworks on Saturday August 24th & Sunday September 1st, listen to the music or cheer the participants in the Zepoli Eating Contest. Whatever you do, the admission is free, rides are Pay-One-Price and proceeds benefit the many local charities of the Giuseppe A. Nigro Lodge #2234
The College offers a wide variety of musical activities and events for student participation, including being an active member in a music club, attending music concerts and/or performing in any of seven music groups listed below. These groups are offered through the College Music Program and provide a solid and comprehensive foundation for both music majors who intend to pursue music as a career and non-majors who are interested in performing. Each group is attached to a specific music course as indicated. These courses may have prerequisites and may require an audition. Concerts are normally given once a semester in December and May unless otherwise noted.
All Suffolk County Community College students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the community, are welcome to participate in a music ensemble.
Did you graduate from the Suffolk County Community College Music Department? Are you an alumni performing artist? Fill out your alumni profile, let us know where you are and what you have been doing.
SUNY SPECTRUM 2022 September 15-16, 2022 SUNY Global Center 116 East 55th St, New York, NY 10022
Hybrid event with virtual attendants
SPECTRUM is more than an acronym. It represents the resilience, the power, and the survival of the LGBTQIA+ community in the face of systems that uphold cycles of marginalization, rejection, and violence.
We strive for access to safe spaces and resources, action toward a more inclusive and accepting future, and the achievement of an environment where queer individuals of all colors, genders, and identities can thrive out loud instead of survive in silence.
Featuring in-person and virtual sessions, as well as discussions with activists Schuyler Bailar, Matt Bernstein, and Amber Briggle, SUNY SPECTRUM fosters a more inclusive and accepting environment for queer individuals navigating systems that uphold cycles of marginalization.
New York State is expanding TAP eligibility for Part-Time students taking at least 6 credit hours per semester.
The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State. Depending on the academic year in which you begin study, an annual TAP award can be up to $5,665. Because TAP is a grant, it does not have to be paid back.
Suffolk County Community College has appointed Dr. Liesl Jones as vice president of academic affairs, the College announced. Dr. Jones began her position on August 1.
Dr. Jones will serve as the College’s chief academic officer and provide academic and administrative leadership and strategic planning and implementation and evaluation for the educational, workforce and academic programs at Suffolk.
“We are very fortunate to have Dr. Liesl Jones join us at Suffolk,” said Suffolk County Community College President Dr. Edward Bonahue. “Dr. Jones’ exceptional experience and leadership—especially in the hard sciences and major grants–will provide the guidance needed to ensure the continued success of our College’s academic programs and aid our students and faculty in reaching their full potential. Dr. Jones will be a great asset to our institution.”
“I’m overjoyed to join the Suffolk County Community College family and am looking forward to advancing academics to support and lift the communities we serve,” Dr. Jones said. “I’m thrilled to partner with the exceptional faculty, staff, and students here at Suffolk.”
Dr. Jones joins Suffolk from Baltimore City Community College where she developed policies to increase student success and developed bridges between workforce development, prior learning experiences, and college credit.
Dr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Fordham University and a doctorate in Neuroscience from Allegheny University. Upon completion of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical College, Dr. Jones joined the faculty at Lehman College/CUNY, a federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institution, where she earned tenure and rose through the ranks to become full professor of biological sciences, in addition to serving terms as chair of the department of chemistry and chair of the department of biological sciences.
Later, Dr. Jones joined New Jersey’s multi-campus Union County College where she served as Dean of Science Technology Engineering and Math and managed the College’s office of grants and sponsored programs. Through the College’s DOE-funded First in the World grant, she worked closely with the math faculty to develop a program that allowed students to self-select for developmental math and in fall 2019 led the College’s transition to becoming fully developmental optional.
Brutus standing next to a warm radiofrequency cavity he helped design for the LEReC experiment at RHIC.
Newswise — Jean Clifford (Cliff) Brutus, an engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has a cool job—literally. He’s developing components to keep particle beams circulating in the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) cool.
As particles called ions circulate around the 2.4-mile circumference collider, they have a tendency to heat up and spread out. That spreading can be a problem for scientists trying to steer the ions into head-on collisions for nuclear physics experiments at this DOE Office of Science user facility.
“Keeping the beams cool and tightly bunched maximizes the rate of collisions and therefore the amount of data scientists can use to make discoveries,” Brutus said.
Some of the cooling strategies being implemented at RHIC can also be adapted for the construction of the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)—a facility that will collide electrons with ions to reveal the particles within these building blocks of matter. When completed early in the next decade, the EIC will be the only particle collider of its kind in the world.
“Research and development (R&D) had always piqued my interest,” Brutus said. “But helping design components for this unique facility—where scientists from around the world will make discoveries for decades to come—is exceptional and tops the list of ideal career paths I could take as a mechanical engineer.”
Early Engineering Interest
Brutus took an interest in engineering from a young age. Growing up in Haiti, he recalls how he and his brother shared a passion for motorsport.
“My brother Christian wanted to buy an all-terrain vehicle, but my parents were against it,” Brutus said. “So, he decided to build one on his own. As a supportive brother, I helped him with the fabrication process.”
Once he inherited the go-kart a few years later, Brutus dove deeper into learning how it worked and how to fix it—gaining hands-on design, building, and maintenance experience that he still uses on the job today.
After moving to Long Island in 2006 to finish high school, Brutus drew on these experiences to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. He had aimed to study at Stony Brook University (SBU) but was rejected when he first applied to their highly competitive mechanical engineering program.
“I was devastated, and I started to become doubtful about my future,” he said.
Instead, Brutus attended Suffolk County Community College (SCCC). At Suffolk, he became heavily involved in the school’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program. After one year, he earned a STEM scholarship and transferred to his program of choice at SBU.
The community college detour turned out to be “one of the best paths I could take at the time,” Brutus said. “The STEM program at SCCC gave me an edge with a scholarship and a large network that I still keep in touch with.”
Internship to Full-Time Job
That same network led to an internship at Brookhaven Lab in 2009. As an intern of the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program, Brutus learned all about particle collider and accelerator technologies while working under Joseph Tuozzolo, now the Technical Systems Division Director for the EIC.
“Cliff was a can-do type of intern,” said Tuozzolo. “He was always on-time and attentive, and willing to consider alternatives to improve his projects.”
Brutus went on to intern for General Electric (GE) Transportation in 2010. Despite being offered a full-time job at GE, Brutus felt a strong desire to complete a master’s degree at SBU in 2012 and return to Brookhaven Lab.
“I reached back out to Joseph, saying that I was interested in coming back because it was the most impactful internship I had,” said Brutus. He returned to Brookhaven, first under a co-op position in 2011, and transitioned to a full-time engineer position in 2012.
“I was very happy that he considered BNL after finishing his master’s,” said Tuozzolo. “He hit the ground running when he came on board and has always strived to go faster.
At Brookhaven, Brutus has been designing, fabricating, testing, and commissioning accelerator components for the Coherent Electron Cooling (CeC) and Low Energy RHIC Electron Cooling (LEReC) experiments, which aim to improve the performance of RHIC and the EIC.
“The types of equipment used in a particle accelerator are complex,” said Brutus. “As a mechanical engineer working in such a facility, you get involved in all aspects. We help design electron sources, radiofrequency (RF) cavities, magnets, diagnostics devices, cryogenic systems, control systems, and more.”
Brutus uses an array of tools, including computer software that models accelerator components in three-dimensions and performs engineering design analyses through electromagnetic, thermal, and structural simulations.
“There are many technical challenges when working with superconducting materials operating at a temperature of 2 Kelvin (-456 degrees Fahrenheit),” he said.
Brutus is also responsible for the overall planning, scheduling, and operational support for the experiments he leads as a Project Engineer, keeping his projects within budget, on-schedule, and meeting physicists’ expectations.
“You could spend several months having meetings and designing a project on a computer,” he noted. “Many times, we have several design iterations going back and forth between what the physicists want and what can actually be manufactured.”
“But when we finally build, install and commission projects, it is very rewarding and exciting to see your design being used for scientific research,” he said.
Paying It Forward and Reaping Rewards
Brutus also enjoys opportunities to pay his experiences forward. He mentors SULI students and serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council for the Nuclear and Particle Physics Directorate (NPP) at Brookhaven Lab, where he helps develop initiatives to improve the culture of NPP.
In 2016, Brutus earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. And, in 2018, he achieved his life-long goal of becoming a licensed New York State Professional Engineer (PE).
He was featured on the cover of Minority Engineer in 2019 and is a two-time recipient of the Brookhaven Lab Spotlight Award.
“It is a great honor to represent SBU, Brookhaven Science Associates, and my family,” said Brutus. “This is a reflection of my passion to support science and discovery, to help others and the values I believe in.”
Appreciative of the opportunities given to him as a student and as an engineer, he offers this to those just starting out:
“I advise them to always better themselves—as a person, as a leader, and as a collaborator,” he said. “Always challenge your yourself and be willing to learn from your mistakes as well as from others of different backgrounds and cultures in order to grow professionally.”
The SULI program and projects at RHIC and the EIC are funded by the DOE Office of Science (WDTS, NP).
Brookhaven National Laboratory is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit science.energy.gov.
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