Enjoy Our Wonderful Past Events
EPISODE 1: Dr. Allison Palumbo Discusses Book: Love and the Fighting Female: A Critical Study of Onscreen Depictions | Winter 2021
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Dr. Allison P. Palumbo is a tenured English faculty member at Big Bend Community |
EPISODE 2: Dr. Jim Hamm, Physics Instructor Discuss Constellations and Stars | Spring 2021
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Dr. Jim Hamm has been teaching at Big Bend since 1993. In that time he has primarily taught physics, astronomy, and science courses, although he has at one time or another taught almost every mathematics course from pre-algebra through differential equations. The only math courses he has missed are statistics, first-quarter calculus, and linear algebra. Before Jim came to Big Bend he taught for a couple of years part-time at Edmonds Community |
EPISODE 3: Dr. Dennis Knepp, Philosophy & Religion Faculty | Fall 2021
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“I’m happy and so proud to introduce Dr Dennis Knepp who was born and raised in Wichita Kansas as a teenager he worked as a machinist that his father's business and drove a 1967 Camaro … that did not have a seatbelt. He started college at Wichita State University as an engineering student, but eventually found his own path as a philosophy major. Dennis went to graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis where he met Jennifer McCarthy, the rest, they say, is history and together they moved to Moses Lake, in 2000 when Dennis accepted the data and Big Bend Community College. Dennis has a very long list of published work and we are proud to have him at our college." -- Dr. Sara Thompson-Tweedy |
EPISODE 4: Rie Palkovic, Art Instructor | Winter 2022
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"Okinawa, Japan is where I call home. I was born in the pottery district of the capital city, Naha, on that tropical island until I left at 18. My mother was Okinawan and my father was from West Virginia. The benefit of two cultures has left me enriched with the qualities of both. Although my art training is in the classical western tradition, my esthetics have always been eastern. I married young and raised a family before I went to school and trained to be an artist. I always knew I would train in art and had no desire for anything else...." |
EPISODE 5: Dr. John Owens, Music Instructor
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Dr. Owens was a percussionist in the US Army band, which gave him the opportunity to When he lived in Germany a friend asked me to help with his drummers and at that He earned my Ph.D. and Masters in Music from Kent State University. |
EPISODE 6: Poet and Alumnus Ricardo Ruiz
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"The son of potato factory workers, Ricardo hails from Othello,Washington and his works often draw from his experience as a first-generation Mexican-American. He is passionate about elevating the marginalized voices from rural communities and takes pride in being a conduit for cultural connection. His own struggles straddling cultures provide insight to the ifficulties of the Mexican migrant worker and their families.... |
EPISODE 7: Lindsay Groce, Chemistry Instructor
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Lindsay Groce is a Senior Tenured Faculty science, reading, solving puzzles, salsa dancing, learning new things, travel, and language... |
EPISODE 8: Tyler Wallace, Math Instructor
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Hear from instructor Dr. Tyler Wallace,
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EPISODE 9: Sameness in Diversity II with ASB, CEID, & PPS
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Our second annual Sameness |
EPISODE 10: Salah Abed, Math Instructor
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"I started learning Japanese when I was 14. I went to Western Washington University where I got a B.S. in math with a minor in Japanese (I got an M.S. there too). I hit Japanese hard during the pandemic because there was a lot of Japanese media that I’d always wanted to learn more about and I realized there was nothing stopping me! I started learning Japanese again because Toshio Taki (one of our smartest alumni) wrote me a graduation card (which I still have) basically saying that if I kept at it, I’d speak good Japanese someday. I’ll never forget how he ended it..." |
