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Business Leadership Community Gives Students a Career Advantage 

A Bellevue College program called the Business Leadership Community has helped students make informed career choices. Now in its 21st year, the program introduces students to a range of business vocations.

Managing your blood pressure for long term health | Bellevue Reporter

In collaboration with Providence Health Plan, the American Heart Association recently launched the Student-Championed Self-Measured Blood Pressure program at Bellevue College in Washington.

Bellevue College President Dr. David May on campus.

President’s Message: Welcome to Spring Quarter

Welcome to spring quarter! As we embrace what will be a busy and energizing few months, I’d like to take a moment to recognize the great work of our Office of Sustainability for creating an engaging Earth Month series of events, workshops, lectures, and other programming.

College Receives Salmon-Safe Certification for Stormwater Management

With many species of salmon throughout the Pacific Northwest on the decline, Bellevue College was recently acknowledged for its efforts to slow this trend through stormwater management practices that work to protect the local watershed.

Indigenous WA students test themselves in Alaska’s Traditional Games | The Seattle Times

Bellevue College student Jasmine Knudson, an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes who lives in Kirkland, participated in the Annual Traditional Games in Juneau, Alaska. The regional competition serves as a qualifying event for the Native Youth Olympics.

6 Month Road Closure Near Campus 

Starting this month, commuters driving to Bellevue College may need to find a new way to get to campus every day for six months.

People at the Earth Market at Bellevue College in 2024.

26th Annual Earth Month Events ‘Make Waves’

Commemorate Earth Day all month long with Bellevue College’s Earth Month event series happening now through April 30.

Martha Silano

Martha Silano’s Forthcoming Book Explores Her Terminal Illness Diagnosis | University of Washington Magazine

Last year, when poet Martha Silano was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A.L.S.), she turned to writing to make sense of her experience, the way that she’s always turned towards her art.

Lisa Chin

Nonprofit Executive Chin Hired as Interim Director at the Pike Place Market Foundation | Northwest Asian Weekly

The Pike Place Market Foundation has hired veteran technology and nonprofit executive Lisa Chin, Ph.D., as its new interim executive director. The move comes after the previous permanent director left following the cancellation of a Day of Remembrance celebration in February.

Claude Comair

5 Educational Programs for All | 425 Business

After leaving Lebanon and learning the ropes of 3D graphics at Japan’s University of Osaka, Vancouver, B.C.-based Claude Comair in 1998 identified an early void in the Northwest’s computer science sector.