A Camden County College (N.J.) faculty member ranks among the top 20 two-year college instructors in North America and the United Kingdom, according to student ratings entered on the website RateMyProfessors.com. Lester Owens placed 16th on this year’s Highest Rated Junior and Community College Professors list RateMyProfessors.

Sparks, pharmacy technician instructor, who was named Outstanding Pharmacy Technician of the Year by the Washington State Pharmacy Association. Sparks has taught at Clover Park Technical College for nearly 20 years, and worked in industry for 16 years.

From left are Wes Adams, state’s attorney for Anne Arundel County; Lindsay; Carlesa Finney, vice chair of the event planning committee; Rebecca Blasingame-White, principal of Frank Hebron-Harmon Elementary School; and Larry White Sr., chief executive officer of VIPeVENTS Concierge, LLC.

Cambodian ceramist Yary Livan, an adjunct professor of art at Middlesex Community College (Mass.), has been awarded a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. Trained at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Livan now lives in Lowell, Mass.

alumna of the American School of Correspondence in Illinois, Irbash is slated to graduate with her associate degree in ID in 2016. She tentatively plans to transfer to Wayne State University in Detroit, where she will continue her education. Her ultimate goal is to own her own interior design business.

Moraine Valley Community College (Ill.) graduate Juan Salgado picked up his phone one day last month, he heard someone ask, “Are you alone?” Since his meeting was ending anyway, he indulged the mysterious caller who agreed to wait until he had left the meeting.

units — communications/public relations and marketing — at Madison College, his work as an IBPS facilitator and fellow, serving as a discussion leader at the Rotary Club of Madison’s annual Ethics Symposium and his mentorship and advocacy on behalf of the profession.

Central Carolina Community College (N.C.) technology instructor Ben Cole encourages students who are curious about “how things work” to invest in the college’s Computer- Aided Design Drafting Technology (CAD) program.

A summary Listing of Colleges Receiving Institution and Individual Honors and Awards.

The Harris Center for the Arts is hosting the 15th annual exhibition of Folsom Lake College Visual Arts faculty in the Bank of America Gallery. The college’s visual arts faculty includes professional artists with diverse specializations encompassing the spectrum of classes offered, from studio arts, to art history and photography.

that Laudate served faithfully. “She was at every meeting, and was a strong contributor in the committee process and the board process. When she had something to say, we all listened to her because we knew it was coming from her heart and it was well thought out,” said.

The Santa Monica College (Calif.) Foundation announced that it has awarded a total of more than $90,000 in grants: two “President’s Circle Awards for Innovation and Progress”; one “Chair of Excellence” grant; and 13 “Margin of Excellence” mini-grants to SMC professors.

of the Criminal Justice Department, started at GRCC as an adjunct instructor in 2003. She joined the faculty full-time in 2006. She is known for developing case studies for her students to discuss in class and for sharing the latest research, resources and best practices.

Furler, microbiology professor at Florida South- Western State College, was recently chosen for a Undergraduate Faculty Research Initiative Fellowship by the American Society of Microbiology and the National Science Foundation.

of Terra State, received a bachelor of arts in business administration with a concentration in human resources from Olivet College in Michigan. While working in various positions at the University of Toledo, he earned a master’s degree.

Forrest Kaatz, director of institutional effectiveness and research and adjunct instructor at Mesalands Community College, (N.M.) recently presented his research on “Mathematical Methods in Cluster Science” at the 2015 International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering in Rota, Spain.

A video commercial produced in-house to promote a new cybersecurity program at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

the Fall 2015 Semester starts, Trinidad Hernandez, an Intensive English instructor at Houston Community College (Texas), will be absent from class. Instead, he will be in Sri Lanka training local English teachers. The U.S. State Department has selected Hernandez for a 10- month Fellowship project at the National Institute of Education in Sri Lanka.