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Valencia Food Pantry Partners with Second Harvest to Help Students

Valencia College’s food bank, Pooky’s Pantry, has partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida to help stock the [...]


Valencia College Engineering Program Earns International Accreditation

Orlando, FL – Valencia College’s bachelor’s degree program in electrical and computer engineering technology has received ABET accreditation, an internationally [...]


Valencia Theater Professor Unveils New Play at Rollins College Theater

When Sonia Pasqual began working on her master’s thesis – a series of monologues, dance, painting and poetry that eventually [...]


Chef and Culinary Grad Finds Big Success by Thinking Small

Michael Collantes can’t sit still. That may explain why the Valencia grad (class of 2005) now operates three restaurants in [...]


Military Wife, Mother of Two Named Valencia’s Distinguished Graduate

When Samantha Tanner’s family celebrates Mother’s Day this year, they’ll have additional reasons to honor the 28-year-old mother of two. [...]


Valencia’s West Campus Selected to Serve as COVID-Vaccination Center

UPDATE: Although the large FEMA-operated, COVID vaccination site on West Campus has closed, the Florida Division of Emergency Management is [...]


Emmy-Winning Composer Behind ‘Queen’s Gambit’ to Speak at Valencia

ORLANDO – Composer Carlos Rafael Rivera, an Emmy-winning composer whose work includes the music for Netflix’s “Queen’s Gambit,” will present [...]


Science Writer Susan Freinkel to Discuss the Perils of the Plastic Age

ORLANDO – Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century [...]


Valencia Celebrates 25 Years of Student Filmmaking with Festival

Valencia College invites movie fans to celebrate 25 years of student filmmaking when the Valencia College film production technology program [...]

Chef Camilo Velasco, chef de cuisine at 1921, and #valenciagrad

Kitchen Reverential: Valencia Grad Learns His Trade from the Masters

Camilo Velasco may be one of Florida’s hot young chefs, but he did not learn to cook at his mother’s [...]