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Ben Rubin is a Rockland education reporter, who came to The Journal News on Valentine's Day 2008. He covers the Clarkstown, East Ramapo and Ramapo Central school districts, as well as higher education, including RCC, STAC, Dominican, West Point and Nyack College.
Over the past three years, Ben previously worked as a reporter at the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., and the North Adams Transcript in North Adams, Mass.
He was born and raised in Wynnewood, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English writing: nonfiction and political science. As far as hobbies, Ben likes to play basketball poorly and enjoys reading books he rarely finishes.
E-mail Ben Rubin at bfrubin@lohud.com
In addition to Rockland Community College’s main graduation ceremony June 1, there will be a pinning ceremony for 45 nursing grads next week. The event will be at 6 p.m. May 20 in the Cultural Arts Theater on campus. Here’s what one soon-to-be grad had to say:
Rosemarie Ameo of Beacon, a cancer survivor and a [...]
With school board budget hearings starting up this week in Rockland, I wanted to comment on how ridiculous I find the timing of these meetings. I worked at a newspaper in Connecticut for the past two years, and in that state, budget hearings happened before the boards of education adopted their budgets. The school boards [...]
Just a reminder: RCC-TV’s first-ever Video Festival will be held tomorrow at Rockland Community College’s Technology Center starting at 7 p.m. The event will showcase student-produced videos and seven awards will be given out. Producers of the best overall video will receive a high-definition TV. Judges will include professionals in television, radio and the movies [...]
I spent a few hours at West Point academy today, watching the seventh annual Cyber Defense Exercise in action.
A team of roughly 30 cadets, led by senior Adrian Tilston, tried to defend a computer network against professional NSA hackers. I was pretty impressed.
The thing was that they were working in such a jargon-filled, complicated world [...]
I recently got back from a presentation with math genius Mike Byster at Little Tor Elementary School in New City. After Mike showed the kids what he could do by multiplying, squaring and dividing a bunch of numbers in his head, he taught them a little trick for squaring certain three-digit numbers. This works for [...]
With dozens and dozens of presentations at Sunday’s 22nd Science, Inventions and Technology Exhibition, there were only so many students’ stories I could get to in today’s story. But, thanks to the Internet, I can mention one more:
Mickey Pardo is a 16-year-old who is home-schooled and lives in Wesley Hills. Finding an unmined research subject, [...]
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