Success Stories
COM Names Basketball Court in Honor of Legendary Don Barksdale
College of Marin (COM) is naming their basketball court after Bay Area basketball trailblazer and COM alum, Don Barksdale. In a unanimous decision, the Board of Trustees passed the resolution earlier this month to name the basketball court Don...
From COM to Mars: How an 80s Rocker’s Curiosity Landed Safely on the Red Planet
Adam Steltzner, who headed the mind-blowing engineering feat of landing a one-ton exploratory Rover mission on Mars last year, says it was his own innate curiosity about the shifting constellations that first led him to study astronomy at College...
U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Talks About the Art of Teaching
On July 17, 2008, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Kay Ryan as the 16th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She joins a distinguished roster of poet laureates, including Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur...
Alumna and Award-Winning Actress Kathleen Quinlan Talks about Her Beginnings at COM
Academy Award nominee Kathleen Quinlan’s long, successful career spanning more than 50 films, even more television appearances and numerous professional accolades, started with many small, poignant roles in high school and on the College of Marin...