Jacob Simmons of Copake Honored for Academic Excellence at Hudson Valley Community College

2015 May 29

Jacob Simmons was recently honored for excellence by an academic department at Hudson Valley Community College.

Each year, high-achieving students from the more than 75 academic programs at the Troy, NY college are chosen for special recognition.

Simmons was given the Donald D. and Mary E. Heckelman Memorial Award, which is given to an outstanding student in the graduating class studying in the Mathematics and Engineering Science Department. The awarded is handed out by the Mathematics and Engineering Science Department.

Students are selected for honors by faculty and departmental administrative staff.

Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley Community College offers more than 75 degree and certificate programs in four schools: Business; Engineering and Industrial Technologies; Health Sciences; and Liberal Arts and Sciences; and workforce and academic preparation programs offered through the Educational Opportunity Center. One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it has an enrollment of nearly 13,000 students, and it is known as a leader in distance learning initiatives and worker retraining. Hudson Valley has more than 75,000 alumni.