Grab Your SNAP, Plus Wizard’s Warehouse Opens New Location
On Feb. 3 in a two-hour grand opening event, TMCC’s campus food pantry, Wizard’s Warehouse, opened a new location at the William N. Pennington Applied Technology Center on Edison Way. The new space, in EDSN 117, offers students fresh produce, as well as other food and pantry items. According to Counseling Center Coordinator Cameron Tuttle, the move was made to increase access and visibility to this important resource.
“Now, Wizard’s Warehouse is right near the entrance to The Hub, so students are constantly passing through. The new space has a big, beautiful window… we wanted to make this resource highly visible, so students know it’s there,” said Tuttle.
Wizard’s Warehouse at the Applied Technology Center joins two other Wizard Warehouse locations at TMCC: the first at the Dandini Campus in RDMT 115 and the other at the TMCC Meadowood Center in S119. Wizard’s Warehouse was founded in 2015 by TMCC students, faculty and staff who wanted to build a safety net for under-resourced students. The current iteration of TMCC’s tri-located food pantry is made possible by a partnership with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.
In addition to providing these resources to students who attend classes at the Applied Technology Center, the grand opening event was also held to spread awareness of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This federal program provides food assistance for individuals with little to no income—including students.
“Students who are eligible for any PELL grant amount are also eligible for SNAP benefits,” Tuttle explained. “If students apply for SNAP benefits, that’s another resource that can help them, and that they qualify for based on their status as a PELL eligible student.”
To help to spread the word—and the SNAP benefits—Wizard’s Warehouse has partnered with the Food Bank of Northern Nevada’s SNAP Benefits Coordinator, who will make regular visits to TMCC to help students through the application process. “Their goal is to connect people to SNAP and help them apply for these benefits,” said Tuttle. A SNAP Benefits Coordinator will be present at TMCC locations at the various days and times:
- Dandini Campus: first and third Thursdays of every month from 1–3:30 p.m. RDMT 115
- Meadowood Center: second and fourth Thursdays every month 1–3:30 p.m. in MDWS room 119 or the lobby of Meadowood South.
If these days, locations and times don’t work for you, Tuttle encourages students to contact the Food Bank directly at 775-331-3663 extension 152 for assistance in applying for SNAP Benefits.
For students interested in learning more about resources and supports that are available, contact Wizard's Warehouse or TMCC’s Educational Partnership Programs.
TMCC Alumnus David Wise is Olympic-Bound
TMCC alumnus David Wise is a half-pipe freestyle skier who is participating in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. Wise adds this Olympics his already impressive resume which includes being a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and four-time X Games Gold Medalist.
The 2022 Winter Olympics began on Feb. 4 and will continue through Feb. 22, and are hosted in Beijing, China. Beijing is the first city to have a summer and winter Olympics, as well as the first Olympic venue to host the Games where natural snow is not naturally abundant.
There are 2,871 athletes competing—1,581 men and 1,290 women—and a dozen are from Northern Nevada or Northern California. Wise is the only TMCC alumnus.
Learning Commons Offers New Film Database
Docuseek, the latest database acquisition of the TMCC Learning Commons, features more than 2,000 documentary films that focus on social and environmental issues. Whether you’re interested in knowing about the ancient astronomy of the southwest Pueblo Indians, what it takes to reclaim public spaces in the world’s largest cities or the use of filmmaking as propaganda in World War II, Docuseek offers this and more for free to TMCC students, faculty and staff.
Docuseek can be accessed on the Library Website on the “Databases” page under the header “DigitalMedia Collections.”
Natural History Museum Collection Featured
Recently, TMCC’s Natural History Museum was featured in the January Edition of the ARCTOS newsletter as a New Collection Spotlight. The museum, which was formalized in 2020, began collecting specimens used in undergraduate research. The collection, which is largely digital, is focused on the interface of the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains and the Great Basin desert. So far, the collection houses nearly 5,000 objects from herbarium, fungarium, botany, invertebrate, mammal, herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology collections.
The TMCC Natural History Museum is composed of wet specimens, skins, skeletons, pressed plants, insects, taxidermy mounts, and fossils. The collection has been growing through recent collaborations and hard work by undergraduate student researchers.
TMCC Biology, Environmental Science and other faculty helped to create and grow the museum to teach and engage undergraduate students on the importance of museums and museum research. Through lab classes and research projects, students are heavily involved in the collections, bringing together both natural history research and museum practices.