What does he want? “World peace.” How do we get there? “Music.” “People ask me why I work so hard all the time, why I dedicate so much time and energy into teaching and conducting, my answer has always been world peace,” said Dr. Thomas Loewenheim, professor of music (fresnostate.edu/artshum/music/) at Fresno State. “When my students […]
The Fresno State CineCulture Series (cineculture.csufresno.edu/) kicks off the fall 2015 lineup of film screenings with “Ocean Heaven (Hai yang tian tang)” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Most CineCulture screenings are at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays during the fall semester in the Peters Education Center Auditorium (5010 N. Woodrow Ave. in the Student Recreation Center). […]
The Fresno State Art and Design Department (fresnostate.edu/artshum/artanddesign/) presents “Faculty Works,” an exhibition of artwork from their faculty and staff. For the first time, this event will be held in the gallery at the M Street Graduate Studios (fresnostate.edu/artshum/artanddesign/m-street.html) in downtown Fresno. This exhibition showcases the diversity and talents of these established artists, many of whom have […]
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A musical composition written by Fresno State Music Professor Dr. Benjamin Boone will receive its international debut this Wednesday, Aug. 24. Germany’s Verdi String Quartet , one of Germany’s leading chamber music ensembles, commissioned the piece, entitled “SLAM!,” to be premiered at the opening concert of a major music, Fetival Vielstag, in Fussen, Germany. “I was actually […]
Dr. Paulette Fleming, a Fresno State educator who died unexpectedly last October, is still being honored for her bold work in the community. The Fresno Arts Council has named the late Dr. Paulette Fleming the 2016 recipient of the Ella Odorfer Educator Award for the 31st annual Horizon Awards “Paulette had a unique combination of […]
Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian will give a presentation on “The Armenian Diaspora: Lebanon” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus. The presentation will be the first in the Fall Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program, […]
Pictured above: Brian Moran, right, with Martha Birdbear, one of the Hidatsa speakers in North Dakota. UPDATE, Aug. 20, 2016: From KVPR’s “Valley Edition”: Linguistics professors and students at Fresno State are hard at work on a mammoth task – saving the language of the Chukchansi tribe of Mono Indians. One thing makes their task especially […]
UPDATE: The Central Valley Honor Flight documentary is now available online as a podcast. Click here to listen. ORIGINAL POST: A radio documentary on the Central Valley Honor Flight will air on KFSR 90.7 at noon on Sunday, Sept. 21. Faith Sidlow, an assistant professor with the Mass Communication and Journalism Department, traveled to Washington, D.C., with 65 World War II […]