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Shakira Delgado, a graduating senior clarinetist at California State University, Fresno, has been named an Undergraduate Presser Foundation Music Scholar.
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Performances are at 7:30 p.m. May 2 – 3 and May 6 – 10 and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4 at the John W. Wright Theatre.
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Ayla Mora, M.A. in Communication and Joshua Lor, B.A. in Linguistics, were named the 2025 College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Medalists
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It is our pleasure to announce this year’s Dean’s Medal nominees and present our most accomplished and dedicated undergraduate and graduate students.
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Performances are at 7:30 p.m. March 28 – 29 and April 1 – 5 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 30 at the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre on campus.
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The production will tour Valley and feature free public performances during Vintage Days on April 12 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the Dennis and Cheryl Woods Theatre.
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After graduating, Salvador Solorio-Ruiz returned to his hometown of Delano because he felt an obligation to help build up the community that raised him.
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The Day of Giving is March 26, 2025! When you give to the College of Arts and Humanities, you are supporting the Dean’s Council (a fund for College of Arts and Humanities excellence).
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This week on Fresno State Focus, Anchored by Joseph Joyce and Nathan Ortiz: Find out how much cities like Sanger depend on local business. Who maintains the bowling alley on campus? And how a new coaching staff is changing the training routine for the football team.
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Fresno State Focus on Sports will air at 4 p.m. Monday, March 3, on Comcast Channel 94 and U-Verse Channel 99 and will be repeated at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Monday, March 10.
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The Contemporary Dance Ensemble will present six unique repertory dance works that explore themes of social activism, nonsensical rules and regulations, abstract visions infused with deep human emotions, family bonds, belonging and a nostalgic look at the 1980s.
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This course teaches students how to leverage theatre in curriculum development and allows them to create greater access to theatre in their community through its service-learning component.
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“It’s just such a special night. There’s an atmosphere that is created within this concert. It’s a night full of hope and peace. It’s a night for the community.” ~Dr. Cari Earnhart
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Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” assistant professor of trombone Dr. Russ Zokaites reimagines and modernizes the classic story with a twist.
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“The Kazan Visiting Professorship offers scholars a unique opportunity to work on topics of their choice, covering the wide range of Armenian studies.” ~ Dr. Talin Suciyan
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The competition involved linguistic puzzles and computational problems that test students’ logic and pattern recognition.
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The Dean’s Council Annual Fund annually supports students across the College of Arts and Humanities through the endowed scholarship.
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Fresno State alumna Kayla Mendoza decided that she wanted to get out of her comfort zone and travel to new and different places, so she landed a teaching job at an English language academy in Seoul, South Korea.
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Howard’s project, titled “Embodying the Jain Ideals of Heroism and Freedom,” will explore how Jain thinkers and activists worked to support women’s rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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“I always wanted to do something where I was going to help people.”
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“Red Velvet” tells the compelling true story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor who broke barriers in 1833 London by becoming the first Black man to play Othello on a major English stage.
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Richard “Rich” Marshall, award-winning journalist, editor and former general manager of The Collegian, passed away on Sept. 20 after a long illness. He was 76 years old.
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This week on Fresno State Focus, Media, Communications and Journalism student journalists bring you a ballot overview from Tuesday’s election.
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FOOSA Philharmonic, a collaboration between the Youth Orchestras of Fresno (YOOF) and California State University, Fresno, announced their recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, released by Tonsehen, has been made Grammy-eligible and is currently awaiting First Round Voting for a potential nomination in the “Best Orchestral Performance” category.
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Former administrator Dr. Judith “Judy” Kuipers passed away on Oct. 15. Born on June 24, 1937, Kuipers was vice president of Academic Affairs for Fresno State from 1984 to 1991.
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A playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter.
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The “Department of Music” at Fresno State has changed its name to the “School of Music.”
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Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing will host two author readings this fall — one featuring the program’s faculty authors, and one with a pair of acclaimed writers from the American South.
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Can rivaling sisters Baneatta and Beverly bury their father without killing each other? This proves difficult when Beverly shows up at the chapel with her “blessings” on display.
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For Dr. Tara Hashemi, assistant professor of French for the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, the 2024 Paris Olympics wasn’t just a global sporting event — it was a heartfelt homecoming.
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At least half of the writers performing at LitHop have connections to Fresno State as students, faculty, or alumni.
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Two-time Fresno State alumna Mary Sosa is the community engagement coordinator at the Poverello House, a downtown Fresno organization that offers food, shelter, and social services to people in need.
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For the first show of the Fall 2024 semester, Professor of Composition Dr. Benjamin Boone joined us while in Ireland – after spending a year as a United States Fulbright Scholar in Limerick.
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Fresno State’s Creative Writing Alumni Chapter, in collaboration with the Fresno Poets’ Association series, will present its second annual Fresno Writers Summit. The event celebrates new books by four alumni authors and features a keynote reading from trailblazing Hmong-American poet Soul Vang.
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Fresno State’s University Theatre presents the first production of its 2024/25 Mainstage Season, “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really,” based on the novel by Bram Stoker, written by Kate Hamill and directed by J. Daniel Herring.
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A life-sized bronze statue of anti-apartheid activist, former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela stands just east of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statue, facing the Fresno State Library from in front of the Professional Human Services building.
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Internationally-acclaimed percussionist, composer, educator and performing artist Terry Longshore presents his “balance | flow” tour, an exhilarating evening of music, animation, virtual-reality video, electronic audio and integrated lighting, creating a dynamic experience that has been enjoyed by audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
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Dr. Simon Maghakyan, a political scientist known for his pioneering forensic and theoretical research on heritage and security, has been named the 20th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno, for the Fall 2024 semester.
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The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State announced that Dr. David Zakarian has been appointed the Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies for the fall 2024 semester. Dr. Zakarian was previously an associate faculty member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.
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Fresno writer Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, a two-time Fresno State alumna, has won a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
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A Central Valley native, Khachigian was Reagan’s chief speechwriter, trusted political adviser and “go-to” counsel for the president and first lady in campaigns and political crises.
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The Top Dog Alumni Awards recognize a select group of Fresno State alumni who have made significant contributions to their community and whose accomplishments, affiliations and careers have enriched the legacy of excellence at Fresno State.
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The Fresno State Institute for Media and Public Trust and the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative announced a partnership establishing a healthcare reporting fellowship in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
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Dr. Janet Loring, professor emeriti and a revered figure in the theatre and academic community, passed away on July 3, 2024, in Fresno. She was 98.
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“Dr. Darling has done a remarkable job as Chair of Music over the past eight years, and during Spring 2024, Dr. Darling also served as a special assistant in the Dean’s office when Associate Dean La Porta became Acting Dean of the Kremen School in January.”
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She was one year away from graduating, when war broke out and forced her university to close.
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The Reverend James M. Lawson Jr., the legendary leader and tactician of nonviolence within the United States’ Civil Rights Movement, which Lawson referred to as the “Rosa Parks-Martin King” Movement, passed away on June 9 at the age of 95.
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This summer, embark on an inspirational journey from darkness into light as the FOOSA Philharmonic performs Karol Szymanowski’s “Concert Overture” and Gustav Mahler’s “Seventh Symphony.”
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The Provost’s Awards were established in 1993 to recognize the outstanding teaching, research and service that is central to the mission of Fresno State.
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Two students shared their experiences in the course.
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Lilia Gonzales-Chavez will receive an honorary doctor of fine arts and will be recognized during the commencement ceremony for the College of Arts and Humanities, scheduled from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 17, at the Save Mart Center.
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Story by Jim Boren, director of the Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State.
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This season will see the final production from longtime faculty member Brad Myers and the debut of new faculty member Michelle Bellaver.
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Written by Ariel Dorfman and directed by Thomas Whit-Eillis, the “Death and the Maiden” reader’s theatre presentation will be at 6 p.m. May 10 in Music 160.
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Fresno State has selected award-winning San Francisco-based architecture firm Mark Cavagnero Associates to design a new 1,000-seat Concert Hall on campus.
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Katie Xiong, an English major who currently studies creative writing as an undergraduate at Fresno State, will now experience her first Young Writers’ Conference on campus.
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Fresno State is one of five public colleges and universities receiving funding from the Mellon Foundation to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors.
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Arts in Motion will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, April 19, at the Fresno State Concert Hall. During the event, one undergraduate and one graduate student of distinction will be presented as Dean’s Medalist.
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The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, told by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater through what “Entertainment Weekly” called “the most gorgeous Broadway score this decade,” “Spring Awakening” explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable.
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Singh Dhillon describes himself as “a Punjabi boy at heart” and said that his keynote address for the Fresno audience will include a reading from Sunny G’s opening chapter solely because it ends with the words “Fres-Yes.”
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Fresno State’s Theatre for Young Audiences will present the free public performances of “Nice & Slow” by Lojo Simon and directed by Nicola Olsen.
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The National Art Education Association has named Dr. Ahran Koo, associate professor of Art History, as the recipient of the 2024 Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator.
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Sixteen students competed for the Fresno State Barking Bulldogs Speech and Debate Team at the Nicholas Burnett Hornet Classic at CSU Sacramento, March 22-24.
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This week on Fresno State Focus, our student journalists question how political science students overcome political stigma. News anchor Cesar Maya talks to the candidates for ASI president for the fall 2024 semester and Natalia Mendoza ArtHops through Jose Soria’s exhibit, “I Exist Both Here and There.”
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“The work the students are doing in MCJ Production Services is at a professional level, and the two Accolade awards serve as an example of that professionalism.”
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This week on Fresno State Focus: Our student journalists explore the Fetch mobile app, which has become a convenient way of ordering food on campus. They will also show students tips and tricks for tax season and what resources are available to them on campus. Plus, they look at the importance of the Peach Blossom […]
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“Sanctuary City” promises to captivate audiences with its raw emotion, thought-provoking themes and unique form of storytelling. The production sheds light on the human side of the immigration debate, inviting audiences to empathize with characters whose lives are often overlooked or marginalized.
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Fresno State professors Dr. Maria Briggs, soprano, and Dr. Peter Klimo, piano, received first prize in the Doug Davis international competition for their performance of the art song cycle “Family Portraits” by Doug Davis.
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In the heart of Fresno State’s campus, amidst the bustling energy of student life, two dynamic ensembles stand as beacons of artistic innovation and expression: the Experimental Theatre Company (ETC) and University Dance Theatre (UDT).
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This week in FSF: trash concerns at the Palazzo Apartments, clothing and food donations, alumnus glass blower Cory Ballis.
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“Artful Discourse” is available on major podcast streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Amazon Music and more.
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The Art Song Festival at Fresno State is not just an event; it’s a cultural expedition that spans three days of performances, masterclasses, competitions, lectures and discussions.
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This vibrant gathering will take place from 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, at the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery, located on the second floor of the Fresno State Library.
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Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest
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Leading the accolades was Dr. Gary Gilroy, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Fresno State, who was honored with the CBDA David Goedecke Lifetime Achievement Award.
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As Angel Ibarra approaches his graduation this spring with a major in Philosophy, he will transition from a part-time to a full-time position as an Admissions Counselor at San Joaquin College of Law.
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CineCulture is set for a semester of exciting new films from around the world. All screenings will be in the Peters Educational Center Auditorium (West of Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building.) Each film will be followed by a conversation about the film with a featured discussant who was involved in the filmmaking process or is a subject matter specialist.
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The Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State was awarded a $201,000 grant by the The California Endowment to continue its visionary Journalists of Color training program.
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Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge from these trailblazers in their field.
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The California Endowment grant will help fortify the ongoing success of its pioneering journalism training program.
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Valley State Prison (VSP) hosted its first-ever formal debate between incarcerated college students and visiting Fresno State students.
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We proudly present some of this year’s Dean’s Council Endowed Scholarship recipients.
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The Barking Bulldogs opened the 2023-24 season at the Golden Gate Opener at San Francisco State University with an excellent performance. The tournament, which ran on September 29 and 30 saw a great start, despite being the first tournament for most of the team members.
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Author, translator, and Stanford University professor Roanne L. Kantor will deliver the keynote address for Fresno State’s seventh annual Students of English Studies Association symposium.
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Mark Swed with the L.A. Times called Dan Rosenboom “a phenomenon.”
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Theresa Rebeck’s “Seminar” is a brilliant examination of the creative process and the complex interplay of art and ego.
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This edition of Fresno State Focus will air at 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2023, on Comcast Channel 94 and U-Verse Channel 99.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to greet Dr. Young Maeng into the Department of Art, Design, and Art History. Welcome, Dr. Maeng!
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In her talk, “Remembering the WWII Past through Popular Media,” Dr. Amila Becirbegovic, Ph.D., explores how contemporary generations frame the history of World War II and the Holocaust through popular representations, such as social media, comedies, comics, films, and video games.
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Day of Giving (DOG) is Thursday, Nov. 2. For as little as $10, you can help support the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State.
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It goes beyond earning credits in foreign lands; it’s an immersive journey that profoundly shapes students.
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Proud of his heritage, Randy Ataíde created the first scholarship fund through the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI).
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A story of loss, love and redemption, Turner’s new comedy follows the world’s loneliest (and wittiest) single woman, Carlo, as she crashes her ex-girlfriend’s wedding to a man.
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We find out how students deal with their mental health and the solutions offered here on campus. We also meet a student who runs a business that gives students a new look.
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More than 100 writers will gather in Fresno’s Tower District on Saturday, Oct. 14 for LitHop 2023, the city’s free literary festival.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes Hanayo Oya to the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism as a new tenure-track assistant professor.
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This edition of Fresno State Focus will air live at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 4th, on Comcast Channel 94, U-Verse Channel 99 and will be repeated at 6 p.m. the next day, October 5th.
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Cellists from around the globe are coming to Fresno to enrich the community with four days of master classes, cello ensemble rehearsals, concerts and workshops for cellists of all ages and levels.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Dr. Nasrin Golshany to the Department of Art, Design and Art History.
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 