Films from across the world illuminate Fresno State’s CineCulture

January 31, 2024.Reading time 21 minutes.

A women with dark hair and glasses stands in front of a chalk board with many mathematical equations on it. She is wearing a t-shirt and half of her face is illuminated while half is in the dark.

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.

Gandhi’s 150th birthday celebrated with Peace Garden vigil for world peace

September 30, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Flowers are place below the best of Gandhi in the Peace Garden. Photo by Cary Edmondson.

The community is invited to the annual celebration of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s birthday at 6 p.m., Oct. 2 in the Peace Garden, north of the Henry Madden Library. The program includes a garlanding ceremony, music, interfaith tributes, classical dance, and a pledge against hate and violence.

Gandhi’s 150th birthday begins commemoration with exhibition of peace

September 25, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Gandhi's bust in the Peace Garden at Fresno State.

The inauguration of an exhibition on the lives of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Daisaku Ikeda, and Cesar Chavez will mark the start of a series of events commemorating the 150th birthday of Gandhi at Fresno State. The community is invited to the ceremony at 9 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 2 in the Henry […]

The inaugural Sherley Anne Williams and Lawson Fusao Inada Writing Contest

July 31, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

In these writings, the authors often achieved that highest accomplishment of art: they worked with the raw material of pain–their own or the world’s–and transmuted it into a thing of beauty.

Dinuba teacher has been bringing students to Peach Blossom Festival for over 40 years

March 13, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

“It is probably one of the best experiences an elementary student can have,” said Olson. “The benefits of this festival reaches our young people in ways that cannot be duplicated anywhere else. The effects of this experience go beyond our imagination.”

Azores president headlines inaugural lecture for Portuguese institute

February 11, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Vasco Alves Cordeiro, president of the Government of the Azores will speak, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Fresno State’s North Gym (Room 118), will serve as the inaugural lecture for the new Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at the University. The event is free and the community is invited to attend.

Drama-focused program unites future ESL teachers with international high school students

November 30, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

The innovative after-school program allows teachers to implement creative ways of teaching English through a drama-based context. This 2018 Fall semester, the linguistics department set into motion a brand new program that partners Fresno State’s future Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) teachers with English as a Second Language (ESL) international students at San […]

Institute for Media and Public Trust presents First Amendment Forum

September 7, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Fresno State’s Institute for Media and Public Trust will present a First Amendment forum from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the Leon S. and Pete P. Peters Educational Center in the Student Recreation Center. This free event is open to the public. The forum will feature an expert panel that will explore free-speech issues on university […]

Writer William Saroyan’s longtime Fresno home to open as museum

July 20, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

~ By Barlow Der Mugrdechian, reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com The Fresno house where famed writer William Saroyan spent the last two decades of his life will open as a museum on Aug. 31, the 110th anniversary of his birth, with a private reception. Beginning in September, the William Saroyan House-Museum will be open for tours by […]

Orff and Kodaly 101 intro workshop running July 16-20

July 3, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Orff and Kodaly 101: An Introductory Workshop July 16-20 Fresno State Discovery, Diversity, Distinction

Dr. Emily Mason, assistant professor of the Department of Music and director for University Singers at Fresno State, will be holding a week-long summer workshop from 9 a.m. to noon July 16-20. The workshop, open to public school music teachers, will entail an introduction to the teaching pedagogies known as the Kodaly Method and the […]