Creative Writing students earn ‘Desert Nights, Rising Stars’ scholarships

January 14, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

MFA Creative Writing students (top left to right) Jer Xiong, Delaney R. Whitebird Olmo, Carolina Mata, (Bottom left to right) Amber L. Carpenter, Mariah Bosch and Karissa Ellison.

Six Fresno State graduate students in the Master of Fine Arts Program have been awarded scholarships to attend the 2021 Desert Nights, Rising Stars virtual conference at Arizona State University.

Armenian Studies holds an international conference to explore the early Turkish Republic period

September 30, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State will hold a two-day conference on “The State of the Art of the Early Turkish Republic Period: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, on Zoom and 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, on Zoom.

Message from the Dean

At this moment in time, there is no doubt that the arts and humanities allow us to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world. Our faculty and students have been grappling with the question of what it means to be human in their mostly virtual classes, while the medium through which they are teaching and learning truly puts the quest for enlightenment into new perspective. As this newsletter attests, our College’s talented faculty have dedicated their careers to transforming the lives of our students by providing an excellent, innovative education, and they are forging ahead this fall with the same commitment. More…