Family, friends, educators and hard work; Tony Salazar chases his dream
A caring uncle, self-determination, and a network of friends and family elevate one student from a life in shambles to one of MCJ’s top students.
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Interior design student wins regional ANDZY competition
Interior design major Marisol Coria received the “Best Student Design” for her Capstone project at the annual ANDZY Awards, president by the Central California and Nevada chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).
Read MoreMCJ student creates Spanish language podcast on COVID-19
As businesses closed and schools began operating remotely due to COVID-19, Olegario Tapia became concerned as he watched his mother leave to work in the fields around Dinuba. “An abundance of the information my family consumed about the new virus came from unreliable social media outlets, and a lot of the time, it was misinformation […]
Read MoreBiology, philosophy, music student accepted into medical school despite the odds
While most children at 9-years old were playing with their toys, Anindita Rajasekaren and her family gathered around the computer to check their green card status. Year after year, they were disappointed…
Read MoreVoice student advances to semi-finals in second national competition
Fresno State Music Department graduate student, Christopher Rodriguez, has advanced to the semi-final round in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) “2020 National Student Auditions.”
Read MoreLaura Hendricksen wins CAH Outstanding Thesis Award for work on Hidatsa language
Hendricksen won the 2020 College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award for “Demonstratives and Determiner-phrase Structure in Hidatsa Narrative Discourse: A Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Analysis.”
Read More2020 Grad Tribute
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Read MoreGraduate vocal performance student moves into 2nd round of national competition
“Christopher Rodriguez made a lovely gift for his mom on Mother’s Day,” said Dr. Maria Briggs – Okunev, assistant professor of voice. “He advanced to a second round of the National Classical Singer Competition.”
Read MoreMusic student wins international ‘Volterra Project Composer Award’
Music composition student Christian Cruz, who will graduate with a master’s degree in music composition, has won the “Volterra Project Composer Award.”
Read MoreKudos to Fresno Writers – February/March 2020
Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a regular series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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