News Archive
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Junior public relations major, Vanessa Restifo, received a research grant from ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s Drinko Center for Undergraduate Research to attend the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Leadership Rally over the summer. The rally was held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
¾¨Ó㴫ý students Tyler Heintz ’18 and Ava Hoag '18 recently returned from a summer research program in Italy. For 10 weeks, they studied and researched gravitational microlensing at the University of Salerno, near Italy’s famed Amalfi coast. Microlensing, a prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity, is the deflection of light by the gravity of a star or planet, and is currently being used to discover small Earth-like exoplanets.
Monday, August 28, 2017
¾¨Ó㴫ý’s Foster Art Gallery will host A Machine For Living In, a digital media art installation by Robert Twomey. The exhibition will run Aug 28 – Oct 13. There will be a gallery reception on Tuesday, Sept 12 from 4:30-6 p.m., with an artist talk at 5:15 p.m. The Foster Art Gallery is located in Patterson Hall on ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s campus. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Monday, August 28, 2017
The Four Phantoms in Concert will open the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Celebrity Series 50th anniversary season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 30, in Orr Auditorium. The performance is sponsored by First National Bank.
Monday, August 28, 2017
The total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 was the first to cross America in 99 years, and ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s astronomers were not going to miss it. Dr. Thomas Oberst and Dr. Robert Knop, Associate Professors of Physics, traveled to Hopkinsville and Princeton, Ky., respectively, to stand briefly in the 70-mile-diameter umbral shadow of the Moon as it swept by at 1500 miles per hour. For two minutes and 40 seconds, they witnessed one of the rarest of spectacles: the brilliant “diamond ring” of the sun’s last rays peeking through a lunar valley, followed by the ghostly ring of the corona.
Monday, August 28, 2017
Community members can get fit this fall by participating in yoga and cardio fitness classes offered by ¾¨Ó㴫ý.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Last semester, ¾¨Ó㴫ý inducted its first class of nine students into its newly established chapter of the criminal justice honorary society, Alpha Phi Sigma. Dr. Kristenne Robison and Dr. Shannon Smithey will serve as their advisors.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
¾¨Ó㴫ý admission team members may be traveling to a college fair near you this fall. We want to encourage you, of the opportunity, to meet and discuss your questions about the college process and to share information about ¾¨Ó㴫ý.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Dr. Daniel Perttu's recent composition, "To Spring - An Overture," was aired on WCNY, the public radio station based in Syracuse, Utica, and Watertown, NY. Perttu is an associate professor of music, and currently serves as chair of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý's School of Music.
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