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Happenings in the Valley
January 2012 |
 January
3rd
Cello concert spotlights recent Phi Kappa Phi inductee Loewenheim
The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and the Fresno State Department of Music will kick off the spring semester musical concert season on campus with “An Evening of Cello Music” at 8 p.m. Jan. 20 at the Concert Hall in the Music Building.
The concert will feature Dr. Thomas Loewenheim on cello and pianist Hatem Nadim.
On the program are performances of Giuseppe Tartini’s “Variations on a Theme by Corelli,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Sonata for Cello and Piano in A-major, Opus 69” and Johannes Brahms’ “Sonata for Cello and Piano in F-major, Opus 99.”
Loewenheim is the director of orchestras and a professor of cello at Fresno State. Nadim is a staff accompanist at Fresno State. Loewenheim was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi last April.
The concert acknowledges his musicianship and will raise funds for Phi Kappa Phi’s Fresno State chapter.
Phi Kappa Phi is the nations’ oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. The Fresno State chapter was established in 1953 and includes 800 students, faculty and staff as current members.
Concert tickets are $7 general admission, $6 for university employees and seniors and $5 for students.
January
4th
Give a Gobbler Finishes Holiday Season Strong
(January 4, 2012) – Through the efforts of the fifth Give a Gobbler campaign at Fresno State’s Rue and Gwen Gibson Farm Market, 191 student-raised turkeys were donated to needy families this holiday season.
“We are overwhelmed by the response to this year's Give a Gobbler drive, which has been a tremendous success,” said Dr. Ganesan Srinivasan, director of Fresno State agricultural operations.
When donors purchased a turkey for $25, they could choose that it go to the Fresno Community Food Bank, Poverello House or Bulldog Pantry to help families in need.
The Bulldog Pantry, a student-organized and staff organization serving in two neighborhoods near the campus, received 120 turkeys, while 37 went to Community Food Bank and 34 to Poverello House.
“We exceeded our original goal of 150 turkeys thanks to the support of the community even during tough economic times,” Srinivasan said.
The drive received a significant boost – 80 turkeys – thanks to a donation by alumni Mitchell Metzler and Gene Ney of RCO Ag Credit Inc. in December.
The Bulldog Pantry also received 120 jars of cranberry sauce that were made and donated by students at the campus Food Processing Lab under the direction of food science professor Dennis Ferris.
The turkeys were raised by Fresno State animal science students on the campus farm for 18-23 weeks and then were sent to Zacky Farms in Fresno to be processed and packaged for sale at the Farm Market.The Gibson Farm Market at Barstow and Chestnut avenues sells student-produced goods and is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
January 17th
Traffic Alert
Heavy traffic is expected
around campus during the first week of the semester. In
addition, Caltrans has announced that the westbound Highway
168 off-ramp at Shaw Avenue will be closed Wednesday and
Thursday (Jan. 18-19) from 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Highway
168 access to the Fresno State campus will be available
from the Bullard Avenue off-ramp.
INFO: Amy Armstrong, University Police Dept., 559-278-8400.
Artist Invitational Begins Four-week Exhibit on Jan.
17th in Conley Art Gallery
The 2012 Artist
Invitational, a new art exhibit at Fresno State
featuring four artists whose works depict obsessive or
repetitive processes, opens today and
runs through Feb.
10 in
the Conley Art Gallery. The free, public exhibit is open
10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday. On
Tuesday, Jan. 24, the four artists showcased in the
gallery – Kirkman Amyx, Richard Bruland, Roger Lee and
Hadieh Shafie – will lecture on their work at 3 p.m. in
the Conley Art Building, room 101, followed by a
reception.
INFO:
Nick Potter at npotter@csufresno.edu or 559.278.4731
‘Healing the American Dream’ – Jan. 18 event on campus for King Week'
Members of the Fresno State National Coalition Building Institute Team will be on hand in the Free Speech Area from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.18, to listen to individual’s thoughts on this year's local theme for King Week - "Living the Dream, Let Freedom Ring for LOVE: Healing the American Dream." Individuals can write or speak their thoughts and feelings on such topics as "Does the Occupy Movement Help Heal the Dream?" and "What Did You do This Week to Help Heal the Dream?"
INFO: the NCBI Team at the Center for Women and Culture, 559.278.6946.
Fresno State Spring Enrollment Exceeds Target for First Time
For the first time in Fresno State history, the university surpassed its spring enrollment target on the first day of classes by 778 students with an unofficial headcount enrollment of 20,780, reports Bernie Vinovrski, associate vice president for enrollment.
Spring semester classes began today.
The enrollment figures include a growth of more than 200 new upper division transfer students over spring 2011 numbers. The retention of continuing students continues to improve as well, Vinovrski said.
He attributes the increased numbers to the quality of faculty at Fresno State and the university's outreach efforts.
The official enrollment is released in a few weeks.
January 19th
Prof’s
4-city Tour to Discuss Egyptian Revolution Begins
Dr. A. Sameh El Kharbawy, professor of art and design at Fresno State and a native of Egypt who was there during last year’s revolution, will discuss his book, “Days in the Square,” at 3 p.m. today, Jan. 19, at the Fresno Art Museum, 2233 N. First St. An account of what he witnessed in Cairo, the book is scheduled for release this summer. Today’s event is the kickoff of a four-city “Art of Dissent” tour visiting Cairo Jan. 25-26 and San Francisco and New York at dates to be determined.
For more information:
visit
www.artofdissent.org
or 559.278.4840.
Reading,
Party Mark Release of San Joaquin Review
The Fresno Poets Association and Fresno State's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program are sponsors of a book release party and first reading at 7 p.m. today, Jan. 19, at the Henry Madden Library, Room 2206, to mark the debut of the San Joaquin Review. The reading will feature several of the 17 writers published in this year’s journal, a publication of Fresno State’s Department of English. CONTACTS: Student editors Megan Baptista Geist and Michelle Brittan (poetry), Laura Austin Musselman and Brenda Rankin (creative nonfiction), and Tiffany L. Crum and Mario Rosado (fiction).
Family Business Awards presented on
January 19, 2012
Fresno State’s Institute for Family business and the Fresno Business Journal will present the annual Family Business Awards and announce the Family Business of the Year Award winner during a banquet at 7 p.m. today, Jan. 19, at Pardini’s Catering and Banquets, 2257 W. Shaw Ave.
For more information:
visit
http://cvifb.org/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=71&func=details&did=160
Henry Madden Library looks at the history of mapmaking Friday
Friends of the Madden Library at Fresno State will host “Maps: Historical Evolution and Contemporary Developments” 6-7:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Henry Madden Library.
INFO/REGISTER: Kellie Willis at 559.278.5790 or
kelliew@csufresno.edu.
January
26th
Aldo Leopold
Film Screening is Thursday,
January 26:
A free, public screening of the film “Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time” will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Satellite Student Union at Fresno State. INFO: Call 559.278.2061 or visit
http://jcast.csufresno.edu/docs/pdf/Green-Fire-flyer.pdf or
www.aldoleopold.org
Child Sex Abuse Will Be Focus of Ethics Lecture on Jan.
26th
Dr. Bernadette
Muscat, associate professor of Criminology, will deliver
a free, public lecture “Protecting Victims of Child Sex
Abuse: After Penn State” at 5
p.m. Jan. 26 in
the Alice Peters Auditorium in the University Business
Center at Fresno State. It is the first talk for the
spring 2012 Ethics Lecture Series. Muscat will provide a
look into child victimization, difficulties of child
disclosure, media and the ethical responsibility of
reporting crimes.
INFO: Ethics
Center at
www.csufresno.edu/ethicscenter.html.
January
27th
Seminar
Examines Crime, Punishment in Finland
and California
Mikko Aaltonen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Fulbright scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center, will be joined by other experts in a seminar Friday, Jan. 27, at Fresno State examining crime and punishment in California and Finland.
The seminar, which is free and open to the community, is sponsored by Fresno State’s College of Health and Human Services, Department of Social Work Education.
Discussants will consider why incarceration rates that were about the same in Finland and California a half-century ago have changed, fueling California’s 500 percent increase in prison population between 1982 and 2000, while Finland’s prison population was halved.
The goal will be to answer the question: How do the distinct cultures of correction in Finland and California contemporary prisons serve the goals of punishing lawbreakers, preventing crime and allowing law-breakers to make amends and return to society.
Sessions will examine the different cultures of correction, how children and families are affected by incarceration and recent budget-driven changes in prison realignment.
A panel discussion will follow the presentations (at 12:45 p.m.).
Besides Aaltonen, seminar speakers are:
• Dr. Kris Clarke, an assistant professor at Fresno State.
• Dr. Julie Lifshay, health and special projects manager of Centerforce, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of people in prison and their families.
• Carol F. Burton, the executive director of Centerforce.
• Debbie Reyes of the California Prison Moratorium Project, which advocates for prison reform.
The seminar will be presented 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Alice Peters Auditorium of the University Business Center (east side of the Peters Business Building).
For more information, contact Clarke at 559.278.2985 or
kclarke@csufresno.edu.
January
31st
Education Conference Spotlights Leadership, Student Success
Central San Joaquin Valley educators will attend a conference on improving schools and student success from prekindergarten through college beginning at 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building (808 4th St., Clovis). The event includes talks by Dr. Anthony Muhammad (leadership’s role in transforming school culture) and Dr. Eugene Garcia (language, immigration and schooling’s impact on student success). The sponsoring Fresno State’s Central Valley Educational Leadership Institute is a collaboration among 150 Valley school districts served by the university’s Kremen School of Education and Human Development.
For more information, contact Dr. Marcy Masumoto at
mmasumoto@csufresno.edu
(Source:
Fresno State University)
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