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The College of the Arts is thrilled to announce the winners of the ArtsLAUNCH! 2025 Grant Competition, co-sponsored by the John S. And Marlene J. Brinzo Center For Entrepreneurship and LaunchNET ����Թ� State.The competition was open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at ����Թ�. Applicants were asked to submit proposals in one of two categories: 1) the creation of new art demonstrating creativity and uniqueness or 2) the creation of a new art venture that would positively impact the arts economy.Congratulations to our 2025 ArtsLAU...

����Թ�’s School of Art is proudly represented in the 4th Cayman Islands Biennial, Archipelago, through the significant curatorial roles of Associate Professor of Glass Davin Ebanks and Associate Professor of Art History Joseph L. Underwood, who were invited by the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands to co-curate the international exhibition.Running Oct. 2, 2025, through Feb. 18, 2026, "Archipelago" spans multiple sites across the three Cayman Islands and explores themes of individuality and collectivity through the concept of an archipelago — a metaphor for islands existing a...

More than 160 educators from across the United States registered to participate in the summer 2025 Influencer U webinar, which trained them to teach students to create “content creator”-like journalism tailored to platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts.The free webinar sessions, co-sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association, ran weekly in June and July, and featured journalism researchers, advocates, practitioners and content creators. Each presenter’s insights drew on their work and experience, and allowed participants to develop classroom content tailored to their s...

 The Center for Scholastic Journalism again encouraged college programs to observe Scholastic Journalism Week (Feb. 24-28, 2025) by showcasing alumni who started as high school journalists.The campaign featured 21 alumni from eight colleges, generating over 17,000 impressions and nearly 800 interactions on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.The featured alumni represent a range of career paths including TV news reporters, writers, content producers, marketers, creative and design directors, educators, journalists, among others.A summary of the featured alumni along with their universities i...

October is cybersecurity awareness month, and ����Թ�’s information security team is informing students and staff about how to stay safe online through four weeks of interactive fun with the chance to win some amazing rewards. The goal, of course, is year-round attention to cyber threats. “What we’re looking to do is have prizes both in the student and the employee area,” Jim Raber, the associate chief information officer for the Division of Information Technology, told ����Թ� State Today.  Each week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month an email video certification will focus...

����Թ� has earned an AASHE STARS Silver rating for its ongoing commitment to campus sustainability, a step up from the bronze rating on the university's past submission.   “The Office of Sustainability's mission is to grow a sustainable future for all by implementing transformation sustainability processes into the university's facilities, planning process, operations, natural environment and culture,” Leah Graham, sustainability coordinator at ����Թ� State, told ����Թ� State Today.The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a natio...

Comfortable, fashionable clothing with built-in technology that can monitor wellness and health or provide protection is moving from science fiction to reality through the development of electronic textiles (e-textiles), combining elements of electronics, textiles and programming.  Soft Circuits and Smart Textiles����Թ� students and faculty from all areas of study, staff and community members are invited to participate in a workshop titled Soft Circuits and Smart Textiles, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 10 in the Design Innovation (DI) Hub on the university’s...

Roe Green, M.A. ’80, L.H.D. ’23, and the Roe Green Foundation, have made a $1 million gift to ����Թ� to establish the Roe Green Musical Theatre and Porthouse Artistic Directorship, benefitting the School of Theatre and Dance and Porthouse Theatre. The gift provides $100,000 in funding each year for 10 years for a new program support fund to be used at the discretion of the School of Theatre and Dance’s Musical Theatre coordinator and Porthouse Theatre’s producing artistic director.The new fund will support university and Porthouse productions, the hiring of assistant directors, ...