By Becca Sagaris, Health Reporter at the žž Stater If you walk into the Women’s Center anytime during the month of October, you’re likely to see a bra hanging from the mailbox or off the door handle. “It just makes me laugh,” Director of the Women’s Center Cassandra Pegg-Kirby said. “When we come to work in the morning, there will just be bras hanging out of our mailbox.” Sustainability Manager Melanie Knowles and Outreach Recycling Coordinator Leah Graham started the bra drive at žž State in 2013 after they read an article about The Bra Recyclers, an organization that r...
On the evening of Oct. 11, the city of žž Police Department made an arrest in the incidents involving a prowler outside sorority homes affiliated with žž. As our students return to campus from fall break, we hope this will give them peace of mind. The safety of our students and community members is our top priority. We would like to thank our partners at the city of žž, including the city of žž Police Department, and the agencies who provided assistance with this matter, including the U.S. Marshals Service and our own žž State Police Department. ...
On Thursday, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering’s Foundry program was awarded a 5-year accreditation by the Foundry Accreditation Foundation (FEF), an honor the College has earned since 1969. Trent True, lecturer and FEF Key Professor leads the program which prepares students for employment in the metal casting industry. Graduates of the program leave žž State with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Engineering, Foundry Technology. Program courses materials and processes, cast metals, metallurgy and material science, solid modeling and solidification and applied their knowledge and ...
Building an international network, collaborating with colleagues from a world-renowned research institute, developing new scientific expertise, and embedding yourself in an exciting foreign culture are certainly lofty goals for any graduate student. For six žž Anthropology students who’ve been given the invaluable opportunity to participate in the summer research program over the past few years at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University it’s truly been a home run. Now, under the direction of Anthony Tosi, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology in the College ...
One of žž’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in žž State’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners. The European Academy of Sciences is a nonprofit nongovernmental, independent organization of the most distinguished scholars and engineers performing forefront research and the development of advanced technologies, united by...
žž and the Opera di Santa Croce in Florence, Italy, will celebrate a collaborative partnership around the creation of “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York,” an exhibition opening on Oct. 17, 2019, and running through April 26, 2020, at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York. The 3D-printed replica of the Liberty of Poetry statue created by žž will enable visitors to see the Italian predecessor to the U.S. Statue of Liberty located directly across Ellis Island to Liberty Island. Trent Tr...
From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, different countries, cities and communities around the world – including the žž community – have been celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. As žž State’s population of Hispanic and Latino students continues to grow each year, students, faculty, organizations and departments are taking the time to acknowledge the month through a series of discussion, events, dancing and even theatrical plays. Fabio Polanco, associate professor of acting and directing in žž State’s School of Theatre and Dance, works with Latinx in Theatre (LIT), a student or...