Campus Currents

Tuesday, March 21
Hybrid Format, Heineman Ecumenical & Cultural Center at 4:30 PM
Register for Zoom Link Here

Jennifer Dowling’s creative work explores various art and technology approaches. Her focus is on health challenges that are simultaneously personal and universal, to encourage healing despite adversity. Zahra Tohidinia’s work on green consumers focuses on analyzing their frustrations
and providing solutions.

Monday, March 20, 4:30 p.m.
McCarthy Center Forum

The richness of Andean folklore comes alive with New Inca Son, "proud bearer of an indispensable cultural legacy." (Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Conductor). Join us for an unforgettable journey presented by a talented ensemble of musicians hailing from the Andes Mountains of Peru and Bolivia.  

The group will be joined today by their Master Scissors Dancers! Don't miss out! 

The Chris Walsh Center for Educators and Families of MetroWest presents:

Dr. Liza Talusan: The Identity Conscious Educator 

March 21, 2023, 7pm - 8:30pm

Hybrid Event:

In-person Registration Here
Zoom Registration Here

This 90-minute workshop is focused on building knowledge, engaging in reflection, and moving to action. Identity very much informs our daily work, even if we have not built the habits and skills to see its impact. Building an identity-conscious practice means realizing that who we are informed and impacts how we act, interact, and how we see the world around us. To do this, we need tools to explore what our identities are, how they shape our views, and how we might work towards greater inclusion and equity.

The first of our two Accepted Student Receptions is coming up this Saturday, March 25th. These are extremely important yield events for the University. 

We hope to have faculty and staff on hand to help demonstrate to our accepted students why Framingham State University is their best option for continuing their education!

March is Career Month! Here are the remaining events:

March 22nd: How to Work the Career & Internship Fair, McCarthy Center Alumni Room
At 1:30PM on March 22nd, connect with employers from United Way and Definitive Healthcare to hear advice on how to best prepare for the Career & Internship Fair on March 30th.

March 30th: Career & Internship Fair, McCarthy Center Forum
The end of Career Month! Come and learn about open roles from employers offering jobs and internships in a variety of industries. The Fair will take place from 4:30PM to 6:00PM in the Forum.

Danforth Museum, 14 Vernon Street
Sunday, March 26, 3 to 4 p.m.

Join Boston-area artist Jasmine Chen and Danforth's Katherine Tako-Girard in a discussion about Chen's artistic process.

Jasmine Chen’s Expensive Orphanage is a deeply personal reflection on her family life past and present. Her painting merges memories of her childhood in China with contemporary experiences. The image reflects her struggle to make sense of her place and identity across two different cultures. Join her in conversation with Katherine Tako-Girard, Learning & Engagement Coordinator, as they discuss her painting, her process, and motivations.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-spotlight-conversation-with-jasmine-chen-tickets-565577807447

Monday, March 27
In front of May Hall
Stop by any time between 8:15PM - 9:00PM

Participants of all ages are welcome!

Use telescopes to observe a waxing crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, the Pleiades star cluster, and Orion Nebula! McAuliffe Center staff are available to answer your questions about telescopes and our Universe.

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Hybrid Event, Heineman Ecumenical & Cultural Center at 4:30 PM
Register for Zoom Link Here

Author Whitney Scharer will read from her award-winning debut novel, The Age of Light (2019), based on the life of fashion-icon turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, who famously said “I’d rather take a photograph than be one.” Imagined through Scharer’s vivid prose, Lee's journey of self-discovery takes her from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of war-torn Europe during WWII, where she was one of the first female war correspondents. Scharer will discuss the challenging constraints of writing historical fiction while celebrating its power to breathe new life into the past.

Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Hybrid Event: In-person in the Dwight Hall Performing Arts Center at 4:30 PM
Register for the Virtual Webinar Here.

How can we work to make the outdoors a space that is welcoming for all people, particularly the BIPOC community? Join us to discuss this topic with James Edward Mills, a journalist, adventurer, and co-writer/co-producer of An American Ascent, a documentary film about the first African-American expedition to climb North America’s highest peak, Denali.

Thursday, April 6, 2023 (rescheduled from February) 
McCarthy Center Alumni Room, at 4:30 PM

How can we sustain joy and connection in our modern, fast paced world? Through design elements, true stories, and reflective dialogue, this participatory event will discuss simple practices for sustaining happiness and be led by Daryl Christopher, a designer, educator, and founder of RE_KIN, a magazine focusing on communal wholeness through responsiveness.

Fulbright Info Table
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
McCarthy Center Lobby
Hope you can stop by our table to learn about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! The U.S. Student Fulbright Program awards an academic year-long experience to eligible applicants. These awards allow grantees to travel abroad to conduct research, attend graduate school, complete an art project, or serve as an English teaching assistant. More information about the program be found here.

Monday, April 10, 2023
Dwight Hall at 7:00 PM

A college student aspires to leave Bhutan for Australia to pursue a singing career, but instead he gets assigned to teach children in a remote mountainous village isolated from modern life. The extraordinary 2019 film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom was an Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature Film.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

"I know we have a lot to say about the situation...but, like, who has the time?" A window into the formation and research of the motherscholar collective
McCarthy Center Alumni Room, 6 to 8 PM (Hybrid Event)
Zoom Link Here

Members of the MotherScholar Collective, a multidisciplinary research group formed during the pandemic, discuss their research on the intersection of motherhood and academia, and collaborative possibilities of radical feminist flexibility. Panel participants: Maggie Campbell-Obaid, Ph.D, Katharina A. Azim, Ph.D., Kathryn Frazier, Ph.D, Helen Ho, Ph.D., Ivanna Richardson, M.A.

The Independent Association of Framingham State Alumni (IAFSA) invites you to join them for Coffee and Conversation with Kathryn Barbieri Tomasetti ’70

Family Ties to FSU & WWI Military Girls Club

Tuesday, March 21, 2023
10:00 AM

This presentation and discussion will be both in-person at Alumni House and on Zoom.

FSU Alumni Gledé Browne Kabongo 
“High Stakes and Ticking Clocks: Behind the Scenes with an Indie Thriller Author"

Monday, April 3, 1:30 p.m.
Alumni Room, McCarthy Center 

The Department of Communication, Media, and Performance welcomes back to campus Framingham State University alumna and novelist Gledé Browne Kabongo.

Gledé (pronounced Gleday) Browne Kabongo is a global marketing and communications professional with over fifteen years of experience helping organizations in the technology space maximize audience growth and brand impact. She is also a multi-award-winning author of unputdownable psychological thrillers—unflinching takes on deception, secrecy, family, and danger.

Gledé holds a M.S. in Communications from Clark University and a B.A in Communication Arts from
FSU. She has spoken at multiple industry events including the Boston Book Festival, Sisters in Crime (SinC) New England Crime Bake, and the Women in Publishing Summit. She lives outside Boston with her husband and two sons.

The Illusion of Safety: Understanding COVID and Undergraduate Students

Thursday, March 30, 6 p.m.
Center for Inclusive Excellence

Join the Center for Inclusive Excellence as alumna Eryca Carrier (Class of 2021) discusses how data on adverse childhood experiences and adolescent development can be extrapolated to see why students are struggling so much in college while navigating a world forever changed by COVID19.