This morning, Engineering Technology Professor Ana Mesquita-Emlinger brought students in her Engineering Graphics course to the quad for observational hand-drawing focused on the buildings and landscape. In this course, Students are introduced to traditional and modern methods in engineering and technology graphic visualization, drawing, drafting, CAD software, and 3D modeling. Emphasis is placed on how visualization is used in both design and production.

This morning, as part of the university's You FIT Here! Fitchburg Your Story program, Fitchburg State University School of Education and English Studies programs held a Teach-In at Abolitionist Park. Professors Danette Day and  Kisha Tracy taught their  How to Build Community, and  Global Middle Ages  courses in Abolitionist Park. This is a two-day program involving other academic schools and professors.

This course is a unique collaboration between our Nursing Simulation Laboratory and our Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA) where our nursing staff prepares lifelong learners to serve as Standardized Patients (SPs) for undergraduate nursing simulations. Participants will learn how to accurately and consistently portray specific patient scenarios, provide valuable, constructive feedback to students from the ‘patient’s perspective’, and contribute to the safety and realism of the clinical learning environment. No prior acting experience is required; the curriculum is specifically designed to help non-actors use their own life experiences to create authentic patient portrayals for our students. This first session served as an introduction to the training, and a tour of the Nursing Simulation Laboratory. 

Students in Hanna Melnyczuk's Intro to Studio Art class learn about shapes and light as they work on their still life renderings in the Conlon Fine Arts building. The course emphasizes the fundamentals of each studio discipline, and will also explore the expressive potential of visual art: how the various elements of drawing, painting, and sculpture can be used to embody very different feelings and ideas. Learn more about our Fine Art Program here. 

Director of Bands & Creative Arts Therapies Program Director, Professor Amy McGlothlin's Instrumental Skills class worked through a feedback session with unfamiliar instruments in the in Conlon Fine Arts building. Learn more about our Music Programs here. 

Senior nursing student Chris worked through a home care scenario in our Nursing Simulation Laboratory. Among the treatments, Mr. Harrington was in need of a catheter replacement.

Theater Technical Director Jo Nazro, Fitchburg State University Industrial Technology/Technical Theater alum, discusses stage blocking with students in her Stage Management class. This course is a lecture/laboratory study of the professional union approach to stage management and personnel mediation in stage production. Students will apply knowledge and technique related to contract and union policy in various repertory scenarios. The aspects of prompt books, blocking documentation, call-sheets, rehearsal set-up and running and calling the show will be implemented.  Learn more about our Theater Concentration here.  

Students in Communications Media's Professor Charles Roberts' Intermediate Digital Cinema Production course  work on an editing project. This course covers professional production techniques used in modern narrative production environments. In addition to achieving competency in lighting, exposure, composition and framing with video cameras, students master the basics of audio production both on location and in studio environments and the editing of the dramatic narrative.  

The Center for Faculty Scholarship recently held a Faculty Book Launch in the The Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library Archives. English Studies Professor DeMisty D. Bellinger-Delfeld welcomed those  gathered and introduced Communications Media Professor Dr. Rachelle Dermer and Humanities Professor Dr. David Svolba. Dr. Svolba presented his two new publications, Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Guide and the OER published Arguments in Medical Ethics. Dr. Dermer presented her OER book Short Film Screenwriting and Pre-Production Planning.  

Biology and Chemistry Professor Dennis Awasabisah works with students in his Organic Chemistry I Lab in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course covers topics such as structure, functional groups, stereochemistry, nomenclature and reactions of organic compounds. Reactions of carbonyl compounds and carboxylic acids and their derivatives are covered in detail including nucleophilic addition, condensation and nucleophilic substitution with special emphasis on reaction mechanisms and stereochemical outcomes.