Dr. Jonathan Harvey held practice for the Fitchburg State Chamber Choir in Weston Auditorium. As part of their regular practice, the choir ran through the three pieces they will be performing at the opening of tomorrow's Undergraduate Research Conference.   Learn more about our music programs here.

In order to get a better understanding of how our nursing students prepare, the nursing faculty and senior nursing students held the first of two  “Nursing in Action”
Programs this afternoon in the clinical labs at Thompson Hall. This event gave future nursing students the chance to see training topics lead by our senior nursing students including; Fall Prevention, Pediatric CPR, and Safe Body Mechanics among others. The next chance to get this experience is  is  Friday April 19  from 1-2:30pm, register here.

Theater Professor, and Sign Language Interpreter, Kelly Morgan teaches students sign language during our Young Falcons Academy Week. The Young Falcons Academy Week is where students from Fitchburg and Leominster public middle schools partake in a week full of activities on campus.

Both the Fitchburg State Falcons Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field teams practicing at Elliot Field yesterday afternoon.

Students work on a lab in Biology and Chemistry Professor  Dr. Eric Williams' Developmental Biology class in the Antonucci Science Complex, where they extract worms from soil samples. The course examines a detailed survey of developing embryos from the fertilized egg through the various stages leading to the adult organism. 

Students in Theater Professor Ellen (Cap) Corduan's Theatrical Stage Make Up course experiment with various make-up techniques, this lesson was classic whiteface clown. This lecture/laboratory course investigates the principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup and practical application. Students will apply, in a production setting, principles, techniques and materials of character stage makeup. They will identify historical justification for period makeup and apply techniques for live animation, clowning and dramatic character.

The Dance Club will presents its Spring Showcase at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m. in Weston Auditorium. Admission is $5 and tickets are available online or at the door.

Fitchburg State University Resident Assistants, along with some special guests, offered their faces up for today's Pie Your RA Event. All proceeds went to the Worcester Animal Shelter.

Theater Concentration, Communications Media Alum Steven Beck'23 played Peter Snyder, a schizophrenic patient who went off his medication. Our team of nursing students were directed to take vitals, administer medications, and were eventually able to get Peter to get from the floor to his bed. 

Author Eveline MacDougall (Fiery Hope : building community with the Amandla Chorus) and renown musician John Clark were recent guests in English Studies Professor Michael Hoberman's Folklore in America class. MacDougall wove together the threads of her formative years as a Québécois and  life with civil right's activists Wally and Juanita Nelson. The two performed a French inspired piece for the class. The course introduces students to the academic discipline of folklore and to a range of cultural traditions found in the United States.