Yesterday afternoon, students got a little break from classes, tests and projects by spending a little time with Daisy, Moka, and Penny in the Hammond Maine Lounge. These therapy dogs were a welcome respite from early semester stresses.

Chartwells Dining hosted a make-your-own S'Mores Mix & Mingle in the Dining Commons.

Students in Professor Michael S. McCutcheon's Criminal Investigation course got to try their hands at fingerprint collecting. After leaving their own fingerprints on various surface types, the students dusted, and lifted the prints using situation/surface specific methodologies. The course will enables the student to understand the fundamentals of the criminal investigation process. They will explore investigative techniques in crime scene search, collection and use of evidence and information. Learn more about our Criminal Justice Program here.

Students in Intro to Studio Art class took photos of their pottery pieces in the Conlon Fine Arts building. This course provides a hands-on introduction to drawing, painting, and sculpture. 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.

Yesterday afternoon, Student Development held its annual Rock the Hall in Hammond Hall. Rock the Hall gives students the opportunity to connect with student Clubs and  Organizations here on campus.

Professor Robert Harris discusses the scope and workload of his Film Styles Genres & Movements class in the Conlon building. This course blends theoretical and historical concepts associated with a selected genre, style or movement within a production course setting. Students study a selected genre, style or movement, and then, in groups, will write and produce a short film or digital video, based within the historical and/or theoretical framework that the class has studied.

Are you a student interested in some extra work? Stop by our Office of Student Development Student Orientation Leaders table on street level of Hammond Hall. Have your questions answered, apply, spin the prize wheel and maybe you too will be doing a "happy dance." 

On day one of  Biology and Chemistry Professor Dr. Sean Rollins' Medical Microbiology course, students get a primer on use, cleaning, and care of the microscope. The course serves as an introduction to the biology of major groups of micro-organisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi. Emphasis is placed on their relationship to man as agents of infectious diseases. In the laboratory principles and practices of aseptic techniques and diagnostic identification and culture of disease entities are explored.

Students in Dr. Robert Carr's Client Project Production course wasted no time and met with this semester's client, the Fitchburg Art Museum. The class discussed their project, promotion of an upcoming exhibit with Fitchburg Art Museum Director Nick Capasso and Assistant Curator Sarah Harper. 

Meredith Neumann, who is working with our choirs while Dr. Jonathan Harvey is on sabbatical, held a first day meeting of the Fitchburg State Concert Choir in Weston Auditorium. Learn more about our music programs here.