Professor Joshua Spero recently welcomed The Washington Center Representative for an Internship Information Session to discuss internship opportunities in the nation's capital for Fall 2025 semester in Percival Hall. Students, in-person and online, learned about internship opportunities at The Washington Center.

This afternoon, Shane Franzen, Associate Director, Student Development
Commuter and Volunteer Affairs and Advisor, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) welcomed attendees to the annual LGBTQ+ Flag Presentation and Flag Raising  at Alumni Plaza in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month. Dr. Jonathan Harvey and the Fitchburg State Choirs opened the event with renditions of “Music of Life” and “You’ve Been on my Mind”. Speakers from across campus  joined the festivities.

Career Services and Advising (CSA) hosted an Internship Fair in the Hammond Main Hall this afternoon. The fair gave students the opportunity to meet an array of local businesses and services face-to-face to discuss internships and potential employment. 

Game Design Program Professor Andres Gonzalez discusses player points of view and immersion with students in his Game Level Design course. In this course, students will learn concepts, tools, and techniques to design & build playable game levels or environments for a series of off the shelf games, both pen and paper and digital. The ability to modify games is crucial to the development of a game designer, and level design remains a core competency for aspiring professionals. Over the course of the semester, students will develop crucial perspectives on iteration, challenge, spatial and temporal dynamics, environmental and architectural design, and gameplay balance, while building the requisite technical and aesthetic competencies involved in developing with an industry-standard 3D game engine, including modeling & construction, placement and editing of objects and textures, lighting design, animation and scripting.

Music Professor Justin Casinghino  examines rhythmic notation, including meters and tempo with students in his Basic Music Theory course. Learn more about our Music Programs here.

Communications Media / Film and Video major Seth Rigby interviews fellow student Adam Fournier about his experience as part of the crew on the student film production Dream Girl. The 25-30 minute short film follows a young man’s pursuit of an idealized fictional woman and tackles the question of what happens when a person’s standards alienate them from the world, leaving them in an echo chamber.

Local High School Seniors enrolled in our Fitchburg State University Upward Bound Math & Science Program (UBMS) met on campus for a College Search Workshop. Our UBMS staff assisted the students with completing requirements and search strategies to aid in their college search and acceptance.

Professor Amy McGlothlin, Program Director for our Creative Arts Therapies program, leads her Jazz Band in a  jam session in Conlon Fine Arts. Learn more about our Music Programs here.

Earlier this week,  Biology and Chemistry Department Chair Dr. Erin Rehrig hosted a gathering to celebrate the "retirement" of  Biology and Chemistry Professor Dr. Michael Nosek at the Liscotti Pavilion in the Antonucci Science Complex. After being presented with a certificate from Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Patricia Marshall on behalf of President Hodge and the Board of Trustees, Dr. Rehrig gave a basket of gardening tools from her and the rest of the Biology and Chemistry Department - of which he made good use of to serve cake. While Dr. Nosek has officially retired, he will remain with the university as an Adjunct Professor.

Students in Biology and Chemistry Professor Steven Fiedler's Physical Chemistry I1 Lab work on various experiment in the Antonucci Science Complex. The course explores the underlying principles of chemistry from a physical chemistry standpoint. Topics of discussion include kinetic theory, theories of the structure of matter, theory of solutions, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, spectroscopy and kinetics.