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.

Eric Budd Professor, Economics, History and Political Science Department (EHPS) hosted a panel discussion entitled Voting in America: The Process and Its Importance in the Hammond Main Lounge yesterday afternoon. Panelists Elizabeth McNiff, Fitchburg Assistant City Clerk, Joanna Bilotta, Fitchburg City Clerk, Derrick Cruz, Fitchburg Ward 6 City Councilor, Danette Day, Associate Professor, Education, Jacalyn Kremer, Dean, Gallucci-Cirio Library, Zachary Miner, Associate Professor, Sociology, and Kenneth Mackie, Assistant Professor, EHPS spoke with students and other attendees about the process and importance of voting.

This afternoon, as part of the Fitchburg State University Constitution Day 2024 C.L. Lindsay III, J.D. (Attorney, Author, and Student Advocate) presented Knowing Your Rights: Title IX and Gender Equity on Campus in the main Hammond Lounge. Constitution Day is observed each September in honor of the document’s signing on Sept. 17, 1787.

Communications Mediamajor, and Political Science minor, Joshua Cronin recently discussed his experience with Fitchburg State University's Summer Bridge Program. Joshua, who has been working with the staff at  Fitchburg Access Television's (FATV) this semester to produce a news program with fellow student Zoe Chrisostomides called North Central News remembers his experience as key to his attending Fitchburg State.

Senior Political Science major Allison Turner presented her Honors Thesis - Breaking Barriers: Affirmative Action in Higher Education to Economics, History, and Political Science faculty yesterday afternoon. A lively discussion, and questions on future initiatives, were considered.

Yesterday afternoon, Provost Patricia Marshall welcomed those gathered in the President's Hall for Professor Teresa Fava Thomas'  presentation of  the Harrod Lecture "The Forever Shutdown: The Hamilton Woolen Strike of 1934." After an introduction by Paul Weizer, Chair of the Economics, History and Political Science Professor Fava Thomas discussed the history of the mill as well as the United Textile Workers' launch of a nation-wide strike.

The Fitchburg State University Campus Center was abuzz today as the university once again hosts the American Moot Court Association's Eastern Regional Undergraduate Moot Court Qualifying Tournament. Student teams and coaches from as far away as California and Louisiana registered for the event this afternoon. Event coordinator, Economics, History and Political Science Professor Paul Weizer, welcomed volunteer judges, as well as the competing teams. This competition will span this afternoon and all day tomorrow.

Members of the faculty looked at the historical factors that have led to what has been called the Second October War in Israel and Gaza, while exploring how the crisis fits into other contexts, in Ellis White Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. Professor Joshua Spero moderated a panel discussion, which also included Michael Hoberman (English Studies),Eric Budd (Economics, History and Political Science), Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly (Humanities), Benjamin Lieberman (Economics, History and Political Science), R. Brad Bannon (Humanities) and Wafa Unus (English Studies)

The Center for Faculty Scholarship featured Professor Teresa Fava Thomas of the Economics, History and Political Science Department for a conversation about her new book, The Allied Bombing of Central Italy: The Restoration of the Nile Mosaic and Sanctuary of Fortuna at Palestrina. Dr. Thomas's book "explores the pressure by the Mussolini regime to control the Barberini family's art collection, the uses of cultural materials for propaganda purposes, the Allied use of airpower in the Italian theater of war, the postwar decision-making and recovery process. The book is one of the very few long-range studies of the war's impact on a single Italian town."

Fitchburg State University Professor of Political Science Paul Weizer teaches A Review of the 2022 - 2023 Supreme Court Term for the Fall Session of our Center for Professional Studies' Adult Learning in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA),program,