A gallery reception to open the Faculty Show was held yesterday afternoon at the Hammond Hall Art Gallery. This exhibit features a wide range of original and innovative work that includes sculpture, painting, photography, and video art created by faculty in the Humanities and Communications Media Departments. Artists include Jessica Robey, Jeff Warmouth, Andrea Olmstead, Deborah Santero, Britt Snyder, Don Tarallo, and J Flynn.

In addition to the Keynote Speaker and information sessions at yesterdays Campuswide Development Day, a Relaxation Lounge was available throughout the day. Community members got the opportunity to experience 15 minutes of complete relaxation in state of the art chairs. calm their mind and heal your body with a 16 aromatherapy scents oxygen bar. and relax with the chi machine.

Yesterday afternoon, Economics, History and Political Science Professor Eric Budd presented "Education for Peace and War?"  in the Presidents Hall as part of  the Harrod Lecture Series. 

English Studies Department Professor Benjamin Railton presented “Recording Our Worst and Imagining Our Best: My Experiences with My Public Scholarly Podcast” in our Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) as part of the Fitchburg State Speakers Series. 

Members of our faculty recently took part in an information literacy instruction workshop funded by the Academic Affairs Academic Innovation Fund award. in the Center for Teaching and Learning The  two-day workshop, hosted by The Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library, aimed to provide faculty a foundation for understanding Information Literacy (IL) as defined by the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL), as well as the University's General Education program. The workshop  addressed methods for teaching students essential IL skills and concepts in a constantly shifting information landscape. 

Our Center for Teaching and Learning's Summer Institute 2025 began today. This years session will focus on field-tested strategies, tools, and techniques through which instructors can use pedagogy and assessment to increase student engagement. The institute offers a specific look at first-year students, as research shows early approaches have lasting effects. The institute is designed for teachers and librarians interested in exploring diverse methods of engaging students through collaborative and inclusive practices.

Faculty, librarians and administrators gathered Friday to celebrate the publication of their new volumes that may be downloaded and reproduced for free, as part of an ongoing project designed to create open educational resources for students and the general public.

This morning, faculty got the chance to reconnect before the semester. Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Patricia Marshall, and other Academic Affairs staff, welcomed all and provided updates, celebrated achievements, and listened to faculty concerns. Keynote speaker Dr. Meira Levinson, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard Graduate School of Education discussed the topic of Educational Ethics.

This afternoon, Provost Patricia Marshall welcomed those gathered in the President's Hall for  English Studies Professor Kisha Tracy's presentation of  the Harrod Lecture: “Decolonizing the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages” After an introduction by Chair of the English Studies Department Aruna Krishnamurthy Professor Tracy discussed the expanding scope of medieval disability studies into the global world.

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.