May 23, 2013
Jayrod Garrett is a National Guard serviceman, husband, campus employee, and former honors and BIS senator. He is also a nontraditional student who has overcome many obstacles to get his associate’s degree this semester. To be considered a nontraditional student, one must be a veteran, 25 or older, married, a parent, and/or be widowed or [...]
The best of the music program are preparing to perform in this year’s Concerto Night on Sunday. Students from all areas of the music department are fine-tuning their solo pieces to perform with the symphony. While the expectations are high, students rise to the challenge of performing difficult repertoire year after year. “I am singing Micaela’s aria [...]
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Trenton Fordham, a baritone in the vocal program, is a graduating vocal performance student from the Sid and Mary Foulger School of Music, is adept in both musical theater and opera, and is looking to move beyond the beehive state to New York to pursue a career as a performer. Fordham said he has learned [...]
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Intricate designs on woven fabric are currently displayed in the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery. One piece of fabric stretches the entire gallery, nearly 30 feet long. Aisha Himro-Pinto, a senior art student, said she was impressed by the work of textile artist Ismini Samanidou, a Greek artist making the rounds at Weber State University. “She [...]
Continue reading …“Things That Continue to Happen” is a group show featuring Weber State University students from intermediate and advanced sculpture classes in the WSU Department of Visual Arts. Jason Manley, a new addition to the sculpture/3-D faculty of the department of visual arts, will head this student exhibition, part of the WSU Material Culture series. “The [...]
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This year, the Weber Reads program has focused on American poet Emily Dickinson. Russ Burrows, an English professor of 20 years at Weber State University, presented his chapter of the Weber Reads series on Tuesday. “She lived big,” Burrows said. “Emily was shy and retiring by nature, but she was not your typical hermit. She [...]
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