Theodore Gracyk, Philosophy, garnered rave reviews for a book he recently co-edited. Gracyk and Andrew Kania, an assistant professor of philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, tackle the key topics, subjects, thinkers and debates in philosophy and music in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music. The 654-page tome is a guide and reference containing fifty-six entries by an […]
Tuesday, March 29 * 1:30–2:30 p.m. * CMU 205 and Monday, April 4 * 10 -11 a.m. * CMU 203 As most of you know we have some very strong online courses and programs at MSUM but we have not had any coordinating forum really set up to help and monitor these efforts. If you have being watching national stories […]
The Department of Art & Design invites visiting juror Lisa Elder Melander to curate the annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. Melander, a corporate curator from Minneapolis, will be on campus Thursday, March 31 making her selections. The same evening at 7 p.m., Melander will give a public presentation about her job as a corporate curator in The Center for Business […]
Henry Gwiazda, Music Composition and Theory, will talk about the experimental dimensions of the Beatles’ “White Album” and situate it in the music development of the Fab Four Thursday, March 31 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Plains Art Museum. He will also discuss its continuing impact on popular music today and why it deserves the rank of number […]
The head of a community college in Iowa has been chosen to lead Ivy Tech Community College’s North Central region. Dr. Thomas G. Coley (’74, political science) will begin his new duties serving Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties June 1. He succeeds Dr. Virginia Calvin, who retired earlier this year. Coley has served since 2005 as president of […]