Music festivals often have a theme—the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Bourbon and Beyond, to name but a few. Some even have an environmental connection, like Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival. What they don’t often have is an obvious connection to history. On Saturday, September … Continue reading

What better place to listen to classical music than a cathedral? After all, they’re built with special attention to acoustics. Add a living composer—one who has written pieces specifically to be heard in that very venue—and listeners know they are hearing the music as it was meant to be performed. … Continue reading

Jerry Zolten stands at a microphone in the WPSU studios, headphones on and script in hand. Producer Frank Christopher sits at a nearby table, also in headphones and with the same script. They’re recording the narration for their radio program, Time to Lay It Down: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam … Continue reading

In the category of “things we don’t usually think about while flying down the highway” is powerline right-of-ways. Occasionally we might see someone mowing that grassy area by the side of the road but at 65 miles an hour we don’t give it another thought. However, plenty of people do … Continue reading

The demand for computer processing power and storage space—far beyond simple email—appears to have no limits in academia. Instructors are requiring students to use computers ranging from systems the size of a deck of cards to notebooks to high-powered server systems loaded with an expansive array of software applications. Security … Continue reading

A human services worker’s job is often out of the office and in the field—a community, a home, a school—where the clients live and build relationships. For human services students, getting out in the field and working with people brings a level of understanding that just cannot be taught in … Continue reading

Space—so much a part of our lives even though the vast majority of us will never experience it. But we benefit from past exploration every day; just use your cellphone and you are utilizing satellites that came from our efforts in space exploration. To get those satellites into space requires … Continue reading

“Theater classes”—traditionally seen as not serious, lightweight, most definitely non-academic. But anyone who subscribes to those stereotypes should take a peek into Associate Professor of Theater Arts Robin Reese’s Theater 208: Theater in Diverse Cultures class. You’re as likely to hear “Aristotle” as “Ibsen” in class, as likely to discuss … Continue reading

Each spring and fall birds migrate, heading for food and a more hospitable climate. Those migrations are an ideal time for humans to take stock of bird populations, to compare one year’s numbers to years past, as a measure of species’ health and possible changes in the environment. One way … Continue reading