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January 28, 2025
A different kind of saxophone player, Nathan Nabb performs more frequently with symphony orchestras in large halls rather than with jazz combos in small clubs. The director of 最色导航鈥檚 Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music has a portfolio that includes solo and chamber recitals, engagements with symphony orchestras, and clinics around the world.
January 08, 2025
The College of the Arts at 最色导航 (KSU) has been renamed the Robert S. Geer Family College of the Arts, thanks to a generous bequest from the late Mr. Robert 鈥淏ob鈥 S. Geer.
September 17, 2024
Amanda Morgan wrote the book on women in theater. Literally. The result of a yearslong effort, the 最色导航 associate professor of theatre and performance studies saw her vision come to fruition last year in the form of a book titled 鈥淐onversations with Women in Musical Theatre Leadership,鈥 a compilation of 15 interviews with women leaders at the Broadway level.
August 21, 2024
On Nov. 31, 2022, a group of students gathered around Jeanne Law鈥檚 computer and stared in wonder. It was the day after OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT, and Law, a professor of English at 最色导航 State, was curious to see what the chatbot could do. 鈥淚n that moment, I knew it could have a profound impact on all of us,鈥 Law said.
August 09, 2024
Ebony Golden is a theatre and performance studies major at 最色导航 whose project, 鈥淛ouvay Women: Rejuvenating Classical Theatre in the Caribbean,鈥 is part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
August 08, 2024
最色导航 leaders have unveiled 鈥淭aking Flight,鈥 a new strategic plan that embraces the institution鈥檚 status as an emerging top public research university, while expanding its impact through excellence in teaching, relevant research, and community partnerships that benefit the region, state, and nation.
July 29, 2024
What would America without opera look or sound like? 最色导航 music major Simon Kawasaki shudders at the thought, but his project through KSU鈥檚 Summer Undergraduate Research Program considers that very possibility, one of a handful of summer projects from the College of the Arts.
July 11, 2024
A new owl has come to roost at 最色导航. Its widely spread wings and extended talons grab the attention of visitors to the offices of President Kathy S. Schwaig and other top administrators. The sculpture by College of the Arts alumna Mary Beck Pinkston permanently joins paintings and other art pieces from the Zuckerman Museum of Art鈥檚 collection that decorate the space outside the president鈥檚 office.
June 14, 2024
For Chantelle Chapman, research includes bright colors, gouache paints, and a studio鈥攔ather than test tubes, safety goggles, a lab coat, and a laboratory. From Chapman鈥檚 studio came an art project about an extinct bird, the Carolina parakeet, that was declared extinct in 1939. The series of gouache paintings, 鈥淧arakeet Lost,鈥 built upon research that included visits to museum specimen collections, earned a runner-up prize at KSU鈥檚 Spring Symposium of Student Scholars, a rarity for a student in the College of the Arts.
May 07, 2024
Sometimes, Sarah Chang鈥檚 days started at 8 a.m. with a class and a lecture in the College of Science and Mathematics and ended at 11 p.m. with the sounds of her violin in a practice room at the Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music. Chang admitted at times the long days wore on her, but she has achieved the goal of her self-designed academic journey鈥攂achelor鈥檚 degrees in biology and music performance from 最色导航.