April

Faculty projects reap economic development grants Apr 27, 2011 4:52 PM Bowling Green State University’s Division of Research and Economic Development has awarded two innovative projects developed by University faculty a total of $100,000 in “seed money.”

Dr. Cartwright to preside over last commencement Apr 27, 2011 4:51 PM Bowling Green State University's May commencement ceremonies, the 270th graduation at the University, represent both a beginning and an end. For graduates, it is the first step in the next stage of their lives. For the University, it will be last time President Carol Cartwright presides over the ceremonies and the final time the events will be held in Anderson Arena. December's graduates will receive their diplomas in the new Stroh Center.

Conrad Art Song competition winners announced Apr 21, 2011 4:53 PM Six singer-piano duos at Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts won prizes at the 12th annual Dr. Marjorie Conrad Art Song Competition held earlier this month in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.

BGSU ceramic artist creates ephemeral installation Apr 20, 2011 4:55 PM It is hard to conceive, when viewing ceramic artist Jamie Bardsley’s intricate, nearly room-size arrangement of small porcelain water-droplet shapes, that in a short time the whole thing will be dismantled and taken away, but that is exactly what Bardsley looks forward to.

Shrude wins national honor as Guggenheim Fellow Apr 19, 2011 4:59 PM This time next year, Distinguished Artist Professor Marilyn Shrude will likely not be thinking of class schedules or her duties as chair of the musicology/composition/theory department at Bowling Green State University. Instead, thanks to support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, she expects to be deeply immersed in writing music.

Philharmonia to perform final concert of season Apr 18, 2011 10:21 AM The Bowling Green Philharmonia will present its final concert of the spring season at 8 p.m. Wednesday (April 20) in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.

Buchanan lecturer to speak on evolution Apr 15, 2011 10:24 AM Distinguished chemist Dr. Nils Walter will discuss chemistry as the driving force behind evolution in Bowling Green State University’s 2011 Jean Pasakarnis Buchanan Lecture on campus April 19.

BGSU Honors Program named ‘Champion of Children’ Apr 15, 2011 10:23 AM Students in the BGSU Honors Program are truly learning that child abuse can happen in the most unexpected places. To help these children, they are lending a hand to make school and the holidays a little more comfortable and exciting.

Doctoral student helps preserve disappearing art Apr 6, 2011 4:21 PM J.L. Murdoch left her first Talchum performance bruised, bloody and exhausted. Murdoch, a Ph.D. student at Bowling Green State University, was in a rural part of South Korea as part of a Fulbright Fellowship for Research to study the little-known performance art. The word talchum means a form of play or dance performed while wearing masks.

Exercise could speed wound healing in diabetics Apr 6, 2011 4:18 PM There’s just no getting around it. “We were designed to move and when we don’t, we experience all sorts of problems,” says Dr. Todd Keylock, an assistant professor of exercise science in Bowling Green State University’s School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies.

Young musicians invited to hone skills Apr 6, 2011 4:17 PM Young musicians can polish their skills during Bowling Green State University’s annual Summer Music Institute for junior high and high school students, June 12-24.

Memorial jazz concert to honor Dave Melle Apr 4, 2011 4:26 PM Bowling Green State University celebrates the legacy of legendary musician Dave Melle in a special memorial jazz concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in Kobacker Hall.

Alumna successfully takes dreams to big city Apr 4, 2011 4:23 PM College students today may be feeling anxiety about future job markets, but Bowling Green State University graduate and published author Philana Boles is proof that students can still make their dreams a reality.