PSFA STORIES
PSFA Stories is a round-up of curated links, as well as articles about the SDSU College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts written by the PSFA Communications Team and student interns building their portfolios.
SDUT: San Diego State dance professor makes contact with ‘Skin Hunger’
Apr 11From the time we are newborns and into our senior years, touch plays a primary role in our physical and mental well-being. Its absence can result in what psychologists call “skin hunger,” a term that inspired the title of a production choreographed by San Diego State University dance professor Joseph Alter.
Balance: A student-athlete story by Raymond Gorospe
Apr 10JMS student Raymond Gorospe, placed 14th in the country in the Hearst Personality/Profile Competition with his photojournalism piece on student/athlete Tamara Arnold.
2023 NWEAMO Festival Goes Acoustic at S.D.S.U.
Apr 6Now celebrating its 25th year, San Diego State University’s annual NWEAMO new music festival took a surprising turn. Thursday’s concert in the Music Department’s Rhapsody Hall featured a quartet of guest musicians from Poland performing exclusively acoustic music.
SDSU offers first K-pop dance theory/practice class in the U.S.
Apr 5School of Music and Dance Associate Professor Chuyun Oh plans to expand knowledge of the unique art form.
Racial bias is well-documented in SDPD, but agency calls proposed solution 'radical'
Apr 5Megan Welsh, associate professor at the School of Public Affairs, appeared recently on KPBS's Midday Edition as part of a panel discussing racial and social disparities in San Diego policing.
Broom Center wants you to claim your seat at the table
Apr 56th annual Allen H. Center Distinguished Lecture in Public Relations features a diverse panel of media industry pros discussing how they made their names and landed leadership positions.
Mother-daughter duo attend SDSU to receive their degrees
Apr 4Former Aztec Shops employee and breast cancer survivor Imelda Hernandez-Villa is working alongside her daughter Sydney Villa as they aim to earn their bachelor's degrees.
Commonweal Magazine: Lalo Alcaraz Comes Home
Mar 24I was a teenager growing up in Southern California when I first came upon Lalo Alcaraz’s comic strip La Cucaracha in the Los Angeles Times.
JMS Alumna Jill Nash appointed by President Biden to Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Mar 23President Joe Biden announced key appointments to boards and commissions in January 2023, including naming San Diego State University School of Journalism and Media Studies Alumna Jill Nash to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB).
SDSU awarded University Transportation Center from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Mar 21Bruce Appleyard is now SDSU's associate director of the newly formed Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, a place for research that will make streets safer, more liveable, and more equitable.
