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Greetings on the New Year! As we do this time of year, the College of Arts and Sciences and BGSU are looking back and looking forward: In December, our 13th annual ArtsX event showcased the arts at BGSU. A pre-holiday tradition for families, students, faculty and friends of the arts, ArtsX includes art demonstrations, exhibitions, and sales; musical and theatrical performances throughout the Fine Arts and Wolfe Performing Arts Centers lend a festive air to this event. If you’ve never attended, you might want to consider putting it on your BGSU bucket list.
Looking forward to April, we host the 4th annual Bravo! BGSU. The event is a fundraiser for arts scholarship and features the talents of students, alumni and faculty in their disciplines. A special addition to this year’s event is a visit by Academy Award-winning actress and alumna Eva Marie Saint. Watch for more updates about this year’s event and her participation.
We have renewed our commitment to the Studio Arts College International (SACI) program, the oldest English-language study abroad program in Florence dedicated to visual and cultural studies. We are working to create new opportunities for our future art students, so that they will benefit from the intense SACI arts experience. SACI alums will be saddened to learn that SACI lost a great administrator in December when SACI Vice President and Dean David Davidson passed away unexpectedly. His energy and influence will be missed.
In the sciences, we are expanding opportunities for student research and workforce readiness. Tending our Natural Gardens shows one such program, based in a long tradition of research in regional botany, we help future Falcons explore their interest in STEM disciplines at the University House prairie. Across sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, our faculty conduct research important to the region and the world, while we prepare the next generation of critical thinkers and global citizens.
Thank you! to all who responded to the year-end giving campaign at BGSU. Your support is vital to our students’ success. In April, BGSU’s Giving Day returns as another special opportunity to fund important Arts and Sciences learning projects.
Wishing you well in the New Year.
Raymond Craig, Ph.D.
Dean
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A look at refugees past and present
“Refugees: Past and Present,” a one day symposium at BGSU, explored stories of displacement and settling refugees, and a discussion about the future of the global refugee situation. More than 350 students, faculty and community members explored the topic through others’ eyes. First-person accounts and family stories were relayed about migration from North to South Korea, Pakistan to India and India to Pakistan, as well as from Germany, Hungary, Vietnam, Cuba, Burundi and Syria to the United States. Additionally, leaders from community-based organizations shared their perspectives about government assistance, mental health and trauma issues, the economic impact of refugees, and surviving the American maze.
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Prout Reading Series
7:30 p.m., Prout Chapel
January 18–Clifford Chase, author of Winkie and The Tooth Fairy Parents: Lovers and Other Wayward Deities (Memoir)
February 1–Jill Grunenwald, BGSU alumna and author of Running with a Police Escort
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Undergraduate Art & Design Exhibition
February 4–Opening Reception 2-4 p.m.
Exhibition runs through February 18, Fine Arts Center Galleries
Gallery hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday 6-9 p.m. and Sunday 1-4 p.m.
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The Language Archive by Julia Cho
February 15-17 and 22-24 at 8 p.m., and February 17, 18 and 24 at 2 p.m.
Eva Marie Saint Theatre, The Wolfe Center for the Arts
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BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition
March 17–Opening Events 4-8 p.m.; exhibition runs through April 1
Fine Arts Center Galleries
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Bravo! BGSU
April 7, 6-10 p.m., The Wolfe Center for the Arts
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STEM education: An important focus
The Hon. James Knepp, The Hon. Sara Lioi, presided over BGSU naturalization ceremony
Tending our natural gardens 
Foreign language efficiencies on target
Computer Science gains ABET accreditation
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