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major, presented his paper YOLO (You only Live Once) and the Eternal Recurrence." Richard Findler Andrew Colvin, and Tom Sparrow accompanied the students. Sykora, Sharon April 15, 2014.
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Political Science, chaperoned 17 students to Old Economy Village in Ambridge, PA, on
Theatre - Four Theatre majors received the Outstanding Theatre Major scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year. Those students were senior Samantha Kuchta, junior Rebecca McGann, sophomore lina Pounds and freshman Cole Vecchio. The students were chosen for their academic achievements as well as dedication
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an adaptation of Sophocles' play Electra to the stage April 15-u in play, titled Electra: An American Gothic, was stage managed by Margaret Rial. Union. The the University other students who worked on the show were Kyle Andreas (scenic design), Kyle wiltraut (lighting design), Alex Barnhart (sound design), Kayla Boulton (costume design) and Jack Libengood (technical director). The production will be taken to The Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland this summer.
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Theatre - Theatre students presented two one-act plays, Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon, by James McLure in the University Union MPR, April 25 - May 1. Students involved with the production of the shows included Kyle Andreas as stage manager, Alex Barnhart as scenic designer, Kyle Wiltraut as lighting designer, and Kayla Boulton as costume designer. Theatre -Theatre majors and students of theatre participated in the 2014 Slippery Rock University Symposium for Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement on April 10. Cole Alexander Vecchio, Scott Jeffrey DiBello, Luke Simon Chamberlain, Megan Sarah Rodgers, Ashton Malic Williams performed "Discovery Through Acting." Chalice AnnaMarie Streitman and Ashton Malic Williams, presented "Synthesizing Richard: A Collaborative Approach to Richard lll - (Part A: Concept and Videography)." Jina Renae Poundt Kayla Marie Boulton, Kyla Jones presented "synthesizing Richard: A Collaborative Approach to Richard lll - (Part B: Costume Design and Craft)." Samantha Kuchta brought a poster presentation entitled "Dead Man's Cell Phone; From Research to Design" to the symposium. Faculty members Colleen Reilly, David Skeele, and Rebecca Morrice served as student advisors for the research projects.
Westman, Barbara - Art, 2014 SRU Symposium for student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement, faculty sponsor for Andres Rincon (BFA), project title "Absence Architecture," April 10, 2014; Advanced Printmaking class and myself, submission of prints to "6x6x2014" exhibition at Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, PA Experiment"; International Collaboration Project between Fibers Studio at sRU and Fibers Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Following the outline of the assignment titled "Contrasts," fiber students and fiber faculty from AFA Gdansk and Slippery Rock University created individual art works. This collection will be exhibited in the Refectory Gallery in Poland (June 13 -July L3,2OL4l; "Experiment'' International Fibers Conference, AFA Gdansk, Poland. co-organizer and presenter (June 7l-72,20141. Bergmann, William - History, presented a paper, Masculinity and Risk in Antebellum Credit ReportinE, at the Organization of American Historians Conference in Atlanta, GA, April 10-13, 2014.