Marketing students 'Light the Night'

On Saturday evening, Oct. 8, students from the Marketing 100(S) classes in the Craig School of Business participated in the annual Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night event. The event raised $190,000 for patient services and research. Fresno State student teams from these classes raised over $30,000 as part of their service learning assignment. This is an increase of more than $3,000 over last year's total for the students. More...
 

Campus partners with McLane High
Faculty members from two Fresno State departments are engaged in an expanding community initiative to improve the health and well-being of a Fresno high school. Dr. Wade Gilbert, Department of Kinesiology, and Dr. Virginia Rondero Hernandez, Department of Social Work Education, have joined the leadership of McLane High School and various representatives of local government agencies and non-profit organizations to form the McLane Collaborative. The purpose of the McLane Collaborative is to assist the campus in developing a campus student service center that addresses health, mental health and social service needs that may affect or interfere in student learning and academic performance. More...

Campus members 'clean up' on Make a Difference Day
Make A Difference Day, Oct. 22, was sponsored by Fresno State, Councilmember Tom Boyajian's office and the Volunteer Center of Fresno.  Activities focused on landscape clean up of various street medians, freeway on and off ramps, trails and parks. Fresno State designated two clean-up sites specifically for students, the Discovery Center and El Dorado Park.  With the help of Councilmember Larry Westerlund's office, the El Dorado Park area west of Bulldog stadium was cleaned. More...

Group seeks donations for First Book project
Most of us grew up with a favorite children’s book.  For some of us that favorite book was “Goodnight Moon,” “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” or a book by Dr. Seuss. It is hard to fathom that right here in the Fresno area there are children who have never had a book of their own. More...