Gilberto Cárdenas, an internationally acclaimed expert on Mexican migration, will give a video presentation on the subject at Texas State on March 25. The public is invited to attend.
Tim O’Brien, who holds the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State, has recently been honored with the 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Three Texas State philosophers will be joined by professors from six other university departments, along with academics from the University of Chicago and Hofstra University as Texas State’s Philosophy Dialogue Series takes up evolution and identity for the next two weeks.
On March 16, a lecture on Latin American and Spanish events that affected Mexico’s War of Independence will be given by noted historian María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo in Centennial Hall G02 at 5 p.m. The lecture, “Los representantes de la América hispana en las Cortes de Cádiz de 1812,” will be given in Spanish.
Award-winning Texas State faculty member Hank Hehmsoth recently added to his considerable laurels by placing first in the National Association of Composers USA Texas Compositions Competition.
The Texas State student branch of the Association for Childhood International is holiding it’s popular yearly creative dramatic workshop for children aged 6-10 on March 20.
Criminologist Richard Rosenfeld’s cross-disciplinary approach to solving and analyzing the problems inherent in crime have won him a great deal of professional respect. He will lecture Friday at Texas State.
The Texas State student members of the American Marketing Association made a grand showing in the “30 Minutes with and Entrepreneurial Hero” Competition.
Earl Moseley, well known at Texas State and around San Marcos, succumbed to pancreatic cancer early Thursday evening in San Antonio. Moseley served a term on the San Marcos City Council 10 years ago.
The Nasca lines in Peru have often been rumored to be landing strips for UFOs. The real story about them is even more interesting, and Texas State archeologist Christina Conlee’s research is integral to the telling.
