Spring 2025 Lecture Series: Challenges and Solutions of Contemporary Urbanism You are invited to attend the SPRING 2025 International Lecture Program of the online lectures at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÃâ·ÑApp School of Architecture. All online lectures will be moderated by Professor Steffen Lehmann, are public and free with no registration required. ï‚· Thursday, Feb 6, from 10 am to 11.15 am Pacific…
51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó College of Fine Arts Dean Nancy Uscher is pleased to announce an exciting gift from the 22-time Grammy Award-winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band U2 to provide scholarship support as well as experiential educational opportunities to 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó School of Music students. The U2:UV Music Scholarship and Experiential Fund at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó, a $300,000 one-time gift, will provide support for access…
DMA student Olivia Yokers and 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó alumna Dr. Bonita Bunt (DMA 2017) won the first place Jury Award in the 2025 National Opera Association Poster Session at the national conference held in Savannah, GA January 5-8, 2025. The poster paper is entitled "Opera Pedagogy from Studio to Stage: Merging the Methods of Michael Chekhov, Rudolf Laban, and Body Mapping to Train the Emerging…
Professor Emeritus Virko Baley is the winner of Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music, 2024, in the professional division, for "Music for Emily Dickinson". Baley was selected from applications reviewed throughout the United States. Among the many contests of The American Prize, the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music is unique. It…
The AIA Nevada Design and Service Awards Gala was held recently and among the many highlights, Professor Glenn Nowak was awarded the Silver Medal - the highest honor that AIA Nevada can bestow on an individual architect for lasting contributions to the theory and practice of architecture in the state. Jamie Centeno, 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó M. Arch 2024 and current History of Architecture faculty, received the…
Dean Nancy J. Uscher recently announced the first endowed chair in the college. 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Director of Jazz Studies Dave Loeb now holds The David Mulkey, M.D. & Laura Taylor Mulkey Endowed Chair in Jazz and Commercial Music made possible through a legacy gift. David, a lifelong music aficionado who began playing trumpet in junior high school, has long held an interest and an appreciation in…
Join the LIGHT TALK hosts as they speak with 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó Theatre assistant professor Christina Watanabe and special guest, retired 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó lighting design professor Brackley Frayer, as they discuss the early days of discovering lighting design; hitting the pavement in NYC; the "Christina Questions"; Christina's Knights of Illumination Award project; most challenging productions; issues with Zactrack;…
This year's National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) District competition was held on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó. Participants came from Southern Utah, Southern Nevada, and Southern California. Below are all of our School of Music winners! Congratulations! College Freshman and Sophomore Men category: First Pace: Anthony Erbella Apodaca (51³Ô¹ÏÍøÍòÄÜ¿Æ´ó--student of Alfonse…