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Help offered to island students affected by Maria
FGCU invites college students enrolled in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to apply to attend classes on its Fort Myers campus while their home schools and communities recover from Hurricane Maria’s devastation. Starting with the spring 2018 semester, which begins Jan. 8, FGCU will waive out-of-state tuition rates for up to three semesters…
Meet hoops teams at Dunk City After Dark
Students and Southwest Florida basketball fans will have a first opportunity to watch and interact with the 2017-18 men’s and women’s basketball programs at Dunk City After Dark, FGCU’s “Midnight Madness style” tip-off to the basketball season, Thursday, Oct. 26 at Alico Arena. Hoops and Halloween — featuring free food, trick-or-treating, poster signings and family…
Lecture series features war memoirist-poet
Award-winning poet and memoirist Brian Turner will present a public reading and discuss the complexities of crafting art from memory on Friday, Oct. 27 at Florida Gulf Coast University. “The Palace of Memory: An Evening with Brian Turner” will begin with a 6 p.m. reception followed by the reading at 6:30 in Edwards Hall, Room…
2 artists, 1 exhibit and myriad stories
The works of Barbara Balzer and Linda Hall playfully draw on art history and mythology using ceramics and soft sculpture. Their fantastical and sometimes humorous works are being shown together for the first time, providing two distinct viewpoints on age-old themes, in “Untethered, Stories Come Like Charms: Barbara Balzer and Linda Hall.” After an opening reception at 5 p.m. Oct.…
Founder’s Cup fundraiser rescheduled Dec. 14
Hurricane Irma caused some damage to the golf courses at Quail Creek Country Club in Naples, necessitating a postponement of the Florida Gulf Coast University Founder’s Cup Golf Tournament, now set for Thursday, Dec. 14.  “Although we are disappointed that we cannot hold the tournament in October, as we traditionally do, the delay allows Quail…
Alum earns fellowship for teaching about genocide
Living just a couple of hours from Washington, D.C., when she was growing up, Taylor Neff remembers lots of class field trips to the Smithsonian Institute, the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. “I’ve always liked museums,” she says. “I really enjoy history.” Neff’s interest in studying the past eventually flourished at FGCU, where…
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