Audiences from Toledo to New York City to Boston will be treated to music by up-and-coming BGSU composer Timothy Stulman this fall and next year. Stulman is pursuing his doctor of musical arts in contemporary music with Distinguished Artist Professor Marilyn Shrude.

Stulman was among five composers to receive a prestigious First Music commission from the New York Youth Symphony, an independent, not-for-profit institution dedicated to enriching the lives of young people through the study and performance of music. His orchestral work “Element Cycle” will be premiered by the symphony on March 7, 2010, at Carnegie Hall.

In 2002, when Dr. David Jackson published the first edition of Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization, there was no YouTube, Oprah Winfrey had never endorsed a political candidate and the Internet had not yet been used extensively as a campaign fundraising tool.

Dr. Bonnie Berger, School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies, will be sworn in Wednesday (Sept. 16) as president-elect of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

Family demographer Dr. Jay Teachman of Western Washington University will be the first speaker in the College of Arts and Sciences 2009 forum series.

University dining venues have taken on a new look and style this semester with the advent of Chartwells as the campus food service provider.