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Female musicians are both the focus of a daylong festival at Emporia State University and also the spotlighted performers at a concert at Emporia’s Granada Theatre. Both events happen Wednesday, March 12.
A total lunar eclipse will occur overnight March 13 to 14. Emporia and the continental United States is well-placed to see the event. This will be the first total lunar eclipse for the Americas since 2022.
Emporia State University’s Peterson Planetarium is all about asteroids in March, with a focus on one asteroid in particular.
Emporia State University Theatre presents “Tough” by Margot Connolly. Performances are scheduled for March 6, 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m. and March 9 at 2 p.m. in the Ronald Q. Frederickson Black Box in Roosevelt Hall.
In the year 2000, “Gladiator,” “Cast Away” and “Mission: Impossible II” premiered in movie theatres. Top 100 radio was playing NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and Destiny’s Child. And new TV shows included “Gilmore Girls,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Survivor.”
For more than a decade, the Donald Reichardt Center for Publishing and Literary Arts has served as a creative hub for Emporia State University students to pursue and practice the craft of writing.
Emporia State University will host the annual Bonner and Bonner Diversity Lecture series on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. The presentation will be in the Preston Family Room on the second floor of the Memorial Union. A reception will follow in the Alumni Lounge.
At Emporia State University, the commitment to making higher education accessible and affordable continues to transform the lives of students and their families. For the 2024-25 academic year, 70% of undergraduate students were awarded one or more scholarships, significantly reducing the financial barriers to earning a degree.
With eyes on its past and its future, Emporia State University enjoyed an expansive Founders’ Day celebration on Friday, Feb. 14, that acknowledged the institution’s birthday, a campus anniversary, a ribbon-cutting and the awarding of scholarships to two students.
Seven members of the class of 2025 Kansas Master Teachers were named today (Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025) by Emporia State University.