Design and Industry Associate Professor Martin Linder and alumnus Chris Morlock will make your visits to the doctor’s office more comfortable. They have designed a new collection of health-care seating for Brandrud, a Herman Miller Co.

Two College of Creative Arts faculty members have received grants from the SF State Office of International Programs to incorporate a global flavor into their courses this year.

Dianthe Spencer, professor of Music, received a Curriculum Internationalization grant for her courses in Beginning Jazz Piano, Jazz Harmony and Jazz History. The grant enables her to make Brazilian jazz an essential component of the syllabi. She will also create a special section of the one-unit Jazz Combo course to explore the history, through performance, and culture of selected Brazilian music.

The College of Creative Arts welcomes its new tenure-track faculty member, Yutian Wong. An assistant professor of Dance, she will teach courses in aesthetics and history.

Two Cinema students are among the 2009 Princess Grace Award winners, each receiving a coveted international prize to help fund their film projects. M.F.A. candidate Terrie Samundra and undergraduate Charlie Corriea will travel to New York for the Oct. 21 awards gala, a black-tie event attended by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco.

“Full Grown Men,” the successful feature film directed by Cinema alum David Munro, receives its full DVD release Aug. 25.

Tired of carrying heavy books and stuff around campus? Locker rentals will be available in the Creative Arts and Fine Arts buildings for all SF State students. Purchase your locker rental online or visit the Box Office in the Creative Arts Building after 10am on Tuesday, August 25th.

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Box Office hours during the first week of the semester will be Tuesday–Friday 10am–4pm. After the first week, the box office will resume normal hours, Monday–Friday noon–4pm.

Leah Christiana was an Oakland Raiders cheerleader while attending SF State, but she now performs with a real circus. She joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus as a trapeze artist.

Assistant Professor of Art Danielle Mysliwiec and her Brainstormers collective are making waves—politely—in a New York City exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, regarded as the birth of the gay rights movement.

Check out a welcome letter from Dean Kurt Daw, sent Aug. 13 to new SF State Creative Arts students. “No matter your major, creativity is an integral part of the university experience, giving you and edge in the classroom, in the studio or on stage and in the professional realm,” Daw writes. “It seems that not a day goes by without SF State alumni contributions to arts and popular culture coming to our attention. So many Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony nominees attended SF State—people like Danny Glover, Annette Bening, Kent Nagano, Jeffrey Tambor, Delroy Lindo, Alex Borstein and Paul Gemignani. Will you be the next?“

Check out the August 2009 edition of the Creative Arts E-Lert, the official e-mail newsletter of the SF State College of Creative Arts. This issue highlights the upcoming exhibition “ComuniCarte: Art, Education, Environment and Community in Central America.” The newsletter also includes news on a student documentary traveling to Africa with the U.S. Department of State, alumnus and Pixar film producer Jonas Rivera, reflections from notable alumni on their SF State experience and more.

Thousands in the the Bay Area know Peter Finch’s voice as the longtime news director at KFOG-FM. Now they are getting to know the Radio and Television alum’s voice in a much different way, through his plays. Finch wrote “Aaron Trotter and the Incident at Bikini Beach,” now playing at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco.

SF State now has at least two connections to Sarah Palin. One of her last acts as Alaska governor was appointing Design and Industry alumnus Mark Vinsel to the Alaska Board of Forestry.