Campus Currents

April 13, 2026

Hemenway Labs


Professor Thomas and Joan Eames Laboratories - Building Dedication

Friday, April 17, 4:30 p.m., Hemenway Labs Atrium 

The University community is invited to gather together for the dedication of the Professor Thomas and Joan Eames Laboratories, formerly Hemenway Labs. The event will feature a sign unveiling, a special message from the Eames family, and a light reception. 

Higher Education in the Storm of the Future

Monday, April 13, 4:30 p.m., Heineman Ecumenical Center and Zoom

How can colleges and universities best navigate the unfolding challenges of the twenty-first century? Join Dr. Bryan Alexander to explore major forces reshaping higher education, including enrollment and financing, global developments such as climate change, and technological transformations, notably those driven by artificial intelligence and extended reality. Throughout, this futures presentation will offer options for strategy and collective action.

Designing Accessible Documents: Simple Changes, Big Impact

Tuesday, April 14, 1:30 p.m. Hemenway Hall and Zoom

In this Workshop, we’ll revisit digital accessibility principles and then explore their application when it comes to document accessibility. We'll demonstrate remediating a document in Microsoft Word, and participants will have an opportunity to revise a document live.

DocHub Training

Tuesday, April 14, 3 p.m., Zoom

All FSU staff have access to the DocHub in Yuja Panorama. With the DocHub, users can check individual documents for accessibility, get remediation guidance, and even remediate some issues in place. The DocHub is available via SSO, so users do not have to go through Canvas to access it. This training is designed for staff who will primarily be using DocHub outside of Canvas, but is also applicable to faculty who may want to remediate documents outside of their courses.

Kona Ice Visit

Wednesday, April 15, 3 to 5 p.m., Entrepreneur Innovation Center - 860 Worcester Road

The Entrepreneur Innovation Center (EIC) in conjunction with the FSU student CEO club chapter are hosting a special event with an Alumnus of the EIC, Kona Ice. 

This event will give students an opportunity to also meet and interact with members of the EIC, both past and present. Also, other entrepreneurial community members will be present too. The event is free and open to the wider FSU and Framingham communities.

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Massachusetts poet laureate Regie Gibson visits Framingham State University

By Francisco Omar Fernandez Rodriguez
Publications Intern

Regie Gibson, the first poet laureate of Massachusetts, said words on their own don’t have meaning, but what is done with them can give them meaning.

“We have to do our best to give our words meaning. Some of our most sacred words, like freedom - it’s just a grunt. No more equivalent to breaking the glass in the concrete, unless we give it meaning,” Gibson said.

He performed at the Heineman Ecumenical Center on April 1 to a full audience of faculty, staff, and students.

He said he is going around the commonwealth of Massachusetts to give words meaning.

“Which is why I’ve been using the word commonwealth, as I’ve been going around this commonwealth, getting rid of, not the notion of state, but asking people the question whether that state is who we are,” Gibson said.

State is related to the word static, which is usually unchanging, he said.

The commonwealth is closer to the idea that we’re all connected and need to help each other, he added.

“I want to see if we can return to what that means, and not only just return to it but also expand upon it, so that we could be the commonwealth that’s more for more people than who it is we see in the mirror,” Gibson said.

He said young people are surrounded by society that tells them not to reach out.

“You have to be really conscious about creating that counter narrative and be repetitive about it,” Gibson said.

Being repetitive helps people remember better, he added.

“The reason why we repeat things is because when we repeat things, it makes a little copy in the brain and you remember it better,” Gibson said, before repeating the statement a few times.

Anything that is worth learning once is worth learning several times over, he said.
 

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