SF State Gator Buzz

It’s an exciting day at SF State! Assistant Professor of Astronomy Debra Fischer and her team have discovered a record-breaking fifth planet in a full-scale solar system around a distant star. Read about the implications in this National Geographic article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071106-record-planet.html 

And check out  the interview Professor Fisher gave here on campus, expertly taped by our Broadcast and Electronic Communications Department:

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/telecon-20071106/clips.html

Then there’s the new Willie Brown Jr. Leadership Center at SF State just announced today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/11/08/BA9PT6R1V.DTL

Other exciting news: Alumnus Andrew Ly, Sugar Bowl Bakery’s president and chief executive officer, will receive the San Francisco Business Times award for “Bay Area Most Admired CEO” at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco on Nov. 13. For more information on his company: www.sugarbowlbakery.com

Looking for something to do tonight?

This just in from SF State Poetry Center Director Steve Dickinson: The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University has [along with nocturnes (re)view] been putting together some inspired spoken word-music collaborations lately, and tonight’s is the most ambitious, pairing Amiri Baraka (born LeRoi Jones), the incendiary icon of the Black Arts Movement, with the brilliant saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, best known for his work in the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Mitchell now occupies the Darius Milhaud chair in composition at MillsCollege in Oakland. Poet Douglas Kearney opens the show. $10/$15. 7:30 p.m.VictoriaTheatre, 2961 16th St., San Francisco. For more information: www.victoriatheatre.org