News 2014 La Sierra University

Karen Hansberger explains the Bakri uterine balloon to an OB/GYN physician and hospital superintendent at Nanyuki hospital in Kenya. (Photo courtesy of Glen Hutton)

La Sierra doc brings life-saving medical devices to Kenyan women

There was only one week left before the aid mission to Kenya, and the life-saving medical devices Karen Gaio Hansberger had hoped to take with her…
Zapara School of Business Associate Law and Management Professor Jere Fox addresses students at Stokoe Elementary in Riverside. His class raised nearly $4,000 for after school program supplies.

La Sierra Service-Learning class fulfills After School program pledge

With ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ like it was Christmas morning, dozens of students at Stokoe Elementary School in Riverside stretched to view the colorful…
La Sierra offers $10k writing scholarship to high schoolers

La Sierra offers $10k writing scholarship to high schoolers

When Luis Rengifo learned last fall about La Sierra University’s $10,000 competitive writing scholarship offered to high school seniors, he decided to…

Approximately 800 academy and high school seniors swarmed La Sierra University for its annual University Experience day. (All photos by Natan Vigna)

Annual event draws hundreds of high schoolers to campus

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – (www.lasierra.edu) The group of high school seniors from Toronto, Canada journeyed the farthest of the 800 or so students to visit…
Assistant art professor Tim Musso teaching a class at La Sierra University.

Art prof’s work exhibited in elite U.S. Embassy show

Last month, La Sierra University Assistant Professor of Art Tim Musso traveled to Bulgaria, to participate in a prestigious, international art show…
La Sierra University's Big Band will perform Saturday night a repertoire of jazz tunes.

La Sierra Big Band to play the classics

La Sierra University's Big Band, under direction of Dr. David Brennan, will offer a toe-tapping repertoire of classic jazz tunes on Sat., Dec. 13 at…
Biology professor Lloyd Trueblood in his lab at La Sierra University. This summer he and two East Coast colleagues received NSF funding to study bluegill fish.

La Sierra marine scientist lands NSF grant to study fish adaptation

The ubiquitous bluegill fish, a frequent fisherman’s catch, is a single species that appears to adapt its body shape and physiology depending on where…
Art student Samantha Morales with containers of vegetables harvested from the art department's garden.

Art.Eat.Film project grows community between students and faculty

As La Sierra University’s art students finished the school year last spring, their professors knew what would happen – their young charges would head…
Saxophonist Azar Lawrence will perform for Pierce Street Jazz on Nov. 19.

Saxophone great Azar Lawrence to play Pierce Street Jazz

Former Miles Davis sideman, performing artist and recording industry songwriter Azar Lawrence will bring his saxophone-playing talents to the Pierce…
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, maritime archaeologist, on a deep-water expedition this fall to find ancient shipwrecks off the coast of Israel.

Maritime archaeologists to discuss ancient underwater findings during annual event

Shelley Wachsmann, a maritime archaeologist with Texas A&M University, is investigating the possible existence of an inland estuary harbor at one of…
Commercial and fine art photographer Todd Baxter brings his futuristic space colony photographic series, "Project Astoria: test 01" to Brandstater Gallery.

Space colony “Project Astoria: test 01” lands at Brandstater Gallery

Los Angeles commercial and fine art photographer Todd Baxter is bringing his photographs depicting life on a futuristic space colony to La Sierra…
Carl Canwell as William Shakespeare

La Sierra University drama presents parodied works of William Shakespeare

The La Sierra University drama department will roll out the laughs this month and next with a popular, three-actor parody of works by the world’s…