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Festival of American musical masters planned
The “American Masters” symposium brings two weeks of concerts and lectures celebrating composers such as Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.
Fredonia students have new morning habit
Students at SUNY Fredonia are taking full advantage of their opportunity to peruse the news. The USA Today Collegiate Readership Program has entered its first full semester at SUNY Fredonia.
Musicians over age 50 invited to join New Horizons Band
A new ensemble for community members age 50 or older is seeking new members interested in learning to play an instrument, returning to an instrument...
Fredonia biologists locate e-coli source
In a study undertaken last summer, Biology Professor Ted Lee and graduate student Damian Salerno identified the sources of bacterial contamination in Cassadaga Lake. Dr. Lee has received another grant to continue the research next summer.
Kiplinger’s includes Fredonia in Top 100
SUNY Fredonia has been ranked among the top 100 best values for public campuses in the nation by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Fredonia ranked 61...
University Commons to have Starbucks coffee shop
Starbucks – perhaps the most recognized coffee franchise in the world – will open a shop inside the University Commons at Cranston Hall, a $23...
Bequest of $500,000 given by alumna
Dorothy (Lockwood) Anderson, a 1927 graduate of the Fredonia Normal School, bequeathed a gift to SUNY Fredonia that will amount to approximately $500,000, President Dennis L. Hefner announced. The gift is among the largest ever received from a graduate of the university.
HUD creates center at Fredonia
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of University Partnerships has named SUNY Fredonia as one of 13 new Community Outreach Partnership Centers (COPC), which it is funding across the country to address neighborhood problems at grassroots level.
Call for Papers issued for Technology Conference
State University of New York Provost Peter D. Salins has issued a call for presentations to the four-day Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT), which begins...
Handel's "Messiah" sold out for Dec. 9 performance
The upcoming SUNY Fredonia presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” has been sold out. Composed by George Frederic Handel in 1741, “Messiah,” with its musical narrative of the coming of Christian salvation, is a time-honored Christmas tradition in countries throughout the world.