The red carpet -- lined with tours, delicious food and live performances -- will be rolled out during Family Weekend, Sept. 28 to 30, when SUNY Fredonia welcomes parents and family members of its more than 5,000 students to campus. "Family Weekend is a tradition at SUNY Fredonia, and a great time to re-connect students with their loved ones after the busy first month of the semester. There are activities for people of all ages, and we encourage families to visit on this special weekend."  Registration will be held Friday, 3 to 7 p.m., at the Williams Center. Festivities begin with a buffet with hot hors d'oeuvres and other light fare at the Williams Center, 5 to 7 p.m.

 
Kim Tillery, above, has been selected as one of about a dozen audiologists from the United States to go to China in late September to conduct hearing assessments on thousands of Special Olympic athletes.  Dr. Tillery, who chairs the Speech Pathology and Audiology department, will serve on behalf of Healthy Athletes, an umbrella organization formed in 1996 to help Special Olympics athletes improve their health and fitness with the overall goal to enhance sports experience and improve well-being. She and her U.S. colleagues will train another 17 to 25 audiologists from Asia and New Zealand in the protocol to serve such a large population with unique needs in an efficient and reliable manner

A program to showcase the strength and breadth of the offerings of the State University of New York, "Operation Inform," will be hosted Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Williams Center at SUNY Fredonia. Attending will be over 100 school guidance counselors from 49 schools within a 100 mile radius of the university. Director of Admissions Christopher Dearth noted, "It is an absolute pleasure to host these high school professionals for SUNY Operation Inform. Not only are we highlighting the value and importance of a SUNY education, we are also showcasing Fredonia."

The sixth annual Jurgen P. Banse-Fay Memorial Production Management Intern award at the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center was presented recently to Jeff Mace, a B.F.A. Theatrical Technical Production major at the State University of New York at Fredonia. 

Tina Hastings has been named to head the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Art Gallery . A native of Ohio, she holds a master's degree in public administration with a museum focus from Southern Illinois University, where she also served as assistant museum curator.

The 18th Annual Early Childhood Conference will be held Saturday, Sept.  29, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., at McEwen Hall.  The annual event is held to offer professional development opportunities to members of the Chautauqua County early childhood community, including teacher education students.

The College of Education at SUNY Fredonia has been awarded two federal grants totaling $3 million over the next five years to continue its English Language Acquisition (ELA) program and to also establish the new Bringing Resources that Incorporate Development in General Education (BRIDGE) program. "It's highly unusual to have two grants funded from the same source to one institution," said Dr. Barbara Mallette, principal investigator for the Project BRIDGE grant and professor in the Language, Learning and Leadership department at SUNY Fredonia. Both are designed to help schools serve growing student populations whose native language is not English.

SUNY Fredonia has landed a couple of big fish, so to speak, in Great Lakes environmental research with the receipt of major grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation.