Student

Speech Pathology and Audiology graduate students Deborah Matheron and Francine Kozlowski are presenting posters that each co-authored with mentor Dr. Bridget A. Russell (Speech Pathology and Audiology) at the American Speech and Hearing Association Annual Convention, Nov. 15-17 in Boston, Mass. Ms. Matheron's poster is entitled, "Comparison of Respiratory Retraining Techniques in the Treatment of PVFD," and Ms. Kozlowski's is entitled,  "Personality Traits of Singers with Vocal Fatigue: An Investigation Using the California Personality Inventory (CPI)."  Ms. Kozlowski's poster was a result of the completion of her Master's Thesis in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and Ms. Matheron's research is a result of completing a Master's project in the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology and is the second presentation she has made on the results of this project. Last year, she won the first place graduate research award for this work at the New York State Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual Convention in Buffalo.

Faculty

Tracy (Leva) Stenger (Counseling Center),  received the American Psychological Association Society for Military Psychology's Award for Best Graduate Student Poster at the annual symposium on applied experimental research held at George Mason University in March. Dr. Stenger's poster, based on research for her doctorate completed at SUNY at Buffalo in May, was entitled, "A Concept Mapping Study of the Impact of Mobilization and Deployment on United States Army Reservists."  Hers was one of 18 posters presented at the symposium. Dr. Leva was promoted to Assistant Director of the Counseling Center at SUNY Fredonia after completing her doctorate.

Nefin Dinc (communication) received two awards for her documentary film, "I Named Her Angel." In the category of World Cinema she was a 2007 winner of a Special Recognition Award at the DC Independent Film Festival, and prior to that another award at the Thin Line Film Festival in Denton, Texas.   In other news, Professor Dinc was one of professional documentary filmmakers from Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey who were selected to participate in EURODOCmed last semester held in Istanbul. The project involved three weeks of intense work between producers from all over Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean countries. The EURODOCmed program is supported by the European Union in the framework of the EUROMED Audiovisual programme II.

Soccer Head Coach P.J. Gondek was selected this week as SUNYAC Coach of the Year. Coach Gondek has a 100-45-17 record in eight seasons at Fredonia State, with his 100th win coming last Friday, 1-0, over his alma mater, Cortland, in the SUNYAC semifinals. He guided the 2005 team to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Tournament, while the 2006 team won the ECAC Upstate New York championship. This year's team was the No. 1 seed heading into the conference tournament .