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Cereal Drive for needy families requesting donations
“OPERATION BREAKFAST RESCUE,” the second Annual Cereal Donation Drive on campus, is taking donations of shelf-stable breakfast food items this week on Wednesday, March 11...
Raffle of Jet Blue tickets will help Ecuadoran youth
The SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team will be raffling off a pair of donated Jet Blue tickets as a fundraiser for A.M.I.G.O.S. in Ecuador. A.M.I.G.O.S. is “A Mission In Giving Opportunities to Students”, established last semester by a student team in the business marketing department.
Women's History Month continues with showing of Congo documentary
A screening of the film, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” will be held on Tuesday, March 10 at 8 p.m. in 101 Jewitt Hall. The film was the winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize and was produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Lisa F. Jackson.
Students invited to attend info session prior to Advising Week
At a special event on Tuesday, March 24, the Academic Advising Center will show students how to prepare for their Academic Advising Week, which is...
Buffalo Philharmonic in concert Friday, saxophone concerto performed with Wildy Zumwalt
SUNY Fredonia saxophone professor Wildy Zumwalt will be featured during an April 3 performance with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of BPO resident conductor Robert Franz, in King Concert Hall. The program includes Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6, Carl Nielsen’s Helios Overture, and Lars-Erik Larsson’s Concerto for Saxophone, in which Zumwalt will be featured.
Presentation on auditor assessment to be held today
The next Social Science Colloquium will be held today, March 9 at 3 p.m. in 108 Fenton Hall. The speaker will be Linda Hall, associate...
March 7: Xylia Peterson '85 SLUSH RUSH
Are you busy on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 11AM? Well, you could be! The SUNY Fredonia International Education Center is hosting the 2nd annual...
Lynda Pleszewski, Director of Budget
Lynda Pleszewski succumbed to cancer on Tuesday, March 3, at the age of 56. Employed since 1999 by the Administration Division, she was named budget...
Audience members will star in ‘Beauty and the Beast’
The DuffleBag actors will begin the performance with the retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.” Just when the audience becomes enthralled by the story, a twist will be created ─ the narrator will invite an unsuspecting audience member on stage to play one of the main parts. He or she will be given a costume, props and guidance from the narrator during the performance.
Study tests effectiveness of podcasts vs. lectures
Dani McKinney, right, together with fellow Psychology professor Jennifer Dyck and student Elise Luber, ’08, conducted a study which investigated the effectiveness of podcast lectures compared to their live lecture counterparts. The results have surprised some, and have people talking about what it could mean to the future of teaching and learning.