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Fredonia School of Music to Host Double Reed Day
SUNY Fredonia faculty members and students will be hosting “Double Reed Day,” a workshop for middle and high school players of double reed woodwind instruments, on Oct. 18, beginning at 9 a.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.
Biology Club continues fight to protect native plants
Above, Ashleigh Hanner and Leah Kerns pluck out the white pines which are re-seeding in the bog near Springville, N.Y. Jonathan Sleeper and Tim Greco...
Pianist Tony Caramia performing Rodgers' hits
Alumnus Tony Caramia Pianist Tony Caramia will present “Richard Rodgers—The Sound of His Music,” a multi-media solo jazz piano tribute featuring 21 songs from 17...
'63 graduate creates scholarship, meets first recipient
Robert Caruso, retired from nearly three decades in higher education at the University of California at Los Angeles, recently took the long flight back to his Dunkirk roots and alma mater, SUNY Fredonia, the to meet Amanda Straight of Fredonia, the first recipient of a Caruso Memorial Scholarship.
Biology student researchers to present summer findings
Biology students who were awarded summer research fellowships will present the findings of their research at an open session on Friday, Oct. 17, at 2 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101. The students undertook a wide range of studies involving local fish, water quality, little brown bats, and native plants.
Graduate will give talk at Women's Studies Fall Gathering
Alumna Jessica Barnack, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will present the keynote address at The Women’s Studies annual Fall Gathering on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 5 p.m. in the Horizon Room of the Williams Center.
Student with CF wins scholarship for essay
Sophomore and childhood education major Christine Padasak of Springville, N.Y., is one of 40 students nationwide with Cystic fibrosis who have received a $2,500 scholarship from Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., based on her essay about achieving her goals despite living with the disease. She is now eligible for a $10,000 scholarship from the company which will be awarded through an on-line voting process.
SUNY Fredonia hosting a DebateWatch event
The Presidential Debate of Tuesday, Oct. 7 is the focus of a DebateWatch program at SUNY Fredonia, which is one of a handful of hosts in New York State for the DebateWatch voter education program.
Marian Wright Edelman to deliver convocation address
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will present the annual Maytum Convocation Lecture at SUNY Fredonia, “Human Rights: With Liberty and Justice for All?” on Wednesday, Sept. 24. She has also been named a Williams Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fredonia.
New Ticket Office opens in Williams Center
A new SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office has returned to the Williams Center, but in a larger, more customer-friendly "digs." The office is now located in room G-144, which is directly across from its previous Williams Center location.