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Marion Art Gallery to host 'Senior Show I: Self Portrait' exhibition
The works of 15 students from the Department of Visual Arts and New Media at SUNY Fredonia will be displayed in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center beginning Friday, April 11. The exhibition, titled “Senior Show I: Self Portrait,” will open with a reception in the art gallery from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 11. The show will run through Thursday, April 17.
Panel to be held on educational systems around the world
A free panel discussion, “Educational Systems around the World: From Elementary School to University,” will be held Monday, April 14 at 3 p.m. in Williams Center Room 204. The panel is open to both the campus and local communities and refreshments will follow. The event is part of the 2013-2014 SUNY Fredonia Convocation Series.
Women’s History Month celebrated with several events
The Women and Gender Studies Program and Women’s Student Union are sponsoring several events in March and April in observance of Women’s History Month, including the 16th annual Gender Conference to celebrate student research in women’s studies and gender areas on Wednesday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Williams Center Room 204D.
Tour of University Village being offered
The Residence Life Office is holding tours of the “University Village” on Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10. Tours will run from 1 to 3 p.m., every half hour, from the Residence Life Office in Gregory Hall. Participants will be required to sign a "Construction Tour Participant Waiver,” and those planning to participate on the tour are asked not to wear shorts or open-toed shoes.To sign up for a time slot, contact the Residence Life at 673-3341.
Regional College Fair will be held at SUNY Fredonia on April 9
SUNY Fredonia and the New York State Association for College Admissions Counseling (NYSACAC) will be hosting a NYSACAC Regional College Fair on Wednesday, April 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the SUNY Fredonia Steele Hall Field House.The event is free and high school students are especially encouraged to attend. College students, community members, faculty and staff are also welcome.
Woodstock music fest co-creator Kornfeld appears today
Artie Kornfeld, co-creator and promoter of the legendary Woodstock Music and Art Fair, will revisit the iconic counterculture festival on Monday, April 7, at 6 p.m. in McEwen Hall Room 202. The talk, presented courtesy of the Music Industry program and the generous support of DFT Communications and Waring Financial Group, free and open to the public...just like the original.
Student groups offer interactive game in fieldhouse
The Interactive Theatre Society and Nerf Club have teamed up to present Quarantine, an interactive game, on Sunday, April 13, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Steele Hall fieldhouse. For $5, groups of four people can enter the horror house with Nerf guns and attempt to rid the house of "zombies." Participants will need to race against time as they travel through the eight rooms in the house, facing different zombies with various powers.
Professors host Music Therapy conference in Buffalo
The Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association will hold its annual conference this year at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. Dr. Joni Milgram-Luterman and Kimberly Mancino of the School of Music's Music Therapy program will co-host the conference entitled, "Spread Your Wings with Music Therapy," on April 10 to 12.
Four SUNY Fredonia students receive Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
By the numbers alone, what Laura Hirst, Cory Jackson, Carl Lam and Samantha Jemiolo have achieved at SUNY Fredonia is impressive -- seven different majors, 11 scholarships and membership in 11 honor societies. They joined a highly select group of students as recipients of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Students’ passion for ‘RENT’ leads to genuine community, sold-out performances
Meet some of Fredonia's highly talented students involved in the Department of Theatre & Dance's sold-out production of "RENT."