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Naturalist to speak Nov. 15 in Jewett Hall
Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul will speak at SUNY Fredonia on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101, and that evening at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown. The biology department has invited him to give an informal seminar including taking questions from students.
"Mary Cobb and Friends" in concert Saturday
Mary Cobb of the Fredonia School of Music will present a faculty recital on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall, entitled, “Mary Cobb and Friends.” The concert will feature Ms. Cobb performing works by Mozart and Chopin. “Friends” joining her after the intermission are colleagues on the Fredonia School of Music faculty: Brian Walnicki, Wildy Zumwalt, Angela Dilkey, and Mario Falcao.
International Education Week starts Nov. 13
International Education Week features events all week that focus on the arts, culture, cuisine, study abroad, and career opportunities that exist around the globe for SUNY Fredonia students.
Filmmaker takes camera behind scenes with Whirling Dervishes
To the advantage of her audiences, filmmaker Nefin Dinc’s eyes become theirs. A documentary filmmaker allowed to follow a group of whirling dervishes behind the scenes as they prepare for a ceremony in Turkey, she turned her camera on a 12-year old girl who was undergoing the spiritual and physical training to perform the ancient devotional dance. “I wanted to show a glimpse of Islamic life in Turkey,” the SUNY Fredonia communication professor said. Professor Nefin Dinc
Hillman Opera presents “Carmen” in King
A full orchestra, chorus, and the Chautauqua Children’s Chorale will join the featured vocalists and actors for the 2006 Hillman Opera at SUNY Fredonia, “Carmen,” Nov. 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
Grad students give health tests at Special Olympics
Graduate students in SUNY Fredonia's speech pathology program gave hearing tests to180 athletes at the Special Olympic Fall Games in Binghamton, N.Y., in October
National honor society installed for top freshmen
This fall, the national Alpha Lambda Delta honor society added SUNY Fredonia to its list of more than 250 chapters throughout the U.S., which support students who excel in their first year of college.
Pearl Harbor Day observed in arts series
“Things We Carried,” a traveling exhibit from the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, opens Nov. 15 in the Main Gallery of the Access to The Arts, opening the second annual Healing Arts program sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund.
Math alum giving talk on robotics applications
Friday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. in Fenton Hall Room 105, Fredonia graduate Erion Plaku (computer science, 2000) will return to campus from his studies at Rice University to discuss motion planning and how it applies to robotics. The lecture is open to the public.
SUNY Press to publish Nelson's book on Rt. 20
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Malcolm Nelson is currently working on an anecdotal study of the longest highway in the United States. It is this road, U.S. 20, which he takes to work every day, and indeed, offers him an exceptionally personal vista of human traffic going east or west as it passes by the front door of his home in Brocton, N.Y. SUNY Press has selected Dr. Nelson's book, Twent West: The Great Road Across America, as one of its books to be published in 2007. Dr. Malcolm Nelson