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A Sustainable Summer at SUNY Fredonia
There was no summer vacation in the drive for greater sustainability across the SUNY Fredonia campus. While many students were away from residence halls and classrooms, the university implemented a wide range of recycling, landscaping and energy-use initiatives during June, July and August.
"Visions of Fredonia Science Center:" Lawson lecture Sept. 21
Dr. Holly J. Lawson, a recipient of the 2009 President’s Award for Excellence at SUNY Fredonia, will explore the topic, “New Teaching Spaces: Visions for the Fredonia Science Center and Beyond,” during a lecture on Monday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m., at the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall on campus.
Tech Incubator continues momentum with $125K grant from Chautauqua Seed Fund
Area officials gathered Tuesday afternoon at the site of the new SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator in downtown Dunkirk to announce the establishment of a new...
Technology Incubator receives $300,000 grant from Oishei Foundation
SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator, a development projected to advance economic growth in Western New York from its base in downtown Dunkirk, has been awarded a $300,000 “challenge grant” from the John R. Oishei Foundation. The incubator project is slated to receive an annual appropriation of $100,000 for three years from the foundation, based in Buffalo, provided that SUNY Fredonia successfully matches that gift — dollar for dollar — from the local business community, alumni and friends, in each of the next three years.
Construction starts on $4.6 million child care center
Ground was broken for SUNY Fredonia’s new Campus and Community Children’s Center, and in addition to the many campus and elected officials who played a role, a small platoon of youngsters under the age of six donned miniature hard hats and wielded plastic sand shovels to help celebrate the latest example of growth on campus.
Facts about the value of quality child care
Did You Know… Approximately 90 percent of brain development occurs during the first five years of a child’s life. Children in high-quality child care have...
A history of SUNY Fredonia's child care center
At its opening in September 1974, the Campus and Community Children’s Center (CCCC) at SUNY Fredonia welcomed 25 preschoolers. Now, with approximately 30 employees and...
Come get the scoop on the new Children’s Center
Join the campus community this Thursday, May 7, at 11 a.m., as university and local, regional and state government officials break ground on the new $4.6 million Campus and Community Children’s Center at the corner of Temple Street and Brigham Road on the west end of campus.
Eye-popping sculpture finds permanent gaze at SUNY Fredonia
The striking, nearly 1,600-cubic-foot sculpture known as “Popeye,” which has called the front walkway of Rockefeller Arts Center home for two years, has become a permanent installation on campus, resting on a concrete foundation just feet from where it has pleased observers since first brought to campus in 2007.
SUNY Fredonia chooses new name for Speech Pathology Department
SUNY Fredonia joins a growing number of universities across the nation to change the name of their Speech Pathology and Audiology department to Communication Disorders and Sciences. Chairperson Kim Tillery explained that the new title is more appropriate for a curriculum that addresses nine disorders, along with social aspects and assistive technology in speech-language pathology and science.