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State Senator Young announces $100,000 for Technology Incubator
New York State Senator Catharine M. Young has announced she has secured $100,000 in the 2013-2014 state budget towards operating the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator so it can continue to grow fledgling businesses and jobs.
Some campus facilities trim hours during Spring Break
Reed Library, the Blue Devil Fitness Center and Starbucks are among those facilities which are trimming operating hours while students take Spring Break from March 25 to 29.
Scott Bye, '06, returns to install sculpture for In Sight/On Site
Scott Bye, a Western New York artist whose works are a hybrid of found materials and creative fabrication of unlikely structures produced from everyday objects, will return to his alma mater on Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, for a sculpture installation as part of the In Sight/On Site program.
Benefits are many by going tray-less at Cranston
Without having trays to fill, SUNY Fredonia students are making smarter choices when choosing meal items at Cranston dining hall, which abandoned the use of trays during J-term. Eliminating trays was designed to create efficiency, conserve resources, eliminate wasted food, and save money.
Technology Incubator to host Open House April
The SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator will host an “Open House” on Tuesday, April 9, from 4 to 7 p.m. All business, campus and community members are invited to attend this event, which is free and open to the public. The open house will feature current incubator tenants, employees and interns, including the chance to meet and interact with them personally. Tours of the building will be offered at 4:30 and 5:15 p.m., and Incubator Director Robert Fritzinger will give a brief presentation at 5:50 p.m. At least eight tenant companies are scheduled to participate.
New confocal microscope in Biology Department sees inside cells, enables 3D imaging
The Leica Microsystems SP8 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope takes images of structures inside of cells with exceptional clarity. “It is analogous to an MRI that is used in medicine which allows you to see inside the body, but instead of using magnetic resonance the confocal allow us to take ‘optical sections’ through a specimen,” said Dr. Scott Ferguson.
FSA workers don orange this week to benefit MS Society
March is National MS Awareness Month and patrons at all FSA eateries can expect to see plenty of orange on Thursday, March 21. Staffers at Cranston Marche, Marketplace at Erie and Centre Pointe Food Court, the individual cafes in Mason, Fenton and McEwen and FSA office workers and managers will be wearing orange – the society’s official color -- in exchange for making a donation to the MS Society.
New Fitness Center in Dods Hall opens; is dedicated
Celebrating the ribbon-cutting for the new Blue Devil Fitness Center and “Fitness Friday” at SUNY Fredonia, President Virginia S. Horvath told the large crowd at the new facility in Dods Hall, “We are stronger if we are fit in every way.”
New Marion Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts unveiled
Established by Cathy (’79) and Jesse Marion of Houston, Texas, the fellowship will support new artistic experiences in several locations for a faculty member of the School of Music, Department of Theatre and Dance, or Department of Visual Arts and New Media, or graduate student in music, that can be shared with other artists, students and faculty, both on campus and elsewhere.
Ribbon Cutting is Friday for new Blue Devil Fitness Center
The ribbon cutting for the facility will take place in the Fitness Center on Feb. 22 at 11 a.m., with refreshments and wellness displays. The will also be a prize drawing for faculty/staff for a fitness center semester membership. All are welcome. Jason Bishoff, a 2008 sports management graduate of SUNY Fredonia, has been named director of the new Fitness Center. The finished product is a 9,000 square foot facility in the space which once housed the Dods Hall swimming pool. The new Fitness Center consists of a two-sided rock climbing wall with auto-belay and 107 pieces of new equipment.