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Computer Science students, Zubairi to participate in NSF Regional I-Corps program

Roger Coda

Two students majoring in Computer Science who are supervised and mentored by SUNY Distinguished Professor Junaid Zubairi have been accepted along with their professor to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps Regional Course at SUNY Binghamton.

Business faculty co-author, present paper at NABET conference 

Roger Coda

Department of Business Administration faculty members, Interim Chair Linda Hall, Assistant Professor Lisa Walters and Mark Nickerson, lecturer, presented a paper, “Improving the 1040 Process through the Application of Lean Principles: A Case Study," at the Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology conference held last November in State College, Pa.

Biology's Ferguson continuing research on disease with $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

Lisa Eikenburg

Fredonia Biology Associate Professor Scott Ferguson continues his research, aided by a $250,000 Research in Undergraduate Institutions grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding allows him to conduct the three-year research project, “Genetic Analysis of Gurken Translational Control in Drosophila,” that has the potential to assess how humans develop and are affected by disease.

Stephen Kershnar named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Lisa Eikenburg

Dr. Stephen Kershnar of the Department of Philosophy has been selected as one of 19 faculty members throughout SUNY to receive the distinguished rank by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. The distinguished designation, SUNY’s highest academic honor, is reserved for the best of the best, according to SUNY Board Chairman H. Carl McCall.

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COIL Brown Bag Series concludes on May 5

Lisa Eikenburg

The Coordinator of International Learning (COIL) Brown Bag Lunch Series has been announced for the Spring 2014 semester. The presentations will take place in the McEwen Hall Room 214 conference room the first Monday of each month from noon to 12:50 p.m.

Communication's Igoe speaks to WBEN about Grand Island school's free speech debate

Michael Barone

Communication's Mike Igoe was a recent guest on WBEN's "Hardline" in Buffalo. Dr. Igoe, a former journalist and an attorney, was invited to speak about the free speech debate within the Grand Island (N.Y.) School District, where a student was suspended after refusing to remove a t-shirt which displayed the logo of the National Rifle Association.