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New tenure-track faculty enrich community
Teaching in classrooms, studios, science labs and lecture halls this semester are 25 new faculty members who will in the future be eligible for permanent appointments as tenured faculty. Selected by committees through national searches, the new tenure-track faculty represent 13 disciplines and were drawn from 17 states and two Canadian provinces.
Five faculty tapped for Chancellor’s Awards
Five members of SUNY Fredonia faculty have been designated the “best of the best” as recipients of the 2007 Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Faculty Service, Librarianship, Professional Service, Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Teaching. The honorees are Dr. Christina S. Jarvis, associate professor, English; Keary J. Howard, associate professor, mathematical sciences; Dr. Reneta Barneva, professor of computer science; Michele Notte, director of Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders; and Marianne B. Eimer, librarian and head of Research & Instruction at Daniel A. Reed Library.
New Dean Arts/Humanities selected
Dr. John Kijinski, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Idaho State University, Pocatello, has been selected after a national search as dean of the College of Arts & Humanities at SUNY Fredonia. Assuming his post on August 1, he will oversee the degree programs, faculty, and facilities in visual arts, new media, communication, English, modern languages, health and wellness, history, music, philosophy, theatre and dance.
Canadaway Creek is a revenue stream for Chautauqua County
Revealed in a survey conducted by the State D.E.C. and biologists at SUNY Fredonia recently is that anglers from all over the United States—and even as far away as Europe—travel to Canadaway Creek in hopes of landing a hefty, hard-fighting fish known as the steelhead. The researchers determined that on average each non-resident angler spends $64 per day in the Village of Fredonia and other parts of the county. With the prime steelhead season running from September to December, and again from February to April, that could add up to an impressive flow of dollars into the county’s economy. In photo, a D.E.C. interviewer queries a fly fisherman in Canadaway Creek.
Biologists have grant to study genetics of Lake Erie's smallmouth bass
Sportfishery of the smallmouth bass in Lake Erie has for years been of considerable economic value to Chautauqua County. In an effort to learn more about the population of this species in the lake and its tributaries, SUNY Fredonia Biology Professors Tim Strakosh and Ted Lee will study the genetic makeup of the smallmouth bass, beginning this summer. “As far as we know Lake Erie has never been stocked with smallmouth bass, which means that the fishery is based upon a possibly pure, wild strain of smallmouth bass,” Dr. Strakosh said. “To help ensure a healthy fishery we need a good understanding of their population genetics.”
Gary Lash receives grant from state energy authority
A major grant to facilitate oil and natural gas exploration by improving an analytical technique used to assess rock formations thought to contain these deposits has been awarded to Gary Lash, professor in SUNY Fredonia’s Geosciences Department. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority awarded just over $131,000 to Dr. Lash to address problems associated with the assessment of thermal histories of Middle and Upper Devonian black shale, an emerging source of hydrocarbons – or natural gas and oil -- in Western New York State and Western Pennsylvania.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil to read new poems
Aimee Nezhukumatathil's new collection of poetry, At the Drive-In Volcano, will be released this spring from Tupelo Press. Award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, associate professor of...
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Max Oppenheimer to speak at PM Commencement
Dr. Oppenheimer World War II Veteran and former CIA officer Dr. Max Oppenheimer Jr. will be the speaker at the afternoon ceremony of the SUNY Fredonia 2007 Commencement, to be held Saturday, May 12 at 3 p.m. in Steele Hall. Dr. Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of the foreign languages department at SUNY Fredonia. There are two commencement ceremonies at SUNY Fredonia, one at 10 a.m. and one at 3 p.m. The speaker for the 10 a.m. ceremony is Dr. David Mittlefehldt , an alumnus who is being honored with an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York. Dr. Oppenheimer recently wrote an autobiography, An Innocent Yank at Home Abroad: Footnotes to History, 1922-1945 (Sunflower University Press, 2000) which details his youth as an expatriate and his U.S. Army service during World War II. He has also translated numerous texts, including a Russian book on hydraulics for the U.S. Office of Naval Research. His most recent book, Is That What It Means? (Sunflower University Press, 2004) is a compilation of 110 of his newspaper columns on language.
James Ivey featured at Brown Bag Lecture April 4
Professor James Ivey, chairperson of the SUNY Fredonia theatre and dance department, will give a performance-based lecture titled, “Ancient Excursions and Renaissance Diversions: Trips to Europe and Beyond,” Wednesday, April 4, at noon in room G-144 of the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The event, part of the campus Brown Bag Series, is free and open to all campus and community members.