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11th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Gender
See the agenda for the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Gender
Alberto Rey one of 11 named to Distinguished Professor of SUNY
Alberto Rey of the Visual Arts and New Media Department was one of 11 faculty members from six SUNY campuses to be promoted to Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its March meeting. The promotion is to a tenured University ranking that is conferred for consistent and extraordinary accomplishment. President Dennis L. Hefner and Professor Rey were both at the meeting in Albany when the appointments were announced.
Carmen Rivera to discuss Mexican identity in literature
Carmen Rivera (chairperson of foreign languages), will be presenting a lecture titled, “Octavio Paz and Gloria Anzaldúa: The Labyrinth of Mexican Identity,” for the Brown...
Belliotti giving talk on happiness
Raymond Belliotti, chairperson of the SUNY Fredonia Department of Philosophy, will be the first speaker in the monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series which features talks...
Faculty updates
At the American Speech Language Hearing Association national convention (Nov. 18, Miami, Fl.), Dr. Kim L. Tillery and two professional colleagues led the two-hour program...
Dr. Arnavut's technique for file compression loses nothing in translation
Dr. Ziya Arnavut in his Fenton Hall office. He has improved on a data compression technique that "losslessly" does the job. In his 2004 paper published in The Computer Journal, Dr. Ziya Arnavut (computer science) demonstrated that a technique he developed to help compress digital files, known as Inversion Coder, yields superior compression results when used in the second step of a compression algorithm. Recently, Prof. Hidetoshi Yokoo of Gunma University in Japan published an article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in which he theoretically proved Dr. Arnavut’s thesis. Read the complete news release on Dr. Arnavut.
Slavery discussed from cultural perspective
With a focus on slavery, the fall 2006 symposium of the Arts and Humanities College at SUNY Fredonia will be held Monday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. in Fenton Hall Room 105. A panel of three faculty members will present individual commentaries on the theme, “The Cultural Legacy of Slavery in the United States.”
Dead bridge, dead theory?
Musings during a recent trip through China are the inspirations for Mohawk poet James Thomas Stevens’ sixth book of poetry, A Bridge Dead in the Water, which plumbs the depths of experiences of Native peoples on two continents. Said to have once been an exposed strip of land that brought Asian settlers to the continent of North America, the Bering Strait Land Bridge has also become a metaphor for the conflict between Europeans and Native Americans. Just as science and religion clash in all cultures, the Bering Strait theory has appeared to trivialize the hundreds of creation accounts that were fundamental to the traditions of Native peoples in North America. Read why the theory antagonizes many Native Americans. The Bering Strait Professor Stevens, who teaches English at SUNY Fredonia, researched the effects of colonization on either side of the strait – China and North America, in preparing to write his newest collection. His explorations took him to unexpected sources that gave a glimpse into the lives of native peoples. For example, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York’s 1901 published list of accidents, emergencies, and illnesses became the inspiration for a key poem in the book, “The Mutual Life.” Two other poems focus on mapping, authority and propaganda, while the short poems recall some of his more personal experiences.
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
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.