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Students who won summer research awards in biology will present their findings on Friday
Graduate and undergraduate biology majors who won research awards this past summer will present the findings of their plant and animal studies on Friday, Oct. 19, starting at 3 p.m. in Jewett 101. The summer research program for SUNY Fredonia biology majors is supported by the Fredonia College Foundation with gifts from the Holmberg Foundation of Jamestown, N.Y., Constantine Barker Foundation, Dr. Robert Wettingfeld Undergraduate Research Award and Biology Endowment Fund. Each fall, the department welcomes donors and guests to hear the results of the student work.
Andrew Cullison publishes research volume on epistemology
Dr. Andrew Cullison, assistant professor of Philosophy, is editor of the new book, The Continuum Companion to Epistemology, published in July by academic publisher Continuum, a Bloomsbury Company. The book is intended to be the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy, and covers all the fundamental questions asked by epistemology. Cullison also contributed to the volume.
Jill Johnston collaborates to create animated TED-Ed video on climate change, part of "awesome nature" series
Above: Johnston's interpretation of the industrial revolution. Below, of photosynthesis. SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of Animation and Illustration Jill Johnston (at left) has designed a...
Gary Lash will deliver Kasling Lecture October 16, Kinkela to receive Hagan Award
On Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall, Geosciences Professor Dr. Gary Lash will deliver the 2012 Kasling Lecture, entitled,“...boring old shale - how simple questions can take one on a submicroscopic to global tectonic journey...” Dr. David Kinkela will receive the annual William T. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award.
Natalie Gerber's article on Wallace Stevens wins award
Associate Professor of English Natalie Gerber's article “Wallace Stevens' Mixed-Breed Versifying and His Adaptations of Blank-Verse Practice” is the winner of the first annual John N. Serio Award for the Best Article Published in The Wallace Stevens Journal. This first award, which considered articles published in the Spring and Fall 2011 volumes, was selected by Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley; Juliette Utard, Sorbonne; and Lisa Goldfarb, NYU.
Arts and Sciences Brown Bag starts October 3 with panel on Race for the White House
“A Global Perspective” is the theme for the fall Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Series, a series of informal lunchtime presentations by SUNY Fredonia faculty members. The series begins on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, with “What the World Thinks of American Politics: The 2012 Race for the White House.” Presenters include: Bond Benton, Ph.D., communication; Guangyu Tan, Ph.D., curriculum and instruction; Shazad Mohammed, Ph.D., marketing; and, Alex Caviedes, Ph.D., political science, who will moderate the panel.
Jeanette McVicker examines subjectivity in mainstream news media; article published in <em>Philosophy Today</em>
Jeanette McVicker, professor of English, has been working on a philosophical investigation of subjectivity as constructed by mainstream news media for the past year. The first leg of that project was published this summer: “The Task of Journalism in the Age of Terrorism: Imagining the Profane” in Philosophy Today 56(2), 243-252, May 2012, ed. David Pellauer.
More than two dozen science alumni returned for Science Alumni Conference; gave talks in Williams Center
More than two dozen alumni returned to campus this weekend for the SUNY Fredonia Science Alumni Conference, which took place on Saturday, Sept. 29, from 1 to 5:30 p.m., in the Williams Center. Science alumni gave 20-minute talks in biology, biochemistry, chemistry environmental science, space and atmospheric science, medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences.
Nancy Hagedorn compiled database of Philadelphia households of 1775 during NEH fellowship
Nancy Hagedorn Nancy L. Hagedorn, associate professor of history, returned to campus this fall after a semester-long National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the...
Ford Canada CEO, Duke Professor, giving Homecoming talks Friday
Two alumni who are coming to SUNY Fredonia to receive awards for Homecoming will be giving talks in their respective fields this Friday at 4 p.m. Now the CEO of Ford Canada, Dianne Craig, a 1985 mathematics grad, is speaking in Fenton 105, giving the talk entitled "My Life Since Fredonia." At the same time, biology graduate Dennis Thiele, Ph.D., will be giving the keynote address for the celebration of Jewett Hall's 50th anniversary. His talk will be given in Jewett 101 and is entitled, "The "The Biology of Copper: From Mammalian Development to Anti-Microbial Weapon." Thiele is professor of biology at Duke University Medical Center.