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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.
New Horizons Band performing Spring Concert May 3
The New Horizons Band of Western New York will present a Spring Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 3 at Fredonia High School Auditorium in Fredonia, NY. The concert is free, but the band would appreciate donations of non-perishable food that will be donated to the Food Pantry of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry.
Automatic defibrillators being installed campus-wide
SUNY Fredonia has begun installing automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in its public buildings, and will have them in all buildings campus-wide within three years. “This is part of a safety initiative launched by the State University of New York,” President Dennis L. Hefner said.
"End of an Era" Pottery Sale is May 4
This spring’s Pottery Sale will be the last to be held during the career of retiring Distinguished Teaching Professor Marvin Bjurlin. The sale will take place on Friday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rockefeller Arts Center Ceramics Studio, Room 242. Professor Bjurlin said this spring’s sale will be unique because it will include many demonstration pieces he created for his classes as well as work left behind by graduating SUNY Fredonia ceramics majors."For Ceramics students creating pieces for the sale has been a voluntary extracurricular activity above and beyond assigned work done for critique," Professor Bjurlin said.
Free hearing and speech screening offered April 28
Free testing for hearing, speech-language and vision for all ages will be offered to the public on Saturday, April 28, from 9 a.m. until noon at SUNY Fredonia. In addition testing for ambliopia (lazy-eye in children) will be offered to young children. These screenings will be conducted by The Henry C. Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders, the Chautauqua Blind Association and by members of the Dunkirk-Fredonia Lions Club in honor of Better Speech and Hearing Month that is celebrated throughout May. This testing will take place on the first floor of Thompson Hall where the center is located.
Campus institute will distribute free copies of global warming film
The Institute for Research in Science Teaching at SUNY Fredonia has been selected as an educational distributor of An Inconvenient Truth, the 2007 Academy-Award winning...
Project in Belize becomes life-changing adventure
Belize, a country in Central America struggling with few educational resources and a multitude of social ills, isn’t the first spring break destination of most college students. But it was the choice of a group of SUNY Fredonia students who devoted their entire mid-March hiatus to a service-learning experience far removed from western New York State. “It was an adventure that I truly believe is life changing,” said Ellie Reddy, professor in SUNY Fredonia’s School of Education. “It is amazing to see and actually experience the poverty, to see life in another culture, to be part of their lives – even for such a short period of time.”
Foundation honoring Gotowka, Sen. Young, and Fredonia Rotary May 5
Walter J. Gotowka, state Sen. Catharine M. Young and the Fredonia Rotary Club will receive the 2007 Fredonia College Foundation Distinguished Service Award, a prestigious honor bestowed upon area citizens and organizations that make significant contributions to society through business, government, education and the arts. The awards will be presented during a special dinner/dance at the State University of New York at Fredonia on Saturday, May 5, at the Williams Center. Proceeds from the 2007 Distinguished Service Awards dinner/dance will benefit the Keeper of the Dream Scholarship and Leadership Program at SUNY Fredonia.
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.
New scholarship effort outlined at People of Color Concerns Conference
The unveiling of a new scholarship that will benefit future students of color at SUNY Fredonia will be among many highlights of the People of Color Concerns Conference that begins Friday. Sponsored jointly by the Black Student Union, Latinos Unidos and the Fredonia Alumni Office, the two-day conference is expected to draw an estimated 100 to 150 alumni, including some from states as far away as North Carolina and NebraskaThe Nabta Fund is being established to support a scholarship that gives financial assistance to future students of color at SUNY Fredonia. A 20-minute presentation on the fund will be given during the Saturday lunch, beginning at noon.