Articles
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Ann Deakin has received an award from Fulbright Scholar Program to work on developing technology for geoconservation in Siberia. She will be going to the Institute of Natural Resources at Tomsk Polytechnic University for three months during the Spring 2012 semester.
SUNY Fredonia Assistant Professor Dustin Parsons was awarded a prestigious and highly competitive $7,000 Artist Fellowship in the category of non-fiction literature from the latest cycle of the New York Foundation for the Arts awards.
Music Professor Joe Dan Harper performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood on Parade in August, the annual full-day of musical events that ends with a celebratory concert at the Tanglewood Music Center, which is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In an evening during which the university, faculty and alumni of SUNY Fredonia were recognized with Excalibur Awards, Director of Public Relations Michael R. Barone received the May C. Randazzo Outstanding Practitioner Award recently from the Buffalo Niagara Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.
Fredonia State Assistant Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator Megan Valentine was a guest lecturer during the 5th annual SUNYAC Symposium, held May 24-26 at SUNY New Paltz. Speaking on the topic "I Got The Job: What Now?," Valentine told her audience -- comprised of students from SUNYAC campuses -- about her first year on the job at Fredonia State. She was appointed to her post prior to the start of the 2010-11 academic year.
Welch’s/National Scholarships have been awarded to Alissa M. Cole of Dunkirk and Cole Gelen of Allegany. Both are students at SUNY Fredonia and each will receive $1,075 towards tuition for the 2011-12 academic year.
“Once Upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties,” a new book written by Dr. Clark Zlotchew, professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Distinguished Teaching Professor at SUNY Fredonia, has been selected as one of three finalists in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Tad Mackey will be one of seven Hometown Hero Award recipients honored by the Red Cross, in conjunction with NRG Dunkirk Power LLC, at a ceremony on Wednesday, May 20, at Moon Brook Country Club in Jamestown. “All his work and dedication at SUNY Fredonia have been pretty remarkable,” said Red Cross executive director Vince Horrigan.
The Chautauqua Leadership Network has selected Dr. Dennis L. Hefner, president of SUNY Fredonia, as the recipient of its 2011 Leader of the Year Award. Dr. Hefner was chosen from a pool of nominees who have made contributions for the betterment of the community that go above and beyond the call for their respective careers or mission of their employer.
Senior TV and digital film major Nick Martin, a native of Gowanda, N.Y., has been named by Residence Life as “Student of the Month” for the month of March at SUNY Fredonia. An honorary dinner will be held for Martin at Erie Dining Hall on Friday, April 29 at noon. All are welcome. General dining hall admission applies.