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Gary Bice, Residence Life Director, receives award from national group
The Northeastern Association of College and University Housing Officers honored Gary Bice, director of Residence Life at SUNY Fredonia, with its Lifetime Service Award. Bice has served the association as the Chair of Risk Management and Legal Issues Committee, Eastern NY District Coordinator, President-elect, President, Past President (twice), Chair of the Constitution Review Task Force, and most recently as Chair of the Strategic Plan Task Force.
Employees participated in United Way's Day of Caring
A team of SUNY Fredonia employees from Administration, including Judy Langworthy, Jodi Rzepka, Cindy Haase, Sandy Noble, Laurie Ensign, Shannon Fisher, Diane Howard, Leah Betts and Michael Daley, volunteered for the United Way Community Week of Caring event at the Lake Shore Family Center, Irving, N.Y., on Wednesday, Aug. 1. Exhibiting an impressive set of “trade skills,” group members created a hanging xylophone (see photo) using 2-by-4s, cut and installed landscape ties around the play area, shifted and raked mulch to enhance the play area and constructed a free-standing drive-thru tricycle wash using PVC tubing.
Neil Feit anticipates publication of book he is editing on philosophical theories of oneself
Dr. Neil Feit, chair of the Philosophy Department, has completed most of the editing of Attitudes De Se: Linguistics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, an interdisciplinary collection of essays by linguists and philosophers. The book is forthcoming from Stanford University’s CSLI Publications. Also this summer, Feit completed a paper on the concept of harm in ethics.
Sierra Cuellar, theatre arts freshman, interned for Lucy Comedy Fest
Sierra Cuellar, a freshman Theater Arts major and 2012 graduate of Cassadaga Valley Central School, was the production intern at the Lucy Desi Center in Jamestown, NY, over the summer. She helped produce and promote many of the events for the Lucy Comedy Fest, and was given the opportunity to meet many famous comedy stars such as Paula Poundstone and Gregg Oppenheimer, son of the main writer of I Love Lucy.
Jill Reese completed Smithsonian Folkways Certification course
Dr. Jill Reese, recipient of the “Professional Development Award,” and Assistant Professor of Music Education, participated in the Smithsonian Folkways Certification course in World Music Pedagogy at the University of Washington. She sampled audio, video, print, electronic, and human resources in the 40-hour intensive course, which was aimed at developing an understanding of ways to teach musics of the world's culture.
Junior music ed major, Nicki Peets, taught at orphanage in Guatemala
Junior Nicki Peets, above center, lived in Fraijanes, Guatemala, for two months this summer, where she taught music as therapy to needy children. She is majoring in music education major and minoring in Spanish at SUNY Fredonia. In the middle of this third world, poverty-stricken, crime-ridden country, she became the music teacher at the orphanage, “Casa Bernabé,” where the Guatemalan government sends the most abused, neglected or abandoned children.
Natasha Farny taught in Germany, performed in Brooklyn, recently
Natasha Farny, cello professor at the Fredonia School of Music, travelled to the Liszt School of Music in Weimar, Germany, this summer to give lessons to several students both at the college and at the high school level. On June 1st, she gave a performance of 20th Century cello and piano music at a recital series in Brooklyn, NY, at the floating concert hall, Bargemusic.
Mark Kleehammer, '12, presented award-winning talk on his research at the MAA's "Mathfest"
Mathematics alumnus and May graduate Mark Kleehammer presented the talk, "Star Studded Mathematics," at the Mathematical Association of America's Mathfest in Madison, WI on August 3. Based on his research at SUNY Fredonia into vertex angles in an arbitrary star, the talk won him an award at the conference. He is now beginning graduate school in mathematics at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Natalie Gerber was a featured guest in two conferences
Natalie Gerber Natalie Gerber, associate professor of English SUNY Fredonia, organized and led a three-day critical seminar entitled, "The Free-Verse Spectrum," at the 2012 West...
Magiera and Simmons co-author chapter in Special Education text
Dr. Kathleen Magiera and Dr. Rhea Simmons, associate professors from the College of Education, are co-writers of a chapter on co-teaching practices that was included in “ Research-Based Practices in Special Education,” a new book published by Prentice-Hall that provides research-validated practices in teaching students with disabilities.