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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
“Math and science for ALL students” is how Cynthia Jonsson describes the primary goal of a newly funded, five-year, $2 million project award to SUNY Fredonia. Project MAST2ER (Mathematics And Science Teacher Training in Educational Resources) was one of 42 U.S. Department of Education grants funded recently through the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA). The project funds will be utilized to strengthen mathematics and science teacher education programs on the SUNY Fredonia campus through infusing evidence-based practices and data-based decision making that informs instruction, particularly instruction of English learners (ELs). Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) will serve as the core of all teacher candidate trainings.
Saundra Liggins, Ph.D., of the English Department, has been named Interim Affirmative Action Director, starting January 3. Her office is in the President’s Office complex, and she will be devoting 20 hours per week to the position. Dr. Liggins joined the faculty in 2000. Her teaching and research interests include African-American literature, minority literatures of the United States, women’s literature, gothic literature, cultural studies, and American studies.
In its Big Read blog, The National Endowment for the Arts has featured costume designs by Fredonia students studying under Dixon Reynolds. Josh Porter's sketch...
A year spent living and teaching in Botswana as a Fulbright scholar will be shared by Biology professor Jon Titus at the International Brown Bag Luncheon on Monday, Dec. 5, noon to 12:50 p.m., at the Fenton Hall English Reading Room. His talk, “Giving and Receiving: An Education in Southern Africa,” will explore the culture along with the ups and downs of living in Botswana.
Economics Professor Paul Holmes, author of the paper, "Win or Go Home; Why College Football Coaches Get Fired," published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of Sports Economics, was interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about head football coach Ron Zook of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The fall Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Series, “America: 10 Years Later,” concludes on Wednesday, Dec. 7 with a program on “Are We There Yet...
Dr. Gary Lash examining shale at Dunkirk, N.Y.'s Lake Erie coast line. Dr. Lash has been named by Foreign Policy magazine to its “Top 100...
A paper by Fredonia student Basar Koc, co-authored with his mentor Professor Ziya Arnavut, won the "Best Paper Award" at the WNY Image Processing Workshop held at the University of Rochester recently.
The Department of Computer and Information Sciences is organizing a Department Expo on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the lobby...
Professor Roderick MacDonald will conduct the Thayer Symphony Orchestra in Clinton, Mass., in ts holiday pops concert on Saturday, Dec. 3. “The concert is a Christmas pops concert consisting of traditional holiday music enjoyed by young and old alike,” MacDonald said.