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Honduras Medical Brigades art raffle on Nov. 14 to be preceded by dinner
In January 2020, a group of students and faculty from Fredonia will be traveling to Honduras to conduct medical brigades. An artwork fundraising raffle has begun to raise funds to pay for medicine and health supplies that the group will bring to Honduras.
Geology majors participate in soils competition
Fredonia's first ever Soil Judging team competed in the Northeast Regional Soil Judging contest, held in early October at the University of Maryland in Easton.
Writers@Work guests to bring GRAMMY credentials, insight to campus
Alumni with GRAMMY credentials will be welcomed back to Fredonia for Writers@Work in November.
Author to discuss ‘Slaves in the Family’ at Brown Bag talk
Edward Ball, a prominent commentator on race in the United States currently serving as a Williams Visiting Professor at Fredonia, will examine “Slaves in the Family,” his inaugural book, in the Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at noon at the Williams Center Room S204.
Arnavut work featured in journal
Dr. Ziya Arnavut of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences has been conducting research and writing code to create a new and efficient Lossless Color Image Compression Executable program.
Igoe to give President's Award for Excellence lecture on Oct. 16
Department of Communication Assistant Professor Mike Igoe will give the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning lecture, "The Consolidation of Communication Conglomerates and What it Means to You” on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
Psychologist who will join Honduras medical mission to speak on campus
Dr. Nichol Eaton-Wolkiewicz, a licensed psychologist who will accompany Fredonia students on the study abroad medical mission to Honduras in January, will present a talk on Thursday, Oct. 17, at the Science Center Center’s Kelly Family Auditorium.
VanDette presents Mark Twain research at symposium
Department of English Professor Emily E. VanDette was one of nine presenters to share their research on Mark Twain at the annual Quarry Farm Symposium hosted by Elmira College on Oct. 5.
VanDette reintroduces novel that spurred animal rights movement
Department of English Professor Emily E. VanDette has published a critical edition of “Trixy,” a 1904 novel by the best-selling American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The novel exposes the ethical issues surrounding the practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals.
Gerber presents paper at Wallace Stevens conference
Department of English Professor Natalie Gerber was one of 13 international scholars, all of whom currently or formerly served on the board of The Wallace Stevens Journal, who participated in “Sincerely Yours, Wallace Stevens,” the first conference to consider Stevens, a highly regarded American modern poet in the first half of the 20th century, as a correspondent.