Filmmaker Dennis Burkhart will present his travelogue in person at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23 at Rockefeller Arts Center. “Hawaii: The Pacific Paradise” will be shown in King Concert Hall as part of the World Travel Series sponsored by Fredonia Place. It is part of the 2007-08 Lake Shore Savings Season at the arts center.

School of Music violin professor Maureen Yuen will present an evening of music with her faculty colleague and pianist Sang Woo Kang on March 20 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The program includes works by Igor Stravinsky, Beethoven and Saint-Saens.  This event is re-scheduled from Feb. 15.

President Dennis L. Hefner gave the campus and Dunkirk-Fredonia communities their first glimpse of the highly anticipated SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator on Thursday, Jan. 31, when he reviewed several design boards for the planned 21,000-square-foot, two-story facility. The Incubator, to be located on a vacant parcel of land at 214 Central Avenue in the City of Dunkirk, will be able to support up to 31 start-up companies.

Faculty and outstanding students of the Fredonia School of Music will present the first of two recitals dedicated to 20th-century chamber music on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. Meant to be "user friendly," the recitals will include discussion of the pieces and demonstration of the performance techniques involved. The second recital will be performed on March 15.

The Children’s Concerts Series continues season with the Fredonia School of Music trumpet ensemble on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Chautauqua County Home in Dunkirk.  The performers will be Fredonia School of Music students.  Planned with the help of SUNY Fredonia faculty who are experts in music and education, the concerts are designed to introduce very young audiences (from infants to 6-year-olds) to musical instruments.

SUNY Fredonia alumnus (1973 chemistry and biology) Michael A. Marletta has won the 2008 Murray Goodman Memorial Prize for “contributions towards a molecular understanding of nitric oxide signaling and gas sensing using chemical and biophysical methods.”  The award consists of a $10,000 cash prize and a banquet in honor of the recipient. The prize will be presented during the 2008 American Chemical Society meeting, in a special award symposium held in conjunction with the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry.

Three students will win individual awards of $350 and the opportunity to perform or present their work.

Two articles by Karry A. Kazial, assistant professor of biology, are in press. Both include SUNY Fredonia students as co-authors.

Linda Dorsten, professor of sociology and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Public Health, and Dr. Yuhui Li (Rowan University), are recipients of a Funds for the Advance of the Discipline (FAD) award to continue their study of health in China. Their project is titled, "Data Collection and Modeling in Hard-to-Study but Rapidly Growing Populations:  Socio-Economic Development, Ethnic Population and Elder Health in China." 

Soprano Angela Haas (formerly Dilkey) will perform a faculty recital Friday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The program features Argento's Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf".  Dr. Haas will also be performing songs by Strauss, Wolf, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff with pianist Anne Kissel Harper.

Dr. Beez (Lea Ann) Schell was named the founding director of SUNY Fredonia's new Professional Development Center, which will open upon her arrival to the post in June. Concurrently, she will hold the faculty rank of professor in the Department of Sports Management and Exercise Science

Janet Knapp, possessing nearly 10 years of experience in the Educational Development Program at SUNY Fredonia, has been named its interim director through February 2009.  The appointment followed the departure of Kathleen Bonds, who has accepted a position as director of the Educational Opportunity Program at Erie Community College.

A portion of the parking area and sidewalk adjacent to the south end of Dods Hall  will be closed Tuesday, Feb. 5 to accommodate a construction delivery. Parking will be available in all other areas of the Dods Hall parking lot.

In addition, the lower level Dods Hall corridor between the Fitness Center entrance and north interior stairwell will be closed between 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Access will be provided for maintenance staff and wheel chair accessibility only.

The interruption of services and access will be caused by the delivery of a large load of mechanical piping for the satellite boiler project.