The social security numbers of 77 currently enrolled students at SUNY Fredonia, plus up to 881 previous year applicants and alumni, may have been exposed in a security breach at SunGard Higher Education Systems, the company that administers the university's student records system.

Award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Nalo Hopkinson will meet students, faculty and staff during a two-day visit to SUNY Fredonia  April 21 and 22. Her works include: Skin Folk, Brown Girl In the Ring and Midnight Robber (both of which were nominated for the Philip K. Dick award).

Thousands of United States military personnel stationed in Europe will soon hear the hauntingly melodic songs of the Goldsworthy sisters, Kaleena and Kayleigh, two seniors at SUNY Fredonia. They are founders of the band, "Scarlet Ending," which has been invited by Armed Forces Entertainment to perform for military personnel overseas.

Fredonia Radio Systems, WCVF-FM 88.9 and WDVL Cable Channel 5/Web-cast, is presenting its 5th annual "Rockin' the Commons": A Benefit for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute on Saturday, April 19 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Barker Commons.

Set in the tumultous city of Berlin as Hitler rises to power, "Cabaret" will be performed by students of the SUNY Fredonia Performing Arts Company on April 18, 19, and 20 in Bartlett Theatre. Tickets are available at the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office or online.

A variety of small and large jazz ensembles will be featured on the first concert, including the SUNY Fredonia Big Band, the NSB Octet, the Meghan Koch Project and PEgan & the MagooGoo Dolls

College employees are invited to bring their children, ages 7 – 15, to work with them on Thursday, April 24, 2008. This is the date the nation wi...
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A record number of five Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition Award winners, culled from 46 entries – also a record number for the annual contest – were honored at a presentation and award ceremony Thursday, April 17, at the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall. Each student honoree received a scholarship of $350. The scholarship competition was founded 19 years ago by Vivian Garcia, SUNY Fredonia's academic advising administrator.

The SUNY Fredonia Concert Band will give its final performance of the year on Monday, April 21 at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

To build awareness of what is discarded and the potential for recycling, students at SUNY Fredonia will participate in a “trash dump” on Saturday, April 26, beginning at 2 p.m.

On Saturday, April 26, ground will be broken for a new native plant garden.  The brainchild of area biologist Priscilla Titus and facilitated by Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Titus, the garden will be established next to the greenhouse at Jewett Hall, home of the biology department. It will be planted, beginning at 11 a.m., by Dr. and Ms. Titus and students from the biology program

SUNY Fredonia students will be treated to a free ride to their campus destination of choice and a free music download card today on Wednesday, April 16, courtesy of the Lifelong Learning and Special Programs department. All they have to do is hail the Summer Sessions taxi, driven by Eric Skowronski, director of Lifelong Learning.

In a landmark anthology by W.W. Norton, considered to be the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available, poems by English Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil have been published.

Serving will be from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., rain or shine. “A Sustainable Taste of Fredonia, sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Sustainability Committee, helps kick off SUNY Fredonia’s observance of Earth Week that runs through Saturday, April 26.

As part of its effort to gather information and opinions from village residents, including SUNY Fredonia students, the Village of Fredonia is running two online surveys during April. Students and village residents are encouraged to participate. 

Several SUNY Fredonia students participated in the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans recently. Of the more than 9,000 scholarly presentations at the gathering, several detailed the research of 12 students from SUNY Fredonia.

Christopher P. Reybrouck, whose career at SUNY Fredonia encompassed leadership positions, wide-ranging service and many individual honors, will receive the 2008 Lanford Presidential Prize from the Oscar and Esther Lanford Endowment at the college’s morning Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17.

High school students from local school districts and the Cassadaga Job Corps Center will be making visits to the College of Education this month to learn more about financial aid, the undergraduate and graduate programs in education, student activities at SUNY Fredonia, and to tour the campus.

Fredonia’s Chancellor’s Award winners stood proudly in accepting their honors on stage at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany recently. The students who won the award this year were Kathryn Kornacki, Alden Edson, Kathryn Tarnowski, Scott Horsington, and Ashley Lenz.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music presents the final Flute Ensemble concert of the year on Tuesday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall on t...
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