A small group of faculty, alumni and students from the Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia are performing in four original productions at community venues this month. “Each show is a benefit performance for charity or a gift to the community from SUNY Fredonia,” said Theatre and Dance Professor Ted Sharon, who is one of the performers
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The $612,000 construction of a new sound recording studio and control room in Mason Hall is nearly complete and President Dennis L. Hefner has scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Friday, Jan. 19. 
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Asia is next on the list for Catherine Riedesel's global plans.

Catherine Riedesel of Ripley, N.Y. has received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 to support her semester abroad studying at the College Consortium for International Studies in Bangalore, India.

Currently a junior at SUNY Fredonia, where she is majoring in social studies education, Ms. Reidesel’s plans for the spring semester are helping to fulfill a personal goal she has to visit every continent on the globe. She has already been to North and South America, Europe, and Africa. 

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Students who worked for the Fredonia College Foundation's annual Phonathon raised nearly $56,000 during a recent campaign.
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SUNY Fredonia will enter its annual energy-saving, year-end shutdown period at the close of business on Friday, Dec. 22. With the exception of a few offices, all buildings, services and operations across the campus will be curtailed until Tuesday, Jan. 2
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SUNY Fredonia named Clark Companies of Delhi, N.Y., specialists in designing and building world-class sports facilities, as its Contractor of the Year during an annual luncheon honoring all companies which did business with the university last year.
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Members of the Fredonia Potter's Co-op will conduct their annual pottery sale in time for holiday gift-giving, placing on sale to the public many beautiful items they have made while studying ceramic arts in the Visual Arts and New Media department. The sale will take place Dec. 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 242 of Rockefeller Arts Center.  Some of the items will be set aside to raise money for "The Friendly Kitchen" in Dunkirk.   
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The holidays are hard times for those in need, and SUNY Fredonia recognizes that many people in the area can use a helping hand. This is why a campus-wide donation drive will be held on Friday, Dec. 8 to benefit needy families in the area. Student volunteers will be hard at work collecting donations in the residence halls, in all offices on campus, and by accepting donations in the Williams Center, room G-144 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Last year about 25 boxes of food and 50 boxes of clothes were collected and donated to families in Chautauqua County through the Holiday Caregivers Coalition. 
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At the American Speech Language Hearing Association national convention (Nov. 18, Miami, Fl.), Dr. Kim L. Tillery and two professional colleagues led ...
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Dr. Ziya Arnavut in his Fenton Hall office. He has improved on a data compression technique that "losslessly" does the job.

In his 2004 paper published in The Computer Journal, Dr. Ziya Arnavut (computer science) demonstrated that a technique he developed to help compress digital files, known as Inversion Coder, yields superior compression results when used in the second step of a compression algorithm. Recently, Prof. Hidetoshi Yokoo of Gunma University in Japan published an article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in which he theoretically proved Dr. Arnavut’s thesis.

Read the complete news release on Dr. Arnavut.
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