The Fredonia Chamber Singers, just back from their annual New York State Spring Tour, will perform Sunday, April 15, at 4 p.m. at Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall. James Piorkowski, professor of guitar studies at SUNY Fredonia, will be the featured guest artist.
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A vision to improve science, technology, engineering education in the United States will outlined by Dr. Osman Yasar, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at College at Brockport, at talk he will deliver Friday, April 13, 4 p.m. at SUNY Fredonia in 101 Fenton Hall. All are welcome to attend. The computer science department is sponsoring the event.
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There’s still time for students -- eager to showcase captivating oratorical skills and also vie for hefty cash prizes -- to enter SUNY Fredonia’s annual Public Speaking Competition.  The event, to be staged Monday, April 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. in the third floor of McEwen Hall (rooms 201, 202 and 209), will feature a preliminary round, with six to eight students assigned to one of four leagues, followed by a final round comprised of eight finalists.
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Dr. Vandana Shiva, a physicist, activist and writer, will deliver a lecture Tuesday, April 10, at 5 p.m. at W101 Thompson Hall. Informal meetings with students and faculty are also planned during her day-long visit to the SUNY Fredonia campus.  Following her lecture at Thompson Hall, Dr. Shiva will host a question-and-answer session, 5:45 to 6 p.m. A book-signing/reception follows from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. in Café G at the Williams Center. Her itinerary also includes attending the WOST 301 Feminist Theory class taught by Dr. Adrienne McCormick that morning and meeting with women’s studies students and faculty in the afternoon.
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Recipients of the 2007 President’s Award for Excellence are: Dr. Khalid J. Siddiqui, professor, Computer Science; Robert Mead-Colegrove, associate director, Campus Life; and Michael T. Wygant, maintenance supervisor, Facilities Management. The annual awards luncheon is Monday, April 16.
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NASA scientist David Mittlefehldt, who studies space geology in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and is a member of the Mars Rover science team, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from SUNY at  Commencement on Saturday, May 12. He will be the commencement speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremony. Dr. Mittlefehldt graduated summa cum laude from Fredonia in 1973. He is a resident of Houston, Texas. Throughout his career, Dr. Mittlefehldt has received prestigious awards and recognition for his work studying the formation of meteorites and how they relate to the early history of the solar system. He determined the Martian origin of a rock that made international news in 1996 as the possible bearer of Martian bacterial remains.
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Eligible students are invited to compete for three $1,000 scholarships to the State University of New York at Fredonia as a result of a scholarship fund created by Welch’s and the National Grape Cooperative for its employees and grower-owners.
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Alberto Rey of the Visual Arts and New Media Department was one of 11 faculty members from six SUNY campuses to be promoted to Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees at its March meeting.  The promotion is to a tenured University ranking that is conferred for consistent and extraordinary accomplishment. President Dennis L. Hefner and Professor Rey were both at the meeting in Albany when the appointments were announced.
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Peter Schickele, also known as “P.D.Q. Bach,” an internationally recognized composer, musician, author, and satirist, will be Williams Distinguished Visiting Artist at SUNY Fredonia starting Friday, March 30, when he will present a free lecture from noon to 1 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The public is invited.
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Ashley Portman (with son, Isaiah)

Dustin O'Brien

Patrick Pugliese

Three students from SUNY Fredonia will participate by giving papers at the Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies Conference March 30 and 31. The conference, entitled, "Latin America in Transition," is being held at Albright College in Reading, Pa.
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Janet Sung

The Fredonia School of Music and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will partner for a concert on Sunday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The special engagement will feature the orchestra under the direction of its celebrated conductor, JoAnn Falletta (in photo above). She and the orchestra will be joined by guest violin soloist and Fredonia School of Music Violin Professor Janet Sung, performing the famous Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35.  The program will also feature the Overture to Mignon by Ambroise Thomas and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.  Tickets are $20 ($12 for students) and are available at theCentral Ticket Office (716-673-3501; 866-441-4928).  All concert-goers are welcome to join Maestro Falletta in celebrating the BPO’s return to Fredonia at a post-concert reception.
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A European Union simulation program will take place again at SUNY Fredonia April 12 through 15 when the SUNY Model European Union will simulate the European Council Summit. More than 150 guests from the Eastern U.S. and Europe are expected for the event.   Prof. Raymond Rushboldt of the political science department is the director of the SUNY Model European Union, based at the Fredonia campus. Students are expected from as far away as Poland. The campuses participating are from the U.K., Europe, and the Eastern U.S. SUNY campuses involved, in addition to Fredonia, are the University at Buffalo, Buffalo State College, SUNY Cortland, SUNY New Paltz, and SUNY Old Westbury.  SUNY Fredonia hosted the Eurosim program on campus in 2005.
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Two Fredonia women, both with deep educational roots at SUNY Fredonia, were appointed to the SUNY Fredonia College Council by Gov. George Pataki during the final days of his administration. Shirley Miller Erbsmehl and Heather Morey Foley began serving with the council in February.  The College Council meets quarterly on campus. Other members of the council are Chairperson JoAnn Niebel, '78, of Dunkirk, Russell Diethrick of Jamestown, Robert Heichberger of Gowanda, Ann Manly of Fredonia, David Maternowski, '84, of Fredonia, Michael Sullivan of Fredonia, and Carla Westerlund, '68, of Greenhurst. Political science major Dahn Bull, a junior from Brockport, is the student representative.
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The Student Association recently passed its 2007-08 budget, totalling more than $1.2 million, for next year's activities. The new budget supports over 120 student groups, the campus community bus, and legal services. 
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Awareness of the genocide in Sudan is what Amnesty International, College Democrats and the Political Science Association are seeking in the week following Spring Break.
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SUNY Fredonia has picked a Connecticut architectural firm to prepare design and construction plans for the new high technology business incubator to be erected in the City of Dunkirk. JCJ Architecture of Hartford was selected from among three firms interviewed to design the facility that will be able to accommodate 10 to15 start-up firms that require high technology infrastructure.
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Professor James Ivey, chairperson of the SUNY Fredonia theatre and dance department, will give a performance-based lecture titled, “Ancient Excursions and Renaissance Diversions: Trips to Europe and Beyond,”  Wednesday, April 4, at noon in room G-144 of the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The event, part of the campus Brown Bag Series, is free and open to all campus and community members.
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Ashley R. Bergman, a junior English major, announced that she is spearheading several events to fight world hunger. The international "30 Hour Famine" starts worldwide and at SUNY Fredonia on Saturday, March 31, at 10 a.m. and ends Sunday, April 1 at 4 p.m.   There will be a dinner in Cafe G to break the fast at that time.
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Lucille Clifton

Gwyneth Walker

Lucille Clifton, whose powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality and morality have made her one of America’s most admired poets, will return to the SUNY Fredonia campus as a Williams Distinguished Visiting Professor for a two-day celebration of her poetry on April 2 and 3. Renowned composer Gwyneth Walker will be present as the Fredonia College Choir and the Fredonia Women’s Choir  perform a concert of songs she set to Ms. Clifton’s poems. Two concerts and two poetry events are planned.   A prolific composer, Dr. Walker has written more than 160 pieces for orchestra, band, chorus and chamber ensembles. She has dedicated her career to composing since leaving Oberlin in 1982. She is a graduate of Brown University and Hartt School of Music, and holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in music composition.
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