The School of Music has teamed up with Dunkin' Donuts -- which just recently joined the Dunkirk-Fredonia community in February -- for the Fredonia College Choir's upcoming performance with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) in Buffalo on April 12-13.

A talk on solar energy by Ralph Nader, internationally-known environmental and consumer advocate, is one of many events planned during the observation of Earth Week at SUNY Fredonia April 19 through 26. Plans also include a film series, electronics recycling day, the launching of a native plant garden, and discussions on water, politics, population, and the future of food.

Two resident vocal ensembles in the Fredonia School of Music will present a choral concert Sunday, April 13, at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall. The Women’s Choir will be directed by Professor Gwen Coleman Detwiler, and the University Chorus will perform under the baton of Professor Barbara Brinson.  The concert is free and open to the public.

New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub, author of more than 70 published novels and a graduate of SUNY Fredonia, has been named the keynote speaker for the 2008 Commencement ceremonies.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music will present its second annual collaborative concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) on Friday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. in King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus. A post-concert reception will follow, free to all who attend the concert. Tickets are available online or by calling the SUNY Fredonia ticket office at 716-673-3501.

Students at SUNY Fredonia helped generate more than $1,300 in donations to help defray costs of a life-saving liver transplant for Piper Walnicki, the one-year-old daughter of Brian Walnicki, principal violist of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra (in residence at SUNY Fredonia), and his wife, Lydia Evans, who is the daughter of Music Professor Emeritus David Evans.

Fifteen objects from Reed Library’s Stefan Zweig Collection are part of an exhibit on the life of the renowned Austrian author currently showing at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The exhibit, "The Three Lives of Stefan Zweig," gathered its contents from archives and libraries around the world.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music presents the Fredonia Guitar Quartet in concert on Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.  Al...
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The Fredonia Chamber Singers will present its annual Post-Tour Spring Concert on Sunday, April 6 at 4 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. This is the 27th year that the group has performed in high schools throughout New York State during its Spring Break. Under the direction of Dr. Donald P. Lang, the concert is free and open to the public.

Joseph Legaspi and Sarah Gambito will present their poetry as part of SUNY Fredonia’s  observance of National Poetry Month on Tuesday, April 15, ...
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Three students presented their winning research papers at the Women’s Studies Annual Research Conference on Gender Tuesday, April 1. The guest-speaker of the two-hour event was Asian Studies Scholar Piya Pangsapa of SUNY at Buffalo.

In his travels through Morocco, filmmaker Rick Ray discovered a “peaceful, progressive, well-educated, forward-looking society.” He attributes this, in part, to Morocco’s young monarch, King Mohammed VI. Now age 44, Mohammed VI came to power in 1999.

That time-honored combination of bedtime stories and pajamas will take center stage at the second annual Bedtime Stories community gathering at SUNY F...
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The existence of 10 different covers to market the book, "Black Boy," since its original publication in 1945 through 2006 offers insights into U.S. history, according to Dr. Howard Rambsy, of Southern Illinois University and the exhibit’s curator. For more than 60 years, publishers altered the packaging of the book to make it more appealing to new generations of readers. "Visualizing Richard Wright" is an exhibit of engaging book covers now on display in Reed Library.

Black Student Union alumni of SUNY Fredonia and friends will meet Friday, March 28, in New York City to raise funds for the Nabta Fund, a scholarship endowment established through the Fredonia College Foundation to benefit students of color at SUNY Fredonia.

Full-time Summer Work-Study job applications are now available in the Financial Aid Office or on-line.  Jobs begin May 19 and end August 22. ...
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Under the supervision of Dr. Ivani Vassoler (Political Science & International Studies) two SUNY Fredonia students shared their research at the Conference on Latin American Studies that took place on March 7-8 at the University of Maryland, in Baltimore.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL COMMUNITY MEETING FACULTY STUDENT ASSOCIATION Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:30 PM S-104 Williams Center All students, facu...
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In his new book, Raymond Belliotti, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, points to the uncanny connections between the careers and lives of nine baseball greats and the philosophies of the great thinkers of the West. For example: the rise, fall, and redemption of Mickey Mantle demonstrated aspects of faith, reason, and human response crafted by St. Thomas Aquinas.

SUNY Fredonia is featuring guest speaker and noted linguist Stephen Krashen from the University of Southern California in the talk, “English Learners In American Schools: 101 Questions, 101 Answers,” on April 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall.  A reception will precede his talk, starting at 4 p.m.