Professor Roderick Macdonald will be the assistant conductor at the Dresden Music Festival in May and June. He will be conducting the German Radio Orc...
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The Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders at SUNY Fredonia will be offering support group meetings for stroke and head injury survivors and fa...
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The SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance is producing a week-long day camp called “PLAYGROUND” to provide a campus-based cultural experience that reaches out to a small group of children in a unique way. The camp runs from Aug. 17 to 22.

College of Education Dean Christine Givner, together with Associate Dean Jamar Pickreign and Information Technology Project Manager Janet Mayer, ...
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The SUNY Fredonia College of Education distributed 41 scholarships totaling $16,125 to outstanding students at the conclusion of the Spring 2009 semes...
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Vice President for Academic Affairs Virginia Horvath announced new tenure-track faculty who will join have been hired for the upcoming academic year a...
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James Thomas Stevens, associate professor of English at SUNY Fredonia and coordinator of its Native American Studies program, has been invited to return to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in New York City.

The Class of 2009 went out in style, as nearly 1,300 strong were conferred with undergraduate and graduate degrees by SUNY Fredonia's faculty and administration, while thousands of proud family and friends stood by. Joining them to help celebrate their Commencement ceremonies were keynote speaker and New York State Senator Cathy Young, as well as U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer.

SUNY Fredonia Mathematical Sciences Professor H. Joseph Straight, Ph.D., has been named a Distinguished Service Professor — the highest system tribute available to instructional faculty — by the State University of New York’s Board of Trustees.

SUNY Fredonia will once again welcome approximately 300 students from high schools throughout western New York on Thursday, May 21, to compete in the ninth annual High School Mathematics and Science Challenge. The competition requires students to use their classroom knowledge of mathematics and science and apply it first-hand in order to succeed in various events.

The Fredonia Guitar Quartet will soon be departing for a concert tour of Spain. This student guitar ensemble, directed by Music Professor James Piorkowski, has been invited to perform at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Sevilla (May 22nd), the Centro de Estudios Hispánicos de Segovia - a 15th-century palace in Nieva (May 24), and at the Universidad de Oviedo (May 26).

Alberto Rey (Visual Arts and New Media, Tom Janik (Geosciences), Lori Deemer (Music), Michael Long (Visual Arts and New Media), and Tom Malinoski (Dir...
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The Fredonia School of Music announced that guest artist Abou Sylla will give a drum workshop and Balafon concert in Mason Hall Room 1051 on Wednesday, May 20. The workshop starts at 6 and the concert at 8. Participants and listeners are invited to make a $20 donation for each event.

Local television coverage of Commencement 2009 at the State University of New York at Fredonia will begin at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, with coverage of both ceremonies combining undergraduate and master’s and advanced certificate graduates. Approximately 1,300 bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as advanced certificates, will be conferred upon candidates during the two ceremonies

The Fredonia College Foundation presented its Distinguished Service Awards on Saturday in the Williams Center on the SUNY Fredonia campus. This year’s honorees, which must be citizens and organizations that make significant contributions to society through business, government, education and the arts, were Mrs. Gileen W. French, The Holmberg Foundation, and the Quatroche Family.

What are they doing next? Graduate school and jobs are already firmed up for many of our graduates. View some plans (jobs and graduate school accepta...
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Erin Hellwig at the New York State SLHA annual convention Erin Hellwig, a senior in the Communication Disorders and Sciences Depar...
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SUNY Fredonia has officially closed its freshman admissions process — the earliest date the university has ever done so — and will no longer accept any further freshman applications for the Fall 2009 semester.  Based on availability, some accepted students may still send in their deposit until June 5 to ensure a space within the Class of 2013, and graduate and transfer student applications will be accepted well into the summer.

Eight of SUNY Fredonia’s best student vocalists will help bring the 2009 Commencement Eve pops concert, Bernstein on Broadway, to life on Friday, May 15. Selected through auditions held in March, they are Chelsea Grace Clasier, Rick Doetterl, Crystal Gramkee, Kate Mulberry, Mark Andrew Reeve, Amy E. Shake, Boris Van Druff, and Jason Weisinger.

Ground was broken for SUNY Fredonia’s new Campus and Community Children’s Center, and in addition to the many campus and elected officials who played a role, a small platoon of youngsters under the age of six donned miniature hard hats and wielded plastic sand shovels to help celebrate the latest example of growth on campus.