“Anchors and Gears,” a work created by sculptor Brett Hunter, has been installed in the green space between Mason Hall and Reed Library on the SUNY Fredonia campus. Standing more than six feet tall, it was made from pieces of granite and steel over the course of several months.

Six undergraduates have just finished the first annual six-week study-abroad program in Mexico this summer at the Ollin Tlahtoalli Centro de Lenguas y Cultura Mexicana. Located in Oaxaca, the center is dedicated to preserving endangered Mexican indigenous languages, the teaching of Spanish within a Mexican cultural framework, and the promotion of Mexican culture and traditions.

Local music lovers can feast their ears on magnificent chamber works performed by some of the world’s most talented young artists as The Quartet Program launches its third season in residence at SUNY Fredonia. The internationally renowned Ying Quartet opens the season with a special guest artist recital on June 28.

The Brigham Road entrance to SUNY Fredonia’s campus is closed until further notice while crews undertake a redesign of Lake Way Drive and the parking area in front of University Stadium. Plans call for transforming this entrance to create an attractive roadway to, and dramatic highlight of, the new soccer stadium.

Tracy S. Bennett, vice president of Administration at SUNY Fredonia, has received the Robert J. Wagner Business Officers Award, the highest citation given by the State University of New York Business Officers Association (SUBOA).

Graduate Molly McKinney, host of the TV series, “AquaKids,” brought her crew to Fredonia to join area youth and volunteers from a fly-fishing program to release 200 brook trout into Canadaway Creek recently. Local children sold fishing flies they created to buy the trout.

A special summer session for the New Horizons Band will be held from Monday, July 7 through Wednesday, July 30. The band will rehearse Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 2:30 p.m., and perform a concert for the Fredonia Gazebo Concert Series at Barker Commons on Thursday, July 31, at 7 p.m.

At noon on Saturday, June 21, SUNY Fredonia's outdoor track will serve as the host site for the Dunkirk/Fredonia region's Relay for Life, to benefit the American Cancer Society. If you would like to join the SUNY Fredonia team, make a donation or otherwise support this cause, please contact Shari Miller at 673-3438. 

SUNY Fredonia welcomed approximately 500 students from more than 20 Western and Central New York high schools on Thursday, May 22, as it played host to its eighth annual High School Mathematics and Science Challenge.The day-long event combined students into teams which competed in seven different competitions that incorporate everything from classic childhood toys like Legos, Big Wheels and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots to TV shows such as “The Amazing Race” and “MacGyver.”

Most of SUNY Fredonia’s students have left campus for the summer by now, but many of the items they left behind — sweatshirts, microwave ovens and cans of soup and pasta — will stay in Chautauqua County and benefit needy families for months to come.