The role of photography in contemporary art will be explored in an exhibit set to open at the main gallery of Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Entitled “Lines Not Drawn: Contemporary photographic depictions, fictions and contradictions,” the exhibit will open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7. 

Welcome back to SUNY Fredonia for the Fall 2007 semester, and to those readers who are new, welcome to Campus Report, the regularly-published e-newsletter on campus. Campus Report is posted on the website and notices are sent by email to subscribers each time the newsletter is updated. This semester, CR will be published every other Wednesday on a semi-monthly (every two weeks) basis.

SUNY Fredonia earned the 12th spot among top public universities in the north in the 2008 edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” published by U.S.News & World Report. In the larger category of both public and private institutions, SUNY Fredonia ranked 51st out of a top tier of the best comprehensive universities in the North.

Working with biology professor Jon Titus, Lindsay Martin collected data at the Bentley Preserve in Jamestown, N.Y., to help understand the effects of two non-native plant invaders (Japanese Knotweed and Garlic Mustard) on Western New York plant communities.

Teaching in classrooms, studios, science labs and lecture halls this semester are 25 new faculty members who will in the future be eligible for permanent appointments as tenured faculty. Selected by committees through national searches, the new tenure-track faculty represent 13 disciplines and were drawn from 17 states and two Canadian provinces.

Five members of SUNY Fredonia faculty have been designated the “best of the best” as recipients of the 2007 Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Faculty Service, Librarianship, Professional Service, Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Teaching.  The honorees are Dr. Christina S. Jarvis, associate professor, English; Keary J. Howard, associate professor, mathematical sciences; Dr. Reneta Barneva, professor of computer science; Michele Notte, director of Youngerman Center for Communication Disorders; and Marianne B. Eimer, librarian and head of Research & Instruction at Daniel A. Reed Library.

A campus and community celebration is planned Friday, Sept. 7, to commemorate the first home soccer games at SUNY Fredonia’s new 1,500-seat University Stadium, just constructed this year along with two new soccer/lacrosse fields.

On Sept. 19 starting at 10 a.m. in the Williams Center, representatives from a variety of community services organizations will be distributing literature about what their organizations offer, and talk to students and other interested campus community members about volunteering.

The highly successful "Freedonia  Marxonia Film  Festival and Symposium,"  that first appeared on the SUNY Fredonia campus scene in  the late 1980’s, may be brought back, thanks to a generous gift from Fredonia alumnus Douglas  Canham.  Mr. Canham, Class of 1987, has provided a gift to SUNY Fredonia that will fund a paid internship for a business major who will work with senior staff in the spring of 2008 to develop a plan to bring the festival back in 2009.

DFT Communications, headquartered in Fredonia, is significantly increasing its annual financial support of programming at Rockefeller Arts Center by sponsoring the entire 2007-08 Pops Concert Series. The communications company has made a three-year commitment to sponsor what will now be known as the DFT Communications Pops Series. 
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As summer employees of Watershow Productions, Inc., three Blue Devil divers played the roles of dysfunctional pirates in search of a treasure map. However, they didn’t perform on an ordinary stage, or even a stationary one: their theatrical set was an inflatable pirate ship which partially concealed two three-meter diving boards and a tower with small platforms that extended as high as 50 feet.