A small group of faculty, alumni and students from the Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia are performing in four original productions at community venues this month. “Each show is a benefit performance for charity or a gift to the community from SUNY Fredonia,” said Theatre and Dance Professor Ted Sharon, who is one of the performers
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The $612,000 construction of a new sound recording studio and control room in Mason Hall is nearly complete and President Dennis L. Hefner has scheduled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Friday, Jan. 19. 
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Asia is next on the list for Catherine Riedesel's global plans.

Catherine Riedesel of Ripley, N.Y. has received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 to support her semester abroad studying at the College Consortium for International Studies in Bangalore, India.

Currently a junior at SUNY Fredonia, where she is majoring in social studies education, Ms. Reidesel’s plans for the spring semester are helping to fulfill a personal goal she has to visit every continent on the globe. She has already been to North and South America, Europe, and Africa. 

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Students who worked for the Fredonia College Foundation's annual Phonathon raised nearly $56,000 during a recent campaign.
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SUNY Fredonia will enter its annual energy-saving, year-end shutdown period at the close of business on Friday, Dec. 22. With the exception of a few offices, all buildings, services and operations across the campus will be curtailed until Tuesday, Jan. 2
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SUNY Fredonia named Clark Companies of Delhi, N.Y., specialists in designing and building world-class sports facilities, as its Contractor of the Year during an annual luncheon honoring all companies which did business with the university last year.
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Members of the Fredonia Potter's Co-op will conduct their annual pottery sale in time for holiday gift-giving, placing on sale to the public many beautiful items they have made while studying ceramic arts in the Visual Arts and New Media department. The sale will take place Dec. 15 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 242 of Rockefeller Arts Center.  Some of the items will be set aside to raise money for "The Friendly Kitchen" in Dunkirk.   
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The holidays are hard times for those in need, and SUNY Fredonia recognizes that many people in the area can use a helping hand. This is why a campus-wide donation drive will be held on Friday, Dec. 8 to benefit needy families in the area. Student volunteers will be hard at work collecting donations in the residence halls, in all offices on campus, and by accepting donations in the Williams Center, room G-144 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Last year about 25 boxes of food and 50 boxes of clothes were collected and donated to families in Chautauqua County through the Holiday Caregivers Coalition. 
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At the American Speech Language Hearing Association national convention (Nov. 18, Miami, Fl.), Dr. Kim L. Tillery and two professional colleagues led ...
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Dr. Ziya Arnavut in his Fenton Hall office. He has improved on a data compression technique that "losslessly" does the job.

In his 2004 paper published in The Computer Journal, Dr. Ziya Arnavut (computer science) demonstrated that a technique he developed to help compress digital files, known as Inversion Coder, yields superior compression results when used in the second step of a compression algorithm. Recently, Prof. Hidetoshi Yokoo of Gunma University in Japan published an article in the prestigious international journal, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, in which he theoretically proved Dr. Arnavut’s thesis.

Read the complete news release on Dr. Arnavut.
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With a focus on slavery, the fall 2006 symposium of the Arts and Humanities College at SUNY Fredonia will be held Monday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. in Fenton Hall Room 105. A panel of three faculty members will present individual commentaries on the theme, “The Cultural Legacy of Slavery in the United States.” 
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Musicians from SUNY Fredonia and the Western New York Chamber Orchestra will join several featured soloists in performing three of the J.S. Bach Advent Cantatas on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall at SUNY Fredonia. Dr. Gerald Thomas Gray of the Fredonia School of Music will conduct.
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SUNY Fredonia is sponsoring a Middle Eastern Film Series next week that will feature four critically-acclaimed foreign films. All screenings are free and open to the public, and will feature commentaries by professors Nefin Dinc (communication department) and Iclal Vanwesenbeeck (English department).
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Susan Marie Frontczak as Marie Curie

In the drama, Susan Marie Frontczak of  "StorySmith" performs the role of Mme. Marie Curie, known for her 19th century discovery of radium and radioactivity. The event is the first to be supported by the Phyllis and Lawrence Patrie Endowment for the Sciences.
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In an NBC Nightly News story reported from Chautauqua Institution, where a "New Horizons Band" camp was taking place, several local musicians were visible during the segment, including Fredonia School of Music faculty member Dr. Katherine Levy.
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Three students have stood out among the 16 finalists that performed at the School of Music concerto competition held in September.

Sipkje Pesnichak, a junior, and seniors Phil Servati and Scott Horsington were judged by a panel of faculty to be the concerto winners. An oboist, a pianist, and a clarinetist, respectively, the three instrumentalists will be featured soloists during three concerts in the spring semester.

Phil Servati

Sipkje Pesnichak

Scott Horsington

“Ever since I heard a live orchestra I was amazed,” said Mr. Servati, a music composition major who also studies piano as an applied piano major under Professor Nathan Hess. A native of Rochester and the technical manager for Ethos New Music Society, he said, “I have always wanted to be featured as a soloist.”

And the path to being featured soloists with the College Symphony was not easy.

On top of the juries that all music majors are required to go through just to continue on in their major, these three and dozens of others had to grit their teeth and work their appeal on an additional series of juries during preceding semesters in order to compete for the concerto. Once there, they had to outshine the other musicians who had strived for the same goal in front of a panel consisting of their professors.

Judging by their excitement today, the long hours of practice in Mason Hall were all worth it.
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The classic tale of how Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a dramatic change of character on Christmas Eve is the second event of the 2006-2007 Walter Gloor Mainstage Series. A production of the Department of Theatre and Dance, the show opens for an eight-performance run on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in Marvel Theatre.

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Graduate students Cady Nenno (Bolivar, NY) and Rebecca McNamara (Lockport, NY) presented at the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA) Conference on Nov. 9, 2006, in Saratoga Springs, NY. 
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For the seventh consecutive year, SUNY Fredonia seniors majoring in mathematics education were invited to present their ideas on lesson plans at the annual Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State (AMTNYS) conference.
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