Outstanding Administrative Service Awards were recently recognized at a luncheon in their honor. Tracy Bennett, SUNY Fredonia vice president for Administration, cited the five award recipients for their outstanding performance.

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In the first of a series of presentations by Fredonia scholars, Dr. Kate Mahoney and her students will discuss the Fredonia/Wales exchange program. Dr. Mahoney and College of Education students travelled to Swansea, Wales in May as part of the 20-year-old College of Education exchange program that brings SUNY Fredonia students into Welsh classrooms.

Dr. Linda Czuba Brigance of the communication department faculty will be presenting a paper titled: "Material and Symbolic Places: Rhetorical Construc...
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Dr. Julie Fitzpatrick, assistant professor of Finance in the Business Administration department won the Best Paper Award at the Value Symposium o...
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Dr. Nancy Gee has been named a Mars Corporation fellow for her human-animal interaction research. She has been working with the children in the Youn...
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The Women’s Studies and Journalism Departments are presenting an archived webcast with New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof on Monday, October 12 at 7 p.m. in 101 Jewett Hall. The webcast, titled, “Half the Sky,” is based on Kristof’s recent book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which he co-authored with Sheryl WuDunn

On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Earthworks and the new SUNY Fredonia Academic Community Engagement (FACE) Center will host a free screening of “Addicted to Plastic” (2008), at 7:00 p.m. at the Grange Building at 58 W. Main St. in downtown Fredonia. The event is free and open to the public.

On  Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m., the department of Political Science and the Political Science Association will present the panel discussion, “Dilemmas of Public Engagement with Detention and Interrogation in Post 9/11 America,” in the Williams Center S104. Panel participants will be Philosophy Professor Steven Kershnar, Political Science Professor Jonathan Chausovsky, and Political Science senior Timothy Porter. The discussion will be moderated by Professor of Political Science James Hurtgen.

As a professor of digital foundations at SUNY Fredonia, Peter Tucker has a unique artistic style. His work is characterized by a playful attitude of exploration and questioning. He is one of the newest members of the faculty in Visual Arts and New Media.  “I like the closeness of the community here at SUNY Fredonia,” Tucker said. “It is lovely to have an arts department this strong at such as small school.”

The SUNY Fredonia College of Natural and Social Sciences is holding the first Social Science Colloquium of the 2009-10 academic year on Monday, Oct. 12 with featured speaker Xuguang "Simon" Sheng, assistant professor of economics.

SUNY Fredonia’s College of Education will host the 20th Annual Early Childhood Conference on Saturday, Oct. 3, in McEwen Hall.  The conference, co-sponsored by the College of Education, the Chautauqua County Association for the Education of Young Children, and Chautauqua Opportunities, Inc., will consist of two sessions with featured presenter Janice Smestad, President of Empathy Associates, Ltd, of Merrick, N.Y

The first Arts & Humanities Brown Bag Lecture of the new academic year at SUNY Fredonia will explore the university’s ongoing commitment to civic engagement with a panel discussion devoted to the topic, “Integrating Scholarship, Teaching and Public Service,” on Wednesday, Oct. 7, noon, at S121 Williams Center.

Scholars from around the world will be on campus Oct. 1-3 to take part in a three-day symposium devoted to the life and works of the prominent early 20th-century Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig. Numerous archival materials from the university’s internationally renowned Zweig collection will be exhibited, many for the very first time. Other highlights include keynote addresses visiting scholars and a Zweig biographer, as well as the U.S. premiere of the Brazilian feature film, “Lost Zweig,” with director Sylvio Back in attendance.

Ellen Litwicki, professor of history, presented an address, “’Agitate, Educate, Organize’: The History of Labor Day” to the General Society of Mechani...
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Assistant Professor of English Dustin Parsons read from his creative works at the Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Writers Series. Past guests in t...
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In observation of Constitution Day 2009, political science faculty members, Dr. Jonathan Chausovsky and Dr. James Hurtgen join several of their students in a panel discussion of the Constitution and the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in S-121 Williams Center.

The Ethos New Music Society at SUNY Fredonia will host classical guitarists in a guitar-controlled video game battle. The “battle” will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. in the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall on campus.

Dr. Ingrid Johnston-Robledo   SUNY Fredonia Department of Psychology faculty member Ingrid Johnston-Robledo has been named a ...
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Dr. Leesa Rittelmann presented the paper "Portrait Photography and Physiognomic Theory from Darwin to the Third Reich," at the conference "Evolution a...
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