SUNY Fredonia is tapping the minds of some of the most talented and successful science, technology and education professionals in the world to help design its new Science and Technology Center. Though they’re spread across the U.S., these 14 individuals share one common trait: all are SUNY Fredonia graduates.

Distinguished SUNY Fredonia alumni from across the United States will convene on campus Thursday at 10 a.m. as members of the university’s Natural Sciences Advisory Council to participate in the planning phase of the new Science and Technology Center. And while they are here, four members of the council have agreed to generously offer career guidance to lab science students at a noon lunch that day in the Williams Center.

A dedication for the completion of Phase II of the soccer stadium including a new entrance, was held during the Men's and Women's Soccer annual tournament, the Clarion Classic Friday evening. The stadium, which began operating in 2007 once the fields, lights and bleachers were installed, now boasts such amenitities as a new entrance and traffic circle, ticket office, restrooms, team meeting rooms, concession stands and a press box.

Dr. Holly J. Lawson, a recipient of the 2009 President’s Award for Excellence at SUNY Fredonia, will explore the topic, “New Teaching Spaces: Visions for the Fredonia Science Center and Beyond,” during a lecture on Monday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m., at the Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall on campus.

The new Technology Incubator has been awarded with $125,000 of funding from a newly created economic development grant from the County of Chautauqua Industrial Development Agency (CCIDA), known as the Chautauqua Seed Fund. The money will provide clients of the new facility, scheduled to officially open later this fall, with greater access to capital during their start-up stages.

Maytum Hall is undergoing renovations and all offices except the Computing Services Center on the first floor have been relocated to other areas until...
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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.

At its opening in September 1974, the Campus and Community Children’s Center (CCCC) at SUNY Fredonia welcomed 25 preschoolers.  Now, with approxi...
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Join the campus community this Thursday, May 7, at 11 a.m., as university and local, regional and state government officials break ground on the new $4.6 million Campus and Community Children’s Center at the corner of Temple Street and Brigham Road on the west end of campus.

“In a time when we’re surrounded by negative news about the economy, it’s so encouraging to be a part of a project like this that could potentially have such a positive and significant impact on our region.” President Dennis L. Hefner spoke these words Monday at the ground-breaking ceremony for SUNY Fredonia's highly-anticipated Technology Incubator in Dunkirk, N.Y.

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.

President Dennis L. Hefner gave the campus and Dunkirk-Fredonia communities their first glimpse of the highly anticipated SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator on Thursday, Jan. 31, when he reviewed several design boards for the planned 21,000-square-foot, two-story facility. The Incubator, to be located on a vacant parcel of land at 214 Central Avenue in the City of Dunkirk, will be able to support up to 31 start-up companies.

BECC Electric of Dunkirk, N.Y., was named Monday as the 2007 Contractor of the Year at the Eighth SUNY Fredonia Contractors Recognition Luncheon held at the Cranston Marchè.

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.

An architectural firm based in Buffalo will shepherd development of SUNY Fredonia’s new $4.7 million Campus and Community Children’s Center, beginning with program design work and extending all the way through construction administration.  Markus Kessler, director of facilities planning at SUNY Fredonia, said Flynn Battaglia quickly emerged as the clear front-runner during the RFQ (Requests For Qualifications) evaluation phase among 10 other firms. “They were ranked No. 1, and the second-ranked proposal was more than 2 points behind,” Mr. Kessler said in describing the rather considerable gap separating Flynn Battaglia from its nearest competitor.

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SUNY Fredonia has picked a Connecticut architectural firm to prepare design and construction plans for the new high technology business incubator to be erected in the City of Dunkirk. JCJ Architecture of Hartford was selected from among three firms interviewed to design the facility that will be able to accommodate 10 to15 start-up firms that require high technology infrastructure.
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The newly-completed $612,000 sound recording studio and control room at SUNY Fredonia was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. SUNY Fredonia President Dennis L. Hefner, New York State Senator Catharine M. Young, New York State Assemblyman William L. Parment, and School of Music Director Karl Boelter made brief remarks about the value and history of the project.

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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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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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Construction of a multi-million soccer and lacrosse stadium has moved along steadily during the summer. Ground has been leveled, irrigation and draini...
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