The SUNY Fredonia student group Students Teaching Equals Positive Sexuality (S.T.E.P.S.) will host its third annual Chautauqua County AIDS Walk on Saturday, Dec. 5.  Registration will begin at noon in the Steele Hall Gymnasium, the indoor location where the event will be held this year. To register a team, please visit the S.T.E.P.S. office in Room S105 of the Williams Center or contact fredoniasteps@gmail.com.

Dec. 4 will mark the 10^th anniversary of the SUNY Fredonia Campus-wide Donation Drive, an annual event in which the campus community bonds together to provide new or used toys and clothing and non-perishable food to those in need in the community. For more information about specific items of need or to volunteer, call the Counseling Center at (716) 307-3424 or visit www.fredonia.edu/counseling.

Their teaching tools -- from teeter-totters to balance beams to falling objects – were anything but high-tech, but easily accomplished the goal of bringing science to life at the Boys & Girls Club in Dunkirk.  Childhood education majors at SUNY Fredonia, all enrolled in Science for Elementary Educators course, hosted the science showcase featuring seven learning stations, to engage youngsters, ages six to 13, in actual science experiments.

Chautauqua Works will be connecting local businesses, college students, high school students, and other community members with the goal of promoting the local community on Monday December 7th at 6p.m. at the Clarion Hotel.

Thomas Kilburn, plant manager of NRG Dunkirk Power, presented a check recently to SUNY Fredonia President Dennis Hefner to support the new SUNY Fredonia Business Technology Incubator, slated to officially open later this fall.

The New Horizons Band of Western New York will present a Fall Concert at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18 at Fredonia High School Auditorium in Fredonia, N.Y. The concert is free, but the band would appreciate donations of non-perishable food that will be donated to the Food Pantry of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry.

NASA's Jonathan Gardner of the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will talk about the new generation of space telescopes at the annual Harlow Shapley Public Lecture on astronomy to be held Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in Room 202 McEwen Hall.
 

The third annual “I AM” program, which helps to build the self-esteem of children who have challenges due to emotional or behavioral difficulties, wil...
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On Friday, Nov. 6, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., the Advanced Leadership Development class coordinated a scholarship fundraiser in memory of the late Hope An...
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On Wednesday, Nov, 11, the campus will welcome reality TV star Ruthie Alcaide, one of the more unique and memorable cast members of the hit MTV series, “The Real World," as a guest speaker for its Diversity Day. Events start at noon and she speaks at 7 p.m. in the Williams Center.

SUNY Fredonia will hold a memorial service for U.S. veterans on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in the Williams Center Multipurpose room. The ceremony will include the presentation of the first SUNY Fredonia Veterans Scholarship award to Charlene Miller, a U.S. Army veteran and current member of the National Guard.

President Dennis L. Hefner will participate on a panel at the regional event, “What the New Era of Reform Means for Higher Education,” to be hosted by the College Board and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the State University of New York at Albany.

An Open House program for prospective students will be held at SUNY Fredonia and hosted by the admissions office on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 1...
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Selected student ensembles from the Fredonia School of Music will perform half-hour Children’s Concerts on four Saturday mornings with two performances at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 am on Saturday, Nov. 14 in Dunkirk Free Library, 535 Central Avenue in Dunkirk. The experience allows children to touch and investigate musical instruments.

Honorary members inducted into Golden Key Honor Society More than 50 SUNY Fredonia juniors and seniors were inducted into the 2009 class of the Gol...
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The Fredonia for St. Jude club will host its second Up ‘Til Dawn event on Friday, Nov. 13 from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Dods Multipurpose Room. SUNY Fredo...
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A $5,000 Learning and Leadership Grant for a project designed to enhance the learning of science teacher candidates has been awarded by the National Education Association Foundation to Dr. Kathleen Lesniak of the SUNY Fredonia College of Education and Milissa Albano, a Fredonia alumna and mentor chemistry teacher at Southwestern High School in Lakewood, N.Y.

Marc De La Concha as Deloris Rabinowitz in one man show. Above, Marc in real life. His home page>> ...
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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.

Travel/adventure filmmaker Fran Reidelberger will personally narrate his film “The Best of Bavaria” beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Arts Center’s King Concert Hall. Tickets for “The Best of Bavaria” will be available at the door. One child is admitted free with each adult ticket. Seating for this event is general admission.