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.

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.

“Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive” by Gerald Mead will be featured in the art gallery at Rockefeller Arts Center. The exhibit will open Friday, Oct. 30 with a reception in the art gallery lobby beginning at 7 p.m.

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.

Two 10-week group skating lessons will be held at the Steele Hall Ice Arena offering instruction in how to skate, or figure skating. Each session will...
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For a third straight season, Lake Shore Savings has made a major investment in performing arts programming at the State University of New York at Fredonia.  The Dunkirk-based financial institution has again pledged $10,000 as the season sponsor at the Michael C. Rockefeller Arts 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.

There was no summer vacation in the drive for greater sustainability across the SUNY Fredonia campus.  While many students were away from residence halls and classrooms, the university implemented a wide range of recycling, landscaping and energy-use initiatives during June, July and August.

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.

SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator, a development projected to advance economic growth in Western New York from its base in downtown Dunkirk, has been awarded a $300,000 “challenge grant” from the John R. Oishei Foundation. The incubator project is slated to receive an annual appropriation of $100,000 for three years from the foundation, based in Buffalo, provided that SUNY Fredonia successfully matches that gift — dollar for dollar — from the local business community, alumni and friends, in each of the next three years.

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.

Did You Know…   Approximately 90 percent of brain development occurs during the first five years of a child’s life. Children in ...
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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.

The striking, nearly 1,600-cubic-foot sculpture known as “Popeye,” which has called the front walkway of Rockefeller Arts Center home for two years, has become a permanent installation on campus, resting on a concrete foundation just feet from where it has pleased observers since first brought to campus in 2007.

SUNY Fredonia joins a growing number of universities across the nation to change the name of their Speech Pathology and Audiology department to Communication Disorders and Sciences. Chairperson Kim Tillery explained that the new title is more appropriate for a curriculum that addresses nine disorders, along with social aspects and assistive technology in speech-language pathology and science.

LeChase Construction Services, LLC made a strong impression with its first building project at SUNY Fredonia, winning the university’s “Contractor of the Year” award for 2008.  Rochester-based LeChase served as construction manager for the complete reconstruction of the 28,000 square-foot Center Pointe Lounge Complex

When it comes to learning how to skillfully and gracefully glide on ice, there’s probably no “hotter” venue than SUNY Fredonia’s cool Steele Hall Ice Arena. Scores of talented skating enthusiasts who enthusiastically flock to this facility will be on display at several shows during March. Some 30 members of the College Skating Club, under the direction of veteran ice skating coach Joan Disbrow, will present a show Wednesday, March 11, at 8:45 p.m.

The works of three Buffalo-based artists will be featured in the main art gallery in Rockefeller Arts Center beginning March 6. The community will also have the opportunity to hear the two of the artists talk more about their works. Entitled “Figure and Form: Explorations of Humanity,” the exhibit will feature selected paintings by Bruce Adams, Jackie Felix and George Hughes.