Reggie Watkins, a professional trombonist who has performed with such jazz and pop music icons as Dave Matthews, Dianne Schuur and Maynard Ferguson, will join the SUNY Fredonia Jazz Workshop on Sunday, Nov. 8.  He will first conduct a master class at 3 p.m., followed by a concert at 8 p.m., accompanied by the Fredonia Jazz Ensemble.  Both events are free and open to the public, and will take place in Rosch Recital Hall.

Student and faculty research projects in Jewett Hall biology classes are being greatly enhanced by the gift of a new Syngene gel documentation system, thanks to a donation by Dr. Christopher Mirabelli, '77, who has held senior research and development positions in the pharmaceutical industry.

SUNY Fredonia sorority Alpha Phi Omega, together with the campus’ Residents Hall Association, will host a “Halloween Bash” on Saturday, Oct. 31 in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room from 1 to 5 p.m. The event is open to all SUNY Fredonia students as well as area high school students ages 15 and up.

Students at SUNY Fredonia joined their counterparts across the nation on Saturday, Oct. 24, heralded as a global Day of Action on climate change, as part of the 350.org international campaign to spur world leaders into resolving the growing climate crisis.

Fredonia placed third among 11 teams at the Northeast Preliminary International Collegiate Programming Contest was held on campus Saturday, Oct. 17. The University of Rochester and Hobart College took first and second place.

SUNY Fredonia welcomes back the third annual Terror in the Trees event this and next weekend, held from 8 to 11 p.m. in the woods off Ring Road near the campus clock tower.  Read all about the history of this event and its predecessors, and get a glimpse into the mind of its current organizer, who has been putting on successful "haunts" since he was just 12 years old.

A $50,000 Wal-Mart Foundation SEMILLAS grant has been awarded to SUNY Fredonia from Excelencia in Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising the success rate of Latino students in higher education.The grant will llaunch an innovative three-stage program designed to encourage and assist Latino students in obtaining a college eductaion.

SUNY Fredonia’s Volunteer and Community Service Department will host its third “Operation Breakfast Rescue,” an annual breakfast-food item donation drive that benefits the Chautauqua Country Rural Ministry.

Alumni of all ages gathered with campus officials in the Cranston Marché dining complex this afternoon to honor three of the university’s most accomplished alumni and steadfast university supporters. John G. Baust, Ph.D., ’65, Kimberlee Neifer Caldwell, Ph.D., ’87, and Clifton C. Turner, ’84 were honored by President Hefner at the annual Alumni Awards Luncheon. The three were given the Outstanding Achievement Award for their special contributions to society through their careers as well as their impacts on their alma mater.

Rocky Schenck, a photographer and music video director and writer, will be the first Visiting Artist of the Fall 2009 series sponsored by the Visual Arts Department at SUNY Fredonia. He will talk to the campus and community at an open lecture Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8:30 p.m. in 209 McEwen Hall.

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.

How many doors can a Business Administration degree open for SUNY Fredonia graduates? For Clifton C. Turner (’84), it’s quite a few. And impressive ones, too. He will receive the Alumni Association's Outstanding Achievement Award on Saturday, Oct. 10 at Homecoming.

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

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.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and in light of that sobering statistic, SUNY Fredonia will again co-sponsor the 6th annual "Out of the Darkness" walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and to raise awareness of the issue and the help that is available for students at risk. The three-mile walk takes place locally on Saturday, Oct. 10, starting at 1 p.m. at the campus clocktower.

SUNY Fredonia’s a cappella groups Much More Chill (all-male) and Some Like it Hot (all-female) will open for alternative rock singer-songwriter Ben Folds, who will perform with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) during a concert on Oct. 8 at Kleinhan’s Music Hall in Buffalo.

The SUNY Fredonia School of Music will hold the first annual “Piano Experience” on Saturday, September 26 in Mason Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus. Fredonia’s piano faculty invites all young pianists to join them for an intensive day of master classes, concerts and workshops.

SUNY Fredonia’s Career Development Office will host a Graduate School Fair on Thursday, Oct. 1 from 4 to 6 p.m. in The Williams Center. Representatives from more than 45 graduate programs located in numerous states will be present with information readily available to all SUNY Fredonia students and alumni.

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.